Ridley's Believe It Or Not October 22, 2020
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 368,430
new cases (a 89% increase compared to a 1.1% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 41 million to 41,734,895, 9,535,676
of which are active, 32,199,229 of which have been closed
with 31,059,582 recoveries (96.46% compared to yesterday’s 96.45%)
and 1,139,647 deaths (3.54% compared to yesterday’s 3.55%) to continue the
trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases
of 127,675 with total cases over 8 million at 8,480,110 (a 1.51%
increase compared to yesterday’s .91% increase) with 2,766,240 active
cases of which 15,678 (.57% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward
trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (15,740
yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical
condition as trend continues to go down, and 5,841,545 closures, 227,696 of
which have been deaths (3.90% compared to yesterday’s 3.92%) and 5,613,849
of which have been recoveries (96.08% compared to yesterday’s 96.10%)
(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digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive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 687 ranks behind Peru (1025), Belgium (908), Spain
(735), Bolivia (730), Brazil (730), Chile (716), and Ecuador (705), and
only slightly worse than Mexico (676), UK (652), Italy (612), Argentina (607
newly added to list) and Sweden (586) that never closed its economy down like
we did and we have now conducted 1,154,039 more tests to bring total to 129,804,968
tests (now at 388,844/M compared to
Russia at 381,587/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
453,193/M).
Non
CV Case News: The Joe Biden quid pro quo scandal gets worse as Hunter Biden’s
ex partner, a veteran, Tony Bobulinski, has confirmed that the emails from
Hunter on the China quid pro quo are genuine, that Hunter sought his
father’s advice and the 10% of the China
Deal refers to Joe Biden (no wonder Biden has been hiding from what looks like
his being on the Chinese take); the latest revelations not only dwarf Clinton
quid pro quo but excoriate MSM and Social Media for their attempts to cover up
this scandal of epic proportions); in a refreshing gust of objectivity that
should blow away the leftist fog hiding the Joe/Hunter China scandal,
Progressive journalist Jordan Chariton slammed corporate media on
Thursday for ignoring the ongoing scandal involving Hunter Biden’s laptop in
a scathing Twitter thread that blasted MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times and
Washington Post for selective censorship; after weeks of telling voters they
didn’t deserve to know his position on court packing, Biden dodges the ball and
says he will appoint an “independent” commission to review the issue of court
reform of a judicial system he apparently views as broken and report back to
him (acted like the true politician he has been for almost 50 years); if the
debate does not include the growing revelations that Biden would be on the take
with China’s dealings with Hunter as the “Big Guy” to the tune of 10% this will
be a travesty and a bias that will be off the charts—exactly the sort of quid
pro quo of millions to the Clinton Foundation and hundreds of thousands of
speaking fees to Bill Clinton that along with her arrogant and pathetic
campaigning doomed her campaign despite all the attempts by the MSM to protect
her; NPR which is taxpayer funded has been forced to admit that it made a top
down decision not to cover the Hunter Biden email revelations (the censorship
with our tax dollars to aid Biden is outrageous—slash big time their budget);
Pelosi joins the cone of silence over the growing Hunter Biden scandal and
Joe’s potentially being on a Chinese 10% Hunter reserved cut for the “Big Guy”
and refused to answer a reporter from the Washington
Examiner’s question on the scandal pushing the façade she is working on a
stimulus bill; Elmer Rolando
Manzano-Martinez, the illegal alien from El Salvador who shot and killed
41 year Houston veteran police officer and wounded his own son and another
police officer, has a criminal record that goes back to 1994 (why was this scum
bag still in this country and why was he not arrested for spousal abuse on the
two calls made prior by the estranged wife days prior to this incident?); De
Blasio’s defunding the police and his anti-police administration policies are
coming home to roost as shootings in NYC total 1515 compared to 762 this time
last year.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago
as of October 20 2020, the number of shootings increased to 3,463 of
whom 589 have died which in aminor
miracle in 2 days no one shot has 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 323 behind Chicago at
266 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 far
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 “Macarena” by Los del
Rio, the fact that you enjoy those engaged in polygraphy, and a quote by Ray
Luc Lavasseur on Supermax prisons, secure
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1. International
Stuttering Awareness Day—created by the International Stuttering
Association and celebrated on this day since 1998 to promote awareness of the
condition which affects some 3 million Americans most of whom like Wilt
Chamberlain, James Earl Jones or Joe Biden grow out of it (not sure if his
lapses are a vestige or signs of something much worse like dementia).
2. Domestic Violence Awareness Day—first
celebrated as a “Day Of Unity” on this day in 1981 to promote awareness of
domestic violence that affects over 2 million men and women today and now
celebrated on the Thursday of the first third full week in October. If you see
someone wearing purple today there’s a good chance that person is celebrating
the day.
3. 1996 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1996 on a run of 14 weeks was “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix” by Los
del Rio to join 7 other songs in their first number 1 song and 8 other songs
that made the number 1 list. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoUmyY6CQRo
The band was formed in Dos Hermanas, Spain and hit it big with the Macarena and
is still performing in their early 70’s.
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day is “polygraphy” which means copious or productive writing which
describes to a tee the output of authors like Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, or
John Grisham.
5. Armed
With a Camera Doing What You love--celebrating the birth on this day in 1913 of Endre
Ernő Friedmann better known to us as photographer Robert Capa who was
considered as one of the best combat photographers of all time and whose camera
covered 5 wars—Spanish Civil War, World War II in Europe, Arab-Israeli War,
Korean War and the First Indochina War where in the closing days of that war,
doing what he loved to do, died on May 25, 1954 at age 40 by stepping on a land
mine in Thai Binh Province in Vietnam.
On this day in:
a. 1964
Jean Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature only to become the
first winner of the award to turn it down..
b. 1976 the FDA banned
the use of Red Dye Number 4 after studies showed it caused cancer in the
bladders of dogs.
c.
1981 the U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority voted to decertify the
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for an illegal strike the
prior autumn..
d. 1983 2
correctional officers were killed by inmates in a federal penitentiary in
Marion, Illinois which in a never again moment prompted the construction of Supermax
prisons.
e.
2006 in a signal to the world that Panama could manage the Panama Canal the
voters in referendum on whether to expand the Canal in an expansion project
estimated to cost over $5 billion the voters by over 75% voted to proceed with
construction which was completed on June 16, 2016 which doubled the capacity of
the Canal.
Reflections on
life in a Supermax from one who has been there: "It doesn't always stop
with damage... it doesn't always have to stop with the mind. It can move on
into degrading your soul, your spirit. And a prisoner who's been damaged like
this - from point of view of the prison wardens - that prisoner is more
controllable, more manageable." Ray Luc Levasseur, a former inmate at ADX
Florence, Colorado in an interview with a Today
programmer.
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