Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 5, 2020 the CV continues
unabated with 1,268,636 cases worldwide, 261,134 who have recovered although
the jury still on how long before they can still transmit CV and 69,381 deaths
while in the U.S. which now ranks 1st in total number of cases, the number of
cases has risen to 334,232, 17,177 recoveries and 9,557 deaths (chilling
numbers but what is worse for the U.S. are models coming out that show deaths
in the 100,000-200,000 range and hospitals being totally swamped by a surge in
cases, loss of medical personnel due to their being infected and a bottleneck
in terms of testing and assembling results of such testing); this may be in the
future Britain’s finest hour but a Boris Johnson has just been hospitalized
after testing positive 10 days earlier, after closing down all non essential
businesses perhaps a too little, too late moment; as hospitals are being
overwhelmed and running out of critical supplies, look for scams and price
gouging as new breaking of a deal for 6 million N95 masks went south after
serious questions over whether had ownership of the masks and 3M is in hot
water being exposed by Florida shipping masks and ventilators to foreign countries
as opposed to filling orders here in the U.S.; China whose lying enabled the
virus to spread to its pandemic form is playing the propaganda we are the good
guys on this as news that the New England Patriots have sent a plane to China
to pick up 1.2 million N95 masks; with economic activity grinding to near halts
around the world, seismologists have recorded that the Earth has dramatically
reduced its shaking, enabling researchers to gather more data on smaller earthquakes
and lava flow; President Bush warned the nation of a pandemic and built up the
national stockpile of medical supplies which Obama drew down but never replaced
which explains the difficulty New York is facing, forced to use veterinary
ventilators in some cases (but in a ray of hope the increase in deaths in New
York declined); in concrete terms setting forth the effect of Chinese complicity,
a new report revealed that 430,000 Chinese, thousands of whom were from Wuhan,
entered the U.S. on direct flights before Trump’s travel (unfortunately we do
not have data on how many of these were already infected but a great chance
that the number was significant); in another shocking example of the folly of
youth, first responders to a coronavirus party in rural Pennsylvania arrived to
find over 100 minor drunken party goers totally ignoring social distancing; in another
chilling reminder that the CV pandemic does not respect fame or success in
overcoming adversity, Tom Dempsey, a kicker for the New Orleans Saints who was
born without any toes in his right foot and missing fingers in his right hand but went on to set the record for distance of a
field goal at 63 yards, died yesterday at 73 from the coronavirus; in Chicago,
as of April 4, 2020, 562 people have been shot of whom 94 have died; Baltimore
with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020
will not be a record in terms of deaths is 21 behind Chicago with 73 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 more
deadly and more numerous than random mass shootings?).
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s
holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a
musical link to Daryl Hall and John Oates, the fact you do not suffer
from onychotillomania, and a quote by Margaret Sanger
on controlling immigration, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find 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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recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. Palm Sunday—celebrating the arrival of Christ into Jerusalem on the Sunday
before he was crucified.
2. National Flash Drive Day—created by USB Direct in 2018 to promote awareness of the
contribution of flash drives to how we store and move data we use in our daily
lives.
3. 1977 Number 1 Number One Song— the number
one song in 1977 on this day on a run of 2 weeks in the position was “Rich Girl”
by Daryl Hall and John Oates. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ2itQvyBY8.
This prolific duo that has been performing for some 50 years wrote most the
songs they performed and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in
2003 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “onychotillomania” which means compulsive
picking at nails which is not a good idea as the coronavirus can hang out
there.
5. Ultimate Sacrifice—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1981 of Michael Monsoor, a U.S. Seal who won the
Congressional Medal of Honor in a firefight on September 29, 2006 with
insurgents in Iraq when he threw his body on top of a grenade to protect two fellow
soldiers and died shortly thereafter.
On this day
in:
a. 1922
the American Birth Control League, the forerunner to Planned Parenthood, was
incorporated.
b. 1951
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sentenced to death for espionage in favor of
the Soviet Union.
c. 1976 massive demonstrations to honor the
death of Chou–En-Lai in Tienanmen Square led to the police forcibly clearing the
square and removing all flowers, wreaths and banners in praise of him.
d. 1996 a bomb believed
to have been set by Libyan intelligence agents detonated at the La Belle Discotheque
in West Berlin, killing 3, 2 of whom were Americans and wounding 229, 79 of
whom were Americans which prompted retaliatory airstrikes in an attempt to kill
Khadafy.
e. 1999 2 Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight
103 over Lockerbie, Scotland with a bomb
planted on board were handed over to trial by the World Court and 1, Abdelbasert
al-Megrahi, was convicted and sentenced to life in Mat, 2001 but released on
compassionate grounds in August, 2009 after being diagnosed with prostate
cancer with a diagnosis of 3 months left to live to die of the disease in May
2012.
Wondering why the
left is so enamored by the views of Margaret Sanger: “…..keep the doors of
immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known
to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as feebleminded, idiots,
morons, Insane, syphilitic, epileptic, criminal, professional prostitutes, and
others in this class barred by the immigration laws of 1924.” —“A Plan for Peace” Birth Control Review,
April 1932, pages 107-108
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