Ridley’s Believe It Or Not August 1, 2020
CV World: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues with 360,884 new
cases (a 2.06% increase compared to a 1.10% increase
yesterday) to bring the total nearing over 18
million to 17,902,508 cases, 5,952,417
of which are active, 11,950,091 of which have
been closed with 11,264,292 recoveries (94.26% compared
to yesterday’s 94.19%) and 685,790 deaths (5.74% compared
to yesterday’s 5.81%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages
and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA: New
cases of 337,827 with total cases surging to near 5 million at 4,736,011 (a
7.68% increase compared to yesterday’s 5.40% increase) with 2,240,121 active
cases of which 18,685 (18,783 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition continuing
a decreasing trend over the last week, and 2,495,790 closures, 157,278 of
which have been deaths (6.30% compared to yesterday’s 6.36%) and 2,338,612 of
which have been recoveries (93.70% compared to yesterday’s 93.64%)
(our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single
digits since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May
10 but remain higher than the world probably due to idiots like Cuomo sending
positive CV patients into nursing homes to infect the residents and staff who
then die and accounted for some 40% of our deaths). Total test have increased to 58,909,717.
Non CV News: Governor
Murphy of New Jersey is waging a holy war against the Atilis Gym but appears to
be ready to sign a bill passed by the Open Borders Blue dominated legislature
that would allow illegal aliens the right to get professional license (totally
insane to add more entrants to fight with citizens for good paying jobs; one of
the leading contenders for Biden’s VP slot, Karen Bass who demanded that Trump
remain silent on the death of John Lewis, is taking flack for her speaking a
Scientology building dedication and her praising Fidel Castro as a great leader
for the Cuban people; as cyber security experts raise the alarm that there is
nothing to prevent China from accessing personal data on Tik-Tok, Trump appears
ready to ban it in the U.S. very soon; in New Jersey the clash between “Shutdown
Murphy” and the Atilis Gym continues as the owner cheered on by onlookers tore
down the boards the state had covered the entrance with (doubt there is any data
supporting a finding that the gym is a CV spreading hotspot); Witless Whitmer must
be fuming as federal agents as part of Operation Legend are coming to Detroit,
but the police chief of Detroit is jumping for joy (note that Detroit has been
largely spared of the rioting and looting following George Floyd’s death
because the DPD has not backed down or stood clear if that activity looked like
it was to occur); Blue Representative from Arizona Raúl Grijalva has just joined the select group of 12 U.S. Representatives
that have tested positive for COVID-19; