Rolling COVID-19 Notably Infected and/or Fallen Thread

A message from me and my dad, @Melbrooks. #coronavirus #DontBeASpreader pic.twitter.com/Hqhc4fFXbe

— Max Brooks (@maxbrooksauthor) March 16, 2020

excellent - thanks ulysses!

Hull legend, OG curry restaurateur Mohammed Riaz. This one hurts :(

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/rays-place-owner-dies-coronavirus-4003830

I watched a bunch of documentaries on Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner wile I was down with the virus a couple of weeks ago and I hope someone's isolated those dudes in a bacteria-proof silo somewhere

Had a mini heart attack seeing those two names while skimming this thread today

v heartened by that mel brooks video

I have just seen JD Twitch on Twitter posting that Cristina has sadly passed away.

According to Variety, Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne has died.

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/adam-schlesinger-coronavirus-dead-dies-1203552130/

oh no

Schlesinger passed

i mostly know him for his brilliant contribution to the josie and the pussycats soundtrack, pretend to be nice

well xp

Damn, RIP.

A rhetorical exercise aimed at the naysayers (who are not among us): how many celebrities died of the seasonal flu last year?

First tears from covid. RIP Adam.

Ellis Marsalis

Just heard Eddie Large has passed away. Absolutely gutted. Such a lovely man. Love to Pattie and his family.

— Iain Lee - www.twitch.tv/iainlee (@iainlee) April 2, 2020

bloody hell, there is only Cannon and Ball left now.

not while hale and pace still stand

they've never even been to the Blackpool Grand Theatre!

Syd Little still lives! Apparently.

I hope he's practicing safe social distancing if Paul Chuckle is consoling him!

thats a big name

tbf he was no Ovuvuevuevue Enyetuenwuevue Ugbemugbem Osas though

RIP, Heaven needed a straight man

why u gotta bring the man’s sexuality into it ffs

Will say this for him, nobody else managed to wear such a variety of immensely camp end-of-the-pier costumes and manage to be so utterly, unquestionably straight for so many years.

He was also, perhaps, the finest Deputy Dawg impersonator of his generation

His eulogy almost writes itself.

placido domingo has been discharged from the hospital after testing positive

Hurray for Placido. Good to see people coming through this in one piece.

Worthy of a consider the source warning, but The Mirror: Netflix's Tiger King star Joe Exotic hospitalised after contracting coronavirus in prison

Damn how did Carole Baskin manage to infiltrate an Oklahoma prison?

Honestly, the idea of one of these nefarious characters ordering a prison murder crossed my mind.

† Juan Giménez, comic book artist

That's a rough one, absolutely incredible artist.

placido lives to sexually harass another day!

A second CNN on-air person, Brooke Baldwin (+).

The singer Pink has tested positive.

Correction: had tested positive, is now negative, and is donating $1M.

Two weeks ago my three-year old son, Jameson, and I are were showing symptoms of COVID-19. Fortunately, our primary care physician had access to tests and I tested positive. My family was already sheltering at home and we continued to do so for the last two weeks following the instruction of our doctor. Just a few days ago we were re-tested and are now thankfully negative. It is an absolute travesty and failure of our government to not make testing more widely accessible. This illness is serious and real. People need to know that the illness affects the young and old, healthy and unhealthy, rich and poor, and we must make testing free and more widely accessible to protect our children, our families, our friends and our communities. In an effort to support the healthcare professionals who are battling on the frontlines every day, I am donating $500,000 to the Temple University Hospital Emergency Fund in Philadelphia in honor of my mother, Judy Moore, who worked there for 18 years in the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Transplant Center. Additionally, I am donating $500,000 to the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Emergency COVID-19 Crisis Fund. THANK YOU to all of our healthcare professionals and everyone in the world who are working so hard to protect our loved ones. You are our heroes! These next two weeks are crucial: please stay home. Please. Stay. Home.❤️

Good for her, that's great.

Carrie Symonds has picked it up from who knows where...

bojo just cannae keep his various bodily juices to himself

jazz guitar legend bucky pizzarelli among the fallen.

Marianne Faithfull apparently in a London hospital.

Stable apparently https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/apr/04/marianne-faithfull-hospitalised-with-coronavirus

The UK’s own Joe Exotic, the Marquess of Bath.

How he made it to 87 without being eaten by a lion, idk.

I hope people will say the same of me if I reach 87.

RIP big fella, heaven needed a serial shagger and unfortunately BJ's still alive (at the time of writing)

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/03/01/44F8F99600000578-4942786-image-a-42_1506992102287.jpg

if you're gonna be rich thru a bullshit outmoded justification of ancestral brutality at least that's the way to dress for it

He openly had sexual relations with over seventy women during his marriage, and installed many of them in estate cottages. He referred to these women as wifelets.[9] The Marquess passed the management of the business to his son Viscount Weymouth early in 2010.[10] By one account, the Viscount intended to evict the wifelets from their estate cottages.

What lovely people

Tom Dempsey, the NFL kicker who held the NFL record for longest field goal kicked, a record not surpassed for 43 years, which he accomplished despite not having any toes in his kicking foot.