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Famous people with Covid-19

The Don said:
You're right, 3 bars of 3/4 followed by one bar of 4/4....

...or one measure of 6/8 followed by another of 7/8...

... it's in 13/4 if you want to think of it that way :D

Either way it's not easy to dance to, or play.
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The ‘triplet’ bits are very like the 6/8 feel that Mingus used on things like “Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting” or “Better Git It In Your Soul”.
 
Burundi president, Pierre Nkurunziza, started feeling sick on Saturday, seemed to improve but had a sudden cardiac arrest on Monday and died.
Rumor has it the virus got him.
 
A famous rapist has died in Brazil from Covid-19...


Paulinho Paiakan: Amazon indigenous chief dies with coronavirus

BBC News said:
One of the best-known indigenous defenders of the Amazon rainforest has died with coronavirus in Brazil, where the disease continues its rapid spread.

Paulinho Paiakan, chief of the Kayapó people, came to international attention in the 1980s in the fight against Belo Monte, one of the world's largest dams.

He was around 65. In 1998, he was convicted of the rape of an 18-year-old, a case that hurt his reputation.

Covid-19 has hit Brazil's vulnerable indigenous communities hard.

The country is among the world's worst affected, and the outbreak is believed to be weeks away from its peak. Brazil has the second-highest numbers of infections - over 955,000 - and deaths, more than 46,500, after the US.

Paiakan was one of the most important indigenous voices during Brazil's return to democracy in the 1980s, and helped lead the campaign for the creation of large indigenous reserves in the Amazon.

Alongside Kayapó chief Raoni and musician Sting, he brought attention to the impact of the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on the Xingu river, in the Amazon. After many hurdles, a modified project was eventually built, and operation started in 2016.

He also fought to expel illegal miners and loggers from indigenous areas.

But his image was stained in 1992, after a student accused him of rape, a case that had worldwide repercussions. His allies argued the claim was fabricated to tarnish Paiakan's reputation and to silence him.

After a long legal process, he was sentenced to six years in jail in 1998, but served only part of it under house arrest on his indigenous reserve in the northern state of Pará. His wife was found guilty of assisting him in the attack.

Reacting to his death on Wednesday at a hospital in Pará, the Brazilian Indigenous Peoples' Association (Apib) described Paiakan as a "father, leader and warrior" for indigenous peoples and the environment...
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D.L. Hughley just recently collapsed on stage and was determined to have the virus even though he was asymptomatic. He apparently had had a very busy week working and traveling just before that.
 
Novak Djokovic tests positive for Covid-19, alongside his wife, three other players and two trainers, following his unsanctioned tennis tournament that had to be abandoned just before the final.

Djokovic expressed regret and sympathy but little contrition in a prepared statement. He was clearly upset that his close friend, Viktor Troicki, and the Serb’s pregnant wife, along with Grigor Dimitrov and Borna Coric – who played each other on Saturday - as well as Dimitrov’s coach and his own fitness trainer had also tested positive.

There are now genuine concerns that the rescheduled major tournaments – in New York in August and at Roland Garros at the end of September – could be postponed or even cancelled; many players, especially from Europe, South America and Asia, will be reluctant to risk their health travelling into suspect environments after these disturbing developments.

Most of the other players on the Adria Tour had tests in the team hotel in Zadar on Sunday night, and there have been no positive test results from there so far. However, Djokovic declined to take a test at that time, because he said he “he did not feel any symptoms”
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zooterkin said:
Novak Djokovic tests positive for Covid-19, alongside his wife, three other players and two trainers, following his unsanctioned tennis tournament that had to be abandoned just before the final.
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Obviously I don't wish the virus or any illness on anybody. But sometimes, antivaxxer and 5G CT proponents such as Djoko and his wife do get their just desserts. What was he (and the other players who took part in the Adria tournament) thinking?

Wiki now has a page for famous folk dead from Covid-19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_due_to_COVID-19
 
Herman Cain has been Cained!

Herman Cain hospitalized for coronavirus after attending Trump rally (MarketWatch, July 2, 2020)

Cain takes credit for helping to derail President Clinton’s healthcare initiative during his first administration. As the then-chairman of the National Restaurant Assn. in 1994, Cain said his opposition during a televised town hall helped build momentum that forced Clinton to abandon the effort.
Who is Herman Cain? (Los Angeles Times, Feb. 28, 2011)
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@THEHermanCain: Masks will not be mandatory for the event, which will be attended by President Trump. PEOPLE ARE FED UP! (Twitter, July 1, 2020)
 
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