2020 illustration incorrectly presented as 2014. - screenshot / Facebook

  • In recent months, several viral publications have claimed to demonstrate that the Covid-19 epidemic had been predicted for a long time.
  • An illustration showing adults and children wearing masks in the colors of their country is presented on social networks as a work produced in 1994 at the Denver airport (Colorado).
  • If a fresco featuring children in the spotlight is present in this airport, it has no connection with this drawing made by a Filipino artist in February, when the Covid-19 was already affecting a large part of the globe.

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On Facebook as on Twitter, an illustration showing adults and children wearing masks in the colors of their countries - from the flag of the United States to that of China, via Italy -, feeds many questions. And sometimes even messages with conspiratorial overtones.

The Internet users in question relay for the most part the same question: how could a fresco (allegedly) painted in 1994 at the airport in Denver, Colorado, anticipate the widespread wearing of the mask in the world in 2020?

Quite simply because the work in question was not produced in 1994 ... but in 2020, when many countries around the world were already faced with cases of Covid-19.

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If we find, within the Denver International Airport, a fresco showing children from all over the world, they are staged in a very different way - and without a mask, as can be seen below or on the City of Colorado Public Art site.

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Entitled "Children of the World Dreaming of Peace", this work by Leo Tanguma was painted in 1994 to convey an anti-violence message. Faced with the scale of rumors surrounding the mask mural, Denver airport recently confirmed that it was not on its walls.

So where does the viral illustration on social networks come from, wrongly associated with Denver airport - forced, faced with the scale of the rumor, to deny it?

A first occurrence was found in February 2020, in the form of a photo of the work, on the Facebook page of Filipino artist Christian Joy - or CJ - Trinidad.

The latter had posed next to his painting a few days later, as can be seen below. And he had agreed in the process to decline this design on t-shirts and tote bags as part of a TFT ("The Filipino Teachers") project aimed at financially supporting Filipino teachers.

“CJ spent his evenings working on this canvas for two weeks. […] He explains that he wanted to show, through this drawing, the vital role of communication, cooperation and unity between states fighting against the Covid-19 epidemic, ”the TFT specified on this occasion.

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