Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 1, 2020 the CV continues
unabated with 917,913 cases worldwide, 193,333 who have recovered although the
jury still on how long before they can still transmit CV and 45,602 deaths
while in the U.S. which now ranks 1st in total number of cases, the number of
cases has risen to 205,638, 8,762 recoveries and 4,528 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); while two large
Holland-Amsterdam cruise ships slowly heading to Florida to try to unload
passengers from ships infected, Florida has still refused permission to dock
and has issued a stay-at-home order for 30 days starting at midnight Thursday;
Cuomo has ordered all playgrounds in NYC to be closed and continues to bemoan
that large numbers of young people are ignoring social distances while NYC is swamped
with CV deaths and cases with the peak still yet to arrive (Trump laid it out
clearly yesterday at his CV briefing that this nation is facing a very tough
time in terms of deaths and cases and as might be expected the market tanked
today); the left wing bastion of “journalism” the Boston Globe editorialized Trump is not fit and has blood on his
hands when earlier he was reamed by it for saving countless lives when he
banned travel from China and Europe (given the amount of deceit and lying by
China or reality of human to human transmission and the scope of the infections
to editorialize based on hindsight verges on criminality when we need all of us
on the same page fighting this pandemic; just when you thought the
politicization of the pandemic could not get worse, Biden has been freed from
the cobwebs of potential dementia to indicate he is willing to met with Trump
to discuss pandemic strategy and lying Adam Schiff is proposing a Warren type
commission to investigate the response to the pandemic; too early to know
whether it is a continuing trend but Trump’s ratings on the rise and MSM ratings
sinking off the deep end; in another example of why we need a secure border and
why social distancing is critical, of the 70 University of Texas students who
chartered a spring break plane to Cabo San Lucas, 28 has tested positive for
the CV and frighteningly 4 positive tests were on asymptomatic students; other
that Bacardi 151 or Everclear, most alcoholic beverages do not contain the
minimum 120 proof alcohol content to destroy the CV, but that fact has not
slowed the growth of sales of alcohol which have soared off the charts as
online sales have soared in triple digits and more jurisdictions are allowing
delivery; in Chicago, as of March 31, 2020, 532 people have been shot of whom
89 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 20
behind Chicago with 69 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 Patti Labelle, the fact you do not suffer from onychocryptosis,
and a quote by Austin O’Malley on avoiding fools, 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
unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the
recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. April Fools’ Day—celebrating a day of
pranks and jokes on the unwary but today with the coronavirus ramping up a full
speed in terms of cases and deaths, this unwanted joke is on us.
2. Fossil Fuels Day—celebrated by greens as
a play on words and as a means to discourage the use of fossil fuels instead of
renewable energy although whatever price advantages renewable fuels have obtained
has largely been wiped out by the recent collapse of world petroleum prices.
3. 1975
Number 1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1975 on
this day on a run of 1 week in the position was “Lady Marmalade” by Patti Labelle.
Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LWIP7SAjY.
The Grandmother of Soul is still going strong at 75.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “onychocryptosis”
which means an ingrowing toenail, which is something most of us like to avoid.
5. Can’t
Intercept a Bullet With Legs—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1983 of Sean Taylor who played safety for the
Washington Redskins and was shot on November 26, 2007 in the leg during a
robbery in his house and suffered a wound to his femoral artery and died the
next day due to a loss of blood.
On this day
in:
a. 1970
in one of the first steps in the war against smoking, President Nixon signed into
law the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act requiring the Surgeon General to
create warning labels and banning cigarette ads on television and radio
effective January 1, 1971. Unfortunately not enough people have gotten the
message as some 40 million people continue to put their health and the health
of others around them at risk by smoking cigarettes.
b. 1970 the first of over 670,000 Gremlins made by American Motors
Company are released for sale in North America to compete with imported cars.
c.
1976 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne formed Apple in Cupertino but
Wayne is probably best remembered for the worst deal on record when he sold his
10% share in Apple for $800 12 days later plus another $1500 12 months later to
forfeit any claims he might have against the newly incorporated Apple.
d. 1979 Nickelodeon was launched
in the United States.
e. 2004 Google announced Gmail
to the public.
Since April Fools Day jokes
on the coronavirus will bring you a world of hurt and scorn here’s a quote on
fools in general: “If you would avoid all fools go into a dense forest and there refrain from
gazing into still pools.” ~Austin O'Malley Thoughts of a Recluse,
1898
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