Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 2, 2020
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 304,480
new cases (a 1.18% increase compared to a 1.0% increase yesterday)
to bring the total over 26 million to 26,077,220 cases, 6,893,345
of which are active, 19,183,875 of which have been
closed with 18,319,699 recoveries (95.50% compared to yesterday’s
95.46%) and 864,176 deaths (4.50% compared to yesterday’s 4.54%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV
USA Cases: New cases of 52,009 with total cases over 6 million at 6,276,338 (a
.84% increase compared to yesterday’s .56% increase) with 2,573,652 active
cases of which 15,088, on a downward trend with slight blips from over 19,000
in the last 5 weeks (15,881 yesterday
and 16,885 on August 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend
continues to go down, and 3,702,686 closures, 189,399 of which have been
deaths (5.12% compared to yesterday’s 5.15%) and 3,513,287 of
which have been recoveries (94.88% compared to yesterday’s 94.85%)
(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digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive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 572 ranks behind Peru (880), Belgium (853) Spain (624),
UK (611), Chile (593) Italy (587), and Sweden (576), now 6 behind Brazil
(578) and only slightly worse than Mexico (505). We have now conducted 84,051,039 83,292,959
tests (more than (758,000 more tests than those done yesterday and now
at 253,669/M compared to Russia at 254,205/M).
Non CV Case News: Pelosi is rightfully getting
blasted for her Marie Antoinette like elitist disregard of mere mortals banned
from hair salons and barbers while she ignores salon shut down orders with her armed
security behind her goes in for probably a high priced visit most women could
not afford to have her hair styled and maybe colored to prevent the gray from
showing that Botox will not prevent (stung by the outrage Pelosi “apologized”
not for breaking the shutdown orders but for falling for a set up that induced
her to have her hair style); Hidin’ Biden has been rolling in the campaign
dough but in Wisconsin especially in Kenosha, the ground zero for riots donors
are flocking to Trump not Biden (safety sells riots and burning and looting do
not); Michael Banta, an Antifa member known as “Commander Red” revealed what
many of us law abiding citizens have suspect that he and his movement are a
bunch of cowardly thugs as upon being arrested for carrying a flame thrower
like device in Kenosha assumed the fetal position and started crying; any doubt
that AOC is not the top dog of the Blues was ended yesterday as Senator Markey
beat the grandson of Robert Kennedy, Joe Kennedy III in the Blue primary as
Markey’s campaign revolved around and was completely dependent on her
endorsement (AOC with her youth and energy makes the Botox Queen look like an
out of touch elitist); Chris Wallace of Fox will moderate the first
Presidential Debate (assuming Biden does not fake a positive CV test and
require lengthy quarantine); in a sign that the travel industry is hurting big
time still, United Airlines announced it would furlough over 16,000 employees
in October.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun
Violence: In Chicago as of September 1, 2020, the number of shootings increased
to 2,825 of whom 478 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 260 behind Chicago at 218
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 with
significantly less frequency?).
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day
in history, a musical link to “Smoke, Smoke, Smoke! That Cigarette” by Tex
Williams, the fact that you do not suffer from phaneromania, and a
quote by Marc W. Kohler on why we celebrate Victory over Japan Day, 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
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1. Victory
over Japan Day—celebrating the signing of the surrender documents
by officials from the Empire of Japan and the Allies on the aft deck of the USS
Missouri finally bringing an end to
World War II.
2. Global
Talent Acquisition Day—created by the Association of Talent
Acquisition Professionals and KRT Marketing on August 16, 2018 and first
celebrated on September 5, 2018 and thereafter on the first Wednesday in
September to honor the efforts of recruiters and search firms to match talent
with organizations needing talent to fill positions.
3. 1947
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1947 on a run of 6
weeks was “Smoke, Smoke, Smoke! That Cigarette” by Tex Williams. Here us a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zh_WvkhVd8.
Could not discover whether Tex was a smoker but did learn he battled cancer for
a year, had his gall bladder removed and died of kidney failure on October 11,
1985 at age 68.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phaneromania” which
is the obsession of biting one’s fingernails to the dismay of manicurists.
5. Two Personalities Not a Great Thing--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1975 of heavy metal band singer Jill Janiszewski
better known to her fans as Jill Janus an appropriate assumed surname as she
suffered from bipolar disorder and Janus is the Roman God of looking forward
looking backward. Jill sadly committed suicide on August 14, 2018 at age 42.
On this day
in:
a.
1901 Vice President Roosevelt at the Minnesota State Fair uttered these famous
words to describe his thoughts on foreign policy, “Speak softly but carry a big
stick.”
b. 1935
The Labor Day Hurricane aka Hurricane Number Three made landfall at Long Key.
Florida to kill some 400 people and cause $100 million in damages ($1,891,248,175
in today’s dollars).
c. 1963 CBS Evening News became the first news program
to be expanded from 15 minutes to 30.
d. 1987 Mathias Rust who had piloted a Cessna from
Helsinki and avoided Soviet air defenses and landed in Red Square went on trial
to be convicted for illegal border crossing and sentenced to 4 years of which
he served 14 months before being pardoned.
e. 2013 the Eastern Span Replacement of the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake after
incredible construction delays finally opened to traffic after the expenditure
of $6.5 billion, a 2500% increase over the original budget which should cause
great hesitation for proceeding with Brown’s pet project the Bullet Train.
Reflections
on celebrating Victory over Japan Day: “The tragedy here is that the bombings
of Nagasaki and Hiroshima are the preeminent memories of World War II for both
Americans and Japanese. Why are the deaths of millions of people ignored while
we keep hearing about our using the A-Bomb? We can forgo V-J Day if and when
Japan makes its own history known to its citizens.” Marc W. Kohler, artist and
art instructor in a letter to the editor of the Providence Journal.
Please enjoy the poems on events
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History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and
poems on breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It
Or Not for just This Day in History.
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