Ridley's
Believe It Or Not November 28, 2020
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 834,728 new
cases (a 1.35% increase compared to a .65% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 62 million to 62,533,771, 17,917,108
of which are active, 44,616,663 of which have been closed
with 43,159,349 recoveries (96.73% compared
to yesterday’s 96.72%) and 1,457,314 deaths (3.27% compared to
yesterday’s 3.28%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages.
CV
USA Cases: New cases of 560,248 with total cases over 13 million at 13,039,271 (a
4.30% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.16%) with 5,295,515 active cases
of which 24,501 (.46% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend
with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (24,408 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 8,304,004 closures, 272,235 of which have been deaths (3.28%
compared to yesterday’s 3.32%) and 8,031,769 of which have been
recoveries (96.72% compared to yesterday’s 96.68%). Our death rate
percentage continues 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Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing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 after many months is only .01% above world rate
and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady climb to 820
ranks behind Belgium (1407), Peru (1082), Spain (955), Italy (900), and
UK (853 which has now passed us despite leading world in testing), and
Argentina (845) and has 4 days ago passed Brazil (809) and only slightly
worse than Mexico (810), Chile (799)
that we recently passed, recently added
to the list France (798), Bolivia (762), Ecuador (753) and Sweden (660) that
never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 1,743,490
more tests to bring total to 191,033,224
(now at 575,745/M compared to Russia at 516,579/M so Trump was 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 with tests at 626,255/M).
Non CV Case News: While all
the attention has shifted to the Georgia runoff Senate races, one party state
California has gained the distinction of the state which flipped the most Blue
seats, 4: AOC is back in the headlines claiming Biden on taking office has the
power to forgive student loans (nothing like a $1.6 trillion addition to the
national debt instead of loan modifications to lower interest rate and extend
payment terms as the debt is not forgiven only transferred to the taxpayers
including those who with or without struggle paid off their debt); SCOTUS has
given New Jersey until December 3 to respond to litigation that challenges its
curtailment of religious services (what a world where is it okay under the 1st
to protest and riot but not to assemble in church, m dyed purple as the San
Francisco moves into the Purple Tier with severe gathering restrictions and
shut downs; the adage that Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned should have
added to it Hell hath not fury than fantasy boys and girls film fans scorned as
1.568 million have signed a petition demanding Amber Heard be removed from Aquaman 2 for her slandering Johnny Depp
in their bitter divorce trial; shades of the Whiskey Rebellion, as a bar pub in
Staten Island refuses to close after the State of New York yanks its liquor
license for ignoring CV pandemic shutdown orders; shades of Tom Matte a running
back for the Baltimore Colts in 1965 who was a former quarterback and pressed
into to play quarterback for the final 3
games of the season a after Unitas and his backup were injured. Winning 2 out
of 3 but losing the conference championship game on a field goal by the Packers
which videos showed clearly missed as the Broncos’ 3 quarterbacks have tested
positive and receiver Kendall Hinton who played quarterback for Wake Forest
will play the position in tomorrow’s game against the Saints.
Chicago/Baltimore
Gun Violence: In Chicago as of November 27, 2020, the
number of shootings increased to 3,877 of whom
661 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 360 behind Chicago at 301
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 “Paper Doll” by the Mills Brothers,
the fact that you do not suffer from presbycousis and an anonymous quote on why
your should shop in small businesses this Saturday, 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. Small Business Saturday—created by American Express in 2010 to promote Saturday after
Thanksgiving as a day to shop in one’s neighborhood’s small businesses and
codified by a Senate Resolution in 2011 but with many jurisdictions imposing a
25 % occupancy limit due to the virus might be difficult to celebrate by
shopping there unless they have had the foresight to create an shopper friendly
online presence.
2. National Turkey Leftover Day—celebrating the time to eat up the turkey
leftovers from Thanksgiving with a delicious turkey rice or noodle soup or a
myriad of other recipes to finish off what is still left of the turkey that
graced your Thanksgiving Day table.
3. 1943 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1943 on this day on
a run of 8 weeks was “Paper Doll” by the Mills Brothers
to join 11 other number 1 songs. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaMeSrynug0
The Mills Brothers were an
African-American quartet and the first to have their own radio show and number
one song and were active from 1928 to 1982.
On this day in:
a. 1843
the Kingdom of Hawaii was officially recognized as an independent nation by
Great Britain and France.
b.
1925 The Grand Ole Opry began broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as The WSM Barn Dance.
c. 1958 the
first successful flight of the SM-65, the first ICBM developed tby the United
States, occurred.
d. 1990 the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher
resigned as head of the Conservative Party and as Prime Minister to be replaced
by John Major.
e. 2002 3 suicide
Al-Qaeda bombers crashed a truck into the barrier in front of the Paradise
Hotel in Mombassa, Kenya and detonated its explosives killing 10 Kenyans and 3
Israelis checking in and injured 80 others while co-conspirators never found
fired 2 shoulder to air missiles at an Israeli owned Arkia Airlines that had
just taken off en route to Tel Aviv but missed.
Reflections on supporting small businesses on this Saturday: “When you
buy from a small business, you are not helping a CEO buy a third vacation home.
You are helping a little girl get dance
lessons, a little boy get his team jersey. a mom putting food on the table, a
dad paying for a mortage and a student paying for college.” Anonymous but words that should spur us to
support small business.
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