Ridley's
Believe It Or Not December 31, 2020
CV World
Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 635,501 new
cases (a .73% increase compared to a .71% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 83 million to 83,489,065, 22,558,177
of which are active, 60,930,888 closed with 59,110,913
recoveries (97.01% compared to yesterday’s 97.01%) and 1,819,975 deaths
(2.99% compared to yesterday’s 2.99%) to continue the trend of increased cases
with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages
with some plateaus.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 321,540
(a 1.61% increase compared to yesterday’s .82% increase) to bring
the total over 20 million to 20,271,565 with
7,911,209 active cases of which 29,271 (.37% of active cases and an increase of
162 for a new peak), recently on a disturbing upward trend with no dips from a
high of 19,155 on July 23 (29,089 yesterday), are in serious
or critical condition as trend has shifted and is still continuing to go
up, and 12,360,376 closures, 351,752 of which have been deaths (2.85%
compared to yesterday’s 2.84%) and 12,008,624 of which have been
recoveries (97.15% compared to yesterday’s 97.16%). Our death rate
percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .14% lower than
the world rate and .27% lower than Canada which has the socialized type
medicine Biden may well want to implement here and on a deaths per
million population measurement on a steady climb to 1060 ranks behind Belgium
(1674), Italy (1237). Peru (1133), passing Spain, Bulgaria (1086), Spain
(1084) and UK (1080) which has now passed us despite leading world in testing),
and only slightly worse than France (989), Hungary (988) and (839) nine days ago so added to the list, Mexico (964),
Argentina (948), Brazil (910), Switzerland (880) and (830) five days
ago and so added to the list, Chile (865 that we recently passed), Switzerland
(874) and (830) two days ago so added to list, Sweden (861) that never closed
its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in
deaths, Ecuador (790) and Bolivia (775) and we have now conducted 1,776,746
more tests to bring the total to 253,542,640 (now at 763,537/M compared to
Russia at 621,028/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 806,479/M.
Non CV Case News: Looks like we can kiss idea of $2000
stimulus checks goodbye Chuck and his Blues won’t let Social Media Iron Curtain
die; the rhetoric in the “most dignified debating house, the Senate” is going
over the top with Blue Senator Jeanne Shaheen ranting that Senator Hawley’s
plan to challenge Biden’s win in the Electoral College borders on “Sedition and
Treason”(would be better if the Senator from New Hampshire toned it down as
those allegations are capital offenses); people are celebrating the end of 2020
around the globe with masks and some attempts at social distancing and in some
cases virally as in the case of Times Square as no spectators will be allowed
to watch the ball drop; sick news on the CV vaccination front, as a pharmacist
has been arrested and fired for removing hundreds of vaccine doses from refrigeration
to have them spoil (not identified yet nor any motive yet); despite the fact we
have a lot of issues on our plate, the frenzy continues over Hillaria Baldwin’s
past contentions she was born in Spain when in fact she was born in Boston (who
cares other than her 5 kids probably embarrassed over her claiming something
she is not); Lori Lightfoot is light on the truth as released emails show
notice of a botched police raid on the wrong address to her months before she
claimed she was first noticed (Anjanette Young, a social worker who is black was
cuffed nude while the CPD searched her residence in February 2019); Indian casinos
are not subject to federal or state regulation so the Cache Creek Casino Resort
in Brooks and the Thunder Valley Casino are holding gala New Year’s Eve
celebrations; Blue Progressives are demanding Pelosi allow a Medicare for all
vote in exchange for their support of her as Speaker ( If vote is held before
the Georgia Runoff, would be a great boost to the 2 Red Senators running); Florida
is now the third state after Colorado and California to have its first case of
the CV variant B.1.1.7
Chicago/Baltimore
Gun Violence: In Chicago as of December 30, 2020 with a few hours
left to end to the carnage of 2021, the number of shootings increased
to 4,172 of whom 719 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 385 behind Chicago at
334 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 fewer times),
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a musical link to “Angie Baby” by Helen Reddy, the psammous
nature of our Southern California beaches and a quote from Bill Clinton on the
Y2K problems thought to be facing the world, secure in the knowledge that if you
want to send a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, college
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1. First Night—ca North America artistic and
cultural celebration held in various cities across the land from noon till
midnight probably in the past designed to cut down on New Year’s Eve parties and
the resulting DUI carnage that sadly follows which the CV pandemic has probably
replaced with viral events this year.
2. World Peace
Meditation Day—created
by 1986 calling on all people around the globe to mediate on the lure of and
happiness generated by peace.
3. 1974 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1974 on this day on a run of 1 week was “Angie Baby” by
Helen Reddy to join 35 other number 1 songs Here is a
Recording
of Helen Reddy singing “Angie Baby”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQKyGt_I5L4.
This very popular Australian-American performed very successfully from 1966
=2002 and retired in 2002 but lure of performing live brought her out of
retirement in 2012 but was later diagnosed as having dementia and died this
year on September 29, at the age of 78.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “psammous”
which means sandy which describes to a tee most of our Southern California
beaches.
5. Like Father Life
Son---celebrating
the birth on this day in 1977 of Donald Trump, Jr., the eldest son of President
Trump and who like his father was infected with the COVID-19 virus and like his
father and his girlfriend Kimberley Guilfoyle recovered from the infection.
On
this day in:
a. 1951 The Marshall Plan ended
after distributing $13.3 billion to aid in the recovery of Western Europe (worth
$133,117,142,308)
in today’s currency.
worth to restore the damages done to Western Europe.
b.
1992 Czechoslovakia was peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia
in what many would call the Velvet Divorce.
c. 2000 the last day of the 20th
Century and 2nd Millennium and the last day before the Y2K computer bug
was supposed bring havoc to computers around the world which it did not.
d. 2014 a stampede resulted at a
New Year’s Eve fireworks display in Shangai killing 38 and injuring 49 people.
e. 2019 the WHO was
belatedly informed by China on the existence of a new form of pneumonia in
Wuhan, China which as of yesterday has killed 1,819,975 persons worldwide.
Chicken Little and
the Y2K falling of the sky that never happened while IP consultants had a field
day lining their pockets.: "I came
here today because I wanted to stress the urgency of the challenge to people
who are not in this room.... Clearly, we must set forth what the government is
doing, what business is doing, but also what all of us have yet to do to meet
this challenge together. And there is still a pressing need for action.... In
the business sector just as in the government sector, there are still gaping
holes. Far too many businesses, especially small- and medium-sized firms, will
not be ready unless they begin to act. A recent Walls Fargo bank survey shows
that of the small businesses that even know about the problem, roughly half
intend to do nothing about it. Now, this is not one of the summer movies where
you can close your eyes during the scary parts." -- President Bill Clinton, in a speech about
Y2K at the National Academy of
Sciences July 15, 1998
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