Ridley's Believe It Or Not October 13, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 316,714 new cases (a .84% increase
compared to a .64% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 38 million to 38,206,281, 8,423,492
of which are active, 29,782,879 of which have been
closed with 28,695,285 recoveries (96.33% compared to yesterday’s
96.35%) and 1,087,594 deaths (3.65% compared to yesterday’s 3.67%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 50,576 with total cases over 8 million
at 7,999,278 (a
.64% increase compared to yesterday’s .27% increase) with 2,632,448 active
cases of which 14,922, recently on an upward trend with slight blips from a
high of 19,155 on July 23 (14,717 yesterday and 15,881 on September
1), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 5,417,406
closures, 220,281 of which have been deaths (4.07% compared to yesterday’s
4.10%) and 5,197,125 of which have been recoveries (95.93% compared
to yesterday’s 95.90%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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 664 ranks behind Peru (1008), Belgium (888),
Bolivia (711), Brazil (708), Spain (710), Chile (699), and Ecuador (690), and
only slightly worse than Mexico (649), UK (633), Italy (600), and Sweden (583)
that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 1,049,591
more tests to bring total to 119,618,471 tests (now at 360,783/M compared to
Russia at 351,915/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 Denmark, Israel and Singapore)
but for the U.K. at 412,665/M).
Non CV Case News: Judge Barrett armed
with only her memory and a blank notebook is making Blues look like idiots as
they desperately try to create a reason why she should be confirmed with Hirono
blasting her for her statement about sexual preference; Blues pulled out their
“smoking gun” a letter signed by 88 members of the Notre Dame University
faculty but none from the Notre Dame Law School asking her to withdraw (more
like blank toy gun that is incapable of firing a shot); Pelosi had a snit fit
melt down with one of her MSM supporters Wolf Blitzer who attacked her failure
to negotiate with the Reds on their CV stimulus bill (clip made you wonder if
Biden is not alone in the mentally not all their category; coronavirus infections
are on the rise in the U.S with death rates dropping and Johnson and Johnson
has paused its Phase III Vaccine tests due to one participant coming down with
an unforeseen illness; former White House Doctor to Presidents Obama and Trump
and now running for a House seat in Texas has publicly questioned Biden’s
mental fitness to handle the job of being president (safe bet is that view will
never see the light of the MSM day); in an example of the world turned upside
down, China, Cuba and Russia none of which are human rights icons were named to
the UN’s Human Rights Council (at least Saudi Arabia whose record is less than
stellar was not also named); in I hope Biden is listening moment Jamie Diamon
of J.P. Morgan has warned that another year of CV shutdowns will be a disaster
to a fragile economy;
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence:
In Chicago as of October 11, 2020, the
number of shootings increased to 3,370 of whom 573 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 310 behind Chicago at 263 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 “Here I Go Again” by Whitesnake,
the fact that you enjoy a good poivrade, and a quote by Richard T. Hinctins
on cellular phones, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send 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
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recipient. Please contact me for details.
1. National
Metastic Breast Cancer Awareness Day—celebrating since 2009 the need for early
detection of breast cancer before it spreads to other parts of the body with
fatal effects.
2. Headspace
Day (Australia)—celebrating on the second Tuesday of the month
to promote mental health among the young and to recognize symptoms of youthful
mental illness.
3. 1987
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1987 on a run of 1 week
was “Here I Go Again” by Whitesnake in the
band’s first number 1 song joining 15 other acts achieving their first number 1 song. Here is
a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSlSaGcc0QM
This hard metal rock English band is still going strong today.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “poivrade” which means
a pepper sauce which is always good to have or make to garnish steaks.
5. Strangers on a
Train--celebrating the birth on this day in 1918 of noted actor
Robert Walker, best known for his starring role in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train whose depression
over 2 divorces before age 30 exacerbated his difficulties with alcohol usage
and mental issues and who after a night of drinking and in an upset state of
affairs was administered by his psychiatrist ambobarbital for sedation which rendered
him unconscious to die on August 28, 1951 at age 32.
On this day in:
a. 1972 Uruguayan Flight 571 crashed into the Andes Mountains carrying a
rugby team, supporters and family who were stranded on the mountain for 72 days
before rescued and survived by cannibalism of the 29 who died on crash or thereafter
in the freezing temperatures; the ordeal was memorialized in the movie Alive.
b. 1976
the first electron micrograph picture of the deadly Ebola virus was taken at
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta by Dr. F.A. Murphy.
c. 1977 Lufthansa
Flight 181 was hijacked by 4 members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine over Marseilles while en route to Frankfurt
and after landing in several nations landed in Mogadishu where German commandos
successfully attacked the airplane, killing 3 of the hijackers and capturing
the other and rescuing all passengers and crew members.
d. 1983 Ameritech
Mobile Communications launched the world’s first cellular network in Chicago.
e.
2019 Kenyan Brigid Kosgei set a new woman’s record for the marathon at the
Chicago Marathon with a time of 2:14:04.
Reflections on cell
phones that have expanded exponentially beyond our most far fetched imagination
from the first network in Chicago: “WE have all become addicted to mobile
phones. They have become our family, our friend, our confidant and to even some
they have become our lovers. But at what cost have they taken over our lives?
We now have less real conversations with real people, face to face. We ignore
friends and family members because we are playing games or using apps. We
neglect work, studies and learning to do the self same.
Medically, mobiles
emit radiation and microwaves which can distort memory and/or brain processes
if they are used close enough and for prolonged period of times. We are losing our society and ourselves all for the
sake of a metal and plastic box. True, phones can help, but along with money
they may have also unwittingly become one of the main causes for the downfall
of society as a whole.”― Anthony T. Hincks, noted author Please
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