Ridley’s Believe It Or Not August 20, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 241,141 new cases (a 1.07% increase
compared to a 1.15% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 22 million
to 22,698,506 cases, 6,506,850 of which are active,
16,191,656 of which have been closed with 15,398,365 recoveries (95.1% compared
to yesterday’s 95.07%) and 793,291 deaths (4.90% compared
to yesterday’s 4.93%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages
and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 73,655 with
total cases nearing 6 million at 5,713,181 (a 1.31% increase compared to
yesterday’s .61% increase) with 2,472,303 active cases of which 16,884,
on a downward trend with slight blips from over 19,000 in the last 2 weeks (16,980
yesterday), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down,
and 3,240,868 closures, 176,665 of which have been deaths (5.45% compared
to yesterday’s 5.48%) and 3,064,213 of which have been
recoveries (94.55% compared to yesterday’s 94.52%) (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Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain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 73,808,058 tests ( over 726,000 more tests than those
done yesterday).
Non CV Case News: In what may be omen for mail in voting as
opposed to absentee voting, a judge has ruled for a reelection in city council
races in Patterson, New Jersey following mail fraud allegations; Biden will be
speaking tonight at the DNC as the allegations of Tara Reade are again
surfacing as she indicated that if invited she would be more than happy to
speak at the RNC later this month (double standard as Hollywood celebrities
could not condemn Brett Kavanaugh fast enough but on her allegations much more
recent than Ford’s over a 3 decades ago only the sounds of silence); in another
“I don’t pick them well” curse by association for Trump, former adviser Steve
Bannon has been arrested for defrauding donors who contributed to his private
border wall project (never loath to hurl a cheap shot at the president, Biden
with his quid pro involvement with son Hunter in Ukraine and China and apparent
memory lapse given his declining state called Trump’s Administration the most
corrupt in history); another night a another night of riots in Portland and
another night the kicking scum bag Maquise Love is still on the loose; further
north business owners in Seattle are voicing their outrage over Mayor Durkan’s
folding to what they perceive as a Marxist Seattle City Council; Dr. Fauci has had
outpatient surgery to remove a polyp on his vocal cords and will be resting his
voice for a few days; Kim Jong Un is giving his younger sister more government
responsibilities in dealing with the U.S. and South Korea.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as
of August 19, 2020, the number of shootings increased by 28 really poorly aimed
shootings to 2,595, of whom none died to keep the total at 442 (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 233 behind Chicago at 209 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?).
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s
holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a musical link to “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles, the fact
that you rarely perorate, and a quote by Alexander Dubcek on freeing the
economy from Stalinistic controls, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
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1. World
Mosquito Day—celebrating the discovery by British doctor Sir
Bernard Ross on this day in 1897 that the female mosquito with its bite
transfers malaria to the victim.
2. International Day of Medical Transporters—created
by the British Army Royal Medical Corps during World War I to honor the bravery
of those ambulances that braved shot and shell to pick up wounded and then
transport them to field aid stations or hospitals and whose exploits are
performed by today byambulances and paramedics who transfer injured and
diseased to hospitals.
3. 2020 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 2020 on this day on a run of 1 week was “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry
Styles on his first number 1 record. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E07s5ZYygMg This
young British born singer is just embarking on a singing, acting (Dunkirk) and modeling career.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “perorate” which
means to speak grandiosely which is a disgusting trait most politicians are
often stuck with.
5. Into the Valley of D—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1916 of not very successful actress but a best selling
author whose first 3 books, the first of which was Valley of the Dolls, were on the New York Times Best Seller List but who chain smoked like mad and
contracted lung cancer that killed her on September 21, 1974.
On this
day in:
a. 1938 in the year before Lou Gehrig’s
disease forced his retirement, Lou Gehrig hit his 23rd grand slam
home run, a record that would endure for 75 years until broken by Alex Rodriquez
who after breaking it hit one more to end up with 25.
b. 1968 over 500,000 troops from the
Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring initiated by Prime
Minister Alex Dubcek to lessen the iron hand of the Soviets with very minimal
participation by East Germany and none by Romania and Albania; Dubcek was forced
to resign and was not executed but lived out his life until killed in a traffic
accident in Prague at the age of 70 on November 7, 1992.
c. 1986 after being
reprimanded by 2 supervisors the day before, Patrick Sherrill, a relief letter
carrier, arrived at the Post Office in Edmund, Oklahoma at the start of the
work day, shot and killed one of the supervisors who had reprimanded him and
since he could not find the other, who fortunately for him had overslept,
killed 13 co-workers and wounded 6 others in 15 minutes before shooting himself
dead.
d. 1991 Estonia
reasserted its independence under the continuity rule following the illegal occupation
of the Soviet Union interrupted only by the illegal German occupation during
World War II.
e. 1998 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Quebec could
not secede from Canada without federal government approval.
Reflections on the need to deStalinize the Czech
economy: In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization
and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of
small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.” Alexander
Dubcek.
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