Ridley's Believe It Or Not
October 30, 2020
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 577,056 new
cases (a 1.26% increase compared to a .95% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 46 million to 45,,401,864, 11,673,297
of which are active, 34,628,567 of which have been closed
with 33,429,883 recoveries (96.54%
compared to yesterday’s 96.55%) and 1,198,684 deaths (3.46%
compared to yesterday’s 3.47%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 180,314 with
total cases over 9 million at 9,383,739 (a 1.96% increase compared to
yesterday’s .63% increase) with 3,091,929
active cases of which 17,163 (.56% of active cases), recently on a disturbing
upward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (16,931
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 6,291,810 closures, 235,897 of which have been deaths (3.75% compared
to yesterday’s 3.77%) and 6,055,913 of which have been recoveries
(96.25% compared to yesterday’s 96.23%) (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continue to improve and are finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed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 711 ranks
behind Peru (1039), Belgium (987), Spain (767), Brazil (749), Bolivia (743), Chile (741), and Ecuador (715), and
only slightly worse than Mexico (706), UK (685), Argentina (679) newly added to
the list, Italy (639), and Sweden (587) that never closed its economy down like
we did and we have now conducted 1,235,921 more tests to bring total to 144,186,274
tests (now at 434,750/M compared to Russia at 413,825/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. which remains off the testing charts at 492,168/M).
Non CV Case
News: The UK which leads the world of large nations in terms of per capita testing
has in recent weeks had its CV cases increasing and death rate increasing such
that Boris Johnson, who had recovered from CV and who must be listening to Joe
Biden’s rants on Trump failings on the pandemic, is shutting down the U.K. for
a month; Trump has scheduled 4 large rallies in Pennsylvania with the first one
in front of a mostly masked crowd outside of thousands of cheering supporters
who were also treated to a big screen projection of Biden flip flops and
gaffes; Biden listening to the shrinking poll leads has emerged from his bunker
probably pulled from it by his former boss Obama to hold 2 very small “gatherings”
in Michigan; while Biden was urging caution and restraint against the attack
that killed Osama bin Laden, Trump authorized Navy Seal Team 6 to successively mount
a rescue operation to free Philip Walton an American citizen living in Niger
who was kidnapped recently and taken back to Nigeria, killing several of his
captors in the process (Trump’s actions on keep America safe are more than the
words we would get from Biden); parts of
Beverly Hills look like cities expecting a hurricane as shop windows are boarded
up in expectation of violence on Election Day (Beverly Hills police declared an
unlawful assembly last night as anti-Trump and pro-Trump supporters clashed);
Portland City Council has postponed its vote to cut $18 million from its police
budget until after the elections for mayor and city council; Sean Connery who
seemed to become more distinguished as he aged has died in his sleep at his
home in the Bahamas at age 90;On the donations race Ivanka Trump raised $4.5 billion to
break Obama’s 1 day record.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence:
In Chicago as of October 30, 2020, the number of shootings increased
to 3,558 of whom 607 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 330 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 “My Boo“ by Usher feat. Alicia Kayes, the
fact that you do not have a polypragmatist living next door, and a quote from Confucius
on over population, 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
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1. Halloween—celebrated
this year with very few trick or treaters and probably even fewer adult
Halloween costume parties as the COVID-19 Goblin from China claims another
holiday with the soon upcoming Veterans Day and Thanksgiving in its sights.
2. Girl
Scouts Founders Day—celebrating the birth of Juliette Gordon Low on
this day in 1860 who founded the Girls Guide, the precursor to the Girl Scouts,
in Savannah, Georgia on March 12, 1912 with 18 girls and which grew to
membership in the millions but which has been savaged ruthlessly by social
media for having the audacity to congratulate the confirmation of the 5th
woman to SCOTUS, Amy Coney Barrett.
3. 2004
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 2004 on a run of 6
weeks was “My Boo” by Usher feat. Alicia
Keys to join 10 other songs that made
the number 1 list with this song being Usher’s 4th number 1 in 2004 in
a year in which “presidential candidate” Kanye West had his first number 1
song. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgf2meEX1w&ob=av2e.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “polypragmatist” which means busybody and
describes to a tee the type of neighbor most people do not want to have.
5. Music Is No Defense--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1967 of Adam Schlesinger, noted Emmy winning singer,
musician and songwriter who unfortunately was not saved by his musical skills
and died from complications of having been infected by COVID-19 after a week of
being on a ventilator on April 1, 2020 at the age 52.
On this day in:
a. 1941 after 14
years of work, the statues of 4 former presidents was completed at Mount
Rushmore, South Dakota.
b. 1984 India Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi, the first female Indian Prime Minister and daughter of
the first prime minister Jawaharial Nehru, was assassinated by her 2 Sikh
bodyguards, leading to massive riots and the massacre of some 3,000 Sikhs.
c. 2000
Soviet Soyuz TM-31 arrived at the International Space Station with the first
resident crew resulting in the space station being continuously crewed since
that day.
d. 2002 a
federal grand jury indicted Andrew Fastow, the Chief Financial Officer of Enron
on 78 counts wife fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of
justice arising out of activities that led to the collapse of Enron.
e. 2011 In a the
Earth became a more crowded moment as its population reached 7 billion and has
continued to grow to reach some 8.8 billon this October.
Reflections on a problem we have
been aware of for centuries: Excessive (population) growth may reduce output
per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife.” Confucius.
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