Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 25, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 261,214
new cases (a .81% increase compared to a .92% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 32 million to 32,572,774 cases, 7,534,413
of which are active, 25,038,361 of which have been
closed with 24,048,380 recoveries (96.03% compared to yesterday’s 96.05%)
and 989,981 deaths (3,95% compared to yesterday’s 3.97%) to continue the
trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 185,133 with total cases over 7 million at 7,019,847 (a 2.64% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.07% increase) with 2,538,869 active cases of which 14,149, on a downward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (14,090 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 4,666,111 closures, 207,893 of which have been deaths (4.46% compared to yesterday’s 4.48%) and 4,458,218 of which have been recoveries (95.54% compared to yesterday’s 95.52%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing homes and ADL facilities and on a deaths per million population measurement at 627 ranks behind Peru (966), Belgium (859), Spain (665), Bolivia (663), Brazil (658), Chile (654), Ecuador (633), and UK (617) and only slightly worse than Italy (592), Sweden (581) that never closed its economy down like we did and Mexico (584) which announced it has run out of death certificates due to surge in deaths. We have now conducted 102,463,044 tests (now at 309,124/M compared to Russia at 303,530/M so Trump is telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis but for the U.K. at 341,160).
Non CV Case News: Pelosi must have a case of
the Biden dementia jitters as she is demanding that even though she “knows” he
will do “well” that he skip the debate; Governor Cuomo might be sweating blood
as the Massachusetts’s AG criminally charged two operators of the Mt. Holyoke
Soldiers Home for the death of 76 aging veterans from COVID-19 for behavior
that sounds very Cuomo like putting CV positive patients with patients without
the virus and infecting them; Biden and the Blues may be concerned blacks will
desert them in droves after Trump unveiled his “Platinum Plan” pledging $500
billion in capital to black communities, designating the KKK and Antifa as
terrorist organizations and making lynching a national hate crime (this coming
on serious inroads he is making in the Latino communities to reduce their votes
in favor of Blues; Breonna Taylor’s mother has released a statement blasting AG
Cameron and the grand jury’s decision and proclaiming she no longer has any
faith in the judicial system (the judge in this case should release the grand
jury transcript that hopefully will justify its decision); Bryant Johnson, RBG’s
trainer for 21 years paid her a unique homage by doing push ups next to her
casket lying in state; Reds are rightfully concerned that the massive expansion
of mail in voting is replete with fraud potential as 1,000 voters in Virginia
counties received an extra ballot (reminds one of a quote attributed to
Stalin, “I don’t care who gets to vote as long as I count the ballots”); the 2
Reds on the North Carolina Elections Board controlled by 3 Blues have resigned
over a settlement pushed by Blues that would make vote harvesting (also known
as fraud green lights) easier.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of September 24,
2020, the number of shootings increased to 3,133 of whom 534 have
died (total travesty of BLM when blacks are shot and killed by blacks in
droves and only sounds of silence and complete absence of any protests in front
of City Hall demanding action to curb the killings and shootings); Baltimore
with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020
will not be a record in terms of deaths but now seems to be shooting less and
killing less and is now 291 behind Chicago at 243 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 way more deadly
and way more numerous than shootings by police or by random mass shootings which occur much
less.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest
for this day in history, a musical link to “Ain’t No Mountain High
Enough” by Dianna Ross, the fact that you are not pixilated and a quote by Christine Keeler on the impact of
the Profumo Affair, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
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1. National
Day of Recognition for the Harkis Day—created by French President Jacques Chirac on
September 25, 2001 to honor those Algerian auxiliaries who sided with France
during the Algerian War of Independence.
2. Native
American Day—created as an alternative to Columbus Day to
celebrate the contributions of Native Americans to our culture and history and
celebrated on the 4th Friday of the month in California and Nevada.
3. 1970
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1970 on a run of 3
weeks was “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Dianna Ross in her first number
1 song as a soloist after leaving The Supremes. Here us a recording of
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_pmKPWLBrE
This highly successful artist is the only female singer to have a number one songs
as a soloist, member of a duet (Lionel Richie), trio (The Supremes) and an
ensemble (We are the world-USA for Africa).
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day is “pixilated” which means bewildered which describes Joe Biden
to a tee when confronted by issues without being tethered to a teleprompter.
5. Hard to Fly When
You Can No Longer Walk—celebrating the birth on this day in 1952 of
noted actor best known for his role in Superman
and its sequels and who after becoming a quadriplegic after being thrown
from a horse in an equestrian event on May 25, 1995 an activist for those with
spinal cord injuries until October 9, 2004 when Kryptonite in the form of an
antibiotic for a pressure ulcer sent him into a coma from which he never
recovered, dying the next day.
On this day in:
a. 1957
1200 combat troops of the 101st Airborne Division insured the
integration of 9 black students at Little Rock Central High School.
b. 1963 Lord Denning released his report on
the Profumo Affair involving a brief sexual relationship the Secretary of War
and 19 year old model and showgirl Christine Keeler which resulted in Profumo’s
resignation and a defeat in the 1964 election of the Conservative Party by the Labor Party.
c. 1977 4,200 runners competed in the first
Chicago Marathon whose racing
popularity grew such that it is limited to 45,000 runners and
will be held after a CV induced hiatus again in 2021.
d. 1983 36 IRA prisoners armed
with 6 handguns escaped from Maze Prison in Northern Ireland.
e. 2018 83 year old comedian and actor Bill
Cosby was sentenced to 3-10 years for 3 counts of aggravated indecent assault
and will be eligible for parole on September 25, 2021.
Reflections on the Profumo
Affair: “Ever
since the Profumo Affair, I have never known if a man was capable of loving me
for me and for being Christine Keeler. I have survived and possibly should not
hope for more than that” Christine Keeler The
Truth at Last. (2001) as updated by her
in Secrets and Lies (2012).
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