Ridley's Believe It Or Not November
10, 2020
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 454,629 new
cases (a .89% increase compared to a .94% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 51 million to 51,473,381, 13,962,432
of which are active, 37,510,942 of which have been closed
with 36,238,279 recoveries (96.61%
compared to yesterday’s 96.59%) and 1,272,670 deaths (3.39%
compared to yesterday’s 3.41%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages
and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 135,021 with
total cases over 10 million at 10,302,758 (a 1.31% increase compared to
yesterday’s .88% increase) with 3,638,567
active cases of which 18,963 (.52% of active cases), recently on a disturbing
upward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (18,483
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 6,799,212 closures, 244,654 of which have been deaths (3.60%
compared to yesterday’s 3.62%) and 6,554,658 of which have been
recoveries (96.40% compared to yesterday’s 96.38%) (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Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing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 738
ranks behind Belgium (1139), Peru (1055),
Spain (841), Brazil (763), Chile (762), Bolivia (750), and Argentina (748) and
only slightly worse than (Mexico (736), Ecuador (724) UK (724), Italy (691),
and Sweden (598) that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now
conducted 1,315,063 more tests to bring total to 159,600,023 tests (now at 484,163/M compared
to Russia at 449,447/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 541,193/M).
Non CV Case
News: Councilwoman Hardesty in Portland who is in the forefront of trying to
defund the Portland Police merits the hypocrisy award when after she became
belligerent when he refused to roll up the windows, he asked her to leave his
vehicle and stopped at a service station to let her out and she called 911 to
prevent him from doing so; while many on the left and MSM are calling to hold
Trump supporters accountable for all manner of imagined sins, Biden may be
calling for unity as he announced 4 executive orders he would sign on taking
office Day 1-rejoin Paris Accords, rejoin WHO, restore DACA and end Trump’s
travel ban on certain Muslim countries (hope this isn’t a repeat of Michelle
Obama’s when “they go low we go high” as she continues to demonize Trump voters
with the typical denigration of horrors--racists et al); Biden may be the
President-Elect but in dealing with reporters he is still Biden-Campaigner,
refusing to answer questions from the press (can it be that away for
teleprompter or script he is terrified of gaffes and revealing his failing
mental acuity?); the aging Hollywood elitist Robert De Niro must not have heard
Biden’s call for unity as he claimed Trump was worse than Hitler and slammed
the 71 million plus who voted for him (he should stick to acting as comments
like these raise questions whether his role as Jake LaMotta was far too
realistic in terms of his being punched); sadly for America, the number of The
Squad whose ideas are totally flawed seems to be growing in number and pushing even
more radical ideas like defund the military and reparations for blacks; Blue
Cunningham’s sexting may have cost him his seat and he has conceded the race to
Tillis giving the Reds 49 seats; Blue
Ilhan Omar may be a socialist but she is really astute at turning campaign donations
into cash for her home front by paying $2.8 million to her husband’s political
consulting firm: Andrew Cuomo must be jealous of his little “Fredo” getting all
the attention and is now ranting if he weren’t Governor of New York he would
have decked Trump; Zeke Emmanuel who gave us the ACA is now on Biden’s CV task
force and is pushing the idea that to shy from “vaccine nationalism” we also distribute
the CV vaccine globally even if it means Americans have to forego it.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In
Chicago as of November 9, 2020, the number of shootings increased
to 3,686 of whom 633 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 346 behind Chicago at 287
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 “One More Night” by Maroon 5, the
fact that you can enjoy a postcenal port and the resolution of the Continental
Congress creating the U.S. Marine Corps, 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
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1. United
States Marine Corps Birthday—celebrating the birth of what many believe is
the finest fighting force in the world, the United States Marine Corps that was
formed on this day in 1775 as the first Marine enlisted at Tun Tavern in
Philadelphia which unfortunately burned to the ground in 1781 and the site is
marked by a commemorative placard.
2. World Keratoconous Day—created
by the National Keratoconous Foundation on this day in 2016 to promote
awareness of the disease that causes a thinOne Morening of the cornea and can
lead to blindness.
3. 2012 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 2012 on a run of 5 weeks was “One More Night” by Maroon 5 to join
11 other songs that made the top number
1 list. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CPYoGtI75Q.
Los Angeles band was formed in 1994 when its members were still in high school
as Kara’s Flowers and reemerged in 2001 as Maroon 5 with currently 6 members.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “postcenal” which means after dinner which might be the perfect time for
some of your guests to enjoy a cigar and brandy.
5. Still Scratching after Seven Year Itch—celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1935 of noted actor Richard Burton who was
nominated 7 times for Academy Awards but never to win any and best known for
being married twice and divorced twice from Elizabeth Taylor, but who started
drinking and smoking as a teen and for many years was a functioning alcoholic
both on and off the set at 3 bottles of vodka a day and to make matters worse
was a chain smoker at 3 to 5 packs a day. Such an abusive lifestyle caught up
to him and he died of an intracerebral hemorrhage on August 5, 1984 at age 58.
On this day in:
a. 1969 the
Educational Television Network, the precursor to the PBS, aired Sesame Street.
b. 1983 Bill Gates introduced the
world to his biggest mistake “alt del” and introduced the world to Microsoft
1.0.
c. 1989 not
content with opening up the gates in the Berlin Wall to travel between West
Berlin and East Berlin, Germans began tearing down the Berlin Wall.
d. 1997 WorldCom
and MCI Communications, Inc. announced their merger at a $37 billion valuation,
the largest merger in U.S. history at that time.
e. 2006 the National Marine Corps Museum at Quantico,
Virginia was opened and dedicated by President Bush who also awarded the Medal of
Honor posthumously to Marine Corporal Jason Dunham who while on a patrol in Iraq
used his body to shield members of his patrol from a grenade and died 8 days
later.
Reflections on forming
the Marine Corps in 1775: "That two battalions of Marines be raised consisting
of one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, two majors and officers as usual in
other regiments, that they consist of an equal number of privates with other
battalions; that particular care be taken that no person be appointed to office
or enlisted into said battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted
with maritime affairs as to be able to serve to advantage by sea." Resolution of the Continental Congress
November 10, 1775
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