Rolling COVID-19 Notably Infected and/or Fallen Thread

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Brian May! Seems to be not too serious though.
https://brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssbdec21a.html#13

https://brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/pix/21/Covid_test_and_Bri_576x769.jpg

John Morgan of the Wurzels
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/18/wurzels-drummer-john-morgan-dies-of-covid-aged-80

That might be stretching the definition of notable a little too far

Not where I'm to!

Oh man if we're playing that game then i move to have 95% of entries ever struck

Tonight's Saturday Night Live is going to be a scaled-back product with a limited cast & crew and no in-studio audience. Supposedly some cast members have tested positive and others don't feel safe working tonight. Musical guest Charli XCX has also backed out; unless the get a replacement, this'll be first in-studio episode without a musical guest since the '70s.

It’s Lorne, Jost, Sarah Squirm and the other alliterative newbie infected. Christine 👑 and Caroline Polacheck were both performing with Charli; all three are out.

Tina Fey filling in on Weekend Update.

now we're definitely stretching the definition of notable. i mean at least john morgan died

Conservative Washington State Senator Doug Ericksen Dead at 52 After Battling COVID-19

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/state-senator-dies-a-month-after-telling-a-local-radio-station-he-was-sick-with-covid-19-while-in-el-salvador/ar-AARXcrg

dude was apparently a real scumbag. scroll down to the section on lobbying: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Ericksen

i can't believe a conservative state senator was a complete scumbag

I regularly test for COVID & while I tested negative earlier this week, today I tested positive with a breakthrough case. Thankfully, I am only experiencing mild symptoms & am grateful for the protection provided against serious illness that comes from being vaccinated & boosted.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 19, 2021

Did not know snakes could catch Covid
Jk

maryland governor/sentient ham larry hogan

"'I am feeling fine at the moment,' said Hogan, who is vaccinated and has received a booster shot."

The decision to treat as major news every elected official's announcement of COVID is just that: a subjective, and dubious, reporting choice. It'd be news if they were very ill: https://t.co/4cDD50RKyT

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 20, 2021

ok

"The decision to treat as major news every elected official's announcement of COVID is just that: a subjective, and dubious, reporting choice."

this is bad writing, and i hate people who write like this.

"It'd be news if they were very ill."

yeah, and then everybody would be like why the fuck wasn't it reported that he was sick in the first place? oh yeah, because glenn greenwald sucks

Greenwald's just envious of Covid's efficiency as a malevolent force

plus we don’t know how the new variant affects sentient hams (even vaxxed ones), so this should be a good test study

I agree that reporting of covid numbers and individuals getting it is pointless at this stage tbh

depends. i find it hilarious/concerning every time another NBA player and/or team gets sidelined

lol

maryland's covid reporting has been down since 12/3 (all we have is hospitalization numbers) with no end in sight so it's good to know the number of active cases is at least 1

well, ACTUALLY, i believe larry has known the numbers the whole time and today i believe it says 10% positivity rate and also he went on fox yesterday to do his reasonable moderate thing

.@GovLarryHogan on Fox Sunday says he will not impose new restrictions in Md even though the state is expecting "the worst surge we've seen in our hospitals throughout the entire crisis" in the next 3 to 5 weeks.

— Ovetta Wiggins (@OvettaWashPost) December 19, 2021

lol scratch that second "i believe"

Maryland is open for business!

And Covid! Also open for Covid!

jumaane williams, nyc gubernatorial candidate and a pol i like (reserving the right to retract liking when/if milkshake ducked)

As I continue to isolate following my COVID-19 diagnosis, I am encouraged by many of the new steps just announced to protect New Yorkers amid an Omicron wave this holiday season. But I am also deeply frustrated that they were not already in place.

Expanding testing and distributing at-home rapid tests remains essential, but the long lines across the city waiting for those tests reflect an abundant lack of preparation by the city. Barriers to testing also disproportionately harm lower income communities of more color, showing that we are still failing to learn from the mistakes of 2020.

Given his own acknowledgements of the severity of risk, it is unclear to me why the Mayor has not yet shifted city workers to remote work wherever possible ahead of the holidays, with government offices leading by example. That shift should occur immediately.

It also seems clear that despite calls since September, the Mayor and administration have not prepared the necessary infrastructure to make it possible to do the same for schools ahead of the holidays. They should begin preparations now in case a remote option should be necessary after the holidays, and follow the recommendation of incoming Comptroller Brad Lander to test students and educators ahead of a post-holiday return to classrooms.

It’s not enough, as cases increase, to tout our vaccination rates in some areas. Vaccination and booster shots are the best and most essential tool we have to protect New Yorkers, but in this moment, they are not the only tool. We need to adapt – to mask up, get vaccinated and test regularly, and also to avoid large holiday gatherings and unsafe environments – to limit this wave, reduce the burden on our healthcare system, and prevent greater restrictions.

New Yorkers know what works and what they can do to protect themselves and each other, and government needs to provide the infrastructure to make those precautions possible.

