Ridley's Believe It Or Not
October 30, 2020
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 430,369
new cases (a .95% increase compared to a 1.75% increase yesterday)
to bring the total over 45 million to 45,724,808, 11,370,206
of which are active, 34,354,602 of which have been closed
with 33,163,598 recoveries (96.55%
compared to yesterday’s 96.55%) and 1,191,004 deaths (3.47%
compared to yesterday’s 3.47%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA
Cases: New cases of 57,492 with total cases over 9 million at 9,203,425 (a
.62% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.21%
increase) with 3,026,813 active cases of which 16,931 (.56% of active
cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with slight blips from a high of
19,155 on July 23 (16,874 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are
in serious or critical condition as trend
has shifted and may be continuing to go up, and 6,234,104 closures, 234,765 of
which have been deaths (3.77% compared to yesterday’s 3.77%) and 5,999,339
of which have been recoveries (96.23% compared to yesterday’s 96.23%)
(our death rate percentages continue 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digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive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 on a deaths per million
population measurement at 708 ranks behind Peru (1037), Belgium (974), Spain (767),
Brazil (747), Bolivia (742), Chile (739),
and Ecuador (712), and only slightly worse than Mexico (702), UK (680),
Argentina (672) newly added to the list, Italy (634), and Sweden (586) that
never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 1,281,025
more tests to bring total to 142,950,353 tests (now at 431,030/M compared to
Russia at 410,170/M so Trump is 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 at 492,175/M).
Non
CV Case News: If you had any doubt that CNN and MSNBC are in the pocket of the
DNC, that doubt should be erased as from them not a word of the 3rd
quarter 33.1% GNP growth (“fake news” by omission); Chuck Todd is usually
clueless but when he said something astute like questioning whether Biden’s
campaign was taking the CV pandemic too seriously by almost shutting down
completely his campaign he was slammed
by social media (the better question would have been whether concern over his
mental lapses will convince voters he is not mentally fit); the family of the
mentally disturbed Walter Wallace have called for justice and for calm and
criticized the police for lack of training in their son’s death but indicated
that murder charges were not called for; Ft. Lauderdale police arrested Junior
Alexander Cabral, 28, and Vladimir Cabral Cuevas, 20 for stealing mail,
including ballots, from a mail drop box in Ft. Lauderdale; Lemon bolstering his
similarity to a car that is totally flawed and breaks down repeatedly after it
leaves the lot, compared Trump supporters to drug addicts (and to think this
biased “journalist” intones that bias as news daily); waive goodbye to the idea
of journalists standing up for the freedom of the press as Cack News Network “journalist”
Jake Tapper intones that the New York
Post should cave into Twitter’s demands it delete its banned tweet on Hunter
Biden’s e-mail scandal; even though being ignored by the MSM, Bobulinski is the
perfect whistle blower who should be believed as he has contributed for years
to Democratic candidates and is not some conservative ideologue (great that Ro
Khanna, a Blue Representative has indicated as a recipient of his contributions
he will defend him from the media and political smears; after starting to
defund the police, Austin is joining the ranks of cities with retiring and
demoralized police forces and rising violent crime rates; in a Marxist “we will
hang the last capitalist with the rope he sold us” déjà vu, Silicon Valley techies are donating
more money to Biden than they did for Clinton; while many public schools are
banning in person teaching Governor Newsom’s kids are going to private schools
which are not under such restrictions.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence:
In Chicago as of October 29, 2020, the number of shootings increased
to 3,540 of whom 605 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 328 behind Chicago at 277 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 “Baby Boy“ by Beyonce feat. Sean
Paul, the fact that you do not experience excessive polypnea after a run
and a quote from RAF Wing Commander H.R.Allen on the bombing of Dresden, 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. Mischief Night—celebrated
first in England on 1790 as a night to commit pranks and mischief on one’s
neighbors, hopefully by not doing any serious physical damage to property.
2. National
Publicists Day—created by the Jordanna Stephan on October 29, 2015
to honor the work of publicists with a date to celebrate being October 30,
which is the anniversary date of the first press release written by Ivy Lee who
is known as the “Father of PR.” The profession can be a make or break for a company
trying to get its products and services accepted by the market place or to cope
with adverse news or promote favorable news.
3. 2003 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 2003 on a run of 10 weeks not continuous was “Baby Boy” by Beyonce feat. Sean Paul to join 10 other songs that made the number 1
list and joining 9 other songs that made the number 1 list for the first time. Here
is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ucz_pm3LX8
Beyonce, a 39 year old singer and actress was
formerly the lead singer for Destiny’s Child
and is one of the more successful singers in terms of number of record
sales. Sean Paul, a 47 year old Jamaican born reggae and dancehall musician has
had many of his albums nominated for Best Reggae Album.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “polypnea” which means rapid breathing which
describes to a tee what a good workout will do for your respiration.
5. Like a Chip Off the Block--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1981 of Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s second child
and first Jewish member of a First Family by way of conversion and a successful
business woman and Special Advisor to President Trump.
On this day in:
a. 1941 in what
would prove to be a life line to Great Britain President Roosevelt approved $1
billion under the Lend Lease Program.
b. 1961 in the
ultimate Soviet airbrushing of history moment the tomb of Stalin next to Lenin’s
was ordered removed due to violations of Lenin’s precepts for reburial in the
Kremlin Wall marked by a granite marker.
c. 1985
Space Shuttle Challenger launched
successfully into and returned from space in what would prove to be its last
mission before it exploded on January 28, 1986, after 78 seconds into the flight,
killing all seven crew members aboard, including the first civilian into space,
school teacher Christa McAuliffe.
d. 2005 the Dresden
Fraukenkirche destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden in 1945 and the rubble
left as a war memorial in East Germany was reconsecrated after a 13 year
rebuilding effort that started after German reunification.
e.
2014 Sweden became the first European Country to recognize the Palestine State.
Reflections on the 3 day
incendiary bombing of Dresden, clogged with refugees fleeing from the Red Army:
“The final phase of Bomber Command’s operations was far and away the worst. Traditional
British chivalry and the use of minimum force in war was to become a mockery
and the outrages perpetrated by the bombers will be remembered a thousand years
hence” Wing Commander H.R. Allen of the Royal Air Force.
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