Ridley's
Believe It Or Not December 25, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 627,555 new cases (a .79%
increase compared to a .64% increase yesterday) to bring the
total over 80 million to 80,191,630, 21,976,952
of which are active, 58,214,678 closed with 56,457,794
recoveries (96.98% compared to yesterday’s 96.98%) and 1,756,884 deaths
(3.02% compared to yesterday’s 3.02%) to continue the trend of increased cases
with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 160,199 (a .84% increase
compared to yesterday’s .70% increase) to bring the total over
19 million to 19,049,103 with 7,613,451 active cases of
which 28,659 (.38% of active cases and a fall from a 28,747 new peak), recently
on a disturbing upward trend with no dips from a high of 19,155 on July
23 (28,747 yesterday), are in serious or critical condition as
trend has shifted and is still continuing to go up, and 11,595,851
closures, 338,263 of which have been deaths (2.92% compared
to yesterday’s 2.92%) and 11,168,177 of which have been recoveries
(97.08% compared to yesterday’s 97.08%). Our death rate percentage
continues to improve and after many months is now .10% lower than the world
rate and .29% 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 1019 ranks behind Belgium (1639),
Italy (1181). Peru (1124), Spain (1065), UK (1031 which has now passed us
despite leading world in testing), and Bulgaria (1022) and only slightly worse
than France (955), Mexico (935), Argentina (934), Hungary (915 and (839) three
days ago so added to the list; Brazil (893), Chile (852 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 (787)
and Bolivia (772) and we have now conducted 3,027,872 more tests to bring the
total to 243,163,621 (now at 732,543/M compared to Russia at 603,531/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 767,826/M.
Non CV Case News: Nashville’s downtown was rocked with a massive
explosion when a parked RV exploded fortunately after police were able to
evacuate the neighborhood and only 3 people were injured; Blue Mayor of
Nashville John Cooper came across on interviews chuckling on what police were
doing to insure the blast was the only one that would occur today; leftist
pseudo “journalist” Renea Baek Goddard and 3 others have been arrested in this
summer’s BLM “protests” in Little Rock for trying to burn police vehicles; in a
day late and dollar short like moment, 20 yr. old William Moss who fired two
shots into the back of NYPD Officer Connor Boalick who was not injured due to
his wearing a vest apologized for shooting the officer (doubtful if that will
reduce his sentence for attempted murder); Witless Whitmer who has proven to be
so inept running the state of Michigan revealed whe was relieved that Biden
picked Harris though she indicated she would have accepted (the persons that
should be relieved are the American people having to live in fear when the 25th
came down, she would be in the Oval Office); California, a state with some of
the strictest lockdown rules in the nation, is experiencing a viral tsunami of
new CV cases now topping 2,000,000 forcing the state to seek in foreign lands
nurses and doctors to help treat the flood of new hospital patients.
Chicago/Baltimore
Gun Violence: In Chicago as of December 24, 2020, the
number of shootings increased to 4,127 of whom 703 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 371 behind Chicago at 332 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 “I Heard It On the Grapevine” by Marvin Gaye, the fact that are prospice in
your outlook on life and a quoted for W.E.B Du Bois on the pardons granted by
Andrew Johnson to former Confederates, secure in the knowledge that if you
want to send a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, college
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1. Christmas Day—celebrating the birth of Christ
on a Christmas like no others in our past history and hopefully never again in
our future with lock downs and shutdowns including Christmas church services and
the fear of CV infection curbing Christmas travel.
2. National Pumpkin Pie Day—celebrating
that delicious pie made from pumpkins that were vegetables indigenous to the New
World but whose flavor and texture quickly spread to Europe with cookbooks
appearing as early as 1653 on how to make pumpkin pie.
3. 1968 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1968 on this day on a run of 3 weeks was “I Heard It On
The Grapevine” by Marvin Gaye to join 15 other number 1 songs and join 9 other
acts with their first number one song, one of whom was Otis Redding who reached
the list posthumously after his death in 1967. Here is a recording
of Marvin Gaye singing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg
The singer who was known as the “Prince of Soul” grew up in a housing project
with a strict almost abusive father and Marvin went on to find great success at
Motown. On April 1, 1984 while trying to break up an altercation between his
parents at their home, his father pulled out a gun and shot him twice, killing
him.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is
“prospice” which means to look ahead which is a skill other than kicking a can
down the road that most of our fearless leaders lack.
5. Pennywise and Lifestyle
Foolish---celebrating
the birth on this day in 1967 of Jason Thirsk, bass player for the punk rock
band Pennywise who struggled with depression and alcohol and shot himself to
death on July 29, 1996 at the young age of 28.
On
this day in:
a. 1809 Doctor Ephraim McDowell performed the first successful in the world
removal of the ovaries in a surgery on Jane Crawford without the benefit of any
anesthetics, he removed her ovaries along with a tumor weighting 22.5 pounds in
25 minutes. His patient returned home after 25 days and lived another 32 years.
b.
1868 President Andrew Johnson in a healing moment, pardoned all Confederate
Veterans who fought against the Union in the Civil War.
c. 1951 hours after Harry and Harriette Moore had celebrated their 25th
wedding anniversary, a bomb exploded next to their house in Mims, Florida,
killing Harry and fatally wounding his wife who died 9 days later. 4 KKK
members were suspected of the killings in retribution for the Moores’ activities
in the Civil Rights Movement but no charges were ever filed and the closest to
justice, justice ever came was when a 4th member committed suicide
one day after being confronted by the FBI in 1952.
d. 1989 Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena
were tried in a show trial lasting an hour of committing genocide, found guilty
as would be expected under the circumstances, then led to a wall and executed
by a firing squad.
e. 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet
Union which dissolved the following day.
Reflections on the
granting of pardons to former Confederates who had fought against the Union: ”President
Johnson, forgetting his own pre-war declaration that the “great plantations
must be seized, and divided into small farms,” declared that this land must be
restored to its original owners and this would be done if owners received a
presidential pardon. The pardoning power was pushed and the land all over the
South rapidly restored. Negroes were dispossessed.” W.E.B Du Bois, Black
Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
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