Ridley's Believe It Or Not October 14, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 354,049 new cases (a 1.26% increase
compared to a .84% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 38 million to 38,560,330, 8,506,532
of which are active, 30,053,798 of which have been
closed with 28,960,264 recoveries (96.36% compared to yesterday’s
96.35%) and 1,093,534 deaths (3.64% compared to yesterday’s 3.65%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 107,933 with total cases over 8 million
at 8,107,211 (a 1.35% increase compared to yesterday’s .64%
increase) with 2,647,477 active cases of which 15,090, recently on an
upward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (14,922
yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical
condition as trend continues to go down, and 5,459,734 closures, 221,169 of
which have been deaths (4.05% compared to yesterday’s 4.07%) and 5,238,565 of
which have been recoveries (95.95% compared to yesterday’s 95.93%)
(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digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive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 667 ranks behind Peru (1010), Belgium (883),Spain
(715), Bolivia (713), Brazil (710), Chile (700), and Ecuador (691), and
only slightly worse than Mexico (653), UK (635), Italy (600), and Sweden (584)
that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 1,749,971
more tests to bring total to 121,368,442 tests (now at 363,682/M
compared to Russia at 354,910/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: If true Biden
Campaign thanks to son Hunter may have been hit with its adverse October Surprise
as the Senate Homeland Security Committee is investigating emails which if true
reveal contrary to Biden’s assurances that he never discussed Hunter’s business
dealings, that Hunter in April, 2015 arranged an introduction with a top
Burisma Oil executive Vadym Pozharskyi in Washington, D.C. (is Facebook already trying to censor the revelations
to protect Biden?); Judge Barrett having performed admirably during yesterday’s
confirmation and Blue witch-hunt attempts theater is on a role today while
Senators like Klobuchar sputter hopelessly; in another gaffe that shows Biden
may be losing it, he falsely claimed that locomotive manufacturer Wabtec in
Pennsylvania was shutting down to justify his push for high speed rail; Jussie
Smollett trying to take a break from his false police report of a bogus
lynching attack he paid for has landed a new director gig for a movie B-Boy Blues; we do not need another
problem facing us but we do, an explosion of feral pigs, some 9 million of them
that consume domestic crops and with the CV lockdown keeping hunters home
having their population grow since a feral sow can produce 50+ pigs a year;
while NYC plunges into more chaos under the CV threat, De Blasion and Cuomo are
in a not speaking to each other snit fit of blame while NYC already devastated
by lock downs and school closures faces more of the same (pity the poor
residents of NYC hobbled by the Bobbsey twins of incompetence); in the CV war
against the exercise of religion, 5 Jewish institutions were fined $15,000 for
violating NYC’s limit of no more than 10 people in attendance; in a let me open
the door for you, Tommy Lee rants he will move back to Greece if Trump wins.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence:
In Chicago as of October 13, 2020, the
number of shootings increased to 3,381 of whom 574 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 311 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 “Love Bites” by Del
Leppard, the fact that you free from pokerish fears, and a quote by Cat
Cora on bullying, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
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1.
National Stop Bullying Day—celebrated on the 2nd
Wednesday to promote the cessation of bullying by any means, physical, verbal
or perhaps even more dangerous and destructive cyber.
2. Emergency Nurses Day—celebrating
on the second Wednesday of October since 1989 the valuable life saving services
of nurses in ERs who are on the front lines of saving lives.
3. 1988
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1988 on a run of 1 week
was “Love Bites” by Del Leppard’s first number 1 song joining 16 other acts
achieving their first number 1 song in a year in 32 different songs achieved
number 1 status. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4XiSFyYRE8:
This British punk rock band was originally
called “Deaf Leopard” but quickly changed its name to sound more like a punk
rock band. The band is still going strong today.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of
the day is “pokerish” which means something that provokes a vague fear or dread
which given the increasing division in this country is when it comes to violence
is becoming less vague each day.
5. Real
Ghosts With Needles Can Be Deadly--celebrating the birth on this day in 1952 of
noted Puerto Rican actor and stand up comedian Richard Aviles perhaps best known
for his portrayal of the killer of Patrick Swayze in the movie Ghosts but who
used heroin and died from AIDS contracted from infected needles on March 17,
1995 at age 42.
On this day in:
a. 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis which brought the world the closest to
nuclear war it has ever been began when an American spy plane photographed Soviet
ballistic missiles able to reach some 1500 miles into the U.S. being installed
in Cuba.
b. 1968 the first live TV broadcast of astronauts
in orbit occurred with cameras beaming back images of the astronauts on board
Apollo 7.
c. 1982
President Ronald Reagan declared a war he was doomed to lose, the War against
Drugs.
d. 1998 Eric
Rudolph was named as a suspect of the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Park Bombing on July 27,1996 and 3
other bombings after the FBI had previously targeted Richard Jewell a security
guard who had found the bomb and called police but Rudolph remained on the
loose until his arrest on May 31,2003. He pled guilty to avoid the death
penalty and was sentenced to multiple life sentences without possibility of
parole and is now rotting in a SuperMax federal prison at age 54 looking
forward to another 30+ years of incarceration.
e.
2012 Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon 24 miles above the Earth
and became the first person to break the sound barrier without being assisted
by an engine with a top speed of 843.6 mph and lived to tell the tale.
Reflections on bullying:
Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids
who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are
bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.” Cat Cora, first gay female
Iron Chef.
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