Ridley's
Believe It Or Not December 23, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 719,116
new cases (a .92% increase compared to a 1.26% increase
yesterday) to bring the total over 79 million to 79,057,222, 21,671,024
of which are active, 57,386,198 closed with 55,648,450
recoveries (96.97% compared to yesterday’s 96.97%) and 1,737,748 deaths
(3.03% compared to yesterday’s 3.03%) to continue the trend of increased cases
with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages.
CV
USA Cases: New cases of 240,866 (a 1.39% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.03%
increase) to bring the total over 18
million to 18,917,152 with 7,481,468 active cases of
which 28,728 (.38% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with
no dips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (28,426 yesterday which
means the peak of 28,206 on December 17 has
not been reached), are in serious or critical condition as trend has
shifted and is still continuing to go up, and 11,436,084 closures, 334,218
of which have been deaths (2.92% compared to yesterday’s 2.94%) and 11,101,866
of which have been recoveries (97.08% compared to yesterday’s 97.06%).
Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .11%
lower than the world rate and .31% lower than Canada which has the socialized
type medicine Biden may well want to implement here and on a deaths
per million population measurement on a steady climb to 1007 ranks behind
Belgium (1631), Italy (1165). Peru (1123), Spain (1063), and UK (1015
which has now passed us despite leading world in testing), and only slightly
worse than Bulgaria (1008) and newly
added to the list and just passing France (949), Argentina (932), Mexico
(928), Hungary (893 and (839) three days ago so added to the list; Brazil
(887), Chile (845 that we recently passed), Sweden (817) that never
closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid
rise in deaths, Ecuador (786) and Bolivia (772) and we have now conducted 1,883,858
more tests to bring the total to 240,135,749 (now at 723,444/M compared to
Russia at 596,707/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 760,346/M.
Non CV Case News:
Biden still is unwilling to address the Hunter Biden scandal with China that is
not going away as Peter Doocy of Fox asked him again to be dismissed as a “one horse
pony” which once again shows his failing mental skills as the idiom is “one
trick pony” (Doocy whose journalistic skills blow Acosta out of the water is
becoming the thorn ala Acosta Biden cannot stand); Trump may have his faults
but ignoring loyalty is not one of them as he issued today 26 pardons and 3 commutations
to the likes of Kushner, Stone and Manafort; total chaos on the stimulus front
with Trump demanding $2,000 as opposed to $600 and elimination of millions upon
millions of dollars of goody bags that have nothing to do with CV and in many cases
are going to foreign countries; the Defense Appropriations Bill which did not
contain a repeal of section 230 which enables social media companies like
Twitter and Facebook to stifle free speech from conservatives was vetoed by
Trump; in one week 1,000,000 vaccine doses have been administered which should
bring some light the darker days Biden is forecasting; another unarmed black
holding a cell phone in one hand was shot and killed in a garage by Adam Coy, a
19 yr. veteran of the Columbus Police Department who did not turn on his body
cam until after shooting and offered no medical attention to the victim while
waiting for an ambulance (time to consider a requirement that cell phones come
coated or partially coated in red to show it’s not a gun?); autonomous vehicle
startup Nuro has been given California DMV approval to begin driver less delivery
service and collect fees for it (another class of workers—drivers are soon to
join the endangered worker category.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun
Violence: In Chicago as of December 21, 2020, the number
of shootings increased to 4,114 of whom 701 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 373 behind Chicago at 328 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 “Winchester Cathedral” by the New Vaudeville Band, the fact that your work
is viewed as prosilient and a quote from Jerry Stiller on Festivus, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like
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1. Festivus Day—created by author Dan O’Keefe
as a noncommercial Christmas parody and made popular by an episode on this day
in 1995 on a Seinfeld episode “The
Strike” written by O’Keefe’s son Daniel O’Keefe.
2. National Pfeffernusse Day—celebrating
a cookie whose name in German, Dutch, and Danish means “pepper nut” which
contains some pepper and nuts like almonds and eaten and enjoyed during the
Christmas season.
3. 1966 Number One
Song— the
number 1 song in 1966 on this day on a run of 2 weeks was “Winchester
Cathedral”) by the New Vaudeville Band to join 26 other number 1 songs and join
15 other acts with their first number one song.
Here is a recording of the New Vaudeville Band singing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT0Jh9lUhrc.
The band hit the music scene in 1966 after the song “Winchester Cathedral” that
was performed by sessions musicians only for one song and was active until 67-68
and continued with a few of the original band in the 70’s and 80’s.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “prosilient”
which means outstanding or distinguished above others which is a word that does
not describe the talents of the “journalists” of the MSM.
5. The Big H Is Too
Hard--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1941 of noted folk singer songwriter James Hardin, who
unfortunately was introduced to heroin while serving in the Marines while
posted in Southeast Asia which took over a promising career culminating in a
heroin overdose death on December 29, 1980 at the age 39.
On this day in:
a. 1947 the transistor was demonstrated at Bell Labs.
b. 1968 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo, captured by the North Koreans in
International Waters 11 months earlier were finally released but their ship
remains in North Korea as a museum.
c. 1979 in what
would become the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War, Soviet forces entered Kabul,
Afghanistan.
d. 1986 Voyager, a plane piloted by Dick Rutan
and Jeana Yeager touched at Edwards Air Force Base in California after flying
the plane around the world without any refueling on land or in the air after
taking off from Edwards 9 days 3 minutes and 44 seconds earlier on December 14,
1986.
e. 2002 a U.S.
MQ-1 Predator was shot down by an Iraqi Mig-25 in the first case of aerial
combat between a drone and a conventional aircraft.
Reflections on Festivus: “There
was no Christ yet, no Yahweh, no Buddha. There were great ruins and raw
nature. But there was a kindling spark of hope among men. They celebrated that
great thunderous storms hadn't enveloped them in the past year, that landslides
hadn't destroyed them. They made wishes that their crops would grow in the
fields, that they'd have food the next year and the wild animals wouldn't
attack and eat them. There's something pure about Festivus, something primal,
raw in the hearts of humans.” Jerry Stiller, in his Foreword to Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us
(2005) by Allen Salkin.
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