Ridley's
Believe It Or Not November 30, 2020
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 306,761 new
cases (a .49% increase compared to a .69% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 63 million to 63,269,962, 18,046,765
of which are active, 45,223,197 of which have been closed
with 43,754,172 recoveries (96.75% compared
to yesterday’s 96.74%) and 1,469,025 deaths (3.25% compared to
yesterday’s 3.26%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages.
CV
USA Cases: New cases total 13 million at
13,758,751 with 5,375,936 active cases of which 24,806 (.46% of active
cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with slight blips from a high of
19,155 on July 23 (24,642 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 8,382,766 closures, 273,160
of which have been deaths (3.26% compared to yesterday’s 3.26%) and 8,109,606
of which have been recoveries (96.74% compared to yesterday’s 96.74%).
Our death rate percentage continues 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digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive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 is 01% worse
the world rate and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady
climb to 823 ranks behind Belgium (1425), Peru (1083), Spain (955),
Italy (920), and UK (859 which has now passed us despite leading world in
testing), and Argentina (848) and has 5
days ago passed Brazil (811) and
only slightly worse than Mexico (816),
recently added to the list France (801) Chile (803) that we recently
passed, Bolivia (763, Ecuador (756) and
Sweden (660) that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now
conducted 2,630,481 more tests to bring total to 194,948,709 (now at 587,407/M compared to Russia at 523,585/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 639,070/M).
Non CV Case News: Dominion
Data which is the center of allegations that its voting machines flipped thousands
of votes from Trump to Biden is the subject of a restraining order preventing 3
Georgia counties from altering or erasing voting data on the machines (God help
us in terms of faith in our political process if Trump is right and voter fraud
has flipped the election from Trump to Biden and what if anything is being done
in Georgia to prevent the same result in the 2 runoff Senate elections that will
determine who controls the Senate?); in another example of the fact that
Sanctuary Cities make it unsafe, San Jose which is in a Sanctuary County, Santa
Clara, was hit with a church stabbing by a 3 time deported illegal alien with city
officials again begging for the county to change its policy (how many people
have die and the hands of illegals that are hiding out immune for being turned
over to ICE for deportation after they have served their sentence?); the
corollary to Murphy’s Law that if anything can go wrong it will is Governor
Murphy’s Law that if any activity can be banned or limited it will as he bans school
indoor sports and limits outdoor gatherings to 25 people; in another example of
objectivity on Biden going to the dogs, the MSM is touting an inane point of
view that Lee-Crowther,”a pet psychic” has the Daily Beast publishing an almost 4,000 word article that she has
communicated with Biden’s 2 dogs mind to mind who have assured her he will be a
great president (wonder if she will talk with the fleas to get the real story
on Biden); Oliver Darcy, a “journalist” with the Cack News Network, not
satisfied with Twitter labeling Trump’s tweets as “misinformation,” is demanding
that his account be banned (what an absolute outrage that merits action against
Twitter though with Biden ensconced not a chance in Hell that censorship will
be addressed); in thank God for the 2nd Amendment that the Blues
want to curtail, a man on his phone walked in to a South Philadelphia Wing Stop
with an armed robbery in progress and when the armed robber turned and pointed
his firearm at the man, demanding his phone, the man shot and killed the
suspect and will not be charged; Robert Well,
the Mayor of Pine Ridge, South
Carolina, a small town of 2,000 residents and a police force of 5 full and pastime
officers has meddled in the affairs of the department such that all officers
have quit, leaving the police force totally defunded; on the medical front, some
really exciting news as a privately held company C2N Diagnostics has started
selling a test kit to determine the presence of Alzheimer’s, a deadly and
debilitating disease that affects 5 million Americans and sadly their caregivers;
Newsom who is facing a recall signature petition gathering effort and mocked big
time for his French Laundry fiasco is now threatening much more severe lock downs in California.
Chicago/Baltimore
Gun Violence: In Chicago as of November 29, 2020, the
number of shootings increased to 3,900 of whom
665 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 364 behind Chicago at 301
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 “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” by Harry
James and His Orchestra with vocals by Helen Forest, the fact that occasionally
you are prescious and a quote from Benjamin Netanyahu on the nature of Israel, 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. Cyber Monday—created
by Ellen Davis in 2005 to promote internet sales on the Monday following Black
Friday which have grown from a few $ million to $9.4 billion in 2019 and with
the concern over the CV pandemic and curtailment of in store shopping should
easily top that this year when the computers stop clicking and end their shopping
today. 2. National Meth Awareness Day—created by President George W. Bush on November
27, 2006 and celebrated since 2006 on the 30th of each November to
create awareness of the dangers involved in using Meth and to promote programs
and initiatives to curb its importation, manufacture and use.
3. 1945 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1945 on this day on
a run of 3 weeks non continuous was “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” by the Harry
James and His Orchestra with Helen Forest as vocals to join 8 other number 1
songs. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OtcskeRBJw
James was a noted trumpet player and big band leaders from 1939-1983 with a
hiatus in 1946-7. He was a heavy smoker but dodged the lung cancer bullet to be
diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in 1983 but continued to work until his last
performance in L.A. on June 26, 1983 to die on July 5, 1983 at age 67 in Las
Vegas. Helen Forest was known as the “voice of the big bands” and had a musical
career that lasted until 1991; she died of congestive heart failure on July 11,
1999 at age 82.
5. The
Magnificent Seven Manna on the NYSE Floor—celebrating the birth on this day in 1936 of
Yippie leading member Abby Hoffman, a
member of the Chicago 7, and best known for dropping dollar bills onto the
floor of the NYSE from the visitors’ gallery which the traders eagerly scooped
up but as he aged became depressed over the conservative backlash of the
country and on April 12, 1989 was found dead at age 52 from suicide involving
150 Phenobarbital pills and liquor.
On
this day in:
a. 1947
civil war between Arabs and Jews began in Mandatory Palestine leading
ultimately to the creation of the State of Israel.
b.
1982 Michael Jackson released his 6th album Thriller which with 66 million copies sold has become the largest
selling album in history.
c. 1999 Exxon
and Mobil signed an agreement to merge in a deal valued at $73.7 billion
creating ExxonMobil, the world’s largest company.
d. 2001 Gary Ridgeway aka The Green River
Killer was apprehended for the death of 4 women in Washington State and would
as part of a plea bargain to escape the death penalty plead guilty to 49
murders and be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole and at age
71 is now rotting in the Walla Walla State Penitentiary in Washington.
e. 2018 a 7.0 Earthquake hits 15 miles from
Anchorage, Alaska and like the Good Friday Alaska Earthquake caused significant
property damage but unlike the Good Friday Earthquake caused no deaths.
Reflections on the creation of Israel: “"We
expect anyone wishing to become an Israeli citizen to recognize Israel as the
Jewish nation state and a democratic state... The State of Israel was not
established as 'just another state'- it was founded as the sovereign state of
the Jewish people in their historic homeland; and as a democratic nation, whose
citizens, Jews and non-Jews, enjoy full civil equality." - Benjamin
Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister
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