44 Year Old NOLA DJ Dies of COVID-19 Pneumonia

By rmrd0000 on Sat, 03/21/2020 - 6:51pm |

A warning that COVID-19 does not just attack those over 65.

New Orleans-born Bounce luminary DJ Black N Mind has reportedly passed away from as a result of the coronavirus at the age of 44.

The popular record spinner, whose real name is Oliver Stokes Jr., died on March 19, according to NOLA.com.

The news outlet confirmed with the Orleans Parish Coroner’s office that Stokes had tested positive for the deadly disease also known as COVID-19. He was one of two coronavirus-related deaths in the state.

Stokes reportedly left work on March 9 complaining of a fever and never returned

https://www.theroot.com/r-i-p-44-year-old-new-orleans-bounce-deejay-black-n-mi-1842439342

The father of four also worked at the Arthur Ashe Charter School in New Orleans' Gentilly neighborhood. According to The Times-Picayune, Stokes Jr. left the school with a fever on March 9 and documented the early stages of his sickness on social media, writing his last post -- "pneumonia not the flu" -- on March 11.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/9339923/new-orleans-bounce-dj-black-n-mild-dead-coronavirus

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fairly even distribution over all ages:

DC announces 21 New cases of Coronavirus - including two children. pic.twitter.com/vrufGb1s69
— Carmel Delshad (@cdelshad) March 21, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/21/2020 - 8:39pm

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— wash hands. wear mask. stay home (@wilfredchan) March 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 12:39am

Another [repost: really] preventable death from late testing - “She tested for coronavirus, and her results were delayed. Five days later, she was dead in her kitchen.” Age 39. #COVID15 https://t.co/YJRt5Qzoog
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story on a woman challenging the conservative Louisiana community in denial, about her 45-yr. old husband victim:

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Spring break rocked.

Map shows 'unusually elevated' levels of flu-like illness in Florida | FOX 35 Orlando https://t.co/3a1XPwRIu9
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NYC jails rock

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It's hard to imagine what any carceral institution thinks is in its future. I wonder when they;ll open the doors on the ICE conncentrationn camps, cuz, no guards.

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HARVEY WEINSTEIN TESTS POSITIVE
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Harvey Weinstein finds himself all alone in a dark place scared shitless and gasping for breath, not knowing what to do and unable to talk... Maybe some identification with his victims *will* come.

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What lesson are we to draw from the fact that Florida, as filled with spring breakers, so precisely evokes a throbbing red dick?

Perhaps a commentary upon the impaired cognitive capacity one risks if blood supply is injudiciously directed away from the brain.

by jollyroger on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 12:17pm

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