RIP of the day

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  • formed12

    A few weeks late, but these other posts are making me feel like I need to write things down.

    A girl I dated for a bit a few years ago died a few months back. She was a model and reached out in December to see if I wanted to shoot again. We had shot numerous times and had great creative chemistry. I said 'sure' and never heard back.
    She was a little unstable and I ended things after a scary incident, but she was a sweet woman, super smart (she just finished her clinical pharmacy degree), and crazy ambitious with her modeling (she traveled the world continually via paid shoots).

    She had been a heroin addict a decade or so ago, but was clean. I guess she injured herself and was taking pain meds. I'll never know if she od'd, was on heroin again or took her own life (her parents were not nice people).

    Her funeral was sad, needless to say. I still have the paintings we made in my garage and red boots she brought over for a shoot once.

    2 years ago my best friend took his life. He was a recovering alcoholic (alcohol ruined his marriage and carrier, I never knew he was until he got divorced and quit) and was impressively successful in quitting.

    We would go for walks for a few hours a week, talking about life (insanely smart man, too smart, I think). He tried everything - numerous psychologists, anti-depressants, dbt/cbt, etc., etc. He taught me so much.

    We walked every street around my place countless times. Every time I go for a run or walk, I can remember a detail of one of our conversations. It's both terribly sad and yet still makes me smile a little.

    He called me on a Friday and left a message, but I was at my gf's for the weekend. I texted back but heard nothing. Texted back again on Sunday, nothing, again on Monday, nothing. I was worried.

    Tuesday, I think, I got a call from his sister and I knew right away. I'll always wonder if I had been able to answer that call if it would have made any difference. I'd like to think it would have, but my logical side says otherwise.

    He left a note on his mtn bike that was in my garage. I didn't find it for 6 months. It was the only note he left, just saying he'd like his daughter to have his nicest bike and hoped my life would be wonderful.

    I knew him since we were 14. I was sure we'd grow old together, and share the stories from our crazy high school years and challenges with life in general.

    They say suicide happens far more often than people realize. I guess that's true.

    I am grateful for spending so much time with him in his last 2 years. I am grateful to have known a good man and a great friend for so long.

    Hug your friends, tell them how much you love them, and don't just assume everyone knows. Feelings should be cherished and shared. Enjoy every moment, regardless of how seemingly trivial it might appear, they all matter.

    • Love you guysYakuZoku
    • +1 for very personal post. if he was that committed you wouldn't have been able to save his life. The best you could have done was postpone it.hotroddy
    • I'm hooked on the show INTERVENTION. Only 20% of them make it out. Some episodes end with a suicide in the post follow-up update.hotroddy
    • Thanks for sharing, that must have been hard to write, but hopefully at the same time provides some catharsis. I love the QBN community, warts and all.BuddhaHat
    • That's so tough. All the best for you.SimonFFM
    • That last para formed. Xox. just be there and be and enjoy the now. Sounds like their life was better for having you in it.thumb_screws
    • My heart goes out to you formed! Losses like that are very difficult and painful. I'm really sorry, friend! Remembering people is their tribute.boobs
    • Moving story. Hope you are all out there in the QBNverse...shapesalad
    • Thanks, everyone. I love this place! Hopefully, I'll get to grow old(er) here. 22+ years and counting...formed
    • That must have been a very hard post to write. Thanks for the reminder of how valuable our time is here.Chimp
    • utopian
    • so sorry dude.exador1
    • That was the most tragic thing I've read in ages. I'm so sorry.CyBrainX
  • PioneerDJ30314

    Stephen Wilhite, inventor of the GIF, died of Covid-19 at the age of 74. He “never got 1 cent” out of his invention, said his wife, nor did he complain about not making a fortune: “He was just so proud that he had done that.”


    Stephen Wilhite created the format to solve a technical problem in 1987 and never cashed in on his creation

    • https://giphy.com/ex…AQUTE
    • It would not be bad, if the companies that have taken advantage of it, paid a good pension to their widowOBBTKN
    • his last words were "it's pronounced..."_niko
    • his name is was pronounced step henkingsteven
    • lejendfadein11
    • Seems his wife is more upset about him not cashing infuturefood
    • but had an animated lifehotroddy
    • He's with God now. Not with Jod.garbage
    • LOL @_nikoAkagiyama
    • How would he have cashed in I wonder? Also he created the GIF while working at Compuserve.yuekit
  • Ramanisky210

    Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman, Enemy Mine) 87 yrs old.


