Ridley's
Believe It Or Not December 1, 2020
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 587,238 new
cases (a .92% increase compared to a .49% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 63 million to 63,857,200, 18,162,495
of which are active, 45,694,705 of which have been closed
with 44,215,006 recoveries (96.76% compared
to yesterday’s 96.75%) and 1,479,699 deaths (3.24% compared to
yesterday’s 3.25%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages.
CV
USA Cases: New cases 174,902 (a 1.27% increase) to bring the total to 13,933,653 with 5,428,929 active cases of
which 25,339 (.47% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with
slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (24,806 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 8,504,744
closures, 274.743 of which have been deaths (3.23% compared to yesterday’s
3.26%) and 8,230,001 of which have been recoveries (96.77% 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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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% lower than the world rate and on a deaths per million population
measurement on a steady climb to 828 ranks behind Belgium (1434), Peru (1085), Spain
(964), Italy (933), and UK (868 which has now passed us despite leading world
in testing), and Argentina (854) and
has passed Brazil (812) and only
slightly worse than Mexico (818),
recently added to the list France (807) Chile (804) that we recently
passed, Bolivia (763, Ecuador (758) and
Sweden (671) that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now
conducted 1,256,421 more tests to bring total to 196,205,130 (now at 591,304/M
compared to Russia at 525,866/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 642,744/M).
Non CV Case News: Seattle
which made disgusting headlines with its Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone which
persisted for 3 weeks this summer had another night of vandalism with broken
business windows and BLM and anarchists’ slogans with 4 arrests on a night
which occurred in the midst of the highest homicide rate in a decade while its
left leaning city council was cutting the police budget; Blue San Jose Mayor
Liccardo who actually said something sane when he pleaded with Santa Clara
Supervisors to end sanctuary cities after a 3 time deported illegal alien
stabbed 2 people to death in a San Jose church has won the Hypocrite of the
Year Award in San Jose for after hectoring residents to not visit family and
friends for Thanksgiving did exactly that with his elderly parents (he also has
competition from Sheila Kuehl, Los Angeles County Supervisor who railed against
outdoor dining as being so dangerous to spread CV, voted for the ban and then
went to a trendy Italian restaurant in Santa Monica to enjoy an outdoor dining meal);
a bipartisan group of Senators has cobbled together a $908 billion stimulus
bill which does not include any stimulus checks so the question becomes whether
Schumer will vote to put it on the floor for amendments if any and be voted on
to move it to a House Senate Compromise Committee (do not know if the Blues
demands to include money to illegals is in the bill along with other non
related CV goodie bags Pelosi has insisted in the past be included); on the
next round of the voter fraud front, Georgia has announced 250 pending
investigations of voter fraud in the Georgia Senate Runoff election; MSM is
back to “fake news of omission” in spades as ABC, NBC, and CBS totally ignored
Fauci’s call that school children belong back in school (when this pandemic is
over, someone other than Fox should investigate the role of the teachers’
unions in keeping the schools closed); Neera Tanden’s email baggage is coming
home to roost as we find she trashed Michelle’s slogan “We go high”(Tanden was
right because had it been truthful it would have been “When they go high we go
low”); the CDC is now formulating guidelines on who will first receive the
vaccines with the early indication health providers and residents of long term care
facilities (wonder if all the celebs and Blues who denigrated Trump’s Warp
Speed efforts to bring the vaccine to the public will have forfeited their place
in line?); in a statement that does not bode well for Trump’s efforts to toss
ballots due to fraud, AG Barr has indicated that the DOJ has not found any
evidence of massive voter fraud; Biden is now wearing an orthopedic boot as he
has a hairline fracture of his foot caused by playing with Major (hope his
physical coordination is not going as fast as his mental capabilities); looks
like no one on the left has been listening to Biden’s call for healing or are
too zoned out to know he won as Red Senators are finding body bags with
anti-Trump notes on them on their front porches over no stimulus bill (would be more
productive to stop such nonsense and place the bags where they belong-- on the
porch of Nancy Pelosi and her goodie bag approach to the pandemic); like birds
of a feather Mayor London Breed was caught aping Newsom’s French Laundry
performance by attending a dinner party; Blue PACs are pouring money into the
Georgia Senate Runoffs with ads trying to induce Trump voters to stay home
(hope Georgians see through this deceptive trick and turn out in droves to
elect Loeffler and Perdue.
Chicago/Baltimore
Gun Violence: In Chicago as of November 30, 2020, the
number of shootings increased to 3,910 of whom
666 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 364 behind Chicago at 302
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 “Rumors Have Been Flying” by Frank
Carle and His Orchestra with vocals by Marjorie Hughes, the fact that
occasionally you are presidial and a quote from Pablo Picasso on the meaning
and purpose in life, secure in the knowledge
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1. World AIDS Day—created by WHO in 1988 to promote awareness of this deadly
disease, how it is spread and steps to be taken to prevent its transmission and
to improve the cure patients receive to improve the mortality rate for those
millions who carry the HIV Virus.
2. Giving Tuesday—created by the Belfer Center in NYC in partnership with the United Nations
in 2012 and celebrated on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving as an eleemosynary response
to the commercialism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday by making donations to
charitable organizations who allay some of the hardship the less fortunate experience
during the holidays and the rest of the year.
3. 1946 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1946 on this day on
a run of 8 weeks was “Rumors Have Been Flying” by Frank
Carle and His Orchestra with vocals by Marjorie Hughes to join 17 other acts
with number 1 songs. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a0iOJRtGXE Frank Carle was a pianist and band leader
known as the “Wizard of the Keyboard” and was active from 1016 to 1989. He died
of natural causes short of his 98th birthday on March 7, 2001. Marjorie
Hughes was a singer whose mother, married to Carle, gave him Marjorie’s demo
while he was looking for a singer who he then hired as soon as he heard it to
discover she was his daughter who he then had change her name if she failed
which she did not. She retired from singing in 1950 due to an illness to work
in radio and television and to the best of my knowledge is still alive at 94.
5. Don’t
Need a Weatherman to Get a Weather Report on Drugs—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1951 of John “Jaco” Pastorius III, noted electric
bassist and song writer who played bass guitar with the Weather Report but who
struggled with drug addiction and mental issues to the extent due to
unreliability that he was often homeless in mid 80’s. He died on September 21,
1987 as the result of injuries sustained in a fight at a South Florida music
club.
On
this day in:
a. 1952 The New York Daily News reported on the
successful sex reassignment surgery on Christine Jorgensen, one of the first
and more notable transgenders.
b.
1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks tired after a long day of work refused
to vacant her seat at the front of the bus which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott
which helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.
c. 1958 Our Lady
of the Angels School in Chicago caught fire and resulted in the deaths of 92
students and 3 nuns and injuring many others trying to escape, some of whom jumping
25 feet to flee the smoke and fire.
d. 1969 the second draft lottery was held.
e. 1990 sections
for the Channel Tunnel which had started
from France and Great Britain successfully met under the seabed of the English
Channel.
Reflections on the giving of Giving Tuesday: “The meaning of life is to find your
gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” Pablo Picasso, noted artist par excellence.
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