Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 23, 2020 On the CV front validating
that a one day drop does not a war win the number of new cases in the U.S. increased
122.47% from yesterday as Georgia with 1,740,000 CV cases opened bowling
alleys, hair salons, barbershops, tattoo and massage parlors under criticism by
many like Stacey Abrams that it was irresponsible (more and more states are
inching forward to open certain businesses and even Gavin Newsom who always
want to look good has reopened salons and barbershops); the CV pandemic across
the planet continues with 78,304 new cases (32.62% increase in new cases) to
bring the total to 2,710,089 cases, 1,776478 of which are active, 933,610
of which have been closed with 743,510 recoveries ( 79.64%) and 190,100 deaths (20.37%);
in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading the world, new cases
of 27,457 have brought total cases to 876,174 with 741,513 active cases and 134,661
closures, 49,651 of which have been deaths (36.87% up from yesterday’s 35.13%
and 85,010 of which have been recoveries ( 63.13% down from
yesterdays 64.34%), while total testing
has ramped up to, 4,507,860, an increase of 232.058 over yesterday; the House agreed to the
massive stimulus bill which Trump will sign tonight; a random antibody testing of
3,000 New Yorkers, 70% of whom were located in the NYC Metropolitan Area showed
a statewide infection rate of 13.9% or 2.7 million residents (which probably
means that the CV is a lot less deadly and more like the flu than thought); in
yet another example of TDS gone completely off the tracks, Michigan State
Democrats plan to censure State Representative Karen Whitsett who met with
Trump and other COVID-19 survivors and praised that hydroxychloroquine “saved her
life;” (why are the Blues so full of hate and the need to depress any good news
on Trump?); Illinois has just extended its
lock-down through May 31 with some relaxations like boating and fishing with
social distance and animal grooming centers; California’s unemployment insurance
department is under total meltdown not disbursing lawfully needed funds because
of the millions applying and more importantly denying benefits if the reason
for unemployment was given as corona virus (Newsom is proving to be inept and
oblivious with his stay at home hectoring while the State is MIA in trying to solve
the glitch problem); COVID-19 shows it ignores party lines by killing Elizabeth
Warren’s brother and bringing Maxine Waters’ sister near death; as we may be
tottering to frustration fueled violence and social order, a California judge
has just tossed out backgrouind checks on ammunitions purchases;
Chicago, as of April 22, 2020, 721 shootings of whom 136 have died but none
today (so much for the effectiveness of Chicago’s stay at home order);
Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes
that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths is now 51 behind Chicago with
85 murders (when will Chicago and Baltimore get serious about this carnage or
is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind
eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color and when will the
left focus on the problem of color on color shootings in Blue run cities which
have been more deadly and more numerous than random mass shootings?).
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a musical video link to Wilson Phillips, the fact that you are not
using rhiontillexis, and a quote by Louis Brandeis on the English language,
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1. UN English Language Day—created by the UN in
2010 to promote multilingualism and equal use of the 6 official languages on
the UN 1 of which is English.
2. International Nose Picking Day—not sure where or
when this “observance” came from but in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic this
is an “observance” that definitely
should not be practiced today.
3. 1991 Number One Song— the number 1 song
in 1991 on this day on a run of 1 week in the position was “You’re in Love” by
Wilson Phillips. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7gYii2unkg.
This trio of 2 daughters of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and 1 daughter of
Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and Papa were blessed with their parent’s
singing genes. After several hiatuses the group came back together in 2010 and
is still performing today.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day which is a
quasi big word in honor of those who pick their nose is re observance is “rhinotillexis”
which means nose picking and comes from the Greek “rhino” which means nose and “tillexis”
which means the habit of picking at something.
5. Yo-yoing Is Only Lonely—celebrating the birth on
this day in 1936 of superstar singer Roy Orbison with such classic hits as “Pretty
Woman” and “Only the Lonely” who unfortunately was prone to massive overeating
binges followed by fasting with up and down weight gains and shifts and died of
a heart attack on December 6, 1988 at the too early age of 52
On this day
in:
a. 1914 the Chicago Cubs
played their first game at Wrigley Field then known as Weeghman Park.
b. 1961 a failed putsch
by French Generals against De Gaulle to prevent him from giving Algeria
independence from France was started on this day only to collapse on April 26.
c. 1968 students protesting
the Vietnam War and the assassination of Martin Luther King occupied the
Administration Building at Columbia University and shut the university down until
forcibly removed by the NYPD on April 30, 1968.
d. 2005 the first YouTube
video “Me at the Zoo” was shown by founder Jawed Karim.
e. 2018 Alek Minassian rented
a truck and drove it into pedestrians on a sidewalk Toronto, killing 10 people
and injuring 16 before being arrested on site and his trial for multiple
murders and assaults has been postponed due to the corona virus pandemic.
Reflections on the
importance of the English language: “What is Americanization? It manifests
itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the
manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the
manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English
language as the common medium of speech.” Louis Brandeis Justice of SCOTUS
whose words here should be heeded more closely.
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