Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 17, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 375,063
new cases (a 1.25% increase compared to a 1.08% increase yesterday)
to bring the total over 30 million to 30,234,843 cases, 7,346,260
of which are active, 22,888,583 of which have been
closed with 21,940,263 recoveries (95.86% compared to yesterday’s
95.84%) and 948,320 deaths (4.14% compared to yesterday’s 4.16%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 172,214 with total cases over 6 million at 6,844,174 (a
2.58% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.15% increase) with 2,509,016
active cases of which 14,151, on a downward trend with slight blips from a high
of 19,155 on July 23 (14,124 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1),
are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 4,335,158 closures,
201,738 of which have been deaths (4.65% compared to yesterday’s 4.68%)
and 4,133,422 of which have been recoveries (95.35% compared to
yesterday’s 95.32%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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 609 ranks behind Peru (939), Belgium (856),
Spain (650), Bolivia (639) Chile (634), Brazil (631), Ecuador (623), and
UK (614) and only slightly worse than Italy (590) and Sweden (580) that
never closed its economy down like we did and Mexico (557) which announced it
has run out of death certificates due to surge in deaths. We have now conducted
95,235,022 tests (now at 287,354/M compared to Russia at 286,053/M so Trump is
telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis but
for the U.K. at 301,948/M).
Non CV Case News: Twitter has shown once again
its anti-Trump anti-conservative bias as the head of Twitter’s public policy
helped host a fund raiser for Biden and then left to join his transition team
as Copper Anderson was thoroughly mocked for a Biden “town hall” with T-Ball
not even softball questions that looked like they came from Biden’s staff; the
head of the FBI Christopher Wray has testified before the House Homeland
Security Committee that Antifa is a threat to this country and the threat is
real (Nadler instead of looking for the next impeachment Mulligan should take
his head out of the sand of calling Antifa a “fantasy” and hold hearings on the
threat and more importantly where it is getting its money to send rioters
across state lines); news that the Minnesota Freedom Fund which Biden staffers
have contributed to and Harris has encouraged her supporters to contribute to
ostensibly to post bail for people arrested for “protesting” George Floyd’s
death has spent only $210,000 for bail for protestors of the total bail money
of $3,475,000 spent; on the federal tax front Biden vows to roll back the Trump
Tax cuts and on the state front Murphy’s Law will be tested as Governor Murphy
will be signing legislation increasing the tax rate to 10.75% on those earning
more than $1,000,000 (the expected additional $390 million in tax revenue may
well disappear as high earning residents accelerate their departure from the
state—Murphy’s Law); we know the MSM is so blatantly biased to the left but now
we find it extends to even footwear as media fawns all over Harris for wearing
on her trip to the California fires Timberland boots, the same footwear the
fashion police of MSM mocked when Melania visited the troops in 2018
(Shoegate?); Herschel Walker has sounded the wakeup call on the BLM as two of
its co-founders, Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza are calling themselves “trained
Marxists” and blasted owners and players supporting the movement along with
Americans who must be pretending they have no idea they are supporting a bunch
of Marxists (maybe it’s a good sign there are cutouts for NFL games as real
people may want to flee the game in droves once the pandemic is over).
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of September 16,
2020, the number of shootings increased to 3,029 of whom 516 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 277 behind Chicago at 239 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 much
less.
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a musical link to “Sherry” by The Four Seasons, the fact
that your behavior is not characterized by piddle and a quote by President
Jimmy Carter on the Camp David Accords, secure in the knowledge that if you
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1. National
Table Shuffleboard Day—created by Charlie Ziegler in 2017 and celebrating
since 2018 on this day a game that has been around since the 15th
Century and is a mainstay of many neighborhood bars many of which are slowly
reopening given the CV pandemic so aficionados can once again slide disks
slowly down the table to knock off their opponents at the other end while still
remaining of the table.
2. World Patient Safety Day--created
by the World Health Organization in May of 2019 and first celebrated on this
day in 2019 to promote practices which improve patient safety and freedom from
infectious diseases while in health care facilities.
3. 1962 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1962 on a run of 5 weeks was “Sherry” by The Four
Seasons Highwaymen as their first number 1 song which was followed by their
second number 1 song later in the year. Here us a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uybtn6ebG0I
With Frankie Valli and his falsetto voice this group was one of the few bands
to succeed before, during and after the British Invasion. The band was
memorialized in the movie Jersey Boys and
Frankie Valli is still going.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “piddle” which means
nonsense which describes to a tee what we hear from the MSM in their coverage
of Trump and many Reds.
5. Flame
Burnt Too Quickly--celebrating the birth on this day in 1923 of
noted and prolific country western singer Hiram Williams better known to his
fans as Hank Williams who released 35 singles (5 posthumously) but struggled
with alcoholism and prescription drugs for back pain and died while enroute to
a concert due to heart failure on January 1, 1953.
On this day in:
a. 1978 after 12 days of secret negotiations
at Camp David, the Camp David Accords were signed by Egypt and Israel which
laid the framework for a peace treaty to
be signed by Egypt and Israel six months later.
b. 1980 in a move that signaling the beginning of the end of the Iron
Curtain, after weeks of strikes in Gdansk, Poland the trade union Solidarity
was established.
c. 1983
Vanessa Williams was crowned as the first African-American Miss
America but unfortunately news of Penthouse’s intent to publish nude photos of her shortly after the
end of her reign forced her to surrender her crown.
d. 2001 the New York Stock Exchange reopened
for trading after being closed by the attacks of 9/11, ending the longest
closure since the Great Depression.
e. 2011
the Occupy Wall Street Movement began in Zuccotti Park, New York City. Reflections
on the Camp David Accords: “On balance, my life has been a constant stream of
blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had
been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I
could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between
Israel and the Palestinians.” Jimmy Carter who must be happy that President
Trump has taken up the torch and by getting Arab nations to normalize relations
with Israel isolate the Palestinians to the point that they will come to the
peace table and end the decades upon decades of wars, strife and terrorist attacks
followed by military response in the Middle East.
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