Ridley's Believe It Or Not October 8, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 304,341 new cases (a .84% increase
compared to a .97% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 36 million
to 36,591,174, 7,979,203 of which are active, 28,611,971
of which have been closed with 27,548,442 recoveries (96.28% compared
to yesterday’s 96.27%) and 1,063,529 deaths (3.72% compared to
yesterday’s 3.73%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased
mortality percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 47,600 with total cases over 7 million
at 7,745,705 (a
.61% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.74% increase) with 2,577,627
active cases of which 14,573, recently on slight upward trend with slight blips
from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (14,524 yesterday and 15,881 on
September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 5,215,678
closures, 217,163 of which have been deaths (4.16% compared to yesterday’s
4.18%) and 4,998,515 of which have been recoveries (95.84% compared
to yesterday’s 95.82%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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 655 ranks behind Peru (997), Belgium (871),
Bolivia (699), Brazil (697), Spain (696), Chile (687), and Ecuador (663), and
only slightly worse than Mexico (640), UK (627), (633, Italy (597), and Sweden
(582) that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted
114,368,568 tests (now at 344,978/M compared to Russia at 336,749/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 392,441/M).
Non CV Case News: For Blues the coup
goes on as Pelosi seeks to invoke 25th Amendment to remove Trump an
attempt that will merit total outrage and hopefully derail Biden’s chances even
though it would be a dry run for the move early on in his presidency; debate
last night was largely civil with a testy Harris snapping not to lecture her on
criminal procedure with both candidates like typical debating politicians
refusing to answer tough questions (Harris’ silence on Biden packing the court
if he wins and Barrett is confirmed should really raise alarms over the fate of
an independent judicial third branch of government); the chances of a stimulus
bill seem to be crucified on the cross of Blues wanting to provide funds for
illegal aliens; while Pelosi seems bent on using the 25th in an
attempt to remove Trump (what derangement from the Speaker as the doctors
treating Trump say he is cleared to resume full duties this weekend); the FBI has
arrested 6 members of the Wolverine Watchmen for conspiring to kidnap Governor
Whitmer of Michigan to remove her as governor (on another legal front the
Michigan Supreme Court struck down her extension of her emergency CV lockdown
order past April 30 since she failed to obtained legislature approval prompting
her outrage and a call to voters to replace 2 justices up for reelection); any
doubt that China is an authoritarian nation should have been put to rest during
the Harris Pence debate when Chinese censors censored the debate when Pence was talking about China’s guilt in the CV
pandemic; in an example of voter fraud Zul Mohamed running for Carrollton, Texas Mayor has been
arrested for having 84 absentee ballots mailing to a P.O. Box supposedly owned
by a nursing home and faces 20 years if convicted (how dumb can one be to seek
a mayor’s office by voter fraud?); Governor Wolf of Pennsylvania must have a
big ego as he plans to pressure retiring Senator Toomey to vote against confirmation
of Judge Barrett.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago
as of October 7, 2020, the number of
shootings increased to 3,289 of whom 564 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 307
behind Chicago at 257 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 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 “Jack and Diane” by John Cougar, the
fact that any wine you serve to guests is poculent and a quote by Richard
Preston on Ebola, 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. Ombuds
Day—created by the American Bar Association in 2018 and
celebrated on the second Thursday of October to promote awareness of the work
of confidential, impartial and independent conflict management specialists used
in government, education, healthcare and other facilities at a much cheaper
costs that mediation, arbitration or kiss of death litigation.
2. World Sight Day—created by the International Agency for the
Prevention of Blindness in 1998 and celebrated on the 2nd Thursday
of October to promote proper eye care.
3. 1982
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1982 on a run of 4
weeks was “Jack and Diane” by John Cougar in his first number 1 song with 9 other acts
achieving their first number 1 song. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h04CH9YZcpI.
Cougar as one of the founders of Farm Aid is still going strong supporting liberal
causes and politicians.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “poculent” which
means fit for drinking which describes almost all California wines to a tee
even “2 buck Chuck” at Trader Joes.
5. Ace
in Space—celebrating the birth on this day in 1956 of astronaut
Janice Voss who was a mission specialist on 5 Space Shuttle missions but died
too early from breast cancer at age 55 on February 6, 2012.
On this day in:
a. 1962 Der Spiegel published an article on the sad state of preparedness
of the Bundeswehr and was accused of treason.
b. 1974 Franklin National Bank collapsed in
at that time the largest bank failure in U.S. history due to fraud and
mismanagement.
c. 1982 after
its London premiere the play Cats opened
on Broadway for a run of almost 18 years finally closing on September 10, 2000.
d. 1982 in a too
little too late moment Poland banned Solidarity and other trade unions.
e. 2014 Thomas Eric Duncan, who was the first
person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola on September 30 several days
after arriving in the U.S. from his home in Liberia, died but not before
infecting two of the nurses treating him in intensive care who fortunately
survived.
Reflections on Ebola: “The Ebola war wasn't
won with modern medicine. It was a medieval war, and it went down as a brutal
engagement between ordinary people and a life form that was trying to use the
human body as a means of survival through deep time. In order to win this war
against an inhuman enemy, people had to make themselves inhuman. They had to
suppress their deepest feelings and instincts, tear down the bonds of love and
feeling, isolate themselves from or isolate those they loved the most. Human
beings had to become like monsters, in order to save their human selves.”― Richard
Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone: The
Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come Sadly
sounds like the description of the many seniors who died in nursing homes on
ventilators separated from friends and family, isolated and alone.
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