Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 7, 2020 the CV pandemic continues unabated with 1,397,338 cases
worldwide, 298,513 of whom have recovered (21.36%) although the jury still on
how long before they can still transmit CV and 80,993 (5.8%) deaths while in
the U.S. which now ranks 1st in total number of cases, the number of cases has
risen to 386,011, 21,316 recoveries (5.5% and 12,230 deaths (3.2%) as we have
been warned the U.S. is facing its Pearl Harbor in terms of new cases and
deaths; in New York, the epicenter for the CV in the U.S., Cuomo announced that
the three day average for hospitalizations has trended down while the daily
death rate continues to increase which in his mind portends a plateauing of the
virus; poor De Blasio, who has been castigated for ineptness, was hit with a
new report indicating that the Bloomberg Administration after a warning of the
effects of a pandemic on ventilator needs, purchased 500 additional ventilators
only to have them auctioned off after De Blasio become mayor (no comment yet
from the Mayor’s Office); Dems are pushing for extra hazard pay for first
responders in any proposed additional stimulus as the Trump Administration is
reviewing plans on how to roll out opening up the economy on a piece meal
basis; MLB has come up with an idea to play baseball—play the games initially
in Arizona which is a hub for spring training with 12 Major League quality
stadiums before empty stadiums and quarantine the players and umpires so they
do not contaminate anyone; Joy Behar continues to totally disgrace herself—this
time calling on press reporters at White House briefings to call Trump a liar
and walk out; the Wisconsin primary was held today after its delay sought by
the Democratic Governor was blocked by the State Supreme Court but videos show voters
standing in lines observing social distance and wearing masks as Blues will be
engaging in a full court press to allow mail in voting despite the likely
opportunity for voter fraud in the fall; on the politician CV front, Rand Paul
has been retested negative after quarantine and volunteering his skills as a
doctor at a hospital and Boris Johnson is in ICU on oxygen but not on a
ventilator; as more an more Reds are demanding that the president of WHO resign
for his pro China bias despite its deception and concealment, President Trump
is considering whether the U.S. which is the top funder of WHO should reduce its
contribution; House Reds are demanding an explanation of why after the Kennedy
Center received a $25 million goody in the stimulus bill, it then fired many of
its workers; in Chicago, as of April 6,
2020, 579 people have been shot of whom 100 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 still 26 behind Chicago with 74 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 Gloria Gaynor, the fact that you do not suffer from breathing
oose, and a quote by Dr Robert
Beaglehole on the progress not being made on certain epidemics, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
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1. International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda—created
by the UN to condemn genocide and promote efforts to insure it never occurs
again.
2. World Health Day—created by the General
Assembly effective 1950 to observe the creation of the World Health
Organization which is rightfully under severe criticism for its failure to
admonish China for its deception as to the dangers of the COVID-19 virus and
the evidence of and ease of human to human transmission.
3. 1979 Number One Song— the
number one song in 1979 on this day on a run of 4 weeks though not continuous
in the position was “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor. Here is a recording of
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARt9HV9T0w8
The song was her first number one song and after several albums in the 80’s and
90’s she returned to the recording studio in 2002 and is still performing today.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “oose”
which means the furry dust that gathers under beds.
5. Makeup
and Visual Effects Rule—celebrating the birth on
this day in 1946 of Oscar winning and nominated for makeup and/or visual
effects of Stanley Winston who died too early at 62 on June 15, 2008.
On this day
in:
a. 1964 IBM
announced the System/360 with its punch cards and reams of computer paper.
b. 1969
the symbolic birth of the internet with the Publication of RFC 1 to which Al
Gore was not a contributor.
c. 1971 to the
joy of an American population turning more and more against the Vietnam War, President
Nixon announced an increase in the pace of Vietnamization of the war.
d. 2003
U.S. forces captured Baghdad, leading to the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime two
days later but not combat against U.S. forces which continued until the withdrawal
years later of combat forces.
e. 2009 former Peruvian President Alberto
Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison for having his security forces
kill civilians and after serving time he was pardoned on December 24, 2017 only
to have his pardon reversed by the Peruvian Supreme Court of October 3, 2018
and ordered back to prison where he was rushed to a hospital and returned to
prison and after returning to prison he was rushed to a hospital and returned
to prison on January 23, 2019.
Reflections
on progress not being made on chronic endemics:” The real tragedy is that more
hasn't been done to avoid this epidemic, as overweight and obesity, and their
related chronic diseases, are largely preventable. Approximately 80% of heart
disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, and 40% of cancer could be avoided
through healthy diet, regular physical activity and avoidance of tobacco use. "Low-cost,
simple approaches are the key to saving 36 million lives by 2015."“Dr Robert Beaglehole,Director,
Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion, World Health Organization.
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