Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 28, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 289,766
new cases (a .87% increase compared to a .66% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 33 million to 33,473,108, 7,688,796
of which are active, 25,784,312 of which have been
closed with 24,779,651 recoveries (96.10% compared to yesterday’s
96.08%) and 1,004,661 deaths (3.90% compared to yesterday’s 3.92%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 41,971 with total cases over 7 million at 7,295,718 (a
.58 increase compared to yesterday’s .3% increase) with 2,537,616 active
cases of which 14,120, on a downward trend with slight blips from a high of
19,155 on July 23 (14,135 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are
in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 4,800,073 closures,
209,601 of which have been deaths (4.37% compared to yesterday’s 4.42%)
and 4,590,472 of which have been recoveries (95.63% compared to
yesterday’s 95.58%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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 632 ranks behind Peru (975), Belgium (860),
Spain (672), Bolivia (671), Brazil (666), Chile (663), and Ecuador
(637), and only slightly worse than UK (618), Italy (593), Sweden
(581) that never closed its economy down like we did and Mexico (591) which
announced it has run out of death certificates due to surge in deaths. We have
now conducted 103,651,667 tests (now at 315,717/M compared to Russia at 311,066/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 353,329).
Non CV Case
News: Project Veritas has on film the illegal activity of Omar Somali
operatives illegally harvesting ballots (safe bet is that ballots will all be
marked for Omar and other Blues and I wonder what see no evil voter fraud Wray has
to say about this); on the stimulus front Pelosi is proposing a $2.2 trillion
deal down from her idiotic gambit of $3.4 which may be a move in the right direction
assuming no funds for illegal aliens and severe restrictions on states with
massive unfunded pension liabilities but stay tuned for the details; the
firestorm among the left over the ACB nomination is making the furor look like
a Kumbaya song fest around the campfire as Planned Parenthood and NOW are in
meltdown mode claiming she will cast her vote to enable Trump to steal the
election, repeal Obamacare and repeal Roe v. Wade—ranting this exceptionally
qualified jurist of impeccable intellect and integrity is a mindless Trump puppet;
Pelosi is sounding alarm bells to her caucus that Blues must pedal to the metal
to insure that a majority of the states have Congressional delegations that are
controlled by Blues if the House is to decide the election; Trump and Biden are
set to debate tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. PDT with no preliminary handshakes and no
wearing of masks (not being able to hide his face whatever facial expressions
of bewilderment or memory loss will be on better display); in a Harry S. Truman
déjà vu, Biden is going a a train to campaign after the debate; in a blatant example
of why the NYT has lost any journalistic integrity, Tatiana Turner was charged
with attempted murder by hitting Trump supporters at a rally between them and
BLM—NPR reported the obvious as the driver drives through a sea of Trump signs
and merchandise while NYT “reporter” Marie Fazio mentioned only that people
were hit with non life threatening injuries and called the demonstration
between a group for social justice and counter protesters not Trump supporters
(Fazio must believe that hitting a Trump supporter with a car cannot be
attempted murder); in an almost “I am Spartacus” trend to be crucified for
being white, Blue Louisiana State Senator Mandie Landry is tweeting that she is
ashamed to be white (so much for King’s plea to be judged by content on one’s
character as opposed to color of one’s skin).
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of September 27,
2020, the number of shootings increased to 3,190 of whom 544 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 296 behind Chicago at 248 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 “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me”
by Mac Davis, the fact that you are not plangorous due to events and a
quote by Hans Selye of penicillin, secure in the knowledge that if you want to ind a gift for any
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1. Freedom
from Hunger Day—first celebrated on this day in 2006 to create
awareness of the prevalence of hunger both domestically and internationally
that makes it so hard to rise out of poverty.
2. International
Rabies Day—created on September 8, 2007 by the Alliance
for Rabies Control and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create
awareness of this deadly disease and the need for owners to vaccinate their
dogs.
3. 1972 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1972 on a run of 3 weeks was “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me” by
Mac Davis in his first number 1 song to join 17 other acts achieving their
first number one song. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UauHDIlhvTk
This country music singer and song writer has still been performing but has
recently had heart surgery and is in critical condition.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “plangorous” which means mournful and describes to a tee how Blues must
feel over the Barrett nomination to SCOTUS.
5. Passing the Baton for the Last Time—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1986 of Ethiopian distance runner Meskerem Legesse who
competed in the 2004 Olympics and then turned pro but had to ultimately retire
due to a heart condition which when she was 3 weeks from delivering her second
child died from a heart attack on July 15, 2013 outside a NYC restaurant but
medical personnel were able to successfully deliver her child alive and well.
On this day in:
a. 1928 Arthur
Fleming noticed a bacteria killing bread mold growing in his laboratory which eventually
would become the first wonder drug penicillin.
b. 1951 CBS offered color
television sets to the public but discontinued their sale very shortly
thereafter.
c. 1973 the ITT
Building in NYC was bombed by the Weather Underground in protest to ITT’s
alleged involvement in the coup d’état that overthrew the Allende Government in
Chile.
d. 1986 after years of one party
rule under the Kuomintang after it fled from China , the Progressive Development Party became the first
opposition party in Taiwan.
e.
2008 Falcon 1 built by SpaceX became the first privately funded liquid fueled rocket
to successfully launch a payload into orbit from Earth.
Reflections
on scientific discovery and the discovery of penicillin: “I doubt that Fleming
could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a
requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said,
'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a
mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting
an antibiotic from this mould.”― Hans Selye, From Dream to Discovery: On Being a Scientist.
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