Ridley' Believe It Or Not August 23, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 238,785 new cases (a 1.03% increase
compared to a 1.11% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 23 million
to 23,511,251 cases, 6,672,104 of which are active,
16,839,147 of which have been closed with 16,028,255 recoveries (95.18%
compared to yesterday’s 95.15%) and 805,901 deaths (4.82%
compared to yesterday’s 4.85%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 88,061 with
total cases nearing 6 million at 5,768,900 (a 1.53% increase compared to
yesterday’s .9% increase) with 2,523,559 active cases of which 16,729,
on a downward trend with slight blips from over 19,000 in the last 3 weeks (16,785
yesterday), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down,
and 3,333,402 closures, 180,390 of which have been deaths (5.41% compared
to yesterday’s 5.42%) and 3,153,012 of which have been
recoveries (94.59% compared to yesterday’s 94.58%) (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Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing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
545 ranks behind Belgium (861), Peru (831), Spain (617), UK (610), Italy (586),
Sweden (575), and Chile (567) and only slightly worse than Brazil (538) and
Mexico (467). We have now conducted 76,159,378 tests (more
than 684,000 more tests than those done yesterday).
Non CV Case News: News out of the Hermit Kingdom have to be
accepted with a grain of salt but news today is that Kim Jong Un is in a coma
and his sister is now in charges; in Kenosha, Wisconsin police responding to a
domestic call ended up shooting a black when he exited from the passenger side
and walked over to the driver’s side and shot 7 times in the back (brace yourself
for another repeat of angry riots if he dies); newly declassified documents
reveal the double standard was alive and well at the echelons of the FBI as it
briefed Hillary on foreign interference
and then moved to obtain a FISA Warrant before “briefing” Trump (the
Senate Homeland Security Committee has authorized subpoenas of to top Obama officials
concerning the origins of the Russian probe—have to believe Obama and Biden
were both in the loop on the investigation that they thought would be the
downfall of the Trump candidacy); the nation is enduring a counter culture war
by the left with attacks on statues of Jefferson, Washington, Columbus,
Roosevelt and Grant and ex-NYT reporter Kurt Eichenwald attacks Melania Trump
as a foreign piece of trash for restoring the Rose Garden to its Kennedy
footprint (what a total scumbag); Andrew Pollack, the father of a student
killed in the Parkland School shootings will be one of the speakers at the RNC;
Houston is not one of the cities following the inane defund the police movement
and is actively recruiting officers who have been let go from cities shrinking
their police forces; Trump announced to the nation that the FDA had approved
the use of plasma from recovered CV patients for treatment of those infected
with the disease (if treatment is effective as many believe it will be bad news
for Biden who needs economy to be daily devastated by the CV pandemic;
bombshell from Kellyanne Conway that she is stepping down from her position as
White House counselor and senior Trump advisor by the end of this month and her
rabid anti-Trump husband is stepping down from his involvement with the
Anti-Trump PAC Lincoln Project; Trump has declared a national emergency due to
the massive California wildfires plaguing the entire state with more lightning
strikes being forecasted.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of August 21, 2020,
the number of shootings increased by 26 poorly aimed shootings to 2,663, of
whom 2 died to raise the total at 450 (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 239 behind Chicago at
211 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 “Sailboat in the Moonlight” by Guy Lombardo and
His Royal Canadians, the fact that you are usually perspicacious, and a quote
by Augustern Burroughs on the Stockholm Syndrome, 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
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1. International
Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition--created
by UNESCO in 1998 and celebrated on this day as it marks the anniversary of a
slave revolt on the island of Haiti from
August 22-23,1791 that was instrumental pushing toward the movement for the abolition
of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.
2. European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of
Stalinism and Nazism—created by by the European Parliament on
September 23, 2008 and observed today as it marks the execution of the Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact on this day in 1939 that led to the division of Poland, annexation of the
Baltic Republics and portions of Romania and freed Hitler from the fears of a
two front war so he could invade Poland.
3. 1937 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1937 on a run of 3 non continuous weeks was “A Sailboat in the
Moonlight” by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt2wf38qTkY
This Canadian violinist
and band leader was active in the business for 53 years right up to his death
on November 5, 1977 of a heart attack and perhaps best remembered for his New
Year’s Eve Musical Celebrations before Dick Clark claimed title to that unique
gig.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “perspicacious”
which means astute, clear headed, which are well desired traits.
5. Under
the Boardwalk—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1936 of rhythm and blues singer Rudy Lewis of the
Drifters who was a closet homosexual, suffered from binge eating disorders and
was addicted to heroin and who died from an overdose on May 20, 1965, the night before the Drifters
were to record “Under the Boardwalk” that would have featured his talents. Rudy
became a member of the 27 Club, a collection of artists, actors and musicians like
Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix and Jim Morrison who overdosed at age 27.
On
this day in:
a. 1927 Italian
anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti after a lengthy and controversial trial with a
large almost worldwide outcry over their guilty verdict and protests over their
execution are executed in the electric chair.
b. 1973 a career criminal Jan-Erik Olsson while on a work furlough attempted
to rob a bank in Stockholm and failed but took 4 people inside as hostages who
despite threats to kill them refused to testify after police with tear gas
caused the hostage taker to surrender which led to the term “Stockholm Syndrome”
in describing the hostages’ view of their captor.
c. 1990 East and West Germany announced that they will
reunite on October 3, 1990.
d. 1991 the
World Wide Web was opened to the public.
e. 1994 Eugene Bullard, the only African American
pilot in World War I who flew for France was posthumously awarded the rank of
lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.
Reflections
on the Stockholm Syndrome: “Maybe it was
a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're
being held against your will but then you become sucked in and fall in love. Or
if not exactly love, you fall into something you can't see out of. 'I can't
shoot a machine gun' becomes 'Hey, this hardly has any kick-back!” Augusten Burroughs,
noted American author.
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