During the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, several groups of fundamentalist Christians in the United States and South Korea saw the Apocalypse coming. For some evangelicals, SARS-CoV-2 is not a simple virus from the family of Coronaviridae related to previous pathogens causing severe acute respiratory syndrome. It was a punishment from God, even a warning of the second arrival of Jesus. Although science has been narrowing the space for this type of beliefs, they are still there: an ethnographic study of a hundred societies on the planet confirms that, when there is no clear or easy explanation for a phenomenon, humans tend to look for a supernatural explanation. .
