Ridley's Believe It Or Not August 31, 2020
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 195,392
new cases (a .76% increase compared to a .92% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 25 million to 25,517,366 cases, 6,855,139
of which are active, 18,661,927 of which have been
closed with 17,809,650 recoveries (95.43% compared to yesterday’s
95.41%) and 852,577 deaths (4.57% compared to yesterday’s 4.59%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV
USA Cases: New cases of 174,201 with total cases over 6 million at 6,189,570 (a
2.9% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.43% increase) with 2,572,058 active
cases of which 15,991, on a downward trend with slight blips from over 19,000
in the last 5 weeks (16,024 yesterday
and 16,885 on August 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend
continues to go down, and 3,617,512 closures, 187,431 of which have been
deaths (5.18% compared to yesterday’s 5.19%) and 3,430,081 of
which have been recoveries (94.82% compared to yesterday’s 94.81%)
(our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single
digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive
patients to nursing homes and ADL facilities and on a deaths per million
population measurement at 566 ranks behind Peru (871), Belgium (853) Spain
(620), UK (611), Chile (590) Italy (587), and Sweden (574), now 2
behind Brazil (568) and only slightly worse than Mexico (497). We have now
conducted 82,507,499
tests (more than (673,000 more tests than those done yesterday and now at 249,023/M
compared to Russia at 251,440/M).
Non CV Case News: Biden like the ground hog
worried about polls showing a diminishing lead came out of his basement bunker
to deliver a teleprompter speech that he had trouble reading finally condemning
violence, claiming looting and burning are not protests but blaming Trump for
fanning the flames of violence and causing the amount of deaths from the virus
(what took him so long and why are members of his campaign staff reported to be
donating to a bail and defense fund for rioters arrested?); leading Blues are
having a hard time coming to the table to condemn rioting and looting as the
leftist political hack Senator Chris Murphy deleted a tweet condemning rioting
because of the impression that property damage was equivalent to murder (translation:
if police shoot and kill it’s murder without trial or due process and therefore
OK to burn a city to the ground after
first looting its shelves completely); Kenosha has become the new magnet for
the supporters of the BLM movement with 102 of the 175 arrested for rioting
having addresses outside the city (no wonder Rand Paul asked FBI to investigate
where the mob that attacked him after Trump’s speech on Thursday is getting
paid—paid rioter should not ever be allowed as an occupation even if Soros is
writing the checks); what the left does not realize with their dog whistles of
encouraging protest and remaining silent as cities are looted and burned is
that we are spiraling closer and closer to deadly violence as a BLM counter
protester at a BLM rally in Tallahassee, Florida filming it was attacked, knocked
to the ground and to defend himself pulled out a gun—no shots were fired as
police charged and the counter protester who was not arrested immediately
dropped his weapon and was led away to safety by police https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-tallahassee-blm-protest-gun-lawfully-defending-himself.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun
Violence: In Chicago as of August 30, 2020, the number of shootings increased
to 2,799 of whom 471 have died (total travesty of BLM when blacks are shot
and killed by blacks in droves and only sounds of silence and complete absence
of any protests in front of City Hall demanding action to curb the killings and
shootings); 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 255 behind Chicago at 216
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
way more deadly and way more numerous than shootings by police or by random mass shootings which occur with
significantly less frequency?).
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day
in history, a musical link to “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santé Fe”
by Johnny Mercer, the fact that you do not suffer from phagophobia,
and a quote by Prince Harry on his mother Princess Diana, 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
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1. National
Diatomaceous Earth Day—created by EP Minerals in 2016 to promote the
use of diatomaceous earth which is produced when diatom algae, which produce 75
% of our oxygen, die and sink to the bottom or an ocean or lake and is used as
an abrasive or filtration material across a wide range of industries including
brewing.
2. Eat
Outside Day—celebrating in the last three weeks before the
celestial end of summer the joy of eating outside whether enjoying a picnic or
outdoor barbecue or an outdoor café which first started appearing in the early
20th Century in the U.S. and during the CV pandemic have been the
only way for restaurants without a delivery or take out options to survive as
they have been turning sidewalks and parking spaces into patios for outdoor
dining.
3. 1945
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1945 on a run of 7
weeks was “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santé Fe” by Johnny Mercer. Here us
a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CDs067081E.
This incredibly talented, songwriter, singer and lyricist for over 1500 songs
was a co-founder of Capitol Records and sadly passed from a brain tumor on June
25, 1976.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phagophobia” which
means fear of eating which probably describes someone really obese and on an
extreme diet to shed weight quickly for severe health reasons.
5. Age Often Comes With Rationality and Reason--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1935 of Eldridge Cleaver, co-founder of the Black
Panther Party and author of Soul on Ice, who
split with the Black Panthers and became a member of the Peace and Freedom
Party to evolve to becoming a conservative Republican in his later years. This once radical, who should be a
beacon to those burning and looting in the streets today, passed from
undisclosed causes on May 1, 1998 at age 62.
On this day
in:
a.
1935 in an attempt by the United States to steer clear of the warring tensions
emanating from the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany, it passed the first of its
Neutrality Acts.
b. 1939
Nazi Germany launched a false flag attack on a German radio station in Gleiwitz
by Dachau concentration camp inmates dressed as Polish soldiers who then were
shot in the head to render identification impossible and which attack fooled no
one but was used as the pretext to justify German invasion of Poland the next
day.
c. 1943 the USS Harmon,
a Buckley Class Destroyer was commissioned as the first naval ship ever
named after an African-American who as a mess attendant was awarded the Navy
Cross posthumously for his actions in coming to the bridge of the USS San Francisco to aid and shelter the
wounded during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
d. 1997 Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Fayed
and their driver Henri Paul were killed in a one car accident in Paris, fleeing
from hounding paparazzi.
e. 2016 Brazil’s first female president Dilma Rouseff
was impeached and removed from office for violating Brazil’s budgetary laws.
Reflections
the far too early death of a mother by one of her sons: “When she died there
was such an outpour of emotion and love which was quite, which was shocking. It
was beautiful at the same time, and it was amazing, now looking back at it, it
was amazing that our mother had such a huge effect on so many people. When
you’re that young and something like that happens to you I think it’s lodged in
here, there, wherever – in your heart, in your head and it stays there for a
very very long time. I think it’s never going to be easy for the two of us to
talk about our mother, but 20 years on seems like a good time to remind people
of the difference that she made not just to the Royal Family but also to the
world." Prince Harry
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