Man gets to the bottom of a conspiracy theory suggesting Captain America predicted coronavirus
It’s apparently impossible for the conspiracy theorists to accept that a global pandemic can occur without any mustache-twirling villains planning it out step-by-step beforehand. While there are plenty of xenophobic morons out there ready to blame the spread and terrible impact of coronavirus on nefarious Resident Evil-style national projects (instead of, y’know, basic systemic ineptitude and bureaucratic callousness), we’d rather focus on a more entertaining theory: Captain America warned us COVID-19 was coming nine years ago.
This idea was shared by William Mullally , who tweeted out an image given to him by “a friend who’s fully into the COVID conspiracies … that says Captain America predicted the coronavirus outbreak in 2011.” The screenshot contains all sorts of feverish horseshit theorizing, ranging from the usual touchstones of evil Masons and the Obama presidency to some extra horrible garbage about the murder of George Floyd, but the key feature of it all is a still from the superhero movie. In it, we see Chris Evans standing in Times Square with a billboard for Corona beer on one side of him and another showing something that looks like a microscope slide of the coronavirus itself on the other.
Coincidence?! Yeah, of course!
Still, despite the fact that this is obviously nonsense, Mullally decided to get to the bottom of the screenshot anyway. Honing in on the billboard on the image’s right, he began focusing on what it could be advertising, starting with the possibility that it was an advertisement for Divergent before narrowing the search down to the exact day the scene was filmed.