on 20-12-2020 07:36 PM
RIP Lorenzo
Former Ravens RB Dies of Heart Attack at Age 28
Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh released a statement following the death of his former player.Noah Strackbein Dec 17, 2020
Former Baltimore Ravens running back Lorenzo Taliaferro passed away Wednesday afternoon in Williamsburg, Va. Taliaferro was 28-years-old and died of a heart attack, according to a family member
The York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office posted the news on Facebook saying, "Earlier today, December 16, 2020, at approximately 3:07 pm Deputies were dispatched to the 100 Block of Windsor Lane for a call of someone needing medical attention. Medics also arrived and transported the patient to a local hospital, where he later passed away. Lorenzo Taliaferro was 28 years old. We cannot release any medical information. Our sincere condolences, thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends."
Taliaferro spent 2014-2016 with the Ravens after being drafted in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He accumulated 282 yards and four touchdowns and caught eight passes for 114 yards during his rookie season.
https://www.si.com/nfl/steelers/news/baltimore-ravens-rb-passes-away
28 years of age. Way too young to go.
on 21-12-2020 10:36 AM
on 27-12-2020 06:25 AM
Brandy Vaughan whistle blower was a former Merck employee. She blew the whistle on some of the bad practices of the industry. Later she was plagued with her home being broken in to, alarm being bypassed and items being moved around.
Vaughan Found Dead Inside Her Own Home. Police Open InvestigationDecember 18, 2020
Vaccine whistleblower Brandy Vaughan, a former sales executive for the pharmaceutical company Merck and the founder of learntherisk.org, a website dedicated to educating people on the risks associated with vaccines, was found dead in her home beside her nine-year-old son on December 8. On Monday, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office announced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death
Vaughan was a vocal activist against the hazards of vaccines who founded California nonprofit Learn the Risk. On her Facebook page, she described herself as a “former pharmaceutical insider on a mission to create a healthier world one person at a time by educating on the real risks of pharma drugs and vaccines.”
When working in the pharma industry, Brandy sold Vioxx, a painkiller that was found to double the risk of stroke and heart attacks, according to her Learn the Risk bio.
The painkiller was eventually later taken off the market.
https://greatgameindia.com/vaccine-whistleblower-found-dead/
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Newsweek
Police Probe Sudden Death of Anti-Vaccine Activist
By Samantha Lock On 12/15/20 at 10:33 AM ESTThe sudden death of a prominent anti-vaccination activist has led to a police probe.
Brandy Vaughan, 45, was found dead on December 7 by her 9-year-old son in the family's California home.
On Monday, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office announced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death.
https://www.newsweek.com/police-probe-sudden-death-anti-vaccine-activist-1554784
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Scandal at Merck, former(old) one executive, Brandy Vaughan, admits everything
211,635 views•Oct 9, 201734.4K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAwJrQIDTgQ
27-12-2020 06:25 AM - edited 27-12-2020 06:30 AM
Hopefullly some can make it to 2021
The Doug Anthony All Stars. I remember them too.
on 27-12-2020 07:48 AM
Vale Erin Hitchens
Brian said he and his wife didn't have one firm belief about Covid-19. Instead, they switched between thinking the virus was a hoax, linked to 5G technology, or a real, but mild ailment. They came across these theories on Facebook.
"We thought the government was using it to distract us," Brian explained, "or it was to do with 5G."
But after the couple fell ill with the virus in May, Brian took to Facebook in a viral post to explain that he'd been misled by what he'd seen online about the virus.
"If you have to go out please use wisdom and don't be foolish like I was so the same thing won't happen to you like it happened to me and my wife," he wrote.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53892856
on 27-12-2020 07:51 AM
Vale Tony Tenpenny
Tenpenny, a Donald Trump supporter, shared a post on May 30 that the virus had been whipped up to try and stop Trump being re-elected on November 3. In June, he share a meme claiming mask wearers had been ‘manipulated to live in irrational fear’ and blasted them for being ‘controlled by a socialist agenda. ‘ Tenpenny continued his ranting posts through July, branding the World Health Organization and US Centers for Disease Control ‘pure lying asses’. He shared outlandish conspiracy theories, including one from a rogue doctor beloved of Donald Trump who linked coronavirus to demons. He also claimed ongoing lockdowns across the United States were about ‘shutting down the US economy, blaming Trump, & setting up a One World Govt.’ Tenpenny continued sharing the posts on his now deactivated Facebook account until August
He fell ill with the virus later that month – days after sharing his final hoax posts – and was hospitalized with Covid later that month. Tenpenny, a married father of one, was placed on a ventilator earlier this month, with his condition continuing to decline until his death in the early hours of Sunday. Paying tribute to Tenpenny, Nashville Mayor John Copper said: ‘I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former councilman Tony Tenpenny. ‘I send my condolences to his wife, Robbie, their son Ira and the rest of the Tenpenny family.’
on 28-12-2020 12:53 AM
One of the greatest.
Diego Maradona dead at 60: From street urchin to the greatest footballer in the worldPosted Thursday 26 November 2020
Diego Maradona obituary: Argentina soccer legend dies at the age of 60.
He had many nicknames — 'Golden Boy', 'Moptop', 'Cosmic Kite', 'God' — but, ironically, the name which best captured this colourful character and the operatic saga of his life was his real one: Diego Armando Maradona.
Argentina's favourite son and one of world football's greatest ever players died on Wednesday in his home in Buenos Aires from a heart attack, bringing to an end a life overflowing with glory and gross excess.
Maradona was a street urchin from a Buenos Aires slum whose natural genius with a football was complemented by a bloody-minded will to succeed.
That he played football like a God made him a figure of worship all over the world, but particularly in his homeland and in Naples, Italy, where he played at his peak.
While he may have appeared god-like on the pitch, in reality he was just a man — and the adulation gradually crushed him.
Intense pressures on and off the field, and a penchant for the kind of debauchery that can only come when nobody in your world ever tells you 'no', led to years of drug abuse, controversies and bizarre behaviour.
His flaws, writ large by a voracious media, never diminished the love many Argentinians felt for him, especially the poor and underprivileged, who always saw him as their talisman, conquering the world.
More below
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-26/diego-armando-maradona-obituary/12894296
on 30-12-2020 02:43 PM
on 03-01-2021 02:08 PM
03-01-2021 03:27 PM - edited 03-01-2021 03:28 PM
Re: Notable (non entertainment world) deaths in 2020
1. It's no longer 2020
2. He's not dead.
3. Larry King - non-entertainment world?