Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 29, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 215,248
new cases (a .64% increase compared to a .87% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 33 million to 33,688,356, 7,687,323
of which are active, 26,000,923 of which have been
closed with 24,992,323 recoveries (96.12% compared to yesterday’s
96.10%) and 1,008,600 deaths (3.88% compared to yesterday’s 3.90%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 80,148 with total cases over 7 million at 7,295,718 (a
1.10% increase compared to yesterday’s .58% increase) with 2,536,870
active cases of which 14,064, on a downward trend with slight blips from a high
of 19,155 on July 23 (14,120 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1),
are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 4,838,996 closures,
210,137 of which have been deaths (4.34% compared to yesterday’s 4.37%)
and 4,590,472 of which have been recoveries (95.66% compared to
yesterday’s 95.63%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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 634 ranks behind Peru (977), Belgium (861),
Spain (672), Bolivia (675), Brazil (668), Chile (664), and Ecuador
(637), and only slightly worse than UK (619), Italy (594), Sweden
(582) that never closed its economy down like we did and Mexico (593) which
announced it has run out of death certificates due to surge in deaths. We have
now conducted 105,580,499 tests (now at 318,514/M compared to Russia at 312,436/M
so Trump is telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per
capital basis for nations (but excluding nations with small populations like
Israel and Singapore) but for the U.K. at 356,743).
Non CV Case
News: Helen Reddy has died at 78; the Biden campaign has rejected The Trump
campaign’s call for checking for electronic hearing devices (say goodbye to
audio teleprompter) and the Trump campaign has rejected Biden’s call for a
break every 30 minutes; Pelosi after for
weeks of urging Biden not to debate Trump has given him advice “to be himself”
and “save the planet” (if being himself means gaffing, lapsing, and groping,
Biden is in for a long night); Trump has just received his third Nobel Peace
Prize nomination for his work in obtaining the Israel-Bahrain deal; The Titans
who had 3 players and 5 personnel test positive have suspended in person
training and the Vikings the team they played on Sunday followed suit (until a
vaccine, completing the shortened season is going to be an on pins and needles
affair); Biden has released his 2019 tax returns and has called on Trump to do
the same; Kamala Harris must be taking lessons from Bunker Biden on
availability as she after a speech at Shaw University closed to the general
public slammed Trump for not caring about the health of Americans and
nominating Barrett to SCOTUS and immediately almost sprinted of the stage to
not take any questions (since being named as his VP pick 42 days ago, Harris
has created a invisible bunker or press shield and not taking a single question
from the press); Senator Feinstein who has been reaming the FAA for not ruling
that masks are mandatory on planes and in airports was caught on camera at
Dulles walking less than 6 feet behind someone and not wearing a mask (“Do as I
say not as I do”); the Flynn dismissal circus is still on as Flynn’s lawyer
demanded Judge Sullivan recuse himself because of abject bias.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of September 28,
2020, the number of shootings increased to 3,199 of whom 547 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 299 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 “We’re an American Band by
Grand Funk, the fact that you are planiloquent and a
quote by Nanea Hoffman on coffee, secure in the knowledge that if you want to ind a gift for any
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1. VFW
Day—celebrating the veterans’ organizations that were formed
locally to assist veterans who were returning from the Spanish American War and
the Philippine Insurrection to have grown into an organization of some 1.5
million veterans who have fought in our foreign wars to promote the interests
and well being of such veterans.
2. National
Coffee Day—celebrating that ubiquitous beverage that most
Americans cannot start their day without whether regular or decaf which first
appeared in 1903 and today a great day to celebrate as coffee prices from the
plantations are down.
3. 1973 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1973 on a run of 1 week was “We’re an American Band” by Grand
Funk in its first number 1 song to join
13 other acts achieving their first number one song. Here is a recording of the
song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwsgznR_T-g
This rock band was formed in Flint, Michigan in 1969 and was very popular during the during until
it disbanded in 1976-1981, reformed 1981-1983 and disbanded again from
1983-1996 to reform and still be active.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “planiloquent” which means speaking plainly, a skill most politicians
have long since discarded.
5. Surprise What Solidarity Can Achieve—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1943 of Leach Walesa, an electrician in the Gdansk
Shipyards in Poland who founded the Trade Union Solidarity which was instrumental
in breaking the Soviet Union’s grip on Poland and other Warsaw Pact Nations and
became Poland’s first democratically elected president from 1990 to 1995 and
won a Nobel Peace Prize and in 1989 became the first foreign non head of state
to address a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress.
On this day in:
a. 1923 in a pre
Title IX moment, the first American Women’s Track and Field Championships were
held at Weequahic Park, Newark, New Jersey.
b. 1975 WGPR in Detroit, Michigan became the
first black own TV station.
c. 1990 construction of the
Washington National Cathedral was completed in Washington, D.C.
d. 2007 Calder Hall, the world’s first nuclear
power plant located in England dedicated on October 17, 1956 by Queen Elizabeth II, was demolished by a
controlled explosion.
e.
2013 44 students and teachers were killed and 16 wounded by Boko Harem at the
College of Agriculture in Gabja, Nigeria.
Reflections
on the importance of coffee: “May your coffee be stronger than any challenges
you face today. But if not, remember: DON’T throw your cup at anyone. You need
it for refills.” – Nanea Hoffman, noted writer and coffee lover.
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