Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 27, 2020 The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 123,232 new cases (a 2.19% increase
compared to a .97% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 5,740,328 cases,
2,916,635 of which are
active, 2,823,693 of which have been closed with 2,468,975 recoveries
(87.44% compared to yesterday’s 87.28%) and 354,718 deaths (12.56% compared to
yesterday’s 12.72%); in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading
the world in total cases with new cases of 27,058 have brought total cases to 1,735,323
(a 1.58% increase compared to yesterday’s .45% increase) with 1,151,975
active cases and 583,347 closures,
101,359 of which have been deaths (17.38% compared
to yesterday’s 17.69%) and 481,988 of which have been recoveries (82.62%
compared to yesterday’s 82.31%) (our death rate percentages continue to
improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10
but remain higher than the world probably due to idiots like Cuomo sending
positive CV patients into nursing homes to infect the residents and staff who
then die) while total testing has increased to 15,677,011; the Orange County
Sheriff has announced his department will not enforce Orange County’s mandatory
mask wearing requirement; Astronauts Hurley and Behken have climbed aboard the
Crew Dragon capsule on top of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket only to have the mission
scrubbed and rescheduled for Saturday’s American return to orbit space before rendezvousing
the ISIS carried by a commercial American rocket launched from American soil; De
Blasio is warning of a multi-billion dollar deficit due to the CV pandemic and
pleading for federal aid (big problem is that he is inept and incompetent and
NYC is the only part of the state still in massive shutdown mode); Cuomo is
finally being blasted for his nursing home death sentences that may have caused
upwards of 10,000 deaths after signing legislation to protect nursing homes and
hospitals from civil and criminal liability due to CV deaths (wonder how
persuasive the $1,000,000 campaign contribution by a hospital association to
his 2018 campaign influenced his support for the legislation?); Hidin’ Biden
still reeling from his “you ain’t black” comment was quick to praise the mayor
of Minneapolis for firing the 4 officers involved in the death of George Floyd
but demanded a FBI investigation of their deaths; Anderson Cooper is reeking cack
again aping Pelosi’s fat shaming of Trump (such a little man when it comes to “journalism”);
Governor Northam of Virginia is so typical of the “do as I say not as I do Blue
politicians” after being forced to apologize for going to a beach while not
wearing a mask last weekend but signing an executive order effective this
Friday to mandate the wearing of masks while in public indoor settings; in Chicago, as of May 26, 2020, 1064
shootings of whom 192 have died (so much for the effectiveness of Chicago’s
stay at home order); 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
now 72 behind Chicago with 120 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 Tommy Dorsey and His
Orchestra, the fact that you not a patrone and a quote from Deisaku Gattai on
the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 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
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1. Sunscreen Protection Day—now that summer has unofficially started and beaches and
public outdoor areas formerly closed due to the CV pandemic are now reopening, this
is a day to remember to apply sunscreen to protect you from UV radiation that damages
the skin and can cause skin cancer and to continue the habit each and every day
when outside for any prolonged period of time.
2. National Gray Day—created by Voices Against Brain Cancer and celebrated since
2014 to promote awareness of brain cancer that has claimed such people as John
McCain and to raise funds to find a cure for this devastating and deadly
disease.
3. 1935 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1935 on this day on a run of 1
week in the position was “You)” by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qswsE5MlTY
Dorsey was known as the “Sentimental Gentleman of Swing” and a hit in the Big
Band Era but after a big meal and taking sleeping pills choked during his sleep
and died on November 26, 1956.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “padrone” which means an
innkeeper a profession that has been hard hit by the pandemic as people are not
traveling much these days for recreation and doing more and more business by
teleconference.
5. Drugs Intercept Lives--celebrating the birth on this day in 1988 of Tyler Sash who
played safety for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team, played for the New York
Giants for two seasons, was released on August 31, 2013 and died September 8,
2015 from an overdose of drugs. Like too many football players, an autopsy
revealed he was suffering from Stage 2 encephalopathy, a degenerative brain
condition caused by too many head traumas.
On this day
in:
a. 1937 the Golden State Bridge
linking San Francisco to Marin County was opened to pedestrian traffic.
b. 1941 the German battleship Bismarck was sunk in the Atlantic trying
to run to the coast of France by British warships.
c. 1967 the aircraft carrier the USS John F. Kennedy was launched by
Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
d. 1984 the Danube-Black Sea Canal
started in 1950 with forced labor by enemies of the state from Romanian prison
camps was opened to traffic.
e. 2016 President Barack Obama became the
first U.S. President to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet with survivors
of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bomb attacks.
Reflections on the atomic bombings of Japan: “Japan learned from the
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons
must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.”
Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese Buddhist philosopher, anti nuclear disarmament advocate
and honorary president of Soka Gattaii, Japan’s largest new religious movement.
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