Ridley’s Believe It Or Not August 2, 2020
CV World: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues with 240,877 new
cases (a 1.35% increase compared to a 2.06% increase
yesterday) to bring the total past 18
million to 18,143,385 cases, 6,040,886
of which are active, 12,102,499 of which have
been closed with 11,411,596 recoveries (94.29% compared
to yesterday’s 94.26%) and 690,903 deaths (5.71% compared
to yesterday’s 5.74%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages
and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA: New
cases of 54,868 with total cases nearing 5 million at 4,736,011 (a 1.16%
increase compared to yesterday’s 7.68% increase) with 2,260,966 active
cases of which 18,720 (18,685 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition ending
a decreasing trend over the last week, and 2,529,913 closures, 158,180 of
which have been deaths (6.25% compared to yesterday’s 6.30%) and 2,371,733 of
which have been recoveries (93.75% compared to yesterday’s 93.70%)
(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digits since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May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. We have now conducted with
59,935,538 tests (over a million more than yesterday).
Non CV News: Pelosi,
who is clueless on the pandemic as she encouraged everyone to eat and mingle on
Chinese New Year, is on a full on anti Dr. Birx rant over her handling the CV
pandemic; Pelosi and the WH are far apart on coming up with another stimulus
bill as the $600 a week extra unemployment benefits have expired with Pelosi
not willing to contemplate any reduction or make any counter proposals while
making noises to the effect that until virus is defeated the economy must
continue to be shut down (the longer we wait the deeper the disaster will become
and if Biden wins watch any concerns over the virus spread to disappear);
Airbnb has removed 35 listings in New Jersey as police raided a 700 person
mansion party in violation of the state’s anti-CV restrictions; SpaceX
astronauts Hurley and Behnken splashed down successfully in the Gulf of Mexico
after 2 months in the ISS; in Portland on Friday 150 rounds were fired at an occupied
apartment building as the city incurred its 64th night of riots; 25
year old Vincent Sessler now an ex Chicago Dunkin Donut employee is now the new
poster child for anti-sentiment after he was arrested for handing a large coffee
bought by a police officer after he spit into it; on the world wide drug front,
a private Cessna taking off from Papua New Guinea on a return flight to
Australia was overburdened with over 1,000 pounds of cocaine and crashed
shortly after takeoff; in 106 degree temperature the Apple Fire near Beaumont
in Southern California, totally uncontained, has surged to 30 square miles and
forced the evacuation of 8,000 persons, some 250,000 Hog riders will be soon
descending on Sturgis amidst fears the gathering will lead to a spike off the
charts of COVID-19 cases.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of August 1, 2020, the
number of shootings increased by 9 to 2,335, of whom 414 have died ( with 2 more deaths 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 219 behind Chicago now at 195 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 Usher, the fact that you are willing to
try peirastic products, and a quote from
Elie Wiesel on the Holocaust, 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 need only contact me for details.
1. National CAD Day—celebrating introduction of computer aided design into the
design of products which have given a larger variety of products at cheaper
cost.
2. American Family Day--created by John Makkai in 1978 to promote the strengthening of
the family unit which is under assault by the rising number of fatherless homes
and unwed mothers as more and more studies reveal that the best way to avoid poverty,
graduate and avoid jail is to grow up in a functional two parent family.
3. 2001 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 2001 on this day on a run of 4
weeks was “U Remind Me” by Usher in a year in which he had 2 number 1 songs.
Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxau9B3jOHM.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “peirastic”
which means experimental which by splashing down today in the Gulf Mexico, SpaceX
proved its DragonX coming back from ISS is not.
5. All In the Family—celebrating since today is National Family Day, the birth on
this day in 1924 of noted TV and big screen actor Carroll O’Connor best
remembered for his starring role as Archie Bunker in All in the Family and the death of his son Hugh from suicide caused
by drug addiction made him a tireless advocate against drug addiction to the
point of getting a law passed allowing loved ones of addiction victims to sue
drug dealers which was also passed in 17 states plus the U.S. Virgin Islands
but sadly he was a long time cigar smoker who died from a heart attack on June
21, 2001.
On this
day in:
a. 1839 Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard wrote
a letter to President Roosevelt claiming an atomic bomb was possible and urged
him to cause it to be constructed which letter plus the fear that the Germans
would develop one first led to the Manhattan Project and the nuclear world we
live in today.
b. 1943 700 Jews armed with a small
amount of captured German weapons rioted in the death camp at Treblinka where
some 900,000 Jews were executed; sadly most were killed in the assault on the
main gate or captured and killed after they had escaped but 70 managed not to
get caught and survived the war to tell of the atrocities committed by the
Germans there.
c. 1944 in a clear signal that the War in
the Atlantic had been won by the Allies Convoy HX 300, the largest convoy of
the war with 166 merchant ships and 32 escorts, arrived in the Western
Approaches of Great Britain without a single casualty.
d. 1980 a terrorist bomb, believed to
have been planted by a neo-fascist group, Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari, was
detonated at the Bologna Central Train Station in Italy which killed 85 and
injured some 200 others.
e. 1990 Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait an
act of aggression that would lead to the Gulf War and a decisive and quick
victory over Iraqi forces.
Reflections on the Holocaust:
“How is one to explain that neither Hitler nor Himmler was ever excommunicated
by the church? That Pius XII never thought it necessary, not to say
indispensable, to condemn Auschwitz and Treblinka? That among the S.S. a large
proportion were believers who remained faithful to their Christian ties to the
end? That there were killers who went to confession between massacres? And that
they all came from Christian families and had received a Christian education?”
Elie Wiesel, A Jew Today
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