Ridley's Believe It Or Not October 1, 2020
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 169,972 new
cases (a .50% increase compared to a 1.12% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 34 million to 34,092,616, 7,746,927
of which are active, 26,515,661 of which have been
closed with 25,495,239 recoveries (96.15% compared to yesterday’s
96.14%) and 1,020,422 deaths (3.85% compared to yesterday’s 3.86%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV
USA Cases: New cases of 32,750 with total cases over 7 million at 7,460,960 (a
.44% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.82% increase) with 2,536,701
active cases of which 14,193, on a downward trend with slight blips from a high
of 19,155 on July 23 (14,205 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1),
are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 4,924,259
closures, 212,048 of which have been deaths (4.31% compared to yesterday’s
4.33%) and 4,712,211 of which have been recoveries (95.69% compared
to yesterday’s 95.67%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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 639 ranks behind Peru (981), Belgium (862),
Spain (680), Bolivia (677), Brazil (676), 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 107,536,225 tests (now at 324,403/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 360,527/M).
Non CV Case
News: Newsom, whose unemployment insurance division is in total shambles unable
to help the unemployed, has signed a bill requiring some 660 public companies
to have at least one director from a minority community (sound like a quota?);
the stimulus bill proposed by Pelosi includes stimulus checks for illegal
aliens and protections against deportation which is probably the main stumbling
block to a deal (whatever happened to idea our representatives represent
citizens first and foremost?); White House briefing today looked like a repeat
of the first debate with correspondents interrupting and talking over McEnany
as she reaffirmed again and again that Trump condemns White Supremacists;
Feinstein who should be thoroughly castigated for her anti-Catholic rants
during Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing for the 7th Circuit
and not slowed down by her mask less hypocrisy in an airport going to a private
jet is demanding Senator Lindsey Graham postpone the October 12 hearing on Barrett
(she should be told to pound sand and the betting should be how many Blues
boycott the hearing); Blues have been caught with their hypocrisy pants down as
22 Republican AGs used letters from Blue AGs asserting that a president has the
right to fill a SCOTUS vacancy in an election 2 bolster the case for Judge
Barrett and put in a plug for her as an exceptional choice; white reporter at
News 12 Connecticut Fred Gerteiny must be ruing that Twitter does not block the
use of “Uncle Tom” in describing blacks who support Reds as using it to
describe Senator Tim Scott put him out of a job; PC Police are sadly alive and
well also in the bike racing world as Simmons was suspended by Trek-Segafredo
for tweeting “Bye” to columnist who tweeted those who support “racist Trump”
shouldn’t follow her.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of September 30, 2020, the
number of shootings increased to 3,210 of whom 551 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 302 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 “I’m Sorry” by John Denver, the
fact that you do not use platitude and a quote by Aaron Rouse on the
Mandalay Bay Massacre, secure in the knowledge that if you want to ind a gift for any
memorable events like Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings,
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1. International
Day of Older Persons—created by the UN General Assembly on December 14,
1990 and first celebrated on October 1, 1991 to create awareness of the issues
faced by the elderly like senescence and elder abuse and the contributions made
by the elderly to our society (day more important this year due to the susceptibility
of the elderly to the CV pandemic).
2. World
Vegetarian Day—created by the North American Vegetarian
Society in 1977 to promote the benefits both nutritionally, health wise and ethically
of a vegetarian lifestyle.
3. 1975
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1975 on a run of 1
week was “I’m Sorry” by John Denver in his second number 1 song of the year.
Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIjOAWXZJSI This
successful singer/songwriter who was named the poet laureate of Colorado recorded
some 300 songs, 200 of which he had composed but died too early doing what he
loved, flying when he crashed an experimental plane into Monterey Bay.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “platitude” which
means a trite remark made as if it were important which describes what we
usually hear out of the mouth of elected officials especially during election
time.
5. One
Problem Solved Another Not—celebrating the birth on this day on October 1,
1928 of noted actor George Rohrer, Jr., better known to his fans as George
Peppard remembered for Breakfast at Tiffany’s
and The A-Team who overcame alcoholism
in 1978 but not his three pack a day smoking habit which resulted in a lung
cancer diagnosis and removal of a lung in 1992 and his death while battling it
on May 8,1994 at age 65.
On this day in:
a. 1971 the first CT scanner was introduced for patient care.
b. 1982 Disney opened Epcot
at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
c. 1982 to the joy of music
lovers, Sony and Phillips, in Japan, introduced the compact disc and Sony released
the CDP-101, the first compact disc player introduced to the world.
d. 1989 Denmark introduced
the world’s first legal same sex partnerships.
e.
2017 at a music festival held at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas after it
had ended 58 people were shot and killed and some 800 injured as they were
leaving by Stephen Paddock who killed himself; lawsuits against the Mandalay
Resort for wrongful death and injuries were settled in a court approved
settlement on September 30, 2020 for $800 million.
Reflections on the Mandalay Massacre: “"It wasn't
about MGM, Mandalay Bay or a specific casino or venue. It was all about doing
the maximum amount of damage and him obtaining some form of infamy." Aaron
Rouse FBI special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas office.
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