To me the use of a coronavirus in the simulation makes some sense because there are hundreds of types of coronaviruses and 7 of which are known to be contagious to humans. Both SARS and MERS are corona viruses and it wasnt long ago that we had the SARS scare. It could be a coincidence that they used a coronavirus in the simulation or it could have been a decision based on a calculated probability of what is most likely to be the next viral pandemic.

Humans use Coincidence bias all the time to find patterns in random events (as you pointed out). It is a strong cognitive heuristic. I wonder if confirmation bias would also be a factor here as well? Like if the simulation was 1 year ago or even two years ago, a person could still easily use that info to confirm a theory. "hey, they have been planning this event for a year (or two)! Coincidence?"

There will always be information to confirm any theory, whether its true or not. But then should any proactive action that occurs in the world be seen as evidence of prior knowledge to an event? We could easily get into thinking such as "hey, they did a fire drill at that major company and then a week later a fire occured and the building burnt down! They must have planned it."

Really though, all companies are supposed to do two fire drills per year so that scenario wouldnt be a coincidence at all.

I don't think its a bad thing to be skeptical though either. Many theories (conspiracy or other) have been proven wrong but many have also been proven right. Who knows what is going on in the world? Lol