  • Bluejam13

    Dean Stockwell
    (1936—2021)

  • stoplying11

    Norm Macdonald...damn man...
    https://deadline.com/2021/09/nor…

  • grafician8

    100

    • Usually I feel a bit weird about ‘upvoting’ somebody’s death.Wolfboy
    • https://tenor.com/bi…jonny_quest_lives
    • He experienced World War 2, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, Kosovo War, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, and so many others.utopian
    • @Wolfboy nah, not this motherfucker. He's already burning in hell.BuddhaHat
    • Oh no!

      Anyway....
      Akagiyama
    • damn he got a Nobel prize?pango
    • finallyoey_oey
    • he will always be remembered as the guy who dropped his glasses in the toilet.autoflavour
    • https://www.thenatio…BuddhaHat
    • a thousand burning Hells aren't enough for this demon.face_melter
    • bc of him you're not living in a communist puppet state. he understood that the US isn't the major power someone else will fill the void.hotroddy
    • no surprise you'd be a war crimes apologist hotroddy. how exactly did his and Nixon's actions to extend the Vietnam war by 7 years and then losing do anythingBuddhaHat
    • to demonstrate the US' position as a major power?BuddhaHat
    • it demonstrated to authoritarians everywhere that the US doesn't fuck around. It showed the Russians not to fuck with Monroe Doctrine.hotroddy
    • And protected the Caribbean and S america from turning into Fidel's gaping Cuban asswhole.hotroddy
    • The failure of Vietnam = The US doesn't fuck around. Gotcha.BuddhaHat
    • Now you're supporting a party and leader that's authoritarian. How's that cognitive dissonance going for you?BuddhaHat
    • The left looks to China as the ideal political model. They salivate at the idea they can have absolute control. 1984 is their playbook.hotroddy
    • he and nixon... the apex of crooks...neverscared
    • rodney swallowing thick, gloopy, L's just like the US lost Vietnam. how did that hard man energy work out against some farmers with rifles? fucking clown shoes.face_melter
    • see also: Korea and Afghanistan and Iraq.
      qbn's dopiest doughboy bootlicker.
      face_melter
    • and invoking 1984? F U C K I N G L O L
      read another book. or several. or get someone to draw you some pictures.
      face_melter
    • facemelter, the living representation of 'queers for Palestine' meme. existing in a state of unawareness about the broader global context.hotroddy
    • Given your handle (face melter) and dumbstruck political views, it wouldn't surprise me if you also happen to possess an ear lobe stretching kit.hotroddy
    • or some kind of splike through your nostril. :)hotroddy
    • @BuddhaHat I'm with you, I was just saying that 'upvote' is a positive reaction and usually it feels odd to be positive about a death. Not today.Wolfboy
    • damn, someone call the cops, i've been murdered! tell you what rodders, come to Stockholm and you can stretch something else ;)face_melter
    • I imagine it's better to be the hero of stupid than the hero of incompetence

      hotdoddy
      neverscared
    • Lolpango
    • hotroddy.compalimpsest
    • At least he one-upped Charlie Munger by getting to 100.CyBrainX
    • https://pbs.twimg.co…Gnash
    • Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Diesneverscared
    • https://www.rollings…neverscared
    • hotroddy - hero of the stupidpango
    • wait... hotknobby. if Kissinger is your hero....does that mean...?pango
    • Kissinger was far from stupidGnash
    • Pango who is patriotically challenged in recognizing Canadian landmarks yet offended enough to advocate for the name change of BC. I wouldn't expect otherwise.hotroddy
    • @gnash. not saying Kissinger's stupid. just saying he's hero of the stupid.
      @knobby. patriotically challenged? ok. sure.
      pango
    • lol is this the best you can do? add a word "challenged" trying to make it an insult? Name change. advocate? i wouldn't go that far. more like if it's happeningpango
    • i wouldn't stop it. quote me right damn it! you have the tool to search what i said. USE IT!pango
    • The man got to 100 and 34 notes on QBNgrafician
    • blind allegiance and patriotism is stupid. so yes patriotically challenged is a correct statement :) even tho you just made it up lolpango
    • if they're going to take suggestion for the new province name, i'd suggest "Bring Cash" lolpango
    • fuck! side tracked again. knobby you always derailing when you only have stupid things to say.pango
    • hi grafpango
    • stupid is thinking you can see across lake ontario.hotroddy
    • stupid is thinking defund the police is a good ideahotroddy
    • stupid is lacking deductive reasoning skills to understand that George Floyd's death resulted from a fentanyl overdose.hotroddy
    • Lol yup keep derailing cuz you only have stupid things to say.
      Even with the new tool you still quote me wrong lol. You're hopelessly stupid.
      pango
    • Also lol I guess you never really recovered from all the post where people called you stupid. Must have really hurt your feelings. Deep.pango
    • Or is it dementia? I'm sorry if you really do have early dementia.pango
    • relying on the opinions of others to validate your arguments is also pretty stupidhotroddy
    • don't worry i called you stupid plenty of time too lol. also my statement is still true. you derail every topic when you only have stupid things to say.pango
  • jaylarson10

