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Nepali PM KP Sharma Oli will receive second kidney transplantation.

Luis Sepulveda infected with harmless coronavirus.

Wrong Balbir Singh, obviously. This guy was only 77 and one of the three Balbir Singhs on 1968 Olympics field hockey team. Balbir Singh Sr., the legend of Indian hockey, is well as he was interviewed a few days ago. Try again, better luck.

Yes, mortality rates are low. You need to be unlucky, something we all have been at least once.

1124 infected, 29 deaths in Italy. No way to stop it.

Honduran legend of football José de la Paz Herrera, commonly known as Chelato Uclés, given very little chance to survive following heart attack and complications from diabetes.

Anbazhagan hospitalized in Chennai and has spent the last ten days in a coma.

Government has imposed censorship about number of infected and deaths in Italy. There will be no further updates, officially "to prevent panic". Talk about China being obscurantist...

Noooo! Started so well with Mubarak, Hoxha, Chaturvedi, but now 2020 takes the great Freeman Dyson! And unnatural way too, a fall. RIP to one of the greatest, ever.

I have my theories. Italy never found Patient Zero, from which the contagion started. It is very likely that patient zero was someone who went to a Chinese "massage center" (read: prostitutes) and got it there. Some weeks ago regions in the North asked the government the right to quarantine everyone comig back from China for 14 days. Government denied, defining these measures as "unnecessary" and "racist". Ironically it would have probably prevented the whole thing. Anyway come back to patient 0. An elderly farmer from Codogno zone, or whatsoever. He goes to the massage center, and in the following days he develops fever and pneumonia. He doesn't think at all to be checked, so he continues working and infects dozens of other people. These people infect hundreds of other people. A great number of them probably dies in hospital, their deaths being classified as due to "pneumonia". No one in the hospitals even thinks about checking coronavirus. Government insists there is no coronavirus in Italy. This goes on for weeks, maybe a month, with hundreds of infected people who think they have a common flu. Then so-called Patient 1, a 38-year old manager from Codogno, goes to hospital with acute pneumonia. Once, twice, they never consider him. By the time he goes to A& E twice he infects many patients with coronavirus. Some of them will later die. The third time he goes to hospital, with his conditions rapidly deteriorating (he is currently still on life support), his wife says he has met a colleague who came back from China, some time ago. They test coronavirus and it is positive. His pregnant wife is infected too. From there hundreds of infected are found, 17 deaths happen (but may be many more). Surprisingly the manager who came back from China never had coronavirus, so he is not Patient Zero, though members of his family are infected too. Seeing that the virus has circulated for weeks, and mainly for their fault, government goes postal and decides to quarantine a vast zone. A week later, seeing that this is damaging economy and international relationships, they turn to the "it's a common flu" thing, in a very clumsy way. Reality is different: 1)It is a flu-like disease, but has a mortality rate 1000 times higher than flu. If it spreads virtually to the entire population it will cause thousands of deaths. Statistically. 2)Deaths won't be restricted to the elder/ill (as their lives count less), but young people will statistically die too. It could be everyone and nothing can be done. 3)Most of Italian population will actually get coronavirus, me included. So don't be fooled, government never had the situation under control.

Italy's government is downplaying the emergency, saying "it's a normal flu". It is quite evident there are THOUSANDS of infected now and there will be HUNDREDS of deaths. Still government is DELIBERATELY going to hide numbers (as announced by Spallanzani hospital in Rome) because they fear for economy and tourism. Yeah, tourism is their main worry. I don't buy the "it's a common flu" thing. Mortality of coronavirus is around 1000 times that of normal flu and if the contagion is not controlled (as it will happen soon, to "help economy") on all those deaths even younger people will "statisticaly" die. But they give a fuck about you who died at 23 of coronavirus, for them it's just "statistics". 17 people already dead (probably at least 100), they insist they were old and would have died anyaway. Things that their families strongly deny. But people is more reassured if they believe the snakes who run this country. Fuck it, I'm angry.

DeDe Lind, American model and Playmate of the Month, dead at 72. Robert Cabaj, American psychiatrist, dead at 71.

Actually estemeed to be between 95 and 106, this scourge of Karnataka wanted to live to 300. So...

84 today!

One of the few times I came here thinking to see a certain post and that was it! Hooray!

This guy was never 100. Just see his photos, he was around 60 years old when he claimed to be 96. Probably took the ID of an older deceased relative (cough... that's India...). His whole family disappeared some years back. He was probably not even in his 70s when he died. But let's accept the story...

322 infected, 11 dead in Italy. Government insists the situation is under control.

Yes, 1918 is not that strong year. Most mentioned on DL: Lloyd Geering. I think someone here knew him in person. Most important: René de Obaldia, one of the most acclaimed French authors of the last century. Most famous: Hutton Gibson Scientific heroes: Martin Pope (inventor of OLEDs) and Borys Paton (who has been Chairman of Ukraine Academy of Sciences for 58 years) I'm here thank to Voodoo prize: Cameroon tribal leader Victor Mukete

That pesky Muteflika should be really scared right now.

What is due is due. YES! FINALLY!

Sorry for your loss, Biblio.

Update on both Lee Teng-hui and Hau Pei-tsun: *Lee Teng-hui: condition stabilized, not in imminent risk of death. Chances are in favour of recovery, once again. *Hau Pei-tsun: remarkably stable after he suffering a "minor stroke" last April which left him with "problems with his left hand and foot, so he has to use a wheelchair". Note in April media talked about a "debilitating stroke" that left him "half-paralyzed". Very worried with his son's political career, has all his marbles. So they will escape agaiiiiin for now.

Ok, time for another "ailing A-listers" list. Oh, all name which will get a YES, FINALLY! comment from me, immediately. Let's start: 1)Hosni Mubarak (1928): DL candidate and Egyptian inafmous dictator. Received bowel surgery last month, developed complications and he is in ICU one month later. As usual family and lawyer say he "is slowly recovering" 2)Lee Teng-hui (1923): Dictator of Taiwan, in hospital since the beginning of February after choking on milk and developing aspiratio pneumonia (with an incredible history of ill health). Lawyer says he "is slowly recovering" 3)Syed Ali Shah Geelani (1929): The independist Kashmir overlord has been hospitalized for months for chest infection. Now, according to familiy, he "is slowly recovering". 4)Hau Pei-tsun (1919): Taiwan PM and Chief of Staff, has been in hospital since April and has been rumoured to be critically ill a week ago. Family did not comment. 5)Prince Philip of Edinburgh (1921): Yes, all we have are rumours. But far more reliable than usual... 6)Stanley Ho (1921): Macau gambling God has been on life support for months and his situation further deteriorated in mid-January. Somehow, still alive. The toughest of the toughest, folks!

Don't feed the troll.

Cypriot political legend Vassos Lyssarides hospitalized with breathing problems at 99. Said to be in good condition, our leader can't die, bla bla bla. Widower since last year.