Ridley's Believe It Or Not October 29, 2020
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 780,007
new cases (a 1.75% increase compared to a 1.20% increase yesterday)
to bring the total over 45 million to 45,294,439, 11,166,285
of which are active, 34,128,454 of which have been closed
with 32,949,919 recoveries (96.55%
compared to yesterday’s 96.52%) and 1,185,535 deaths (3.47%
compared to yesterday’s 3.48%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA
Cases: New cases of 199,032 with total cases over 9 million at 9,203,425 (a
2.21% increase compared to yesterday’s .68%
increase) with 3,000,263 active cases of which 16,874 (.56% of active
cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with slight blips from a high of
19,155 on July 23 (16,801 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 6,203,163 closures, 234,084 of
which have been deaths (3.77% compared to yesterday’s 3.80%) and 5,969,079
of which have been recoveries (96.23% compared to yesterday’s 96.20%)
(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digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive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 706 ranks behind Peru (1037), Belgium (962), Spain (762),
Brazil (746), Bolivia (742), Chile (736),
and Ecuador (712), and only slightly worse than Mexico (698), UK (676),
Argentina (672) newly added to the list, Italy (631), and Sweden (586) that
never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 1,474,814
more tests to bring total to 141,669,328 tests
(now at 426,123/M compared to Russia at 406,181/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 486,496/M).
Non
CV Case News: Maybe the 50% or so of voters who are Trump supporters were turned
off by a Rasputin like homeless like Jack Dorsey ranting about not censoring
conservatives as daily users fell and the stock in after market trading fell
17.5%, Biden and Trump both campaigned in Tampa with a small group of cars in a
drive in theater occasionally honking support when prompted to for Biden and a large,
large cheering crowd who waited for hours to support Trump who touted the 33.1%
annualized recovery in the 3rd quarter as being the V shape he
predicted ( if Biden wins good chance the V will morph into a M, going down for
a long time); CV cases are on the rise and Biden is blaming Trump for the
deaths and touting his plan which other than national shutdowns and mandatory
mask wearing has already been implemented especially in tests, in development of
vaccines and therapeutics and manufacture of medical equipment needed; Joe and
his family members are circling the wagons around the Hunter Biden email
scandal and refusing to answer any questions because the allegations are “smears”
and they are secure in their belief that the MSM will continue to bury the
story to protect Biden; Rapper Lil’ Wayne had a successful meeting with Trump
on Trump’s Platinum Plan to improve black neighborhoods to be slammed by social
media (at least this rapper of small frame has more stature than 50 Cent who
folded when ex girlfriend Chelsea Handler invoked a Lysistrata on him when he
indicated he was voting for Trump); Celebs are up in arms against Gruesome
Newsom for his announced restrictions on Thanksgiving and Christmas family
gatherings which is great that they are turning on this failure but not blasting
him for his total and abject failure to provide for a timely and needed
response for unemployment checks for record number of jobless claimants; as CV
cases rise off the charts, B of A announced it was ending its hazard pay supplemental
payments to employees raising some questions whether it would still honor its
pledge not to lay off any employees during the CV pandemic which is now spiking
big time.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence:
In Chicago as of October 28, 2020, the number of shootings increased
to 3,530 of whom 603 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 326 behind Chicago at 277 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 “Dilemma“ by Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland, the
fact that you are not bombarded with polyphloisbic sounds and a quote from Scott
Carpenter on the return of John Glenn to space, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
memorable events like Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings,
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1. International Internet
Day—celebrated first on this day in 2005 to commemorate the first
computer to computer transmission of data on ARPANET on this day in 1969 launching
the internet age to quickly become off to the races but sadly
for conservatives soon to be saddled with the baggage of social media
censorship which quickly came to be added.
2. World
Stroke Day—created by the World Stroke Association in 2006
to promote awareness of the dangers of strokes and the steps people should take
to avoid them especially in view of the fact that our potential new president
Biden with his history of aneurisms may be a prime candidate.
3. 2002 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 2002 on a run of 10 weeks not continuous was “Dilemma” by Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland to join 6 other songs that made the number 1
list and joining 4 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=AyOtiz4o7i0
Nelly, a 46 year old rapper started his career in 2000 and had some minor
brushes with the law and a tax lien of $2.6 million but is still performing
today. Kelly Rowland rose to fame with the all female band Destiny’s Child and
has been pursuing successfully a solo career.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “polyphloisbic” which means roaring or noisy
which probably describes to a tee most Trump rallies as opposed to Biden’s
where one hears the tepid sounds of silence.
5. Only Final Riot Is Quiet--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1955 of Kevin DuBrow the lead vocalist of the heavy
metal band Quiet Riot who died quietly alone of an overdose of cocaine, painkillers
and alcohol on November 19,2007 at age 52.
On this day in:
a. 1960 after the Cal Poly Football Team boarded
their chartered plane for a long depressing flight back to San Luis Obispo after
losing to Bowling Green 50-6, the plane crashed shortly after takeoff killing
22 of the 48 aboard, cancelling the rest of Cal Poly’s season.
b. 1998 Senator John
Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery to become the oldest person at age 77 to go into space
and better yet return alive to talk about it.
c. 2008
Delta Airlines merged with Northwest Airlines reducing the number of legacy
U.S. airlines to 5 and most likely reducing legroom given the reduced
competition.
d. 2012 Hurricane Sandy
hit the East Coast causing some $70 billion in damages and killing 148 directly
and 138 indirectly and leaving millions of people without power for weeks.
e.
2015 China announced the end of the policy of one child which probably saved an
unimaginable number of female first born babies.
Sendoff to John Glenn’s historic
at age 77 return to space on the Shuttle Discovery:
“"Good luck, have a safe flight and ... once again, Godspeed, John
Glenn." Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit
the Earth repeating what he had wished John Glenn on his first flight.
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