Famous people with Covid-19: Putting faces on the Crisis

[SquirrelMan]

Beloved comic book writer and publisher of a legendary industry magazine, David Anthony Kraft was killed by covid-19. His run on Defenders was a personal favorite.

[SquirrelMan]

Nigerian Televangelist and Grifter, Pastor TB Joshua, passed away at age 58.

Sources say it was of covid-19, a disease Joshua had predicted would be prayed away by March 2020.

[SquirrelMan]

Phoenix Suns great Chris Paul is isolating and cannot play after testing positive for Covid.



This is especially worrying as he apparently had been fully vaccinated.

[SquirrelMan]

French actress Lea Seydoux, known internationally from roles in chapters of the James Bond and Mission Impossible franchises as well as Inglorious Basterds, will miss the Cannes film festival after getting infected with SARS-Cov-2.

[SquirrelMan]

This is an insane number:

Nearly 900 Secret Service employees tested positive for COVID-19 between March 1, 2020 and March 9, 2021,

The vast majority served in protection jobs, either as Special Agents or in the Uniformed Division.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service Special Agents “are the elite agents you see protecting the President and Vice President. They also protect the leaders of other countries when they visit the US, the President’s and Vice President’s family members, Presidential candidates who are running for election,” while agents in the Uniformed Division protect “the White House, the Vice President’s house, the Treasury Department, and foreign embassies in Washington, DC. Some Uniformed Division agents travel with the President, Vice President and foreign leaders to special events around the country.”

Throughout the pandemic, then-President and Vice President Trump and Pence held large-scale rallies against public health guidelines, and Trump and his family made repeated protected trips to Trump-branded properties which the then-president was making millions of dollars a year from. Trump even put on a photo-op in a car with Secret Service agents while being treated for COVID, further putting agents in danger. While there have been reports of Trump’s Secret Service struggling with coronavirus cases, the number is far greater than had previously been known.

[SquirrelMan]

Talented comic book artist Robson Rocha died at age 41, two weeks after being hospitalized for covid-19.

[Iron Maiden]

I saw this on Twitter. I am not familiar with this artist and there were lots of postings of his wonderful work. It's always terrible to see someone succumb to this disease. So tragic in this case because he had a long career ahead of him and was much loved among his peers. He leaves behind a wife and young daughter

[Kai "the spy"]

Japanese martial arts star Sonny Chiba died from CoVID today.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Japanese martial arts star Sonny Chiba died from CoVID today.

Aww, damn! What a shame!

[Starter Set]

Nigerian Televangelist and Grifter, Pastor TB Joshua, passed away at age 58.

Sources say it was of covid-19, a disease Joshua had predicted would be prayed away by March 2020.

Didn't work eh?

[SquirrelMan]

Phil Valentine, Anti-Vax and Anti-Mask Radio Host, Dies at 61 of COVID Complications

He infamously once said "I have a very low risk of A) Getting COVID and B) dying of it if I do. Why would I risk getting a heart attack or paralysis by getting the vaccine?"


He was also a climate change denier. He produce the "documentary" An Inconsistent Truth, a rebuttal to Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. So I fully expect his funeral to be delayed by flooding.

[SquirrelMan]

White Nationalist Blogger Laura Loomer got her wish and might be rethinking her position.

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The Regeneron does not seem to be doing much for her.

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[WestPhillyPunisher]

White Nationalist Blogger Laura Loomer got her wish and might be rethinking her position.

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The Regeneron does not seem to be doing much for her.

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Karma has been working overtime, working her magic on all these anti-vaxx nutbags. Thoughts and prayers to them? Nope and nope.

[SquirrelMan]

Karma has been working overtime, working her magic on all these anti-vaxx nutbags. Thoughts and prayers to them? Nope and nope.

This is not Karma.
Covid is turning into a virus very much like the measles before there was a vaccine: Everybody who chooses not to get vaxxed will get it. So her infection is a direct result of her actions. Karma was not needed. It's also not Karma if you eat a tide pod and get sick or jump off a building and die. It's just consequences.

[SquirrelMan]

George Holliday, a Los Angeles plumber who shot grainy video of four white police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King in 1991, has died of complications of COVID-19.