Rolling COVID-19 Notably Infected and/or Fallen Thread

Oh she's still alive, thankfully.

a plus sign is one of the worst possible symbols to indicate that a person is still living! it looks too much like a death dagger (†), so I when I scroll through this thread I keep assuming the plussed celebrities have died and the non-plussed ones are merely ill. I suggest using the 💀 and 😷 emojis to eliminate confusion

yes

Oh she's still alive, thankfully.

As is Dominic Cummings, somewhat less thankfully.

Sorry, I'll be sure to use unregistered's instantly canonical emoji guidelines next time.

in fairness and this may be catholic background here, id have said twas utterly canonical, yeah

I was deeply saddened to hear this morning that William Helmreich—the incredible CUNY sociologist who walked every block of the five boroughs multiple times to produce a detailed ethnography of NYC—has died of COVID: https://t.co/z3RCzEilzA

— Joshua Rothman (@joshuarothman) March 30, 2020

wtf is a "death dagger"

Ken Shimura (maybe Japan's equivalent of Tom Hanks or Robin Williams?) has died of COVID-19 at age 70.

Unicode value U+2020 (dagger, obelisk or obelus) - often used alongside asterisk to indicate DoB/DoD:

Mozart *1765 †1791

Indicates obsolescence in dictionaries.

xp

Alan Merrill of Arrows:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52089768

†

Michael Rosen, in ICU yesterday but on a ward now and "ok, stable and alert" according to Twitter

Yeah shit about Rosen, hopefully on the mend but can’t imagine ICU is where anyone wants to be right now. Or any time I guess.

protect michael rosen at all costs imo

I’m confused about how Prince Charles is supposedly all clear after only 7 days.

Lizard anatomy is different.

yeah he'll have just sloughed off his infected organs

Wrong, he's actually an elder vampire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81m6ZvPaqp4

“Sloughed off” is such a amazingly disgusting phrase

Pure Anglo-Saxon poetry.

Vint Cerf:

Vint Cerf, the co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol, and essentially one of the inventors of the Internet, and possibly the nicest person ever, has contracted COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/FhCBEXq7DW

— Cyrus Farivar (@cfarivar) March 30, 2020

Alan Merrill, who co-wrote "I Love Rock 'n' Roll, dead at 69.

Twice, apparently

Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne & Ivy

Sad news for thr fans. #AdamSchlesinger pic.twitter.com/ssDYj1tbc9

— IVY (@IvyFanPage) March 31, 2020

oh noes

Coronavirus: Comedian Paul Chuckle reveals he has been suffering from COVID-19 https://t.co/NrTvYsNamI

— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 31, 2020

I couldn't suppress an inappropriate chuckle for a second then!

since Barry died we can't even do the "how did he get it?" joke :(

Praying for you, the Chuckle Brother.

the virus passes from me to you etc etc

I just hope Mr. Blobby is still safe :(

I don’t.

blobby did covid-19

idk just checked in on him, hes incoherently babbling and covered in spots

lost sense of taste I hear

Michel Tibon-Cornillot, philosopher and anthropologist who wrote on, among many other things, the weakness of our ecosystem with regard to pandemics.

†

... dead? Is that a death dagger I see before me?

Or a cross, as I prefer to think of it. And yes, it is :(

Yes, he is dead. I'm going with the † = dead convention. I hope I don't have to use it again.

The Labour councillor, Pat Midgley, has become the first UK politician known to have died from coronavirus, three days after testing positive for Covid-19.

Midgley, 82, who served on Sheffield city council for 33 years, was described by her family as a “true woman of steel”.

Adam Schlesinger, oh no. Not in a coma as originally reported but on a ventilator so it's serious.

RIP Michel Tibon-Cornillot. C'est l'hécatombe…

toby young, as announced by the vile cunt himself in an opinion piece calling for the government to let thousands of sick, vulnerable and elderly people die in order to protect the economy

(not linking because fuck toby young)

if Toby Young doesn't die the virus has failed

and i don't believe the self-aggrandizing Pegg-approved cunt as far as i could spit on him

comrade covid-19 has done a remarkably poor job of levelling the playing field so far, even bolsonaro's still kicking and he's been toeing the precipice of death for several years now

I bet toby is pissed cos he was just about to land some pointless own the lefties appointment from his pal boris just before the rona kicked off hah!

Chris Cuomo has tested positive. Between CNN and his brother, he's probably been about as prominent through this as you can be.

Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel has tested positive.