Ridley's Believe It Or Not October 3, 2020
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 502,535 new
cases (a 1.45% increase compared to a 1.33% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 34 million to 35,047,474, 7,953,895
of which are active, 27,093,579 of which have been
closed with 26,057,447 recoveries (96.18% compared to yesterday’s
96.15%) and 1,036,132 deaths (3.82% compared to yesterday’s 3.85%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV
USA Cases: New cases of 87,041 with total cases over 7 million at 7,499,991 (a
1.16% increase compared to yesterday’s .52% increase) with 2,565,328
active cases of which 14,117, on a downward trend with slight blips from a high
of 19,155 on July 23 (14,190 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1),
are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 5,021,704
closures, 214,022 of which have been deaths (4.26% compared to yesterday’s
4.30%) and 4,807,682 of which have been recoveries (95.74% compared
to yesterday’s 95.70%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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 646 ranks behind Peru (986), Belgium (865),
Spain (686), Bolivia (687), Brazil (684), Chile (669), and Ecuador (649), and
only slightly worse than UK (622), Mexico (607, Italy (595), and Sweden (583)
that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 110,276,563
tests (now at 332,569/M compared to Russia at 323,721/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 368,162/M).
Non CV Case
News: The good news is that after being moved to Walter Reed in an abundance of caution, President Trump
is doing well, fever free for the last 24 hours and on a Redesivir regime; in
what had to be a you need to be sitting down moment, rabid anti-Trump harsh
critic Stephen Colbert expressed concern and support and wishes for a speedy
recovery as we should separate feelings for the man from the office (sadly too
many of his celeb cohorts like Michael Moore who tweets he is rooting for the
virus haven’t heard the message); in a sign that Trump being at Walter Reed is
going to do nothing to calm anti-Trump rhetoric, Ilhan Omar is slamming Joe
Biden for suspending his negative ads against Trump; convicted felon Michael
Cohen having lost his J.D. is picking up an “M.D.” as he blasts Trump for
getting infected as it was “preventable”( first shot over the bow on Trump
getting some sympathy when it was caused by his “ignorance and arrogance’); Cam
Newton of the Patriots has tested positive and will miss this Sunday’s game
against the Chiefs; while De Blasio continues to defund the police and BLM is
completely MIA on protesting black on black shootings and murders through September, 2020 are up
from September, 2019 127 % and 40%
respectively; SCOTUS will review an appellate court’s ruling that Arizona’s law
designed to prevent fraud by allowing only family members to harvest absentee
ballots is unconstitutional;
Congress has been holding hearings and
transacting business virally for months but Chuck Schumer desperate to keep a
vote on Amy Coney Barrett from reaching the Senate where he may and hopefully will
lose is ranting that CV makes hearings on her too dangerous (what a pathetic hypocrite);
Outdoor Media has wimped out when it refused to sell billboard space slamming
China with Lebron James with a China flag over his mouth.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of September 30, 2020, the
number of shootings increased to 3,232 of whom 555 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 304 behind Chicago at 251 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 “Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band” by Meco, the fact that you
are not viewed as plebeian and a quote by O.J. Simpson on his trial, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to ind a gift for any memorable events like Father’s
Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know
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1. Virus
Appreciation Day—not sure who created this or when and hope it
is to cause us to appreciate the dangers viruses impose as opposed to anti-Trumpers
who are expressing surface empathy and concern but deep down probably happy as
happy can be that President Trump and Melania have been infected along with
members of the White House staff and his campaign.
2. Mean
Girls Day—celebrating the response of Cady (played by
Lindsay Lohan) in the cult movie Mean
Girls to Samuels' question “What day is it?” “It’s October 3rd!”
(as you can see a scrapping the bottom of the barrel day for holidays and
observances).
3. 1977
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1977 on a run of 2
weeks was “Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band” by Meco in its first number one song
to join 17 other acts with their first number one song. Here is a recording of
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFcmuhTTqoY Meco is best known
for Meconizing movie soundtracks by turning them in to disco dancing music and
is still alive today at 80.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “plebeian” which
means of the common people or vulgar class which elected Blues seem to view us
as less common and more vulgar.
5. Horse
Kicks Worse Than a Mule—celebrating the birth on this day in 1955 of Douglas
Woody noted guitarist of the Allman Brothers Band for 8 years before joining
the Gov’t Mule but found out heroin kicks far worse than a mule and died of an
heroin overdose on August 26, 2000 at age 44.
On this day in:
a. 1789 President Washington proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving, a holiday
that was intermittently observed until Lincoln’s proclamation in 1863.
b. 1863
President Abraham Lincoln, spurred by the victory at the Battle of Gettysburg
and prodded by his Secretary of State William Seward, declared the last
Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
c. 1957 the California Supreme
Court ruled that poet Allan Ginsburg’s Howl and Other Poems was not obscene.
d. 1995 heeding “If
the gloves don’t fit, you must acquit”
the jury in the OJ Simpson trial returned a verdict of not guilty thereby freeing
OJ to find his wife’s killer which since he did not look in the mirror, he
never did .
e.
2008 President Bush faced with an economic meltdown signed the Emergency Economic
Stabilization Act of 2008.
Chutzpah Reflections on the O.J.
Simpson Trial: "I thought the media let the American public, as well as
myself, down, as well as Nicole and Ron down in trying to find the true
perpetrators." O.J. Simpson with a straight face and holding ihis guilty
head up high.
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