Ridley's Believe It Or Not November
17, 2020
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 518,129 new
cases (a .94% increase compared to a 1.08% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 55 million to 55,258,264, 15,586,987
of which are active, 40,189,406 of which have been closed
with 38,849,686 recoveries (96.67% compared
to yesterday’s 96.65%) and 1,339,720 deaths (3.33% compared to
yesterday’s 3.36%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and the trend of increased recovery percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 148,009 with
total cases over 11 million at 11,495,835 (a 1.29% increase compared to
yesterday’s 3.20% increase) with 4,330,364 active cases of
which 21,243 (.49% of active casesr), recently on a disturbing upward trend
with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (20,817 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 7,313,480 closures, 253,760 of which have been deaths (3.47%
compared to yesterday’s 3.49%) and 7,059,720 of which have been
recoveries (96.53% compared to yesterday’s 96.51%). 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Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing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 after many months are only .11% above world rate
and on a deaths per million population measurement at 765 ranks behind Belgium
(1259), Peru (1064), Spain (891), Argentina (788) Brazil (779),
Chile (776), UK (775) which has now passed us despite leading world in testing)
and Italy (769), and only slightly worse than (Mexico (764), Bolivia
(755), Ecuador (734). newly added to the
list France (690) and Sweden (615) that never closed its economy down like we
did and we have now conducted 1,717,885 more tests to bring total to
171,160,647 (now at 506,903/M compared to Russia at 469,840/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 with tests at 557,459/M).
Non CV Case News: The troika of censorship of
free speech and conservative ideas, Facebook, Google and Twitter sent their
CEO’s to be grilled by Graham’s Senate Committee over their banning of accounts
and censoring of nonliberal thoughts in the background of revelations by a
whistle blower that employees of Facebook conspire with Twitter and Google
employees to monitor and ban content (when will Congress do the right thing and
legislate these tech giants as public utilities to prevent any censorship and
expose them to private law suits if they ban accounts or messages except in
clearly limited and defined cases like urging violence or leaking classified
information?); the CV pandemic is surging and more and more states are going
into curtailment and lockdown mode with Pennsylvania mandating masks being worn
at home if non household members are present and allowing entry into the state
only for those who have had a negative showing test in the prior 72 hours and
if not or if not commuting from neighboring states to work self quarantining
for 14 days (the silver lining in this surge is that the death rate except for
the elderly is still very, very low and more Americans are indicating they will
take the vaccine when it is available); 87 year old Senator Feinstein was
photographed on the Hill not wearing a mask and not social distancing (news
flash senator, being elderly but being Blue does not give you immunity for CV);
The Squad is hot to trot to get Biden to forgive $1.6 trillion of student debt
even as 59 members of Congress owe at
least $2.3 million (27th Amendment hurdle?). Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as
of November 16, 2020, the number of shootings increased
to 3,757 of whom in a minor miracle no one shot has died in 2 days so only 642
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 348 behind Chicago at 294 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 “Someone Who Loved You” by Lewis Capaldi,
the fact that you rarely prate and a helpful quote on avoiding the CV-19 by
Collin Carlson, 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. World Prematurity Day—celebrated since 2009 to promote awareness of the occurrence
of preterm births that affect 1 in 10 births worldwide and to seek means to
reduce the number of premature births.
2. National Entrepreneurs Day—created in 2010 by David Hauser and Siamak
Taghaddos, co-founders of Grasshopper and Amir Tehrani, Los Angeles entrepreneur
in residence and co-founder of the Legacy Foundation to promote awareness of
the need for entrepreneurs and the benefits to our economy and society due to
their effort.
3. 2019 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 2019 on this day on a run of 3
weeks noncontinuous, joining 15 other songs, was “Someone You Loved” by Lewis
Capaldi to join 9 other songs that made the top number 1 list for their
first number 1 song. Here is a recording of the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zABLecsR5UE
5. Like Father Like Son--celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1928 of Rance Howard, noted film and TV actor who
passed in 2017 was the father of actor and film director Ron Howard and his
younger brother Clifford who is also an actor.
On
this day in:
a. 1947 American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observed
the principles of the transistor, one of key building blocks for the Electronic
Revolution of the Twentieth Century.
b. 1973 President Richard Nixon in Orlando,
Florida told a gathering of 400 Associated Press managing editors that “I am
not a crook.”
c. 1993 the House passed a resolution to
establish the North American Free Trade Agreement that we have finally got out
of and replaced it the United States Mexico Canada Agreement.
d. 1997
6 Islamists in Luxor, Egypt, attacked the noted tourist site, the Mortuary
Temple of Hatsheput, killing 58 foreign tourists and 4 Egyptians and fled into
the surrounding hills where their bodies were found in caves where they must
have committed suicide together.
e.
2019 the first case of COVID-19 was traced to a 55 year old man from Hubei
Province who had been in Wuhan, China.
Reflections on how
to avoid infection from the COVID-19: “By now, you probably know the drill:
limit your contacts when you can, get tested if you’re at risk, wash your
hands, wear a mask, and be considerate of others. We’re also particularly
worried that flu and COVID could create a ‘syndemic,’ where the two supercharge
each other and lead to more cases and worse symptoms. So if you can, get a flu
shot. But the best thing we can do is act as a collective to protect each
other, and that means that governors and mayors need to move rapidly to
intervene before the pandemic becomes even more uncontrolled.” Colin J. Carlson, PhD, Assistant Research
Professor, Center for Global Health Science & Security, Georgetown
University.
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