How many 2020 DDP picks will die of coronavirus?

[ladyfiona 2,585]

I will say 10.

[gcreptile 10,972]

uuhh.. 22

[chilean way 1,899]

I say 29

[Great Uncle Bulgaria 1,283]

17 (and not just a woman)

[theoldlady 2,301]

@Youth in Asia Three of us have picked 17 so far! Great minds think alike!

[Genfærd 452]

4

[Sleeper 3]

27

[SusanStoHelit 21]

33

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

All of them. 

[Handrejka 1,904]

56.

 

I also think we will lose a few players too 

 

[Book 3,556]

40

[Prophet 251]

Only about 5 because even for older people the death rate is only 10% and we saw George Alagiah beating this virus despite having terminal cancer.

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

Quite a range of guesses so far:

0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 16, 17, 17, 17, 21, 22, 26, 27, 29, 33, 40, 50, 56, 250, 420, 500, 3396

 

In terms of the prize for the winner of a vaccine, my work on that is progressing and we are now moving to human trials. It will be tested on Prince Philip, Nobby Stiles, Vera Lynn and Jimmy Carter, so here's hoping it works.

 

 

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

Kiefer Sutherland announced his mother (Shirley Douglas) 's death on Twitter, saying she succumbed to complications surrounding pneumonia -- but not related to COVID-19 -- on Sunday morning. While it is more likely than not that it was actually Corona, based on the rules in post one above we can't include her, so we're still on 2.

 

Any last guesses before this closes tonight?

[Death Impends 7,975]

Browsing NYTimes's coronavirus obituaries section and I noticed they had William Frankland there. That makes three then.

[gcreptile 10,972]

2 hours ago, Death Impends said:

Browsing NYTimes's coronavirus obituaries section and I noticed they had William Frankland there. That makes three then.

Candidate for ironic death of the year.

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

3 hours ago, Death Impends said:

Browsing NYTimes's coronavirus obituaries section and I noticed they had William Frankland there. That makes three then.

Thanks, updated.

[The Old Crem 3,605]

6 hours ago, Death Impends said:

Browsing NYTimes's coronavirus obituaries section and I noticed they had William Frankland there. That makes three then.

Just looked on there and he is not on there.

[Joey Russ 7,227]

2 hours ago, The Old Crem said:

Just looked on there and he is not on there.

He is though: 

[The Old Crem 3,605]

52 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

He is though: 

You right. The search bar doesn't work for some reason.

Article mentions his son confirmed it was the virus - might edit wiki now to add it.

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

And the fourth one is Tim Brooke-Taylor.

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

On 02/04/2020 at 20:42, msc said:

Hopefully none, says the guy who has to write the obits...

Thanks for the shout out for this thread on Eddie Large's obit. I'm convinced that Sonny Franzese had corona too but I guess no way of proving it unless I go undercover in the mafia like Johnny Depp in Donnie Brasco and try to find out the truth

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

We're almost at the end of June, and nothing since 12 April. Unbelievable! If it stays like this @Genfærd will be the winner.

[Joey Russ 7,227]

So Kamala is the 5th known fatality from the DDP then. 

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

Yes, updated.

 

Looking more likely that with my guess of 7 I will win my own competition.