A couple sailing the Atlantic had no idea coronavirus brought the world to a standstill

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  • A couple sailing the Atlantic had no clue the coronavirus pandemic was sweeping the globe.
  • It wasn't until the couple tried to dock at an island and were turned away that they realized something was up.
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I remember a few years ago I came up with what I thought was an original premise for a TV show or a movie. As I imagined it, a full-on nuclear world war breaks out and decimates the planet. Meanwhile, airplanes that happened to be in the air at the time ultimately land and the passengers find themselves returning to a world that is not the same as they left it. But as it turns out, there was already a Stephen King book that essentially covered that exact same plot.

What's wild, though, is that the storyline above -- in a general sense -- actually played out recently in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. As initially reported by the BBC, a couple from the UK were busy sailing across the Atlantic over the past few weeks and were completely oblivious to what was happening across the world.

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A couple sailing the Atlantic had no idea coronavirus brought the world to a standstill originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 09:02:14 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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