Ridley's Believe It Or Not October 7, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 348,621 new cases (a .97% increase
compared to a .99% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 36 million
to 36,286,833, 7,921,977 of which are active, 28,364,856
of which have been closed with 27,306,860 recoveries (96.27% compared
to yesterday’s 96.25%) and 1,057,996 deaths (3.73% compared to
yesterday’s 3.75%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and
decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 132,414 with
total cases over 7 million at 7,745,705 (a
1.74% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.16% increase) with 2,570,280
active cases of which 14,524, recently on slight upward trend with slight blips
from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (14,302 yesterday and 15,881 on
September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 5,175,425
closures, 216,277 of which have been deaths (4.18% compared to yesterday’s
4.20%) and 4,959,148 of which have been recoveries (95.82% compared
to yesterday’s 95.80%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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 654 ranks behind Peru (995), Belgium (870),
Spain (696), Bolivia (696), Brazil (694), Chile (683), and Ecuador (661), and
only slightly worse than Mexico (637), UK (625), (633, Italy (597), and Sweden
(582) that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted
112,744,002 tests (now at 343,097/M compared to Russia at 333,673/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 Denmark, Israel and Singapore) but for the U.K. at 388,606/M).
Non CV Case News: Kamala Harris, the
most leftist senator tied with Senator Hirono debates VP Pence tonight in a
debate that should be watched in earnest because if Biden wins the smart money
would be on his dying or being subject to the 25th and Harris
becoming president (kiss any border security or deportation of illegals
regardless of criminal records goodbye along with an economy crushed by $4+
trillion in Biden taxes); leftist pundits are already howling that the debate
focus on the CV pandemic trying to hold Trump and Pence responsible for the
deaths when a significant portion of those deaths resulted from governors
putting the infected elderly into ADL’s and nursing homes; not sure how safe on
the outside Derek Chauvin will be but he has posted his $1,000,000 bail and is now out awaiting
trial for the murder of George Floyd; an aging Hanoi Jane is praising the CV pandemic
as a gift from God to the left to defeat Trump (over 200,000 dead Americans in
her sick mind cheap collateral damage); ICE’s Operation Rise has netted 128
illegal aliens in sanctuary cities in California with 96% with criminal charges
(when will Californians tired of having illegals released into our cites
because many are barred from cooperating with detainer requests from ICE rise
up change the law?); to no big surprise Taylor Swift announced she’s backing
the Biden Harris ticket (if he wins will she branch into selling Biden
cookies?); Senator Klobuchar disclosed like all the Blues on the issue of Amy
Coney Barrett’s confirmation she is a flaming hypocrite opposing virtual
hearings on Barrett to conceal her already mind made up rejection of the nominee
(hope the Reds put an oath to Blues to not discriminate against Barrett because
of her Catholic faith);
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as
of October 6, 2020, the number of
shootings increased to 3,275 of whom 564 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 307
behind Chicago at 257 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 “Endless Love” by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie, the
fact that you are not pocurante in what people have to say and a quote by Charles Krauthhammer on Fox News, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
memorable events like Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings,
or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a
unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the
recipient. Please contact me for details.
1. National
Random Acts of Poetry Day—encouraging putting poetry into the public like
on sidewalks, murals, and now social media—www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com. Not
sure who or when created but in prose world always a good idea.
2. National LED Light Day—celebrating
since 2016 the contributions of Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji
Nakamura who invented LED lighting which is so energy efficient it is mind
boggling and who received the Nobel Prize in physics on October 7, 2014.
3. 1981
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1981 on a run of 9
weeks was “Endless Love” by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie with Lionel Richie
receiving his first number 1 song as a solo with 9 other acts achieving their first
number 1 song. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2LBFeh81xU.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pocurante” meaning uninterested.
5. Fade into Obscurity—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1944 of singer/songwriter Judith Lynn Sill whose early
albums met with little success and died from an overdose of cocaine on November
23,1979 so obscure no obituary was published with her “friends” not knowing for
some period of time that she had died.
On this day in:
a. 1950 Mother Teresa founded the
Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.
b. 1985 4 terrorists from the Palestine Liberation Organization hijacked the MS
Achilles Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
c. 1996 to the bane of the MSM, Fox News
Channel began broadcasting.
d. 2001 following
the Taliban’s refusal to turn over Osama bin Laden following 9/11, our longest
war commenced with U.S. forces starting combat operations in Afghanistan.
e. 2008
80 ton Asteroid TC2008 as the first asteroid to be detected before impacting
earth, exploded some 37 kilometers above Sudan 19 hours after being detected.
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