Ridley's Believe It Or Not November 21,
2020
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 579,124 new cases (a
1.0% increase compared to a 1.44% increase yesterday) to bring the
total over 58 million to 58,418,995, 16,621,489
of which are active, 41,797,506 of which have been closed
with 40,412,444 recoveries (96.69% compared
to yesterday’s 96.68%) and 1,385,062 deaths (3.31% compared to
yesterday’s 3.32%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 126,367 with
total cases over 12 million at 12,415,120 (a 1.03% increase) with 4,762,090
active cases of which 22,782 (.48% of active cases), recently on a disturbing
upward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (22,498
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 7,653,029 closures, 261,626 of which have been deaths (3.42%
compared to yesterday’s 3.44%) and 7,391,404 of which have been
recoveries (96.58% compared to yesterday’s 96.55%). 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Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing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 789 ranks behind Belgium
(1322), Peru (1070), Spain (911), Italy (815), Argentina (811), UK (803)
which has now passed us despite leading world in testing), and Brazil (793) and only slightly worse
than Chile (784) that we just passed, (Mexico
(779), Bolivia (758), Ecuador (740),
newly added to the list France (743) and Sweden (633) that never closed
its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 1,891,240 more tests to
bring total to 179,039,707 (now at 539,659/M compared to Russia at 492,181/M so
Trump was 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 591,923/M).
Non CV
Case News: As Pfizer is expecting FDA approval of its vaccine on December 19,
Toronto, the second largest city in Canada has just announced a lockdown that
will last at least 28 day with nonessential stores open for curbside pick up
only and essential ones like supermarkets and liquor stores open at 50% capacity;
the drawdown of 5.000 troops now in Afghanistan and Iraq will take place by
January 15 but a miffed Biden is complaining probably because Trump has denied
him the spike of claiming Biden was responsible; Trump announced he was sending
B-52’s to the Middle East to deter aggression; in the most powerful force to
put electric vehicles on the road, In-N-Out Burgers opened its first outlet in
Colorado it Aurora to massive lines of cars idling and spewing carbon into the
air to order burgers; HUD Secretary Carson announced that he “is out woods” on
his CV infection: in a thank God for Body cam moment, the body cam of one of
the officers shows Devon Gregory reaching under his seat and the sound of a
self inflicted gunshot followed by the officers firing 12 times in rapid
succession; the Recall the Hypocrite In Chief Governor Newsom forces received
some good news as they have received an extension until March 17, 2021 to
gather the requisite number of recall signatures—go to www.recallgavin2020.com
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as
of November 20, 2020, the number of shootings increased
to 3,816 of whom 648 have died, ending a
minor miracle of no one shot dying that day (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 350 behind Chicago
at 298 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 “Vieni, Vieni” by Rudy Vallee, the
fact that you like to preconcert as many issues as possible before going into
negotiations and a quote from suicide survivor Kristen Svinth on grief
following a suicide, 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 unique customized
poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. Please
contact me for details.
1. World Television Day—created by the UN General Assembly on December 17, 1996 and
first celebrated on November 21, 1997 to honor the medium as one of the most effective
means of communication and information sharing. 2. International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day--created by the United States Senate on October
24, 2000 on the motion of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who survived his
father’s suicide as a day observed on the Saturday before Thanksgiving for
survivors of suicide victims to deal with their grief and loss due to suicide
of a loved one.
3. 1937 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1937 on this day on a run of 1
week, joining 15 other number 1 songs, was “Vieni, Vieni” by Rudy Vallee. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY5GUdX-_c8- Vallee
was one of the first pop stars with thousands of rabid flappers and when on
vacation persuaded the network to hire Louis Armstrong to fill in for him. He
sang his last note on July 3, 1986 at age 84.
5. Sock It to Me All the Way to the Bank--celebrating the birth on this day in 1945 of noted actress,
singer and producer Goldie Hawn who got her chance of stardom on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in 1968-1970 and
has not looked back as one of Hollywood’s premier stars.
On
this day in:
a. 1916 the British Hospital Ship HMHS Britannic,
the largest ship of the Allies to be lost in World War I, struck a German mine near Greece and
sunk with the loss of 30 lives while 1035 were rescued.
b. 1980 a fire
broke out at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada (now rebuilt as
Bally’s Las Vegas) that killed 85 people and injured 650 others and prompted
many revisions to safety codes relating to hotels.
c. 1985 U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollock was arrested by the FBI
for selling classified intelligence to Israel and ultimately sentenced to life
in prison but was released on November 20, 2015 on a 5 year parole with restrictions
which parole expired on November 20, 2020 and he is free to go as he pleases.
d. 2004 the Paris Club agreed to write off 80% of Iraq’s foreign debt amounting
to $100 billion.
e. 2019 Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu
was indicted on charges of bribery and fraud and was scheduled to go on trial
on trial in March, 2020 but has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic with
him being elected to a 5th term as Prime Minister in May and now facing
a preliminary hearing scheduled for December 6, 2020.
Advice from suicide survivors: “It's hard. It
really sucks. Is been almost 6 years since my best friend from childhood
committed suicide, and it took me 4 years before I could really open up about
it. The hardest thing was that I felt it was my fault. If I had been a better
friend, if I would have called her more maybe she would not have done it. I
dreamt every night of how I might save her, and night after night I failed. It
was never my choice, nothing i could have done would have stopped her. It's hard
to let go of that idea that you had any control over what happened, but that's
the start of recovery.”— Kristin Svinth, a suicide survivor.
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