Celebrity death pool - special coronavirus edition

[elbows]

Well it wasnt true in the first wave either, there were a bunch of reasons why lots of people died at home instead.

 

[elbows]

Wurzels drummer, sounds like he caught it on tour.

Wurzels drummer John Morgan dies of Covid aged 80

Morgan, drummer with West of England band for 40 years, contracted coronavirus after Manchester gig

www.theguardian.com

 

[existentialist]

Wurzels drummer, sounds like he caught it on tour.

Wurzels drummer John Morgan dies of Covid aged 80

Morgan, drummer with West of England band for 40 years, contracted coronavirus after Manchester gig

www.theguardian.com

At this rate, the confirmed demise of Ruddy Yurts can only be a matter of time...

 

[Chilli.s]

At this rate, the confirmed demise of Ruddy Yurts can only be a matter of time...

Thats a particularly negative post, and in poor taste to speak of a (some would say) creative genius in such a way.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The Bogdanoff twins have both died of it, one today and one on 28th December. Anti-vaxxers

 

[Orang Utan]

The Bogdanoff twins have both died of it, one today and one on 28th December. Anti-vaxxers

are they the plastic surgery disasters folk?

 

[strung out]

are they the plastic surgery disasters folk?

I don't know what you're talking about

 

[Steel Icarus]

Yeah, because having unnatural stuff injected into you is a terrible idea

 

[BigMoaner]

love all the needles apart from that one.

 

[elbows]

The Bogdanoff twins have both died of it, one today and one on 28th December. Anti-vaxxers

The BBC has now covered these deaths:

France's Bogdanoff TV twins die of Covid six days apart

Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff had hosted a TV science and science-fiction show in the 1980s.

www.bbc.co.uk

Family friend Pierre-Jean Chalençon said they had left it too late to seek hospital treatment, deciding it was similar to flu. "People have said they were anti-vaxxers but they absolutely weren't," he told BFMTV. "Several friends told them to get themselves vaccinated but they felt because of their lifestyle and their [lack of] comorbidity, they weren't at risk of Covid."

Asked why they had chosen not to have the Covid vaccines if they were not themselves anti-vaxxers, Luc Ferry said on Monday: "Like Igor, Grichka wasn't antivax, he was just antivax for himself.

"They were both athletic, with not an inch of fat, and they thought the vaccine was more dangerous than the virus."

 

[Elpenor]

Sounds like they didn’t have a brain cell between the two of them

 

[DaveCinzano]

Sounds like they didn’t have a brain cell between the two of them

Like Igor, Grichka wasn't anti-brain cells, he was anti-brain cells for himself

 

[BigMoaner]

it's so stupid isn't it. like compellingly so. to me it really does seem as real and visciral as refusing a life jacket on a sinking boat. "not for me. too healthy. i've got my dive to the bottom to the collect the bridge badge."

i talk a lot to my 9yo daughter abotu the pandemic - i don't proselatise (sp) or anythign, we jsut chat about it. and honestly her grasp of it is far far sounder than what i read from a quick skirt around facebook.

 

[danny la rouge]

Yeah, because having unnatural stuff injected into you is a terrible idea

It’s their choice and all that, but what was going on in their heads regarding the cosmetic stuff? They were good looking young men!

 

[elbows]

They got older and they sought to hold back the hands of time, but ended up as aliens.

Its much easier for me, I wasnt good looking in the first place.

 

[danny la rouge]

They got older and they sought to hold back the hands of time, but ended up as aliens.

Its much easier for me, I wasnt good looking in the first place.

I suppose I should just count my blessings that I continue to improve with age.

 

[belboid]

Not really a celebrity over here, but a member of one of the oldest Czech folk groups has died after deliberately getting herself infected - so she could go out more.

Hana Horka: Czech singer dies after catching Covid intentionally

Hana Horka's son tells the BBC his mother was unvaccinated but wanted to acquire immunity.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Not really a celebrity over here, but a member of one of the oldest Czech folk groups has died after deliberately getting herself infected - so she could go out more.

