Ridley's Believe It Or Not December 14, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 545,290 new cases (a .75% increase
compared to a .66% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 73
million to 72,018,907, 20,249,801 of which are active, 52,769,106
closed with 51,144,123 recoveries (96.92% compared to yesterday’s
96.91%) and 1,624,983 deaths (3.08% compared to yesterday’s 3.09%) to
continue the trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 193,593 (a .83%
increase compared to yesterday’s 1.16% increase) to bring the
total over 16 million to 16,845,240 with 6,771,394 active cases
of which 27,635 (.41% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend
with no dips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (27,550 yesterday
which means sadly the peak has not been reached), are in serious
or critical condition as trend has shifted and is still continuing to go
up, and 10,073,846 closures, 307,333 of
which have been deaths (3.05% compared to yesterday’s 3.06%) and 9,669,211
of which have been recoveries (96.95% compared to yesterday’s 96.94%).
Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .03%
lower than the world rate and .41% lower than Canada which has the socialized
type medicine Biden may wll want to implement here and on a deaths per million population
measurement on a steady climb to 926 ranks behind Belgium (1546), Peru (1105),
Italy (1076), Spain (1027), and UK (946 which has now passed us
despite leading world in testing), and only slightly worse than Argentina (898),
France (892), Mexico (880), Brazil (851),
Chile (830) that we recently passed, Bulgaria (821 and newly added to list), Ecuador (781), Bolivia (768) and Sweden (742)
that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been
experiencing a rapid rise in deaths and we have now conducted 1,987,253 more
tests to bring total to 223,182,883 (now at 672,468/M compared to Russia at 569,342/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 708,453/M).
Non CV Case News: As the
Pfizer vaccine starts to be administered to health care workers across the
nation, the U.S. Surgeon General proclaimed “this is the beginning of the end”
(too bad there are so many small businesses that have already died and won’t be
open to celebrate the CV demise); before we start celebrating in the streets that
the vaccine is no being administered, reality is that at least 75% of the
population will most likely have to be vaccinated before the pandemic is
defeated; on the Trump legal front, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has tossed his
recent lawsuit (despite the fact that election changing fraud probably occurred,
aided by Social Media censorship, and MSM fake news by omission of any story
that would hinder Basement Biden, it is probably now time to end the challenges
and commit every ounce of resources to prevent the same thing from reoccurring in
Georgia and start work on taking over the House and expanding the Senate
majority in 2022); the owner of the Cleveland Indians announced the name used
since 1915 will be terminated after the 2021 season (only lacrosse teams will
have the temerity to call themselves “Indians” ?);*in a wish we would have
known moment, emails have surfaced which seem to confirm Hunter Biden received
$400,000 from Burisma which he failed to report and is under expanding grand
jury criminal investigations (time to change the Biblical phrase from “Sins of
the father” to “Sins of the son”?); AG Barr who greatly disappointed Trump for
concealing the criminal investigations on Hunter Biden announced his
resignation effective before Christmas; the more one scratches the surface of
Warnock’s past the more one finds reasons to not vote for him, like branding Red
Senators who voted for the Trump tax cuts as Herods wanting to kill children or
praising rabid anti-Smite and white racist Farrakhan; Northwestern University
has removed an ex-lecturer from its website because he penned an Op Ed
criticizing Jill Biden for using “Doctor” when she is not a M.D.(confusing and
misleading for psychologists to use “Doctor” when they are not and psychiatrists
are).
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of December 13, 2020, the
number of shootings increased to 4,025 of whom
686 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 371 behind Chicago at 315
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 fewer times).
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for
this day in history, a musical link to “Heartaches by the Number” by Guy
Mitchell, the fact that you are not a proditor and a quote from Scarlett Lewis
who lost her 6 year old son at Sandy Elementary School, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
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1. Green Monday—celebrating
the Monday in December when there are at least 10 days left before Christmas and
created by E Bay in 2007 to honor the extra green received by retailers even
more so this year with the CV shutdowns and lock downs with the bonus that
online shopping is environmentally friendly especially as delivery services are
headed toward EV delivery.
2. Free Shipping Day—created by Luke and Maisie Knowles
of Knoli, Inc. in 2008 to end the procrastination
of online Christmas Shoppers by making this day a day of free shipping to
induce shopping for Christmas.
3. 1959 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1958 on this day on a run of 2 weeks was “Heartaches by the Number” by Guy
Mitchell to join 15 other number 1 songs. Here ia a recording of Guy Mitchell
singing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSSj9MoSfVQ
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “proditor”
which means traitor which is a charge that is too often be leveled against someone
who disagrees with him.
5.
Hard
to Spike a Habit--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1911 of noted musician and bandleader Spike Jones who
sadly was a heavy 4 to 5 pack a day smoker and developed emphysema in the early
60’s but continued smoking and performing until his death on May 1,1965 at 53.
On
this day in:
a. 1963 the dam at the Baldwin Hills Reservoir failed, killing 5 people
and damaging hundreds of homes.
b. 1985 Wilma Mankiller became the female Principal
Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
c. 1994 construction began on the Three Gorges
Dam on the Yangtze River and was completed on July 1, 2012.
d. 2012
Adam Lanza, after killing his mother and taking some guns she owned, went to
Sandy Hook School in Newton, Connecticut and shot and killed 20 children aged 6=7
and 6 adults trying to protect them and wounded 2 others before committing suicide
as police moved in.
e. 2017 Walt Disney Corporation announced it
would acquire 20th Century Fox for $52.4 billion.
Reflections on never giving enough hugs and kisses to your children:
“You never know when you won’t get another opportunity to kiss that little
cheek.” Scarlett Lewis who lost her son Jesse, age 6, at Sandy Hook.
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