    buh bye!

    • :-(PhanLo
    • yup, uninstalled a few days ago.renderedred
    • finallyKrassy
    • End of an era.

      Steve Jobs wins; from the grave.
      ideaist
    • You made my 1st gen phone look slow, so I bandwagoned support from apple fanboys and everyone who hated the one illegitimate use of flash: ads. Cya!SteveJobs
    • Thank god.NBQ00
    • But then again nobody was using Flash in recent years except some illegal Sports streaming sites.NBQ00
    • yeah, I thought it died 5+ years ago. LOLKrassy
    • Flash websites from mid 2000's was a great time to be alive as a digital creative persona.shapesalad
    • Fuck you Steve Job, rot in peace.utopian
    • Yep! Egomedia was fun!MondoMorphic
    • Steve has nothing to do with flash dying.monospaced
    • trying to do research via waybackmachine and some sites are flash which dont seem to get archived. crapSquiddy
    • @monospaced he denied its involvement in his post pc era idea and as a result it died. He didn’t cause it but he expedited it.ideaist
    • Steve's dream finally happened. A shame it stagnated web design for a decade.formed
    • Tinkering around with Flash at uni opened the door to time based media for me. I'd never be doing half the stuff i am now if not for Flash!DaveO
    • I used to sit in Barnes and Noble and read through books on Flash. It made the web new and exciting and it really felt like the future.SteveJobs
    • Meanwhile, front-end web developers were trying to figure out the best way to achieve rounded corners on a div without using images.SteveJobs
    • Acting like the iPhone affected flash on websites is hilarious. Flash worked on all other phones at the time.monospaced
    • Of course Jobs was part of its demise. but there is no need to mourn Flash, everything that Flash did can still be done, the issue is the web(mostly) got boringfadein11
    • and there are many reasons for that, some of us included.fadein11
  • bulletfactory12

    Matthew Perry


    • Friends don't let friends swim alone.utopian
    • Chandler, wowmaquito
    • Damn, I'm a bit sad about that one. RIP Matthew.BuddhaHat
    • Damn this one hurts, tragicprophetone
    • Not huge surprise. His colon exploded from opiate abuse a few years back.sausages
    • I recently did a rewatch of the entire show and recall noticing how his weight fluctuated from 1 Ep to the next. Very Sad.Ramanisky2
    • Yeah, rough. :-(PhanLo
    • His mouth smiles, his eyes cries... Sad, rest now :(OBBTKN
    • It's sad that he was part of something so successful it should have set him up for life.PhanLo
    • Only 54 :( RIPKrassy
    • PhanLo, it did.
      https://i.imgur.com/…
      imbecile
  • Ramanisky212

    Andy Rourke bassist of The Smiths has passed (age 59) from a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer.


