The Dead Thread

[Barnfred 55]

Did he die from covid?

What was it like on Mars? Any good?

 

[Barnfred 55]

Call me insensitive.. but does anyone else think all of the coverage for 'Captain Tom' is a bit over the top? you'd almost think it was the queen or the pope that's died..

Channel 4 did a nice little piece on him last night and then moved on to other important news. It even mentioned the 'controversial' Barbados thing which was brave of them to do, certainly the most balanced coverage of it.

The BBC and ITV are still running dedicated tribute programmes on him this morning..

Watching Jeremy Vine now. The whole thing is almost cult like.

He was a nice old guy and it's sad he has died. But the reaction to his death, just like the reaction to him walking around his front yard each day, is quite simply mind boggling.

 

[Brendan Janus]

Joke mate, the country is fu

Loads of z list celebraties got loads of stick for going Dubai, lost sponsorships and everything.

Fine for a war vet I see

Yeh, breaking lockdown rulesitis !!

Is there anything else people can die from?

 

[JLW]

100 years of age and his last holiday was Barbados a few weeks ago.
Perfect way to bow out.

 

[McBain]

What was it like on Mars? Any good?

We contained covid and didnt let it spread like wildfire killing people so yeah, Mars is fantastic.

 

[Barnfred 55]

We contained covid and didnt let it spread like wildfire killing people so yeah, Mars is fantastic.

It was a joke. There's been little else on TV for the past 36 hours

 

[McBain]

It was a joke. There's been little else on TV for the past 36 hours

Oh I got no idea about that soz. How in the hell did he catch it? I thought he’d be the first person protected from it.

 

[navidson]

Oh I got no idea about that soz. How in the hell did he catch it? I thought he’d be the first person protected from it.

Instead of getting the vaccine they decided to PR stunt him on a plane to Barbados

 

[Barnfred 55]

Oh I got no idea about that soz. How in the hell did he catch it? I thought he’d be the first person protected from it.

They aren't saying. But apparently he wasn't able to have the vaccine, plus the family took him on holiday to Barbados over xmas

Now for me, taking a 100 yo man on a 10 flight at the height of a global pandemic, is not the cleverest thing in the world to do

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Watching Jeremy Vine now. The whole thing is almost cult like.

He was a nice old guy and it's sad he has died. But the reaction to his death, just like the reaction to him walking around his front yard each day, is quite simply mind boggling.

He raised a staggering amount for the NHS primarily through his 'story' going viral, which is no slight on the guy whatsoever, but he's being held up as almost some kind of Jesus 'beacon of hope' figure.

It's ultimately him I actually really feel for most of all. I was speaking to the missus about this last night that, whilst it's clear that he seemed happy enough that his actions were making a difference, you got the distinct sense that his family where more than willing to wheel him out in public and in front of the cameras at every given opportunity and I never got the sense that he was fully on-board or even aware with it all given his declining age. It all cumulated into him being whisked off to Barbados by said family and contracting Covid himself soon after, cruelly (and ironically) killing him.

Michael Ball can get to f as well. Blubbing away on tele during every interview now.. he'll just be loving the publicity him.

 

[Barnfred 55]

100 years of age and his last holiday was Barbados a few weeks ago.
Perfect way to bow out.

One way to look at it I suppose. Lovely place Barbados.

But hard to justify it when everybody else on the planet is criticised for doing exactly the same thing.

It's like why he was able to have his loved one around him in hospital when hundreds of thousands others have had that denied to them

 

[navidson]

He raised a staggering amount for the NHS primarily through his 'story' going viral, which is no slight on the guy whatsoever, but he's being held up as almost some kind of Jesus 'beacon of hope' figure.

It's ultimately him I actually really feel for most of all. I was speaking to the missus about this last night that, whilst it's clear that he seemed happy enough that his actions were making a difference, you got the distinct sense that his family where more than willing to wheel him out in public and in front of the cameras at every given opportunity and I never got the sense that he was fully on-board or even aware with it all given his declining age. It all cumulated into him being whisked off to Barbados by said family and contracting Covid himself soon after, cruelly (and ironically) killing him.

Michael Ball can get to f as well. Blubbing away on tele during every interview now.. he'll just be loving the publicity him.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

It's like why he was able to have his loved one around him in hospital when hundreds of thousands others have had that denied to them

This.

Daughters mates a nurse,and she has said how sad it is to see poor buggers on their last legs without loved ones.

 

[McBain]

Instead of getting the vaccine they decided to PR stunt him on a plane to Barbados

Really? In the middle of a global pandemic they take a 100 year old man on an overseas jaunt and he ends up catching and dying from it. What the actual F.