Ridley's Believe It Or Not October
28, 2020
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 527,432
new cases (a 1.20% increase compared to a 1.03% increase yesterday)
to bring the total over 44 million to 44,544,732, 10,795,747
of which are active, 33,758,975 of which have been closed
with 32,582,911 recoveries (96.52%
compared to yesterday’s 96.51%) and 1,176,074 deaths (3.48%
compared to yesterday’s 3.49%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA
Cases: New cases of 60,807 with total cases over 9 million at 9,004,393 (a
.68% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.09%
increase) with 2,941,172 active cases of which 16,801 (.57% of active
cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with slight blips from a high of
19,155 on July 23 (16,6126 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 6,124,047 closures, 232,459 of
which have been deaths (3.80% compared to yesterday’s 3.81%) and 5,891,588
of which have been recoveries (96.20% compared to yesterday’s 96.19%)
(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digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive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 701 ranks behind Peru (1034), Belgium (951), Spain (758),
Brazil (742), Bolivia (740), Chile (732),
and Ecuador (710), and only slightly worse than Mexico (694), UK (672),
Argentina (656) newly added to the list, Italy (627), and Sweden (586) that
never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 4,769,881
more tests to bring total to 140,194,814
tests (now at 422,175/M compared
to Russia at 402,390/M so Trump is telling truth that we conduct more tests in
number and on a per capital basis for nations (other than those nations that
contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark, Israel, Singapore
and UAE) but for the U.K. at 481,538/M).
Non
CV Case News: Jack Dorsey looking like with his scraggly beard, he was
auditioning for the latest Rasputin part, testified before the Senate today
defending Twitter’s censorship of the NY Post
article on Twitter’s censorship of its article on Hunter Biden and with a
straight face indicating that Twitter does not censor conservatives (an “Iron
Curtain” far more dangerous that the real one Stalin placed around Eastern Europe);
the City of Brotherly Love was anything but that after another night of looting
and rioting over the shooting death of Walter Wallace which also featured 12
shootings, 2 of which were fatal and prompted another curfew to try to stem the
violence (the body cams and audio of the shooting will be released which hopefully
will defuse the anger and looting); the myth of mail-in voting as being safe
continues to be put to the test as another postal worker, this one in Kentucky,
has been charged with dumping ballots in the trash; Hurricane Zeta has risen to
a Cat 2 and is preparing to make landfall in Louisiana to bring massive rainfall
to an area already hit by hurricanes and massive amounts of rainfall; in
another example of the private sector prodded by Trump to move on CV a warp
speed, Kroger has announced a national rollout of CV antibody rapid tests
(already we are testing at phenomenal rates and the rapid antibody tests will
be icing on the cake); in a way to
prevent businesses from hiring low wage skilled technical people to replace
high wage Americans, Trump is revising the HB-1 Visa Program to prioritize higher
wage applicants; Chelsea Handler may no longer be funny and getting up in her
years in her 40’s but hot enough to do a political Lysistrata on Rapper 50 Cent
to have him pull his support from Trump and support Biden (50 Cent watch your
net worth free fall if Biden wins); Space X is scheduled to launch a rotation
crew of 3 Americans and 1 Japanese for a 6 month stay at the International
Space Station on November 14.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence:
In Chicago as of October 26, 2020, the number of shootings increased
to 3,520 of whom 602 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 still 328 behind Chicago at 274
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 “I’m Real (Murder Remix)“ by Jennifer
Lopez feat. Ja Rule, the fact that you can be polyphiloprogenitive and a
quote from Louis Gohmert on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 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
unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the
recipient. Please contact me for details.
1. International
Animation Day—created by the International Animation
Association, a member of UNESCO, in 2002 to honor the creations of animators
and to promote the acceptance of animated films which today are almost always
computer generated. 2. Statue
of Liberty Day—celebrating this day in 1886 when the Statute
of Liberty after being reassembled from 214 crates and moved to Bledloe Island
(renamed Liberty Island in 1956) was dedicated.
3. 2001 Number One Song— the
number 1 songs in 2001 on a run of 2 weeks was “I’m Real (Murder Remix)” by Jennifer
Lopez feat. Ja Rule to join 13 other songs that made the number 1 list and for
Ja Rule joining 11 other songs that made the number 1 list for the first time.
Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjx9oSJDAVQ
This 51 year old
actress, singer and entrepreneur with an inappropriate nickname of “J-Lo” as
she is probably one of the more influential Latin artists practicing her craft
and currently engaged to A-Rod. Ja Rule a rapper has had some success but also
time in prison for weapons charges and tax evasion.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “polyphiloprogenitive” which means very
prolific which is trait many artists possess and many politicians do not unless
it relates to raising campaign funds.
5. Open
the Gates to Prosperity--celebrating the birth on this day in 1955 of
Bill Gates who is probably Harvard’s most famous dropout and who with Paul Allen
founded Microsoft which is the largest software company in the world and making
money hand over fist, a tremendous amount of which Gates through his Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation puts to great philanthropic causes like malaria
eradication around the globe.
On this day in:
a. 1993
in a how to leave on a high note Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6
in B Minor, Pathétique
premiered in St. Petersburg 9 days before Tchaikovsky’s death.
b. 1922 Benito Mussolini
and his fascists marched on Rome to take over the government to start the march
for Italy to fight.
c. 1948
to the bane of Pelicans and other egg laying wild fowl, George Hermann Muller
was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his 1939 discovery of
the insecticidal properties of DDT which would be used to eradicate mosquitoes.
d. 1962 in global sigh of
relief moment, Premier Nikita Khrushchev authorized the removal of Soviet missiles
in Cuba, bringing a welcome end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
e.
1968 in a move toward tolerance, Pope VI promulgated Nostra Aetate wherein the Catholic Church would recognize non
Christian religions.
Reflections on the Cuban Missile
Crisis, a state of events we should pray the world never ever comes to again: “Most
people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis
handling, but what they don't realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed
strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.” Louie
Gohmert, Red Representative from Texas
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