Thread: Some of the names in today's @nytimes that stood out to me.

There's 25 names here, representing 0.02% of the overall #COVID19 death toll.

As the cover says: "None were mere numbers." https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1264312206914719745
Liudas Karolis Mikalonis, 86, Berkley, Mich., immigrated to New York from a German refugee camp after World War II
Marion Krueger, 85, Kirkland, Wash., great grandmother with an easy laugh
Elaine Cupka, 86, Potomac, Md., delighted in educating thousands of children over three decades
Albert Petrocelli, 73, New York City, fire chief who answered the call on 9/11
Israel Sauz, 22, Broken Arrow, Okla., new father
Michael Sorkin, 71, New York City, champion of social justice through architecture
Azade Killic, 69, New York, two-time cancer survivor
Clair Dunlap, 89, Washington, pilot still teaching people how to fly at 88
Ralph Plaisance, 87, Massapequa, N.Y., "we called him the Grand Poobah"
Randy G. Addison, 64, Carrollton, Ga., survived being shot in the line of duty in 1984
Lila A. Fenwick, 87, New York City, first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School
Maria Garcia-Rodelo, 52, Nevada, would walk her children to school every morning
Norma Jean Knight, 93, Des Moines, survived by her husband of 70 years
June Beverly Hills, 85, Sacramento, no one made creamed potatoes or fried sweet corn the way she did
Bassey Offiong, 25, Michigan, saw friends at their worst but brought out their best
Joseph Feingold, 97, New York City, architect and Holocaust survivor
Vera Flint, 97, Beverly, Mass., face behind the counter at a family-owned grocery store
Myles Coker, 69, New York City, freed from life in prison
Skylar Herbert, 5, Detroit, Michigan's youngest victim of the coronavirus pandemic
Deyrold Arteaga, 66, Central Valley, N.Y., made friends everywhere he went
Tommie Brown, 82, Gary, Ind., security worker who died the same same day as his wife

Doris Brown, 79, Merrillville, Ind., wife who died on the same day as her husband
Harley E. Acker, 79, Troupsburg, N.Y., discovered his true calling when he started driving a school bus
Lakisha Willis White, 45, Orlando, Fla., was helping to raise some of her dozen grandchildren
Cathryn Wood, 94, Detroit, great-great-grandmother
I guess The NYT deleted the tweet quoted in my first tweet. Here's the updated one: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1264427825639063553?s=19
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