Ridley's Believe It Or Not August 30, 2020
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 230,906
new cases (a .92% increase compared to a 1.18% increase yesterday)
to bring the total over 25 million to 25,321,974 cases, 6,832,989
of which are active, 18,488,985 of which have been
closed with 17,640,001 recoveries (95.41% compared to yesterday’s
95.38%) and 848,984 deaths (4.59% compared to yesterday’s 4.62%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV
USA Cases: New cases of 146,657 with total cases over 6 million at
6,015,369 (a 2.43% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.87%
increase) with 2,559,014 active cases of which 16,024, on a downward
trend with slight blips from over 19,000 in the last 3 weeks (16,190
yesterday), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down,
and 3,603,012 closures, 187,083 of which have been deaths (5.19% compared
to yesterday’s 5.22%) and 3,415,929 of which have been
recoveries (94.81% compared to yesterday’s 94.78%) (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Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing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
565 ranks behind Peru (866), Belgium (853) Spain (620), UK (611), Italy (587),
Chile (587) and Sweden (576), now 1 behind Brazil (566) and only
slightly worse than Mexico (494). We have now conducted 81,834,420 tests (more than (736,000 more
tests than those done yesterday and now at 246,155/M compared to Russia at
249,953/M).
Non CV Case News: Another night another riot in
the City of Rocks ruled by a spineless we don’t need federal help or National Guard
mayor that became deadly as a pro Trump supporter was shot and killed by
anti-Trump and most likely BLM supporters (residents of the City of Roses
deserves a mayor with a spine instead of a panderer to the left who will regain
control of the streets); in another example of why we should support Blue
Lives, a memorial to Charles Wilson, a Philadelphia black police officer who
was killed protecting citizens in course of an armed robbery and honored by
President Obama, was defaced by graffiti ACAB FTP (All cops are bastards F—k the
police (disgusting and will turn more and more people from supporting BLM and their
push to end police brutality); we are all somewhat leery of eating in a
restaurant afraid that in addition to your meal you might get an unwanted
appetizer of the CV but in Chicago you might get shot as 6 people were on Saturday,
eating pancakes under a tent set outside the restaurant, on of whom died; Mayor
De Blasio’s wife doesn’t ride the subways but ordinary non protected citizens
do one of whom was attacked by an attempting rapist while waiting on the platform for a
subway but was saved by the intervention of bystanders (Jose Reyes had been arrested
3 times before and this scumbag from facial recognition has been identified and
arrested); when it comes to “journalists” with TDS Stage 4, MSNBC has a deep
bench as Tiffany Cross subbing in for “Joy” Reid slammed the 12 black speakers
at the RNC as like watching a black minstrel show (asserting the speakers weren’t
black shows how terrified the Blues are that they are losing their plantation
voting slaves); Senator Murphy of Connecticut once again showed what a pathetic
biased hack he is by lambasting Trump for killing people at gatherings of his
supporters while remaining silent over the risks of spreading CV during the
massive riots we have seen in cities like Kenosha and Minneapolis.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun
Violence: In Chicago as of August 29, 2020, the number of shootings increased to
2,793 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 256 behind Chicago at 215 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 “Swinging on a Star” by Bing Crosby, the
fact that you do not suffer from phagomania, and a quote by Clint Eastwood on Ruby
Ridge, 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
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1. International
Day of the Disappeared—observed since 2007 to promote awareness of the
plight of citizens living under totalitarian regimes that just disappear forever
if viewed by the authorities to be a threat to the regimes.
2. International
Whale Shark Day—celebrating since 2012 an effort to promote
awareness of the dangers posed to these gigantic sharks who feed on krill and
plankton but are prized by, you guessed it, the Chinese for their fins to end
up illegally in a bowl of shark fin soup.
3. 1944
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1944 on a run of 9
weeks was “Swinging on a Star” by Bing Crosby. Here us a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CDs067081E.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phagomania” which
means excessive desire for eating and drinking which is a ticket to obesity and
protential diabetes.
5. If You Are Going to Kneel Down Pray not Just
Pretend--celebrating the birth on this day in 1935 of
noted singer and songwriter and member of the Mamas and Papas but who struggled
with heroin, cocaine and alcohol to the point of having a liver transplant and
continuing to drink following the surgery and his heart gave out due to the
abuse and he died on March 18, 2001 at age 65.
On
this day in:
a. 1914 in a
classic double envelopment movement, the Germans defeated a superior Russian
force at the Battle of Tannenburg.
b. 1918
Fanni Kaplan shot but did not kill Vladimir Lenin but refused to cooperate to
reveal who may have assisted her and she was shortly executed thereafter.
c. 1945 Douglass MacArthur the Allied Supreme Commander
landed at Atsugi Air Base in Japan to take over ruling the country.
d. 1967 Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first
African-American judge on SCOTUS.
e. 1992 the 11 day standoff with federal agents at
Ruby Ridge, Idaho ended with Randy Weaver’s surrender to federal authorities.
Reflections
the federal assassinations at Ruby Ridge: “At Waco, was there really an urgency
to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going
to make it look heroic for the Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco, And Firearms? At
Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary
for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot
a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that?”— Clint
Eastwood
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