    • Shocked. Was part of one of the best bands of the 80s and a shiining light for my early music years. Thanks for all the music!sab
    • He must've only been 23 when they split up. mental.zardoz
    • :(Gnash
    • RIPSquiddy
    • RIP :(Krassy
    • Such an amazing bass player. His bass lines pair so nicely with J Marr's playing. RIPstoplying
    • damn :(YakuZoku
    • i'm sad all dayok_not_ok
    • :(oey_oey
    • :(Miesfan
  • pockets11

  • shellie10


    • Good fucking riddance.face_melter
    • thoughts and prayers.pango
    • “I like people who weren’t captured.”fooler
    • too soon?oey
    • A real hero.monospaced
    • Good riddance? That’s cold dude. This wasn’t one of the bad guys.monospaced
    • RIP Chuckoey
    • He was a war hero and better than other Republicans on some issues, but his foreign policy views were terrible.yuekit
    • one of the last civil politicians. a great man.sarahfailin
    • true american hero. ripfuturefood
    • I'm torn with him. I personally liked him and thought he had more integrity later on in life, however...utopian
    • He was one of the POS Republican's that voted against asbestos lawsuits after congress knew that this shit killed you. My dad died at 51 yrs old, thank you McCautopian
    • 0:28 https://www.youtube.…notype
    • ^ he was a gentleman and I'm not a fan of republicansernexbcn
    • He was just a survivor like we all are. Hi did and said whatever he could to survive. He probably stayed too long in office as well, but they never leave.robotron3k
    • I didn't always agree with him but I sure as hell respected him. Politics would be totally different on both sides if more had his class and integrity.GM278
    • "I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as
      I live" - John McCain
      moogchild
    • Ouch, his nickname was "songbird" during the war... his tapes have been found.robotron3k
  • pango8

    Ohh shit! Only 43...
    Colon cancer for 4 yrs.

    • RIP Kingshellie
    • Are you fucking kidding me?garbage
    • wow .. RIPRamanisky2
    • who?utopian
    • Daaamn...That's grim.PhanLo
    • 2020 continues to be a giant piece of shitRamanisky2
    • Holy crap did this one come out of nowhere! :( And he did like 6 movies in that time including Panther, Infinity and Endgame. Jesus.Akagiyama
    • He also did the movie ‘42’ about Jackie Robinson life .. today happens to be Jackie Robinson Day.Ramanisky2
    • damn :(PonyBoy
    • Low-fiber, high-fat diet. Colon cancer and rectal cancer may be associated with a typical Western diet, which is low in fiber and high in fat and calories.i_was
    • https://www.mayoclin…i_was
    • Chadwick Bosemanmaquito
    • Dude looks Fucken healthy, man!pango
    • what pago said. And respect for doing so much while sick# RIPoey_oey
    • My grandad had this cancer, it’s a really undignified way to go. RIP.shapesalad
    • sorry, I meant pango obviouslyoey_oey
    • God damn it. RIP.Continuity
    • My Grandad too, had to carry a bag...oey_oey
    • Oh no... I liked his actingPhrenological
    • So this man knew he was going to die in a few years and gave us a bunch of great performances in good films. He chose to make art and not give in...grafician
    • This guy was three years younger than me, probably way fitter than me, and a cancer got him anyway. Ugh, this is no fucking bueno.Continuity
    • on black blogs they've been talking for about a year in the comments about how he was losing weight and looking sickly.shellie
    • especially in some Instagram live screenshots. but I always chalked it up to a role he may be changing his body for, something actors do all the time. :(shellie
    • ^ internet trolls made fun of Chadwick and labeled him “Crack Panther” when he lost all that weight ... so fucking disgusting.Ramanisky2
    • @shellz Oh, I didn't know that. :\
      @Ram Disgusting indeed, especially considering how thoughtful and dynamic he was. Obviously I didn't know ...
      Continuity
    • ... him personally, but he came across to me in interviews as being a really sweet and kind person.Continuity
    • ^ that’s what gets me, people obviously didn’t know he had cancer but these trolls relished in mocking his weight loss.
      Heartbreaking.
      Ramanisky2
    • yeah I try to stay out of people's business like that and this is a perfect example of why. some comments I read were so disgustingly rude & now he's dead. smhshellie
    • Yeah the "crack panther" comments really made me question if the internet was a good thing.garbage
  • PonyBoy3

