Ridley’s Believe It Or Not July 26, 2020
CV World: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues with 252,714 new
cases (a 1.57% increase compared to a 1.84% increase
yesterday) to bring the total exceeding 16
million to 16,329,461 cases, 5,691,787
of which are active, 10,637,694 of which have
been closed with 9,987,260 recoveries (93.89% compared to yesterday’s
93.84%) and 650,434 deaths (6.11% compared to yesterday’s 6.16%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV USA: New
cases of 62,603 with total cases surging to over 4 million of 4,345,380 (a
1.46% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.95% increase) with 2,123,243 active
cases of which 18,984 (19,069 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition a
welcome drop, and 2,222,037 closures, 149,605 of which have been
deaths (6.73% compared to yesterday’s 6.81%) and 2,072,532 of
which have been recoveries (93.27% compared to yesterday’s 93.19%)
(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digits since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May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 53,694,636 tests
(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: John
Lewis’ casket atop a wagon was towed across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,
Alabama to Montgomery where it now lies in state at the State Capitol; Joe
Biden merits his nickname “Hidin’ Biden” as he refuses to come out of his basement physically or on line to
do an interview with Chris Wallace (more likely than not he is terrified of
revealing his fading mental capabilities); every time Pelosi opens her Botox
infused mouth she cannot refrain from divisive over the top rhetoric--this time
nick naming Trump “Mr. Make It Worse” (when will this divisive hack realize
that continuing ad hominem attacks are totally anti-productive and demean the
role of the Speaker of the House); Olivia de Havilland, the last surviving star
of Gone With the Wind has died at the
age of 104 in Paris; in yet another example of how the CV pandemic has frayed
our civility, a woman is captured on video spraying with pepper spray a man
walking a dog for not wearing a mask, an act which pales by comparison to what
happened at a Dallas sports bar called the Knockout where a men refused
entrance because the place was at capacity returned to his car and came back
with an assault rifle wounding 3 patrons inside but when he went to the back of
the building he was met by armed patrons who started shooting at him and he
fled; in Louisville 2 armed militia groups the white The Three Percenters faced
off with the black Not F---ing Around Coalition but with police helicopters and
armed police monitoring carefully, the protest was peaceful albeit scary to see
such heavily armed militia in public:
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of July 24, 2020, the
number of shootings increased by 27 to 2,224, of whom 394 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 208 behind Chicago now at 186 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 All-4-One, the fact that if you can be
pauciloquent and still get your point across,
and a quote from Leo Tolstoy on Esperanto, secure in the knowledge that if you want to
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1. Esperanto Day—celebrating the creation of the auxiliary international
language Esperanto by L.L. Zamenhof in Poland in 1887 believed today to be used
by some 2,000,000 speakers.
2. Reek Sunday—commemorating
on the last Sunday in July an annual day of pilgrimage in Ireland by climbing
Ireland’ highest mountain Croagh Patrick where St. Patrick fasted for 40 days.
3. 1994 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1994 on this day on a run of 11
weeks was “I Swear” by All-4-One in their first number 1 song. Here is recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25rL-ooWICU . This Antelope
Valley band now in their late 40’s was formed in 1993 and still going strong
today.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pauciloquent” which means
speaking few words which is a great skill to get one’s point across in this hectic
24/7 world.
5. Gaffe Mentor for Biden--celebrating the birth on this day in 1903 of Senator Estes Kefauver
who longed to be president but could not win the Democratic nomination; he was
a lousy speaker and gaffer but personable and connected to his constituents.
Sadly, he was a heavy smoker and drinker who could not quit either habit and
died of a heart attack on August 10, 1963 at the age of 60.
On this
day
in:
a. 1948 President Harry S. Truman signed
Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military which unfortunately did not
extend to the towns surrounding US Military Bases in the Jim Crow South.
b. 1956 in a you won’t play ball
with me I will take my river and go home, Egyptian President Nasser after the
World Bank refused to fund construction of the Aswan Dam, nationalized the Suez
Canal provoking international condemnation.
c. 1977 the National Assembly of Quebec
made French the official language of the province.
d. 1990 to the joy of handicapped people
in the U.S., George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities
Act of 1990.
e. 2016 Solar Impulse 2 became the first
airplane powered by solar power to circumnavigate the world after making 12
stops and having to occasionally wait for better weather.
Reflections on Esperanto:
“Six years ago I received an Esperanto grammar, vocabulary, and articles
written in the language. After not more than two hours’ study I was able, if
not to write the language, at any rate to read it freely…. I have often noted
how men are brought into unfriendly relations merely through material hindrance
to mutual comprehension. The learning and spreading of Esperanto is therefore
undoubtedly a Christian movement, helping to create the Kingdom of God, which
is the chief and only aim of human life.” Leo Tolstoy
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