Ridley's
Believe It Or Not October 25, 2020
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 369,127
new cases (a .86% increase compared to a 1.68% increase yesterday)
to bring the total over 43 million to 43,217,109, 10,282,628
of which are active, 32,994.481 of which have been closed
with 31,836,560 recoveries (96.49%
compared to yesterday’s 96.48%) and 1,157,921 deaths (3.51%
compared to yesterday’s 3.53%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 214,199 with
total cases over 8 million at 8,668,572 (a 2.47% increase compared to
yesterday’s 1.69% increase) with 2,889,736,116
active cases of which 16,354 (.57% of active cases), recently on a disturbing
upward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (16,204
yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend has shifted and may be continuing to
go up, and 5,993,035 closures, 230,475 of which have been deaths (3.85%
compared to yesterday’s 3.86%) and 5,762,560 of which have been
recoveries (96.15% compared to yesterday’s 96.14%) (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Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing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
695 ranks behind Peru (1030), Belgium (925), Spain (743), Brazil (737), Bolivia
(736), Chile (727), and Ecuador (708), and
only slightly worse than Mexico (686), UK (660), Argentina (631) newly added to
the list, d Italy (618), and Sweden (586) that never closed its economy down
like we did and we have now conducted 1,020,835 more tests to bring total to
133, 229,328 tests (now at 401,502/M compared to Russia at
392,588/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 458,213/M).
Non
CV Case News: Dodgers won Game 5 against the Rays to go up 3-2; the Senate has
voted to end the filibuster of the
nomination of Judge Barrett and her nomination and expected confirmation will
be voted on Monday evening (would be nice but unlikely for some Blues to vote
in favor of this highly qualified judge); to the Blues and the left, Trump and
his supporter are Nazis but in a Jews for Trump Parade in NYC, it looks like
the true Brown Shirts are from the left as rocks and other objects were thrown
at vehicles with Trump flags (dog whistles of violence are blowing long and
shrill by the left); the collateral damage of the CV lock downs that gets little
attention is the increasing deaths from opioid use as California AG remarks that in some of his
counties deaths from opioid use are
exceeding CV deaths; the “conservative” Manchester
Union after endorsing Libertarian Gary Johnson in 2016, for the first time in 100 years is endorsing a Democrat,Joe Biden (must mean that they
believe against all known facts that Biden’s 25th Harris is a closet
conservative); Susan Collins of Maine announced that she would follow
precedence and vote against Amy ?Coney Barrett (with all due respect she is out
to lunch 2016 was a Blue president trying to appoint someone to a Red Senate
with nowhere near the qualifications or integrity or intellect of Judge
Barrett); in a sign that the left is confident of keeping the House, AOC will
not commit to supporting Pelosi for another stint as Speaker; the nation is
facing a troika of confusing weather with high winds, snow and a tropical storm
with the winds bringing blackout threats in Northern California and the snow to
firefighters in Colorado fighting a massive wildfire being manna from heaven; another case of an attack on an
unsecure mail-in ballot drop box this time an arson attempt outside the Boston Public Library (when will we wake up to
the fact that in this ends justifies the means highly charged election season,
ballots must be secure not placed in public drop off boxes; the college
admissions scandal may have set her mother Felicity Huffman back 11/14 days in
jail and 250 hours of community service but did not derail her elder daughter’s
academic career plans as she announced she is off to Carnegie Mellon University
School of Drama.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of October 24, 2020,
the number of shootings
increased to 3,496 of whom 597 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 328 behind Chicago at
269 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 “Smooth” by Santana
feat. Rob Taylor, the fact that you are normally not polyloquent and an
editorial from El Tiempro on the invasion
of Grenada, secure in the knowledge
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1. International Artists
Day—created by Canadian artist Chris McClure on this day in 2004
to celebrate the contributions to society of artists around the world.
2. National Mother-in-law Day—created
in 2002 and celebrated on the 4th Sunday in October to encourage
spouses to recognize that the path to a happy stress free marriage is to win
over the other spouse’s mother-in-law who far too often is the butt of many a
comedian’s jokes.
3. 1999 Number One Song— the
number 1 songs in 1999 on a run of 12 weeks (10 in 1999 and 2 in 2000) was “Smooth”
by Santana feat. Rob Thomas to join 9 other songs that made the number 1 list
for the first time and 14 other songs that made the number 1 list. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Whgn_iE5uc&list=PLuZdt4bijghMuVWF4bzOrUPZ3dq0izYfi Rob Taylor, a successful artist and lead
singer of Match Box Twenty had a rough life with an alcoholic mother and an alcoholic grandmother
who sold drugs and moonshine on the side but became a top singer and songwriter.
Santana is a rock band formed by 73 year old Carlos Santana in 1966 and still
growing strong with many new and changing participants around Carlos.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of
the day is “polyloquent” which means loquacious which probably describes many
political speeches to a tee.
5. Blow and Fast Breaks Together Don’t Go--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1963 of actor, director and film producer Ted Demme
who died way too early during a Hollywood charity basketball game at age 38 on
January 13, 2002 of a heart attack which may well have been caused by the
cocaine found in his system during his autopsy.
On this day in:
a. 1920 after a hunger strike lasting 74 days
by Sinn Fein’s Lord Mayor of Cork, Terrence MacSwiney at Brixton Prison,
Lambeth, England, he died at the age of
41.
b. 1962 in a you are
lying through your teeth about Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba “Gotcha”
moment, UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson showed the world on TV photographic
evidence of Soviet missile sites being constructed on Cuba and the world moved
closer to a nuclear war it has ever been.
c.
1971 the People’s Republic of China replaced the Republic of China (Taiwan) at
the United Nations.
d. 1983
under the guise of protecting over 600 U.S. medical students but more likely an
excuse to remove a Communist dictatorship that had just removed and executed
several members of the ruling dictatorship and looking to complete a airport
that would accommodate large Soviet bombers and transport plane, American
military forces supplemented by some forces from Caribbean allies invaded
Grenada, a successful invasion but which revealed that the U.S. Military had a
lot of work facing it after the disaster of the Vietnam War.
e.
2001 Microsoft released its Windows XP operating system, probably the most successful
operating system Microsoft ever created and many of which are still in use
today.
Reflections on the invasion of
Grenada October 25, 1983: “Fidel Castro said in Grenada there were 600 Cubans who
were simple doctors, construction workers and teachers.’ And now it turns out that
these ‘doctors, construction workers and teachers have been fighting check to
jowl for two days with an entire naval flotilla from the most powerful nation
in the world. That it is to say that it wasn’t a quiet, peaceful, goodwill
group involved but a group armed to the teeth capable of direct combat in a
direct and efficient manner…Now Fidel orders the Cubans dug in on the island to
resist until the end, by which he virtually admit they had already invaded the
island by other means and now refuse to allow themselves to be pushed away.” Editorial
October 27, 1983 in Bogata, Columbia’s largest daily El Tiempo..
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