Peace and love,
Jumaane

I like him/voted for him too
Hope he gets a mild one

Stephen A. Smith. Causing Katie Nolan to swoop in with a real "had to do it to 'em" moment:

GEt well soon, SAS: IMG_4346.jpeg

— Katie Nolan (@katienolan) December 21, 2021

J0hn Darnielle of the M0untain G0ats.

N0!!

He posted this song and seems OK (that "fallen" part of the thread title is like a dopamine hit, in a bad way):

https://www.instagram.com/p/CXyyXmBNI4b/

Im now imagining our rolling obituary threads also included anyone who was mildly ill

Westside Gunn, for the 2nd time

J0hn Darnielle of the M0untain G0ats.

― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Wednesday, December 22, 2021 1:11 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I have it on good authority that his throat hurts & the whole household is under the weather with it, but that he is immensely grateful for the efficacy of the vaccines in reducing the severity of the symptoms, and moved far beyond his capacity to articulate it by the expressions of goodwill he's heard from his friends and well-wishers.

jesus, that scared the shit out of me for a second!

JCLC, please let John know that I'm hoping he's not having too rough a time of it

i'm very glad he's ok, please give him my best wishes for a speedy recovery

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59867046

Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff became France's most famous twins, hosting a TV science and science-fiction show in the 1980s on a spaceship set.

They died of coronavirus within days of each other in hospital, Grichka on 28 December and his brother on Monday.

Aged 72, the brothers had not been vaccinated against Covid-19.

Was gonna make the “at least they didn’t have to inject any chemicals into their body” joke only to see 3000000 people made it ahead of me on Twitter

is there a term for that look?

is there a term for that look?

Resting Cronenberg Face.

Never heard of these guys so before I got to the before pics and the plastic surgery part of the article I kind of thought their look was due to being “descended from Austrian nobility” where the nobles were a bit too closely related

Resting Wildenstein face.

lol immediately who I thought of too

lol immediately who I thought of too

Charlie Harper of UK Subs caught covid on tour just before Christmas but is now on the mend

Charlie is 77, 78 this year!

Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff became France's most famous twins, hosting a TV science and science-fiction show in the 1980s on a spaceship set.

They died of coronavirus within days of each other in hospital, Grichka on 28 December and his brother on Monday.

Aged 72, the brothers had not been vaccinated against Covid-19.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, January 4, 2022 1:42 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

science should be in quotes there, i think

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair

i can understand how they got so popular, but why they got PhDs is probably nothing short of a miracle worked by greed and corruption

Grichka Bogdanov was given a Ph.D. by the University of Burgundy (Dijon) in 1999, though this doctorate is sometimes erroneously described as having been granted by the École Polytechnique. He originally applied for a degree in physics, but was instead given one in mathematics, and was first required to significantly rewrite his thesis, de-emphasizing the physics content. Around the same time, Igor Bogdanov failed the defense of his thesis. His advisors subsequently agreed to allow him to obtain a doctorate if he could publish three peer-reviewed journal articles. In 2002, after publishing the requisite articles, Igor was given a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Burgundy. Both of the brothers received the lowest passing grade of "honorable", which is seldom given, as Daniel Sternheimer told The New York Times science reporter Dennis Overbye. In justifying the conferring of doctoral degrees to the Bogdanovs, Sternheimer told the Times, "These guys worked for 10 years without pay. They have the right to have their work recognized with a diploma, which is nothing much these days."

In 2001 and 2002 the brothers published five papers in peer-reviewed physics journals, including Annals of Physics and Classical and Quantum Gravity. The controversy over the Bogdanovs' work began on October 22, 2002, with an email sent by University of Tours physicist Max Niedermaier to University of Pittsburgh physicist Ezra T. Newman. Niedermaier suggested that the Bogdanovs' Ph.D. theses and papers were "spoofs", created by throwing together instances of theoretical-physics jargon, including terminology from string theory: "The abstracts are delightfully meaningless combinations of buzzwords ... which apparently have been taken seriously." Copies of the email reached American mathematical physicist John Baez, and on 23 October he created a discussion thread about the Bogdanovs' work on the Usenet newsgroup sci.physics.research, titled "Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax?" Baez was comparing the Bogdanovs' publications to the 1996 Sokal affair, in which physicist Alan Sokal successfully submitted an intentionally nonsensical paper to a cultural studies journal in order to criticize that field's lax standards for discussing science. The Bogdanovs quickly became a popular discussion topic, with most respondents agreeing that the papers were flawed. The story spread in public media, prompting Niedermaier to offer an apology to the Bogdanovs, admitting that he had not read the papers firsthand. The Bogdanovs' background in entertainment lent some plausibility to the idea that they were attempting a deliberate hoax, but Igor Bogdanov quickly denied the accusation.

this part is pretty funny:

At the start of the controversy in the moderated group sci.physics.research, Igor Bogdanov denied that their published papers were a hoax, but when asked precise questions from physicists Steve Carlip and John Baez regarding mathematical details in the papers, failed to convince any other participants that these papers had any real scientific value. The New York Times reporter George Johnson described reading through the debate as "like watching someone trying to nail Jell-O to a wall", for the Bogdanovs had "developed their own private language, one that impinges on the vocabulary of science only at the edges."