Ridley's
Believe It Or Not December 29, 2020
CV World
Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 612,667 new
cases (a .75% increase compared to a .64% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 82 million to 82,270,531, 22,192,947
of which are active, 60,077,584 closed with 58,282,828
recoveries (97.01% compared to yesterday’s 97.01%) and 1,794,756 deaths
(2.99% compared to yesterday’s 2.99%) to continue the trend of increased cases
with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 168,421
(a .85% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.06% increase) to bring
the total nearing 20 million to 19,950,045 with
7,788,918 active cases of which 28,920 (.37% of active cases and an increase for
a new peak), recently on a disturbing upward trend with no dips from a high of
19,155 on July 23 (28,912 yesterday), are in serious
or critical condition as trend has shifted and is still continuing to go
up, and 12,161,118 closures, 346,628 of which have been deaths (2.85%
compared to yesterday’s 2.85%) and 11,814,859 of which have been
recoveries (97.15% compared to yesterday’s 97.15%). Our death rate
percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .14% lower than
the world rate and .28% 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 1043 ranks behind Belgium
(1656), Italy (1209). Peru (1132), Spain (1079), Bulgaria (1070) and UK
(1051) which has now passed us despite leading world in testing), and only
slightly worse than France (981), Hungary (963) and (839) seven days ago so added to the list, Mexico
(948), Argentina (948), Brazil (903), Switzerland (863) and (830)
three days ago, Chile (859 that we recently passed), Switzerland (848) and
(830) two days ago so added to list, Sweden (837) that never closed its economy
down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in deaths,
Ecuador (788) and Bolivia (775) and we have now conducted 1,058,251 more tests
to bring the total to 250,172,246 (now at 753,609/M compared to Russia at 617,980/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 795,118/M.
Non CV Case News: Newsom’s regional stay at home order has
been extended in San Joaquin County and Southern California as capacity at ICU’s
has dropped to 0 percent with no date of termination but smart money would bet
3-4 more weeks; on the recall front for Gruesome Newsom, money is starting to pour
into the effort (his mismanagement of the pandemic response and his arrogant
Marie Antoinette dinner at the French Laundry should be the defining moments to
put him on the recall ballot and on a one way ticket out of Sacramento); on
news that we need like a hole in the head Colorado officials have confirmed
that the new strain of CV which is supposedly far more contagious has been
confirmed in a case in Colorado; Big Fredo is threatening criminal prosecution
against ParCare’s vaccinating those not on a priority list and anyone else who
commits the same act (it may be a law of humanity for the first responders,
nursing home patients and those with preexisting conditions but may not be a criminal
statue but helps obscure Big Fredo’s mismanagement of the response to the
pandemic especially sending infected into nursing homes to kill the residents);
in a case involving an attempt by Republicans to purge illegal voters in Georgia,
a federal district court judge appointed by Obama who happens to be the sister of Stacy Abram
refused to recuse herself from the obvious conflict of interest and ruled
against the Republicans (why does this poet feel concern that the Blues have
adopted the Stalin voting rule that “I don’t care who gets to vote as long as I
count the ballots?); 41 year old Red Congressman-Elect Luke Letlow from Louisiana
has just died from COVID-19 after being diagnosed on December 17, 2020;
Massachusetts legislation overrode its governor’s veto of a bill requiring 16
year olds seeking abortion to have parental consent; Koby Francis, who had been
arrested, handcuffed in back, and being delivered to the McKeesport Police
Station for booking and managed to get his cuffs in front of him and conceal
his weapon to shoot a police officer opening the door to remove him, has been
caught in West Virginia after a week long manhunt.
Chicago/Baltimore
Gun Violence: In Chicago as of December 27, 2020, the
number of shootings increased to 4,163 of whom 715 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 381 behind Chicago at 334 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 “Me and Mrs. Jones” by Billy Paul, the fact
that you enjoy a protreptic as opposed to criticism in dealing with subordinates
and a quote on genocide by Allyson Schwartz, secure in the knowledge that if you
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1. The National
Pepper Pot Day—celebrating
the creation of pepper soup by the quartermaster of the Continental Army on
this day in 1777 ten days after Washington had arrived at Valley Forge to set
up winter headquarters from the provisions his troops had foraged from the
surrounding countryside lavishly spiced with peppercorns.
2. National Heroes Day—first celebrated on this day in
2020 but like the true heroes who shy away publicity and do not seek recognition
when events or circumstances prompt them to perform heroic act, the creator is probably
basking in the shadows of anonymity.
3. 1972 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1972 on this day on a run of 3 week was “Me and Mrs.
Jones” by Billy Paul to join 20 other number 1 songs and 17 other acts who had their
first number 1 song. Here is a recording of Billy Paul singing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If4di0jmE5A
Paul was born in Philadelphia and because of his high voice was influenced by
female singers, especially Billie Holiday. He had a long and productive career
singing in clubs and other venues after his “retirement” in 1998 and is known
for successfully suing Nike for their using his “Me and Mrs. Jones” to promote
Olympic star Marion Jones who won 5 Gold Medals that were ultimately stripped
from her. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 81 on April 24, 2016.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “protreptic”
which means an utterance to instruct or persuade.
5. Come Hither Now and Get Cozy Dangerous---celebrating the birth on this
day in 1947 of noted drummer Colin Trevor
Frocks better known to his fans as Cozy Powell who for 30 years played with a
number of bands but had the misfortune of dating a married woman who called him
distraught wanting him to come immediately over which he was in the process of doing so at 104
m.p.h. when she called again demanding “Where are you” only to hear “Oh shit”
and the sound of a car crashing which killed him, under the influence and not
wearing a seat belt on April 5, 1998 at age 50.
On
this day in:
a. 1972 Eastern Airlines Flight 401, a Lockheed 1011 TriStar enroute from JFK
to Miami, had its crew distracted by a malfunctioning landing gear light and
while circling at 2000 feet to manually check whether the gears had been
extended failed to notice the auto pilot was no on and the plane slowly lost
altitude to crash in the Everglades outside the airport, killing 101 and injuring
75 of the occupants in the first crash of a wide body aircraft.
b.
1975 a bomb went off in the TWA Baggage Claim area in La Guardia Airport,
killing 11 and wounding 74; sadly the perpetrators were never identified.
c. 1989 in a what goes up must come down
moment, the Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hit its all-time intra-day high
of 38,957.44 and closing high of 38,915.87, serving as the single that the Japanese
asset price bubble had burst and a long and massive decline was about to begin.
d. 1997 Hong Kong began to kill some 1.25
million chickens to stop the spread of deadly bird flu.
e. 1998 in a what took you so long moment,
leaders of the Khmer Rouge publicly apologized for its genocide in killing
1.5-2.0 million Cambodians from April, 1975 to January, 1979.
Reflections on the
deafness to “Never Again”: Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were
sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the
world once again took too long to act.”Allyson Schwartz, former Blue
Representative from Pennsylvania and now the CEO of the Better
Medicare Alliance.
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