Ridley's Believe It Or Not December 8, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with
663,103 new cases (a .98% increase compared to a .31% increase
yesterday) to bring the total over 68 million to 68,508,931,
19,528,185 of which are active, 48,980,746 of which have
been closed with 47,489,181 recoveries (96.81% compared
to yesterday’s 96.80%) and 1,561,565 deaths (3.19% compared to
yesterday’s 3.20%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases 239,882 (a 1.57%
increase compared to yesterday’s .98% increase) to bring the
total over 15 million to 15,558,341 with 6,203,057 active cases
of which 26,546 (.43% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend
with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (26,517 yesterday
which means sadly the peak has not been reached and 15,881 on September 1), are
in serious or critical condition as trend has shifted and is still
continuing to go up, and 9,355,284 closures,
292,181 of which have been deaths (3.13% compared to yesterday’s
3.14%) and 9,062,293 of which have been recoveries (96.87% compared
to yesterday’s 96.86%). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and is
finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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 now .06% lower than the world rate and on a deaths per million population
measurement on a steady climb to 883 ranks behind Belgium (1497), Peru (1095),
Italy (1014), Spain (998), and UK (912 which has now passed us
despite leading world in testing), and Argentina (882) and only slightly worse than France (862), Mexico (850), Brazil (836), Chile (817) that
we recently passed, Ecuador (777),
Bolivia (766) and Sweden (711) that never closed its economy down like we did
but has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in deaths and we have now
conducted 1,693,326 more tests to bring total to 211,192,600 (now at 636,401/M compared to Russia at 548,740/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 676,741/M).
Non CV Case News: SCOTUS has
declined to hear the suit Trump brought over the Pennsylvania unilaterally
changing constitutionally mandated deadlines which allowed thousands of
additional ballots to be counted; Arizona has set the record for new CV cases
with 12,304; new D.A. Gascon has released a sweeping list of misdemeanors that
his office will no longer prosecute or demand the posting of bail; Texas in an
area of the law that gives SCOTUS Original Jurisdiction has filed suit against
Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania for illegally changing election
voting procedures ( may be a last straw but if the Georgia Republican Governor
and Legislature do not call a special session to rectify the mistakes made in
the presidential balloting look for the presumed fraudulent practices to be
repeated and both Blue senators be elected); once again every time Biden opens
his mouth we see evidence of his synapses broken or frayed as he announced his
pick of Bracera to hide “Department of Health and Education Services” (it’s
DHHS Joe); a Los Angeles judge slammed L.A. County for its ban on in person
dining stating the County had not proved any link between such dining and
transmission of CV but let the order stand as it was part of Newsom’s statewide
mandate; Eric Swalwell who pushed the false Trump Russian collusion narrative
24/7 is looking more and more like the Manchurian Candidate with news of a
Chinese spy Fang Fang helping his campaign, placing an intern in his office and
cultivating him as a potential friend of China (has a similar déjà vu sound to
it like Feinstein having a Chinese spy as a driver for 20 years.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of December 7, 2020, the
number of shootings increased to nearing 4,000 at 3,989 of whom 680 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 309 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 “Rags to Riches” by Tony Bennett,
the fact that you rarely can be accused of procacity and a quote from Ambassador
Lu Sontian on rhw COVID-19 (Wuhan Virus), secure
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1. National Lard Day—created
by the Healthy Fat Coalition on December 8, 2018 to promote the use of animal
fats like lard in cooling due to its better flavor and cooking ease than other
fat and oil alternative (if you do cook with it, maybe a daily dose of fish oil
might be warranted) .
2. National Christmas Tree Day—created by Jace
Shoemaker-Galloway urging all celebrating Christmas to get a tree, put it up
and then decorate it to stand in all its lit glory in the living room, awaiting
gifts to be stored under it to be opened on Christmas Day.
3. 1953 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1953 on this day on a run of 6 weeks was “Rags to Riches” by Tony
Bennett to join 8 other number 1 songs. Here is a recording of her singing the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBuPGwYvuzY
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “procacity”
which means insolence, petulance which describes behavior of too many
politicians when they don’t get their way.
5.
Closed
Closet Door--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1950 of a noted child musician prodigy Dan Hartman who
was in his first band producing and writing songs at the age of 13. Sadly, he
was a closet gay and was infected with HIV which he kept secret while still
working and died of a related AIDS brain tumor on March 22, 1994 at age 43.
On
this day in:
a. 1660 a woman believed to be Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshal appeared on a
public English stage for the first time playing the role of Desdemona in
Shakespeare’s play Othello.
b. 1941 after President Roosevelt addressed a Joint Session
of Congress declaring that December 7 will be a day that will live in infamy,
both Houses voted to approve a Declaration of War against Japan.
c. 1941 Japanese forces simultaneously and
successfully commenced the attack on the Shanghai International Settlement, the
Philippines, Malaya, Hong Kong, the Dutch East Indies, and Thailand.
d. 1953 President Eisenhower delivered his “Atoms for Peace” Speech which
resulted in information on nuclear power to be distributed to schools,
hospitals, and research facilities.
e. 2019 in Wuhan, China, the first known case of the Wuhan flu also
known as COVID-19.
Reflections on the origin of COVID-19 confirmed in Wuhan: “The
source of infection of this new coronavirus has not been discovered, including
in America and all the different countries in the world. The WHO (World Health
Organisation) has not discovered where the infection comes from as this is the
first time this coronavirus has affected humankind. It is dangerous.” Lu Sontian,
Chinese Ambassador to South Africa February 3, 2020 who has since been recalled
but not from a good attempt at plausible denial not know where the Wuhan virus
came from but at least correct in his view the virus was dangerous.
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