Ridley’s Believe It Or Not August 21, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 319,015 new cases (a 1.41% increase
compared to a 1.07% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 23 million
to 23,017,521 cases, 6,586,246 of which are active,
16,431,275 of which have been closed with 15,631,512 recoveries (95.13%
compared to yesterday’s 95.1%) and 799,673 deaths (4.87%
compared to yesterday’s 4.90%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages
and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 55,719 with
total cases nearing 6 million at 5,768,900 (a .98% increase compared to
yesterday’s 1.31% increase) with 2,487,721 active cases of which 16,823,
on a downward trend with slight blips from over 19,000 in the last 3 weeks (16,884
yesterday), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down,
and 3,281,179 closures, 177,831 of which have been deaths (5.42% compared
to yesterday’s 5.45%) and 3,103,348 of which have been
recoveries (94.58% compared to yesterday’s 94.55%) (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Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing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
537 ranks behind Belgium (860), Peru (818), Spain (617), UK (609), Italy (586),
Sweden (575), and Chile (560) and only slightly worse than Brazil (530) and Mexico
(458). We have now conducted 74,671,175 tests (
over 863,000 more tests than those done yesterday).
Non CV Case News: In what has to be a triumph of a teleprompter
over dementia, Joe Biden did not ape Weekend
at Bernies and conforming to his image as a decent man gave a speech still attacking
Trump and devoid of any meaningful positions or policies or attacks on the
riots and lootings in our major cities; Pelosi has called the House back in session
not to address the need for stimulus but to vote on a $25 billion goody bag for
the USPS which if it passes in the Senate faces a veto; the Portland scumbag who
kicked viciously a defenseless white truck driver in the head has turned
himself in to face justice; Lori Laughlin and her husband Mossimo Gianulli were
sentenced to 2 months and 5 months in their role in the college admissions
scandal; a Kamala Harris phone call with 2 Russian pranksters posing as Greta
Thornberg and her father was released as it shows Harris jumping for joy over
getting dirt on Trump the 2 falsely claimed to have; Rose McCowan was in rare
but incisive form as she attacked Biden and the DNC as monsters (will Tara
Reade be on the RNC stage to slam this “decent” man); Biden must be breathing
easier as Trump’s request for an extra debate was denied; Perez, the head of
the DNC and who is the master of division with the race care, homophobic card, misogynist
card and xenophobic card is predicting “chaos” at the RNC next week; tired of
Mayor De Blassio’s attacks on the NYPD and his budget cutbacks, amidst soaring
shootings and violent crime, NYPD officers are retiring and resigning in droves
a trend that is being replicated across the nation; Minneapolis will fork over $4.8
million to rebuild the police building that was destroyed in the riots after
George Floyd’s death; Starkist has the Charlie the Tuna and Kellogg’s has Tony
the Tiger but it looks like Tostitotos has a non cartoon spokesperson, a brown
bear who wandered into a Safeway in Lake Tahoe and left with a bag of Tostitos
to happily munch on, captured on a shopper’s cell phone.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as
of August 20, 2020, the number of shootings increased by 11 well aimed
shootings to 2,606, of whom none died to raise the total at 445 (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 236 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 “And Then Some” by Wendy Mass, the fact that
you perpend before difficult decisions, and a quote by Wendy Mass on solar
eclipses, 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. Natioanl
Poet’s Day—created by C. Daniel Rhodes on this day in 2001
to celebrate a multifaceted art form that has been around since Summarian times
and is thriving today and can be celebrated by going to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com or @Alaskanpoet.
2. National Men’s Grooming Day—created
by American Crew on August 17, 2007 and celebrated on the third Friday in
August since then to honor those who cut
or style our hair or trim or shave our faces and who are suffering due to CV
shutdowns.
3. 2020 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1935 on a run of 1 week was “And Then Some” by the Ozzie
Nelson Orchestra. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHR1FboOtFc This noted
singer, band leader and actor is probably best remembered for his radio and TV
show The Ozzie and Harriet Show. Ozzie
Nelson died on June 3, 1975 at age 69 from liver cancer.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “perpend which means
to consider carefully which all of us should be doing big time before voting in
this election.
5. Time to Fold When Out of Aces—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1938 of noted
songwriter and singer Kenny Rogers who sold millions of records before retiring
in 2017 to die under hospice care on March 20, 2020 at the age of 81.
On this day in:
a. 1959
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executeive proclaimation making the
Territory of Hawaii the 50th State.
b.
1968 James Anderson, Jr. became the first African American Marine to be awarded
the Medal of Honor which was awarded posthumously for combat services rendered
in South Vietnam in 1967.
c. 1968 the day after Warsaw Pact armed forces
invaded Czechoslovakia, Nicolae Ceaussescu, Romanian Prime Minister, condemned
it and encouraged the populationto arm themselves agains Soviet Union
retribution. Sadly for Romanians his
regime turned repressive and was rocked with economic collapse which led to
riots and his attempt to flee the country in December, 1989 in a helicopter
with his wife but they were caught and tried and executed by firing squad the
same day on December 25, 1989.
d. 2000 with his victory in the PGA Championship,
Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan to win three majors in a calendar
year.
e. 2017 a total solar eclipse came ashore in Oregon to
traverse the United States.
Reflections
on solar eclipses: “Comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at
night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.” Wendy Mass, noted New York Times best selling author of 27
books for young readers.
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