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He was likely on drugs. Won't see 60 and I have doubts on 50. Horrible.

Both Achuthanandan and Gowri Amma step down from duties due to poor health. Gowri Amma will still be president of JSS, whatever that is.

Congrats, Henry, confirmed as Chancellor of Shue Yan University for another year!

The legendary Amr Moussa from "I hate Israel but I love Amr Moussa" song has recovered from COVID-19 which required his hospitalization earlier in the month.

Discharged.

China executes Wang Shujin, 53. Wang kidnapped, raped and killed a woman in Shijiazhuang in 1994. Nie Shubin, a 21 year old Hebei man, was executed in 1995 for this crime. After his death Nie was found to be innocent. Wang confessed in 2005 and Nie's sentence was overturned in 2016.

The wording and the place the IP was based made me think it was real. Usual troll would have written something à la MorbidKid, like "famous actor Hol Halbrook died in LA following cerebral cortex at the age of 18". And CoffinLodger's reply above was the nail in the coffin.

He is a goner and much quicker than you would expect.

Then you forgot, right?

No news about Tin Oo? Have they blocked his wheelchair?

Rebecca Kotane, widow of ANC stalwart Moses Kotane, prematurely dead at 108.

Yes, she was worth keeping an eye on when younger, but now she is sadly dead.

Zanzibar VP Seif Sharif Hamad hospitalised with COVID. The current President of Zanzibar is Hussein Mwinyi, son of decrepit Tanzanian strongman Ali Hassan Mwinyi, who might be at risk.

Qin Yi celebrated her 99th birthday yesterday. Apparently she has been permanently hospitalised since late 2019, but her condition is now "stable". Photo in the linked article.

They say the "deaths come in threes" thing is bullshit, but Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski (wiki) is dead at 90 of COVID-19.

Chen Ning-yang allows his wife to remarry after his death, feeling it is not far.

Well, he is fat, on a wheelchair and not able to watch the camera. I guess he has not much time left anyway...

Another one to watch might be Haredi leader Chaim Kanievsky, now known as the king of COVID. Never leaves home, is completely deaf and utters every word in an uncomprehensible way. Somehow he survived COVID in October, though it reportedly worsened his conditions.

He is likely fucked.

Photo of Mustafa Ben Halim's 100th birthday.

Rav Edelstein, some time ago, forbid his followers to check into COVID hotels because "their spirituality might be compromised" by television. Gladly I see they are mostly pictured as a bunch of exhalted twats even by Israeli media.

Beside, no distancing has been respected at Dov's funeral and the health minister described it as "a funeral which will bring many other funerals".

Discharged.

Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik (1921-2021) Where the hell are my tefillahs? Age at death: 99 Known health issues: Well, everything. Serious cardiorespiratory disease, in critical condition with lung infection in December 2019, again in hospital after a fall in May 2020, got COVID in October 2020, was on life support and received tracheostomy. Cause of death: acute kidney failure as a likely complication of COVID-19. Alignment: well, Dov was the kind of guy you'd see in an angry bigot mob meeting up with torches to burn down Penthouse.

Mabandla looked very well at Ambrose Dlamini's funeral. Barring COVID, he is not a goner.