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He recovered after seven days in isolation then returned to the States. There was some fake news going round about him not doing well.

*according to a tweet from his own daughter.

What makes you think California and New York have peaked? The UK entered lockdown before the States, and even now the States hasn't gone into as strict a quarantine. As of today there have been about 15,000 deaths in the States. Just a week ago that number was 5,000. The number of new cases doesn't seem to be shrinking in the States either, only in the statistics because they're now focussing testing rather than granting it to everyone. Also don't know why you think Tokyo will have it significantly bad. Only 93 people have died in Japan thus far and the virus was an issue in their country before it was in most other places...

I like your thinking

On a separate note, there has been a distinct lack of notable names who have died from COVID-19 in the last 48 hours (bar John Prine, but we already knew he was very sick). Have the notable deaths from the virus peaked?

Ellen DeGenerate upsetting people by comparing lockdown in her $27 million mansion to being in prison. A Boomer, she turned 62 in January. Oh where’s instant karma when you need it?

Well that was a short lived possibility for next year. Dead as per YW's post in Foreign Personalities.

The person posting these updates is requesting space and privacy yet seems to be sensationalising it themselves. Their post yesterday made it sound like something was gravely wrong (like terminal cancer, coma etc.). Now we're being told he's undergoing tests and he was on the phone having a chit chat earlier? They would've been just as well keeping it to themselves and not posting anything online at all.

Daily Mail reporting the death of Sir Peter Viggers, aged 82 (best to search his name as it is only mentioned in a small section half way down the page). There is a notice in The Times which states he died back on 19th March, but because it's paywalled and then some, I can't link to it. He was of course, the Tory MP (Gosport, 1974–2010) who was exposed during the wider Expenses Scandal of 2008. He tried to claim £1645 on a duck island for his pond.

American historian Henry Graff dead at 98.

I saw that. He hasn't been in any films since the 50s. I imagine he's most certainly dead.

Daily Star obit

Gove was on the news literally half an hour ago giving an update. He said PM spent night in ICU, didn't need a ventilator.

Lady Miloska Nott, his wife, is also still alive at 85. Notable in her own right as a charity fundraiser and received an OBE from Her Maj a few years ago.

I wonder if John Nott, reading Day's obituary muttered "Here today, gone tomorrow".