Ridley's
Believe It Or Not December 4, 2020
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 809,325 new
cases (a 1.24% increase compared to a 1.06% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 65 million to 65,996,308, 18,803,129
of which are active, 47,193,179 of which have been closed
with 45,673,457 recoveries (96.78% compared
to yesterday’s 96.77%) and 1,519,722 deaths (3.22% compared to
yesterday’s 3.23%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages.
CV
USA Cases: New cases 287,579 (a 2.0% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.62%
increase) to bring the total over 14
million to 14,651,488 with 5,773,290 active cases of
which 26,184 (.45% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with
slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (26,181 yesterday and
15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical
condition as trend has shifted and is still continuing to go up, and 8,878,198
closures, 284,232 of which have been deaths (3.20% compared to yesterday’s
3.21%) and 8,593,966 of which have been recoveries (96.80% compared
to yesterday’s 96.79%). 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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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
.02% lower than the world rate and on a deaths per million population
measurement on a steady climb to 857 ranks behind Belgium (1467), Peru (1089), Spain
(989), Italy (974), and UK (891 which has now passed us despite leading world
in testing), and Argentina (866) and
only slightly worse than Mexico (835),
recently added to the list France (829), Brazil (823), Chile (811) that we recently
passed, Ecuador (767), Bolivia (765) and Sweden (698)
that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been
experiencing a rapid rise in deaths and we have now conducted 2,120,538 more
tests to bring total to 203,884,001 (now at 614,417/M compared to Russia at 535,946/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 658,627/M).
Non CV Case News: Maybe
Seattle is coming to its senses as a recall effort to get on the ballot against
Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Savant is heading to the Washington Supreme
Court; Biden now has revealed that he suffered a hairline fracture not playing
with Major that would have generated sympathy from dog owners but rather from
stepping out of the shower and like Trump is now not going to seek mandatory
mask wearing but rather simply to encourage wearing; the U.S. is not alone in
seeing a spike in cases and deaths as the beginning of this report shows which
to little surprise Italy with cases and deaths surging is banning Midnight Mass
this Christmas and in Madrid also suffering, patrons of the El Minibar are
spending thousands prepaying for tapas to keep their favorite eatery open; the
Botox Antoinette Pelosi has without shame admitted what this poet has suspected
and what millions of people damaged by CV restrictions and shutdowns should be
outraged over that her flip flop and coming to the table for a stimulus bill is
due to “having a new president” (special place in Hell for her to be sent there
by contaminated ice cream for this political hack who put destroying a Trump
presidency above the safety and prosperity of the American people); Biden like
Secretary of State Clinton pledged to be free of conflicts of interests in her
case the Clinton Foundation and in Biden’s case his family (with the MSM MIA on
doing anything other than fawning over him, don’t hold your breath that will
actually happen); unwelcome news to
struggling businesses in 5 Bay Area Counties that will stun, as on Sunday draconian
shut down orders will be in place; in another example of the Golden State
becoming the Iron Pyrite State, Hewlett Packard Enterprises founded in a garage
near Stanford University in 1939 and which epitomized Silicon Valley announced
its move of corporate headquarters to Houston; in another reason for whites to
boycott Facebook, its new algorithms will prioritize attacks on “hate speech” directed
against minorities, Jews, LGBTQ community and Muslims but will assign low
priority on hate speech directed against whites and Americans (so much for the idea that “hate
speech should be a detested and condemned two way street not to be engaged in.)
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence:
In Chicago as of December 3, 2020, the number of
shootings increased to 3,937 of whom 671
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 363 behind Chicago at 308 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 “Mule Train” by Frankie Laine, the
fact that you are a preterist but do not live there and a quote from Paul Acker
on becoming Pan American’s Chairman, 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
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1. Bartender Appreciation Day—created by Sailor Jerry Rum and celebrated on the first
Friday since 2011 to honor and appreciate the work of bartenders who in
addition to serving and concocting interesting libations are also listening amateur
psychologists and may morph into politicians unfortunately like AOC and with
the shutdowns may be hurting financially.
2. Faux Fur Day—celebrated on the first Friday in December to the joys of fur
bearing animals everywhere and supporters of PETA and made possible by the
introduction of acrylic fiber in 1929.
3. 1949 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1949 on this day on
a run of 6 weeks was “Mule Train” by Frankie Laine to
join 8 other number 1 songs. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ62MOvS2hQ
Frankie Laine known as “America’s
Number One Song Stylist” had a singing and acting career that spanned from 1930
to his final performance of “That’s My Desire” in 2005. He died on February 6,
2007.
5. Peas in a Western Pod—celebrating the birth on this day in 1934 of noted big screen and TV actor Victor French, best known for his roles on Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven and his long friendship with Michael Landon who like him was a heavy smoker and sadly discovered he had terminal lung cancer in March of 1989 and died from it on June 16, 1989.
On
this day in:
a. 1945
by a vote of 65-7 the U.S. Senate, wanting to avoid the disaster resulting from
its refusal to allow the U.S. to join the League of Nations, approved our joining
the United Nations.
b. 1964 police arrested
800 students who took over the Administration Building at the University of
California at Berkeley to protest the University Board of Regents ban of
protests on university property.
c. 1978 following the murder of Mayor Moscone by Dan White, Diane Feinstein, as
President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, became mayor of San Francisco.
d. 1991 Pan American World Airways after
64 years ceased operations.
e. 2017 the Thomas Fire started near Santa
Barbara, California due to downed power lines and before it was put out on March
18, 2018 burned 440 square miles, caused $2.2 billion in damages and destroyed
1063 structures and damaged 280 others.
Reflections on Pan American World Airways : “I was thinking about finding a more challenging
job, and I asked about being the captain of the Titanic. But they said I was
years too late. So I decided to take the job of Pan Am chairman.” Ed Acker, Chairman of Air Florida, on
accepting the job of running Pan American World Airways. Interview in The New
York Times, 28 August 1981. A little over 10 years later after hitting the
financial equivalence of an iceberg, the Titanic job was his.
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