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Outdoor transmission in summer has never resulted in huge spikes. And the link between cases and hospitalisation and deaths is totally broken. The vaccines are completely pumping all variants. It's an exit wave and absolutely no danger of overwhelming the NHS. More importantly, if you plot cases in the U.K and the U.S on a graph, you get a Brontosaurus.

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/john-gabriel-dead-ryans-hope-1234967378/ Another Hollywood death in addition to Ned Beatty. John Gabriel singer and actor who starred in TV soap Ryans Hope, Gilligans Island ,77 Sunset Strip and The Mary Tyler Moore show has died aged 90.

As mentioned elsewhere, actor Ned Beatty, has passed away at the age of 83. https://www.thewrap.com/ned-beatty-prolific-superman-and-network-character-actor-dies-at-83/

Gloucester Rugby star Jack Adams dead at 34 only a few days after announcing his terminal cancer, and just hours after me noticing it: https://www.ruck.co.uk/former-gloucester-rugby-star-jack-adams-passes-away-aged-34/

Hospitalised for an "undisclosed illness": https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/former-zambian-president-kenneth-kaunda-97-hospitalised-2021-06-14/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanchari_Vijay Kannada film actor Sanchari Vijay dead from injuries from a motorcycle accident. He was in his 30s. Known for the 2015 film Naanu Avanalla...Avalu where he played the role of a transgender woman.

R.I.P.

http://www.suomensotilas.fi/ss-rottenfuhrer-toivo-kangaslampi-poissa/ SS-Rottenführer Toivo Kangaslampi dead at 98. Born in 1922, he served in the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS for a while in around 1941/1942 to 1943. Three Finnish SS volunteers remain, two of them are over 100.

Henry Mancini, American composer who wrote many legendary film scores, including "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Charade", "The Pink Panther" or "Touch of Evil", died at his home in Beverly Hills of complications related to pancreatic and liver cancer on this date in 1994. He was 70 years old. His music was heard in nearly 250 films during his long career. He was nominated for 70 Grammy Awards, winning 20. Mancini also won 4 Oscars, 1 Golden Globe, 2 Emmy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. He also recorded 85 record albums, whose combined sales topped 30 million copies. Henry Mancini was buried in the Palm Downtown Cemetery in Las Vegas.

https://www.iene.mediaset.it/video/politi-germania-casa-nazista-condannato-ergastolo-in-italia_215705.shtml Because I had seen this Italian television program in which the journalist had gone to find this Nazi on behalf of a survivor of the massacre of civilians and military in Tuscany and Kefalonia.

The Euros have started :-)

In the past it was made clear that they would not be allowed to be swapped out. There was a reason I didn’t swap out folk like Lucien Barbarin or Jamie Frierson last year

John Gabriel, the Emmy nominated actor who starred in the US soap Ryan's Hope for over 13 years and a handful of episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore show dead at 90. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/john-gabriel-dead-ryans-hope-1234967378/

.....oh, and another thing. A matter of weeks ago India was on the verge of social collapse because the virus was running riot and they could not cope, had no oxygen etc, etc. Hardly in the news now. Gone from Apocalyptic lead stories in the press and media to, pretty much, fuck all. Strange....

https://www.facebook.com/MainiokotiJusolanlampi/videos/296765841676215 Here's the video I talked about in Scavenger Hunt... A woman is interviewing 1964 Tokyo 50 Metre Pistol gold medal winner Väinö Markkanen. Some parts of it translated: 0:18 she asks "Väinö, what was your sport" No response. 0:26 she again asks "In what sport did you win gold" Around six seconds later he answers "in pistol shooting" very unclearly. Very short answers and the whole interview seems to have been forced. He does answer the questions right but doesn't seem to be enjoying it and can only answer short answers, and also says unclearly something when they talk about life that could be translated to "for me it's starting to be over". At 2:20 she says "Long life. And the secret to living long?" and "Will it be kept a secret" He answers "Yes" Edit: Also, it's recorded in a nursing home for old folks who need 24/7 care by what is probably a member of the staff and was posted on that nursing home's facebook page.

Incorrect. Joe Clark, who was Prime Minster of Canada between 4th June 1979 and 3rd March 1980, is still alive. What do you have to say about that?

After a couple of deaths in May, we have our first June centenarians, here are some of them... I'd say these are a pretty strong trio: James Francis Edwards, born 5th of June 1921. Canadian WWII pilot, with 19 aerial victories he was Canada's highest scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign. He shot down Luftwaffe ace Otto Schultz (51 aerial victories) in 1942 and probably also Günter Steinhausen (40 aerial victories), later the same year. Picture from an interview on his 100th Jakob Skarstein, born 7th of June 1921. Longtime radio journalist and personality since 1945. P.K. Warrier, born 8th of June 1921. Ayurveda alternative medicine practicioner.

Table so far........ Paul Bearer 6 Toast 4 Redrumours 2 MSC 2 wee jum 2 Great uncle Bulgaria 2 Gcreptile 2 Everybody else 0 

Witold Kieżun, Home Army soldier dead at 99. Taken POW by the Nazis twice but managed to escape. Send to a gulag but survived. "During his stay in the camp, Witold Kieżun contracted pneumonia, typhoid fever, typhus, dystrophy, scabies, mumps and Beriberi." With Pope John Paul II in 1991 in Burundi. Worked as a advisor to multiple Polish politicians and President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya (1949-2020)

EFA.

Hall of Fame NBA-guard and coach Bobby Leonard, who played for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Packers/Zephyrs from 1956-1963, died at 88 years: https://fortwaynesnbc.com/2021/04/13/basketball-legend-bobby-slick-leonard-dead-at-88/

African physician and media personality Sindisiwe van Zyl, who became recognized for hosting Sidebar with Sindi on Johannesburg's Kaya FM radio, died at 45 years after complications from Covid-19: https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/kwazulu-natal/renowned-aids-activist-dies-from-covid-19-955f3adb-694e-465e-962e-b6563d39f343 She was named one of Glamour's Women of the Year in 2018 for excellence and activism in health and medicine and was well known for informing the public about HIV and mental health-related topics.

Cameroonian Senator Viktor Mukete died at 102 years: https://www.camerounweb.com/CameroonHomePage/NewsArchive/Urgent-g-de-103-ans-le-plus-vieux-s-nateur-Nfon-Victor-Mukete-est-mort-587998

Sad news. She's fantastic in The Daemons, and always a welcome face whenever she popped up. Hope her and Margaret Rutherford aren't fighting over the Cape up there.