Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 30, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 375,907
new cases (a 1.12% increase compared to a .64% increase yesterday)
to bring the total over 34 million to 33,688,356, 7,743,572
of which are active, 26,320,691 of which have been
closed with 25,304,557 recoveries (96.14% compared to yesterday’s
96.12%) and 1,016,134 deaths (3.86% compared to yesterday’s 3.88%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 132,492 with
total cases over 7 million at 7,428,210 (a 1.82% increase compared to
yesterday’s 1.10% increase) with 2,542,6600 active cases of which 14,205,
on a downward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July
23 (14,064 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious
or critical
condition as trend continues to go down, and 4,885,550 closures, 211,332 of
which have been deaths (4.33% compared to yesterday’s 4.34%) and 4,674,218 of
which have been recoveries (95.67% compared to yesterday’s 95.66%)
(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digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive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 638 ranks behind Peru (979), Belgium (862), Spain (680),
Bolivia (677), Brazil (673), Chile (665), and Ecuador (641), and only
slightly worse than UK (620), Mexico (597, Italy (594), and Sweden (584) that
never closed its economy down like we did and We have now conducted 106,593,177
tests (now at 321,564/M compared to Russia at 315,176/M so Trump is telling
truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis for
nations (but excluding nations with small populations like Israel and
Singapore) but for the U.K. at 360,532/M).
Non CV Case
News: The stimulus bill proposed by Pelosi includes stimulus checks for illegal
aliens and protections against deportation; the Presidential ad hominem attack chaos
is over with Biden passing a very low dementia gaffe bar, refusing to answer
whether he would pack the court and end the filibuster, denied he would push
for Medicare for all, could not name one police group that supported him and
denied that he supported AOC’s Green New Deal and blamed Trump for the CV
deaths while between attacking Biden for his son being enriched by foreign powers
and his inability to remember where he went to college claimed Biden would shut
the country down, that he paid more than $750 in taxes (I hope he is not lying
on that one as it will be a disaster if he is wrong), touted his economic
record that Biden continued to take credit for along with saving manufacturing
jobs, attacked massive mail-in voting as fraud and blasted Biden on his lack of
support for law and order (other than the ad hominem attacks doubt if a rare
voter with an unmade up mind was swayed or one with was persuaded to switch);
on the shooting of the two deputies in Compton, the good news is that Deonte
Lee Murray, a suspected gang member, has been arrested after a failed car jacking
and charged with attempted murder of the two deputies and in an even better
news item Mark Cuban has donated $50,000 to each deputy; Lying Jim Comey in
testimony before the Senate was hit with terminal amnesia and could not seem to
remember any facts about HRC’s involvement in the creation of the Steele
Dossier that lead to the Russia collusion delusion probe hoax; Mayor Lightfoot
of Chicago with shootings and killings of black on black slams Trump for his “Lying
Mouth.”
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of September 28, 2020,
the number of shootings increased to 3,207 of whom 550 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 301 behind Chicago at 249 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 “Rock Me Gently” by Andy Kim, the
fact that you are not a planster and a quote by Jonathan Glover on
civilian bombing, secure in the knowledge that if you want to ind a gift for any
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1. International
Translators Day—created by the UN General Assembly in 2017 to
make this day a celebration of the efforts of translators in international
business and politics to help parties avoid misunderstandings and achieve
desired results.
2. Orange
Shirt Day--celebrating not the Protestants in Northern
Ireland, the inmates in Orange County, California jails or the color as perfect
for Halloween garb but an acknowledgement of the abysmal treatment of Canadian Indians
in residential schools and the cultural genocide imposed upon them which the
Canadian government has finally seen the error of its ways and after apologizing,
closed the last one in 1966.
3. 1974 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1974 on a run of 1 week was “Rock Me Gently” by Andy Kim
in his first number 1 song to join 24 other acts achieving their first number
one song. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYH4BmrQqsY
This Canadian-Lebanese singer/songwriter also has performed under the name
Baron Longfellow and is till active today but “Rock Me Gently” remained his
only U.S. number one song.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “planster” which means a petty or poor planer which probably describes
politicians calling for huge spending increases without the ability to pay for
them and taking into consideration the results of such actions.
5. In
Cold Blood Self—celebrating the birth on this day in 1924 of
noted writer Truman Streckfus Persons better known to his fans as Truman Capote
best known for his book In Cold Blood but
not so much for his drug and alcohol
abuse which resulted in his death on August 25, 1984 from liver failure caused
by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication.
On this day in:
a. 1939 in a we will
not obey you moment, the League of Nations passed a resolution banning
intentionally bombing civilian populations.
b. 1949
after the Soviets threw in the towel and reopened access to Berlin, the Berlin
Airlift ended.
c. 1962 James Meredith entered
the University of Mississippi in defiance of segregation laws in Mississippi.
d. 1980 the world from a technology standpoint
became a much smaller place as Xerox in collaboration with Intel and Digital
Equipment Corporation published the Ethernet specifications.
e.
2005 12 controversial drawings of the Prophet Muhammad were published by the
Danish Newspaper Jyllands-Postend.
Reflections
on the bombing of civilians: “The use of the blockade against Germany to
starve large numbers of people to death broke through the moral barrier against
the mass killing of civilians. It was the precedent for the 'conventional'
bombing of civilians in the Second World War and then for the use of the atomic
bomb.”― Jonathan Glover, Humanity:
A Moral history of the Twentieth Century. Wonder how different if at all World
War II would have been If League Of Nations Resolution against intentional
civilian bombing was observed.
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