Ridley’s Believe It Or Not July 31, 2020
CV World: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 190,557 new cases (a 1.10%
increase compared to a 1.75% increase yesterday) to bring the total over
17 million to 17,541,624 cases, 5,871,720
of which are active, 11,669,904 of which have
been closed with 10,991,964 recoveries (94.19% compared
to yesterday’s 94.15%) and 677,940 deaths (5.81% compared
to yesterday’s 5.85%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages
and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA: New
cases of 237,702 with total cases surging to over 4 million of 4,398,184 (a
5.40% increase compared to yesterday’s 4.88% increase) with 2,194,279 active
cases of which 18,783 (18,853 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition continuing
a decreasing trend, and 2,441,607 closures, 155,330 of which have been
deaths (6.36% compared to yesterday’s 6.41%) and 2,286,277 of
which have been recoveries (93.64% compared to yesterday’s 93.59%)
(our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single
digits since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May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 and accounted for some 40% of our deaths with 58,579,205 tests (with more than a million more tests
from yesterday so much for Biden’s claim of lack of testing by Trump and
implications Trump is slowing testing to hide CV increases).
Non CV News: Fauci
has testified to what Trump has been saying since day one of the pandemic, that
Trump’s early actions in the pandemic saved lives. our CV testing czar has
indicated we should start seeing the number of deaths decreasing soon which I
have already seen in a daily reduction in the percentages of deaths of closed
cases and a corresponding increase in the percentages of recoveries; a federal
appellate court has vacated the death penalty of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon Bomber
due to the failure of the trial judge to properly vet jurors on the issue of
pretrial publicity (prosecutors can appeal en banc, retry the penalty phase or
elect not to pursue the death penalty); Meghan McCain, the only voice of sanity
on an otherwise clueless The View slammed
Dr. Fauci for his view that protests can spread the virus but refused to opine
whether limits should be placed on the amount of protesters; the reptilian
brain seems to be alive and well in the entertainment world as 4 women have
come forward to accuse actor and comedian Bryan Callen of sexual assault and
misconduct; when it rains it pours as Alaska battling the COVID-19 virus is
facing a surge in syphilis cases; Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. slammed Obama for his politicization of Lewis’s funeral; good news
for Pelosi, the Botox Queen, as a new study shows that Botox use may deter
depression which she must feel every time she sees or listens to Trump; Bill
Clinton has been named in court documents as a person who flew on Epstein’s
plane and stayed on Epstein’s Island (do not be surprised if it comes out that
Clinton had several trysts with minors while there).
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of July 30, 2020, the
number of shootings increased by 18 to 2,307, of whom 405 have died (so much
for the defund the police movement and for the effectiveness of
Chicago’s stay at home order and a complete dereliction of duty by Mayor
Lightfoot other than swearing at people outraged over the killings); 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 212 behind Chicago now at 193 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 shootings by police or 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 Christina Aquilera, the fact that when
approaching a problem you can act pedetentous,
and a quote from James Nesbitt on Northern Ireland, secure in the knowledge that if you want to
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1. National Systems Administrator Appreciation Day—celebrated by Ted Kekatos in 2000 and
celebrated on the last Friday in July to honor the work of systems administrators
who install and keep functioning computer systems that are the life blood of
many businesses and organizations.
2. National Mutt Day—created by Colleen Paige, an animal rights activist, to
promote awareness that mixed breeds, especially mixed breeds in shelters
looking to be adopted, make just as good of a pet without the high cost of a purebred.
3. 1999 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1999 on this day on a run of 5
weeks was “Genie in a Bottle” by Christina Aquilera. Here is a recording of the
song which was her first number 1 song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIDWgqDBNXA.This
successful singer, songwriter, actress and television personality has garnered
5 Grammys and was a voice coach on The
Voice for a season.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pedetentous which means proceeding
slowly which describes to a tee unfortunately how our elected leaders work to
solve our problems.
5. If You Drink Like a Fish Swim Don’t Drive--celebrating the birth on this day in 1992 of
noted Rookie of the Year MLB pitcher for the Miami Marlins José Delfín Fernández Gómez who had a
promising career before him cut short on September 25, 2016 as he crashed his 32
foot speed boat into the Government Cut rock jetty off Miami Beach at 56.48 knots
legally drunk and with cocaine in his system, killing himself and 2 passengers.
On this
day in:
a. 1945 Pierre Laval, the fugitive former
ruler of Vichy France, surrendered to Allied forces in Austria and found
himself being tried and executed for treason on October 15, 1945.
b. 1970 in what would be called by
British Tars “Black Tot Day,” the practice of serving a daily rum ration aboard
British ships of the Royal Navy was ended.
c. 1971 Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin became the first
human beings to use a Lunar Rover to explore a small section of the Moon’s
surface.
d. 2007 Operation Banner, the deployment
of British troops in Northern Ireland to keep the peace between Protestants and
Catholics which began on August 14, 1969 and cost the British Army almost 1500
deaths finally came to an end of the longest military deployment in the British
Army’s history.
e. 2012 Michael Phelps broke the Olympic record
for most medals by an athlete, 18, held by a Russian gymnast Larisa Semyonovna Latynina (his record stands
at 28).
Reflections on the Troubles
in Northern Ireland: “Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of
where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a
political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is
possible.” James Nesbitt, noted actor and television presenter from Northern
Ireland.
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