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It is extremely deadly sometimes and extremely lame other times. Should call it "El Chino" like Sir Creep, for the discontinuity in its results...

My god....

Tebboune finally appears on video, though his treatment will require another two/three weeks.

An eventful year between those two posts!

Yes, actually ignorance is often mistaken for a virtue nowadays.

Discharged. Monster.

He is at very high risk. He has underlying issues and has been symptomatic for three days. Other articles adfirm he is "slightly improving" which implies he was worse than described here. Would be a shame if such a great man dies this way, but it is very likely.

So still no geezers over 100 years old dead in December? That's a scandal!

Here's an updated list of immortals who escaped (?) 2020: 1)Dilip Kumar (1922). The King of Them All. 98 years old an counting. If three years ago someone would say he would be still alive by now he would have been transferred to Bedlam Asylum immediately. 2)Bob Dole (1923). With an incredible history of hospitalizations at Walter Reed, extensive heart and lung disease and having looked like a corpse for at least seven years, this wheelchair hero deserves his high spot on the list. 3)Jimmy Carter (1924). Cancer survivor who seemed fucked, fall, brain hemhorrage, extremely frail. But going on nonethless. Which is amazing. 4)Thich Nhat Hanh (1926). Suffered a tremendous stroke in 2014, expected to be dead within months then. Went to Vietnam two years ago to "spend his last days" there. Was reported to be dying last year. Sought treatment for pneumonia in Thailand in autumn 2019. Again weak and not eating at his 94th birthday, quickly recovered. 5)Syed Ali Shah Geelani (1929). Has suffered from heart failure and lung disease for years. He has been on the brink on death at least four times in the last five years. In February 2020 his death seemed imminent. 6)Tin Oo (1927). Survived a terrible stroke and a consequent fall in 2017. Expected to be dead within days, he is still hanging around in his wheelchair with seemingly swollen legs. 7)Mikis Theodorakis (1925). Has suffered many heart attacks and he was reportedly "on the brink of death" (yeah, again...) last year in March. 8)Leslie Phillips (1924). This guy is incredible. He has suffered multiple strokes, has been on a wheelchair for years and anyway kept watching while many other beloved British actors and entertainers were wiped out in recent years. 9)Monica Vitti (1931)/Joanne Woodward (1930)/Carmen Sevilla (1930). Their resistance to Alzheimer's is incredible. Vitti has had a neurodegenerative illness for 17 years and counting, the other are above 10 years (not sure about Woodward). 10)Ma Shitu (1915). Popular writer of Sichuan, he is a three-time lung cancer survivor and also suffered from other types of cancer. Was on his deathbed in 2003, he pulled a surprise recovery. Retires in July 2020 due to failing health, likely another recurrence of cancer. Hospitalized again some months later, he bounces back as nothing even this time. A prodigy. 11)Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik (1921). He has been close to death many times. In December 2019 he was so much dying he was a Deathrace pick. Now he is still dying, but a human corpse like him survived a severe bout with COVID, which put him on life support and forced him to undergo tracheostomy. Now in danger for complications. But his time never comes. 12)Saleh Ajeery (1920). A COPD and heart failure sufferer who has been on a critical condition with COVID for two weeks. Seemingly he will test negative and be in a Meshulam-like situation. Against the unbelievable odds, again. 13)David Musuguri (1920). This Tanzanian general was reportedly near death at his 100th birthday due to "sever complications of diabeetus". Wheelchair bound guy is still somehow going. 14)Vassos Lyssarides (1920). Suffering from emphysema and heart failure, he bounced back from a critical condition ahead of his 100th birthday and itw as the second time at least. 15)Wan Haifeng (1920). Reportedly bedridden, selling memorabilia, and mostly unable to even speak, his moment seems to never come anyway. 16)Saalumarada Thimmakka (????). Was in a critical condition some years ago, was in a bleak condition in May this year. Somehow this incredibly frail environmentalist from K'taka (also the land of Venkatasubbiah, we hail you, 108 year old fucker) looks good enough at her last appearances. K'Taka has something magical, way too many old geezers down there. I'll continue when other spring to mind.

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He died in June 2019, would have turned 88 in August 2019. He was suffering from emphysema, heart and kidney failure. Gorbachev looks very similar to him, guess he has at least some of the same ailments.

He looks like my father in his last period. Obviously he receives another level of medical care, but surely deserves a spot on 2021 DL.

Mengistu is by far the eldest living Ethiopian "statesman". All other PMs and Presidents born in the 30s/40s are dead.

Yes, some medical research even shows 100% of people who don't get COVID will eventually die.

Dead.

Sam Nujoma hospitalised with COVID-19, reportedly "stable". He has contracted it from one of his bodyguards, who is already dead. COVID previously killed Nujoma's sister.

That's your Kenneth Alwyn dead.

Discharged.

Don't worry, he will die while reading his obit.

The D-word.... Discharged.

Since the year is ending, 2020 had his moments (mainly in May, when it killed off Tun Tin, Balbir, Hyun Soong-jong and Stanley Ho) but it failed to obtain a clean sweep. Somehow Dilip Kumar incredibly survived (talk too soon? We'll see...), Thich Nhat Hanh, Geelani, Tin Oo, Mikis Theodorakis, Leslie Phillips soldier on. Some particularly tough classes suffered relative poor losses: 1)Iranian Ayatollahs: Mohammad Yadzi who died today is the most prominent one. The perkiest ones, including Khorasani, Golpayagani, Jannati and a plethora of them born in the 1920s, were untouched even by the harsh pandemic in Iran. 2)North Korea military and apparatchiks: Hwang Sun-hui and another old lady were the most significant deaths. A whole generation seems to linger on and was untouched by 2020. Ri Yong Mu, Choe Yong Rim, O Kuk Ryol, Choe Thae Bok, Hyang Yong-sop, Kim Yong nam... I don't even mention Kim Yong-ju because the controversy about his status. 2021should put a little more effort here. 3)Chinese elder politicians/military. I think the visit list of Xi Jinping for this New Year's Eve is identical to last year's. Jiao Ruoyu, Wang Hai, Li Liqong were the only significant deaths, which are few, expecially compared to a general wipeout which took place between 2017 and 2018. Surely 2021 will be harsher. 4)Indian centenarians and freaks: Thimmakka, Fauja Singh, Philipose, Venkatasubbiah are all left unscathed by this pandemic. Moreover, some new immortals were created: Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, Saleh Ajeery, Ma Shitu, David Musuguri, exc. 2021 has plenty of work to do and should focus on this old basterds instead of taking Argentine football managers again. Unless they are Bilardo of course .

Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, former VC of Kwame Nkrumah University, is 101 and has been incredibly frail for the last five years at least.

Yes, forgot it. 24 points is really much.

That's not the Ideas and Possibilities for 2018 thread!

Myung Rye-hun was likely dead before the 2002 documentary The Game of Their Lives was shot. The fate of the whole squad is unknown, excpect from Pak Seung-zin who died in 2011 and Pak Doo-ik who is still alive and sort of venerated in North Korea. Also Italian populist leader Matteo Salvini met him during a recent trip in North Korea.