    https://www.tmz.com/2020/01/26/k…

    Kobe Bryant... helicopter crash :(

    • Damn just saw the news ... has it been confirmed?Ramanisky2
    • Yeah... twitterverse seems to be rumoring it wasn’t confirmed he was onboard... but Drudge has it as his lead so I’m guessing it’s truePonyBoy
    • Wow.......Akagiyama
    • The basketball fans in my house are utterly stunned.shellie
    • Wow la times just confirmedfuturefood
    • Holy shit.garbage
    • Damn. Tragic stuff. Poor kids and wife now gotta deal with tons of paparazzi and shit.noRGB
    • Damn so young. Tragic. RIPsea_sea
    • RIP but remember when he raped a 19 year old girl.fooler
    • :( sad newsSalarrue
    • Sad. Life is fleeting.robotron3k
    • I'm in tears r now,grafician
    • Ugh, now they're saying his daughter Gianna was with him. :(Akagiyama
    • RIP.
      https://twitter.com/…
      Milan
    • His poor wife. :(shellie
    • his 13 year old daughter too died on the crashernexbcn
    • STFU fooler, you obviously don't know the details of the case.garbage
    • This has fucked me. Kobe was the reason I played basketball. After Bron passed Kobe for the scoring title last night, I spent a few hours watching..garbage
    • ..Kobe highlights, the final game. Then wake up to this? God damn it, Mamba out.
      :(
      garbage
    • always stayed as a kid until 4-5AM to see the Lakers play, I literally posted a tweet about this last night, and nowthis :(grafician
    • Sikorsky S-76B, No. built‎: ‎1,090
      Avg. 1 fatality a year over 41 years
      utopian
    • Oh sad 9 died, who else was on board??robotron3k
    • Way too young, sadder about his daughter, and he was doing some great work in his animation studio he started. Gave great talks too._niko
    • @robo Confirmed deaths are Kobe and Gigi, and a local college's baseball coach and his daughter. Unsure about the other 5 at this time.garbage
    • The crash caused a brush fire that prevented any first responders from getting close to the wreckage to help.garbage
    • That's really brutal. RIPPhanLo
    • Tired of seeing this wherever I turn my head. Fuck Kobe Bryantdrgs
    • Fuck drgsbabydick
    • Drgs - it not often that someone raise to a level that they touch so many people lives and the fact that it bothers you, says more about you than all the out...necromation
    • ...pouring for what was a great man.necromation
    • Was never a big fan and less so after the rape but I’ll never forget the 81 he dropped on my raps and the 60 he scored in his last game_niko
    • But I did come to like him after he retired, hearing his his talks, his motivational speeches and his cool animation projects he was working on_niko
    • Shined a new light on him for me. He was alright. He also inspired thousands of kids to get off the streets and play ball, maybe he wasn’t a doctor or scientist_niko
    • But he did make a difference in the lives of many. Too soon and too tragic especially for Gianna._niko
  • Gnash12

  • Ramanisky211

    oh man ... Robert Forster dead at 78. RIP.

  • oey5

    R.I.P. docpoz

    https://www.qbn.com/docpoz/

    what happened to him to freak out like that or to get bored with QBN? I really would like to understand.

    guess I'll never know...

    and was he deleted cause he wanted to or cause somebody asked for it?

    anyway, I'm not happy as I was not happy to see other people go.

    peace*

    • This is like the second or third time he's pulled this shit - he'll likely do it again. Stop encouraging his tedious behaviour. I shouldn't post this either.Nairn
    • an incarnation of omg, since, robo, doc etc. will always appear...renderedred
    • @oey
      He spent the whole weekend asking to be deleted in multiple threads, claiming he was an AI, in what I guess he considered his last performance piece.
      soundofreason
    • Come on, he was annoying af and spamming all threads with his stupid crap. In the end he asked for deletion as well as us demanding it.NBQ00
    • why not just walk away from this place for a couple of weeks/good?mugwart
    • nothing like a guy skimming dopamine from downvotes to remind you that it's a sad and lonely world out there... wish him all the best in the real world.kingsteven
    • He's not dead... right?robthelad
    • RIP dobcpoz (aka) team_zissouutopian
    • @mugwart because he wanted his account deleted and his tracks covered perhaps?Krassy
    • The guy just needs a break. I'm sure he'll be back in a week with a sequel to the state of QBNfuturefood
    • Kinda sad that a grown up adult did what he did in here.Bennn
    • @Bennn there's no other way to get one's account deleted on here tho. Maybe it's a shortcoming on QBN's end?Krassy
    • It freaked me out a bit seeing he was a real person. I wish I had that much energy. Acting like that comes from unhappiness.PhanLo
    • @soundofreason LOL! your guide does nothing to remove one's account :)Krassy
    • @soundofreason docpoz deactivated account: https://www.qbn.com/…

