paddyfool

Never is a long time.

Let's see: - Covid excess mortality will still be a factor for much of this year since vaccine roll-out will take time - World's population, including its famous people, gradually getting older https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS - Early TV era of celebs getting ancient now, and TV rather expanded the celeb population I expect there will indeed continue to be many famous deaths this year. Not sure how many though.

Thursday 800

King Steve had barely sat down on the throne before he vacates it for King Donald. Although it needs a bit of a clean and a repair job first, thanks to the use of a shaped charge. Long live King Donald - less than 3 days to go til glory!

Wednesday 850

I was referring to an bullet type that I vaguely understand to be used by sniper rifles (.50 Browning). Perhaps in French it would be 12,7 mm? Guns aren't something I know much about however, and certainly not something I've ever spoken about in French before.

Tuesday 350

Monday 225

Sunday 180

La Reine Lafaucheuse est morte. Frappée a la tête par une balle dans un jeau de cricket. .50 balle d'une fusil de Browning. Long live king Steve! Or for at least another week, anyway... EDIT: Any French speakers on the forum should feel very free to correct my terrible French btw. In particular, can anyone tell me if I should have converted ammunition size to mm from inches?

Saturday 225

January 21st (One death every 3 weeks would give a total tally of about 17 in 2021, which doesn't seem unreasonable after this year).

Friday 575

Thursday 640

Wednesday 600

Tuesday 600

Monday 180

Sunday 210

Saturday 500

Friday 490

Someone else has done some rather more detailed analysis on the impact on UK life expectancy of COVID so far: based on excess mortality up to the end of week 47 (November 20th), "Life expectancy at birth dropped 0.9 and 1.2 years for females and males relative to the 2019 levels, respectively." Presumably the drop in life expectancy will be a bit larger by end of year, but overall, if a drop in the region of 1 to 1.5 years in life expectancy is typical among countries in a similar position to the UK, not very many countries will drop a tier.

Thursday 475

Wednesday 530

Tuesday 600

Monday 200