Hana Horka: Czech singer dies after catching Covid intentionally

Hana Horka's son tells the BBC his mother was unvaccinated but wanted to acquire immunity.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Buddy Bradley]

A few stories about Meat Loaf's death are saying it was Covid related.

 

[Dogsauce]

A few stories about Meat Loaf's death are saying it was Covid related.

Confirmed apparently.

would do anything for love, but won’t do vaxx.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Confirmed apparently.

would do anything for love, but won’t do vaxx.

Not seen anything to suggest he was anti-vax, to be fair - he did have asthma.

 

[Dogsauce]

Not seen anything to suggest he was anti-vax, to be fair - he did have asthma.

According to people on Reddit (not an authoritative source I know) he was anti-mask, anti-lockdown and anti-mandate.

 

[stavros]

He'd long lost a sense of perspective.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

in a minor way
Infamous neo-Nazi skinhead band member dies of 'Covid complications' in Co Antrim hospital

 

[Dogsauce]

in a minor way
Infamous neo-Nazi skinhead band member dies of 'Covid complications' in Co Antrim hospital

<Insert Windsor Davis meme here>

 

[Dogsauce]

Get out those nanoviolins, in more ‘trash taking itself out’ news, Bolsanaro’s far-right guru/mentor Olive de Carvalho has succumbed to Covid after eight days.

Olavo de Carvalho morre aos 74 anos nos Estados Unidos | Exame

Escritor havia sido diagnosticado com covid-19 no dia 16 de janeiro, mas causa oficial da morte ainda não foi divulgada

exame.com

(can’t find an English language report, robot translation below)

Pocketnarist writer Olavo de Carvalho died, at the age of 74, on the night of January 24. The news of the death was communicated by the family on the author's social networks. According to the Twitter post, the Bolsonaro family guru was hospitalised in the Richmond region of Virginia (USA).

Olavo de Carvalho had been diagnosed with Covid-19 on January 16. Officially, however, the cause of death has not yet been publicised.

In July of this year, the writer had been hospitalised at the Heart Institute of the Hospital das Clínicas of the USP School of Medicine (InCor), in São Paulo. On that occasion, he underwent a catheterisation. After being discharged, he had new complications and spent more than four months hospitalised in the Saint Marie clinic, in the South Zone of the capital of São Paulo.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

Get out those nanoviolins, in more ‘trash taking itself out’ news, Bolsanaro’s far-right guru/mentor Olive de Carvalho has succumbed to Covid after eight days.

Olavo de Carvalho morre aos 74 anos nos Estados Unidos | Exame

Escritor havia sido diagnosticado com covid-19 no dia 16 de janeiro, mas causa oficial da morte ainda não foi divulgada

exame.com

(can’t find an English language report, robot translation below)

Can't say he had made it onto my radar before, after a quick read about him: well done Covid.
Guardian article on the death

“He has blood on his hands,” she told the magazine Veja, blaming her father’s “denialist ideas” and dissemination of fake news for the Brazilian government’s delay in purchasing Covid vaccines. “But I do not celebrate his death.”

 

[Yossarian]

Pope Francis
Elton John
John McAfee

23 months after that post, Elton John has tested positive - fortunately, he's fully vaccinated and boosted so should be fine.

Elton John postpones Dallas concerts after testing positive for Covid-19 | CNN

Elton John's concerts at American Airlines Center in Dallas have been postponed after the singer tested positive for Covid-19, according to a statement from the arena.

www.cnn.com

 

[frogwoman]

Far right Russian politician Zhirinovsky just died from covid. Probably the most influential and certainly the most popular far right figure in Russia since the USSR collapsed.

 

[elbows]

Far right Russian politician Zhirinovsky just died from covid. Probably the most influential and certainly the most popular far right figure in Russia since the USSR collapsed.

'Predicted' (or more likely had insider information?) the exact start date for the war several months in advance, but failed to predict becoming critically ill with the virus that same month.

The virus has been interviewed about its intentions in this case.