Ridley's Believe It Or Not November
1, 2020
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 360,846 new ases (a .78% increase compared to a 1.26% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 46 million to 46,762,710, 11,883,740
of which are active, 34,878,970 of which have been closed
with 33,674,615 recoveries (96.55%
compared to yesterday’s 96.54%) and 1,204,355 deaths (3.45%
compared to yesterday’s 3.46%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA
Cases: New cases of 74,833 with total cases over 9 million at 9,383,739 (a
.80% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.96% increase) with 3,136,753 active cases of
which 17,214 (.55% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with
slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (16,163 yesterday and
15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend has shifted and may be
continuing to go up, and 6,321,819 closures, 236,384 of which have been deaths
(3.74% compared to yesterday’s 3.75%) and 6,085,435 of which have
been recoveries (96.26% compared to yesterday’s 96.25%) (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continue to improve and are finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed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 713 ranks
behind Peru (1041), Belgium (1002), Spain (767), Brazil (751), Bolivia (744), Chile (743), and Ecuador (715), and
only slightly worse than Mexico (709), UK (687), Argentina (684) newly added to
the list, Italy (642), and Sweden (587) that never closed its economy down like
we did and we have now conducted 853,922 more tests to bring total to 145,040,196
tests (now at 437,318/M compared to Russia at 421,361/M so Trump is telling
truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis for
nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark, Israel,
Singapore and UAE) but for the U.K. which remains off the testing charts at 492,161/M).
Non CV Case
News: Biden must be in a panic mode as he is coming out of the bunker to hold 2
“rallies” in Philadelphia which will be attended by very few supporters
probably in cars honking to show their approval while Trump has appeared in
Iowa and soon North Carolina before thousands upon thousands of boisterous and
rabid supporters to end the day with 5 rallies (I watched Biden perform in
Philadelphia and he seemed to speak even with teleprompters like an internet
broadcast with extremely low download speeds pausing as if trying to remember
what he was going to say); the Pittsburgh-Post
Gazette has endorsed Trump in its first endorsement of a Red since 1972 astutely
calling Biden “too old” and “fragile” to handle the job with “a very good he
will not make it through his term”( as stated many times before a vote for
Biden is a vote for the most liberal Blue Senator Harris); Trump has declared
November 1 to be a National Day of Remembrance to commemorate those Americans
killed by illegal aliens which has Angel Families overjoyed but fearful that a
Biden presidency will mean amnesty for illegals; at his “rally” in Philadelphia
pandering to the small crowd Biden crowed “I know Philadelphia well, I married
a Philly girl, by the way, and by the way, I got my Eagles jacket on," evidently
oblivious that he was wearing a University of Delaware jacket with a game hen
on it which is that university’s team symbol; the head of the WHO is in
self-quarantine after contact with a person who tested positive.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of October 31, 2020,
the number of shootings
increased to 3,5610 of whom 609 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 332 behind Chicago at
277 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 far 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 “Gold Digger“ by Kanye West feat. Jamie
Foxx, the fact that you do are not polysarcous, and a quote from President
Truman on the failed assassination attempt at on him at the Blair House, 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
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1. National Brush Day—created
in 2013 by the Partnership for Healthy Mouths, Healthy Lives to promote proper
teeth brushing to prevent cavities, especially important after all the sugar
consumed after Halloween by trick or treaters on a non CV pandemic year.
2. World Vegan Day—created
by Louise Wallis, the Chair of the Vegan Society in 1994 to commemorate the founding of the organization
in 1944 and to promote the benefits both to the participants of a vegan diet
and the animals who are no longer consumed by omnivores who are now converted
to vegans.
3. 2005 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 2005 on a run of 10 weeks was “Gold Digger” by
Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx to join 7
other songs that made the number 1 list. Here is a recording of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY&list=RDjEgSjqMRVKc&index=3
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “polysarcous” which means obese which
describes a condition that far too many
Americans suffer with serious life threatening consequences like diabetes and
coronaries.
5. Big Job To Fill Shoes--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1960 of Tim Cook, who became the Chief Executive
Officer of Apple on August 24, 2011 prior to Steve Jobs’ death from prostate
cancer on October 5, 2011. Cook is the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500
Company and under his tenure has doubled Apple’s revenue and profits and has
seen its market cap rise to become the first U.S. company to reach $2 trillion.
On this day in:
a. 1950 Puerto
Rican Nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Cozallo broke into the Blair
House where President Truman was staying while the White House was being
renovated in a failed attempt to assassinate him but were foiled by White House
Police Officer Leslie Coffelt who although mortally wounded shot and killed
Torresola as Secret Service agents charging to the sound of gunfire wounded Cozallo
who was convicted and sentenced to death, a penalty which he escaped as Truman
a believer in Puerto Rican plebiscite to determine its status commuted his
sentence to life and 1979 Jimmy Carter commuted his sentence to time served to
release him to return to Puerto Rico and die in 1994.
b. 1955 after John Graham
had packed a dynamite bomb in his mother’s luggage before she boarded United Airlines
Flight 629 in Denver bound for Seattle, the plane blew up in mid air near
Longmont, Colorado, killing his mother and all 38 other passengers and 5 crew
in revenge for her putting him in an orphanage as small child and to collect
insurance. He was caught, tried, convicted and executed in the gas chamber on
January 11, 1957 after showing no remorse.
c. 1968
the Motion Pictures Association of America rating system with classifications
of G, M, R and X was introduced.
d. 1973 the
march to the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon continued with
Leon Jaworski appointed as the replacement Watergate Special Prosecutor.
e. 1982 Honda became the first Asian car company
to begin producing cars in the U.S. when it opened its factory in Marysville,
Ohio, producing Honda Accords.
Reflections on being subject to a deadly assassination attempt: ”It was a most unnecessary happening over there at the Blair House and
the people who really got hurt were wonderful men. The two men who did the job
were just as stupid as they could be. I know I could organize a better program
than the one they put on. They came nowhere near their objective - one of them
faces the gallows and the other one is dead, although they did injure two good
Guards and kill another one unnecessarily.” President Harry S. Truman in a
letter to Secretary of State Dean Acheson November 2, 1950.
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