      I don's see your steps do nothing remotely close to it : )
      Krassy
    • locking one's self out is not the same as deactivating an accountKrassy
    • My method:
      - user can no longer post
      - user's posts are still visible
      - RIP badge on user profile
      - User profile visible
      https://www.qbn.com/…
      soundofreason
    • I forgot to add a last point on QBN's official method:
      - User profile still visible:
      https://www.qbn.com/…
      soundofreason
    • The Golden Rule: Ask and you shall receive.
      https://www.qbn.com/…
      Moderator
    • @Moderator
      Those were docpoz's last words:
      to your mom.

      Good job ;-)
      soundofreason
    • such a small community... sometimes I wonder if the mods personally ask them whats up and if all is ok. Seemed like a mental breakdown to me.inteliboy
    • Next...Turboslacker
    • A few folk did ask him what was wrong, but he seemed to want to have sex with their mothers.PhanLo
    • what a way to go...
      he won tho... he annoying the shit out of everyone and got what he asked for...
      pango
    • wonder if he's like that in real life...pango
    • https://www.youtube.…pango
    • ^nice!Turboslacker
    • I meant "I'm not happy..." as in: sadly for whatever reasons that led it to happen. Not as in criticizing it specifically or in general.oey
    • Get fucked, docpoz. Shithead.mekk
  • whatthefunk13
    • wow. 102. Loved Mad magazine. He was awesome.dopepope
    • 102 damn!YakuZoku
    • :(kaiyohtee
    • :( Met him at my first comic con '92. I chased him down and he signed my "Snappy Comebacks". Nice guy!bezoar
    • :-( the illustrations had lots of other wacky details. did you really go 7-11 if you didnt fold one?Squiddy
    • RIP <3PonyBoy
    • RIPOBBTKN
    • my 9 year old has just started reading all my old Mad Magazines. Loves the fold in, spy vs spy, and all Sergio Aragonés.wordssssss
  • milfhunter11

    Leiji Matsumoto, manga creator of epic space sagas and Daft Punk's One More Time video, dies aged 85

  • spl33nidoru8

    Former Pope Benedict XVI at 95

    • https://i.pinimg.com…rzu-rzu
    • Good riddance.
      Fucking creep.
      Continuity
    • He's headed to the great nonce palace in the sky.PhanLo
    • I thought he died when darth threw him over the rails Return of the Jedidee-dubs
    • RIP Palpatine, oh lord of the darkness ;)OBBTKN
    • Yeah, but he came back in The Rise of Skywalker.Continuity
    • Rest In Pissjmckinno
    • Squeakin' in two deaths of tip tops that aided and abetted mass pedophilia. Good job 2022!garbage
    • ^ Like every agency client, 2022 discovered it had some unused budget left, and needed to spend it before the year was out.Continuity
    • lol, now I'm picturing Death as a 1099 that's actually punching happy clocks on the last day of the year.garbage
    • Eggs BenedictNBQ00
    • Somehow Palpatine returnedtank02
    • Fuck himoey_oey
    • NOBODY GIVES A FUCK.monospaced
    • Imagine believing that nonsense your whole life and then dying and nothing happens. Fucking Christian retards all of them.monospaced
    • He won't know that nothing happens, lolNBQ00
    • exactlymonospaced
    • His whole persona was a fraudmonospaced
    • Imagine being born so deeply into a religion like that. To become the fucking pope. And to be able to wipe your cum off a child's face and still work for them!Ianbolton
    • ^ and have more than a billion people worship in that faith.CyBrainX
    • Nobody who doesn't give a fuck goes all caps "NOBODY GIVES A FUCK". Mono will learn that some day.garbage
    • I'm against kindergarten atheism, organized religion, and God himself if he's actually real.garbage
    • But also most against people that still use "retard" as an insult in 2023? Didn't you say you were 40? Be better.garbage
  • spl33nidoru13

    Albert Uderzo, co-creator and illustrator of Astérix.
    Not from covid-19