Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 10, 2020
CV World: The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 203,283
new cases (a 1.65% increase compared to a 1.82% increase
yesterday) to bring the total to over 12 million at 12,490,896 cases, 4,643,826
of which are active, 7,847,072 of which have
been closed with 7,287,690 recoveries (92.87% compared
to yesterday’s 92.8%) and 554,620 deaths (7.13% compared
to yesterday’s 7.2%).
CV USA: New cases of 54,371 with
total cases of 3,193,554 (a 1.7% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.99%
increase) with 1,674,035 active cases of which 15,645 (15,432
yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,573,890 closures, 136,128
of which have been deaths (8.65% compared to yesterday’s 8.77%) and
1,437,762 of which have been recoveries (91.35% compared
to yesterday’s 91.23%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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 40,971,321 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: Ignoring the expected howls of the DNC and MSM, President Trump did the
right thing to commute Roger Stone’s conviction 3 days before he was scheduled to
go to prison and end a prosecution that was politically motivated from the
getgo, noted Chinese virologist Li-Meng Yan, who has fled from Hong Kong to avoid becoming one of the “disappeared”,
is charging the President Xi new in advance of the spread of the COVID-19 virus
and concealed that fact to the world (it would be exceedingly rare to find
someone other than a Chinese Communist hack who does not believe that China
lied and deceived the world over the virus); battle lines are being drawn over
the issue of what opening K-12 will look like with the American Academy of Pediatricians
reversing its earlier stand of calling
for a reopening the schools (while teens in HS may have some exposure most
virologists agree that there is almost zero chance of grade schoolers coming
down with the disease and most educators believe children in grade school need
the social environment of a school for development); the CEO of Goya Foods is
doing what more CEOs need to do and show some spine and tell boycotters of the
company for his meeting with the president at the White House on the White
House Prosperity Initiative to stuff it; the “we are in this together” has come home to roost on rabid anti-Trumper
Robert De Niro not being able to work and his business ventures losing money
due to the CV pandemic (pity a man who has had to lower his ex wife’s American
Express Card limit from $100,000 to $50,000); lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell are
pushing to have her post a $5 million bond and be subject to house arrest due
to the fears of the CV pandemic; in another example of the fraying of the
social fabric due to the virus, a woman claiming to be a teacher with COVID-19
spit in a man’s face who was removing his mask as he exited a COSCO store in
Illinois; in Chicago as of July 9, 2020, the number of shootings
increased to 1893, of whom 342 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 171
behind Chicago now at 171 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 Andy Gibbs, the fact that your work
enables you time to perform paregons, and a quote by Joseph Goebbels on sexual
abuse by Catholic priests, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
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1. World Kabob Day—in another slow day for holidays and observances, not sure
who created this day or when only that it celebrates that great, seasoned meat
chunks grilled with vegetables that originated in the Middle East.
2. Don’t Step on a Bee Day—created by Thomas and Ruth Roy of Wellcat Herbs to educate
children of the need to not step on bees during the summer and promote
awareness of the contribution to our flowering flora and food production.
3. 1978 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1978 on this day on a run of 7
weeks in that position was “Shadow Dancing” by Andy Gibb. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZxA3FVUwvk. This youngest brother of the
Bee Gees had tremendous talent but battled addiction and depression and in the
process of making a comeback died 5 days after his 30th birthday
from a heart attack caused by the weakening of the heart due to cocaine abuse
on March 10, 1988.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parergon” which means work performed
in addition to one’s primary employment.
5. Hard For Even the Fourth Generation to Outdrive Death--celebrating the birth on this day in 1980 of
Adam Petty a 4th generation auto racer of the Petty family who while
practicing on May 12, 2000 for the Busch 200 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway
had his throttle stick open going into turn 3 and crashed into the wall killing
him almost instantly with a basilar fracture of the skull.
On this day
in:
a. 1962 Telstar the world’s first
communications satellite was successful launched by the United States.
b. 1992 former Panamanian Dictator
Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug trafficking and racketeering
where he died on May 29, 2017.
c. 1998 the Catholic Diocese of Dallas
agreed to a $23.4 million settlement to 9 altar boys who had won a verdict of
$130 million finding they had been sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos
who was convicted of three counts of sexual abuse and sentenced to life in prison
where .
d. 1999
at the Rose Bowl, the U.S. Women’s Team defeated China in a penalty-kick shoot
out before over 90,000 fans to win the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
e. 2019 the last Volkswagen Beetle
produced rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico.
Reflections on sexual abuse on the young by
Catholic priests: “"Mundelein ... in the course of a public speech in
which he insulted the Fuehrer . . . and referred to me as the crooked German
Minister of Propaganda, said that these trials were staged only to harm the
persecuted Catholic Church ... I speak in the name of thousands of German
parents who think with fear and disgust that their own innocent children might
some time be morally and physically corrupted in this way by unscrupulous
seducers . . . This sex plague must and will be ruthlessly extirpated."
Joseph Goebbels as reported in “Nazis: Catholic "Immorality"
Distressed Propaganda Minister, Newsweek magazine,
June 5, 1937. Sadly as Dallas showed the problem was not extirpated.
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