Rolling COVID-19 Notably Infected and/or Fallen Thread

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."

obits/posts from a couple of physicists who had contact with them

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12626

https://motls.blogspot.com/2022/01/igor-and-grichka-bogdanoff-1949-20212022.html (fair warning, this guy is himself crackers)

stuck to her guns:

A deputy district attorney from California who regularly spoke out against vaccine mandates has died of complications from Covid-19.

Kelly Ernby, 46, a prosecutor from Orange county, southern California, who recently ran for the state assembly, died after contracting the virus, her family and friends have said.

According to Ernby’s husband, Axel Mattias Ernby, Kelly Ernby was unvaccinated at the time of her death.

“She was NOT vaccinated. That’s the problem,” Axel Ernby said on social media posts...

i believe this means we’re full circle and the pandemic is…. over? https://t.co/UORfsaH3Dd

— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 6, 2022

the legendary Drama King DJ Kay Slay has been in the hospital for 14 days w/covid and is on a ventilator :(

Goddamn, I haven't thought about Lubos Motl in a decade or more and he just went right along being Lubos Motl didn't he

i think he got fired but yes

sad to hear about kay slay, that's fucked

AOC.

lol, and after that whole omg AOC was socializing in Florida! bs.

Apparently Glenn Beck has it ... again.

what, an STD?

he's with child!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/19/czech-folk-singer-hana-horka-dies-after-deliberately-contracting-covid

Reading that just made me incredibly sad for her son. Imagine how painful that would be to watch the entire process play out in front of your eyes with the predictable tragic result.

sad and bewildering

Guitarist ‘Big Merv' Shields of notorious #Nazi band #Screwdriver, instrumental in the notorious Blood and Honour neo-Nazi music network, had died from #Covid.

He was unvaccinated and called Covid a ‘Leftie Jewish Plot.’ pic.twitter.com/kSFLWfv04Q

— John O'Connell (@jdpoc) January 23, 2022

sweet!

i guess it worked

Guess the plot worked

heyyyyyyo

news article on it here. lol at the caption for the second photo

https://www.sundayworld.com/news/northern-ireland-news/infamous-neo-nazi-skinhead-band-member-dies-of-covid-complications-in-co-antrim-hospital-41244638.html

that article's tone is all over the place, wild

the Sunday world isn't exactly our paper of record tbh I'm surprised they didn't find a way to get a pic of someone in a bikini in there

Sarah Palin has tested positive for Covid, forcing a delay in the trial for her defamation suit against the NYT. She is not vaccinated, per the judge.

— Jeremy W. Peters (@jwpetersNYT) January 24, 2022

Actually, I believe the quote from the judge was "Of course, she is not vaccinated."

lol it was “She is, of course, unvaccinated.”

her second go-round with the virus, iirc

You gotta dance with the one that brung ya.

Marc Maron

Laurence Fox. Imagine being this much of a turd, it must be hell inside his head.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jan/30/laurence-fox-has-coronavirus-and-taking-ivermectin

Hahahahaha

oh fuck him, hope he dies, and get Viktor Orban next

― Neanderthal, Saturday, October 24, 2020 12:42 PM bookmarkflaglink

I don't understand this thread

It's a super spreader thread

goatse is thataway pal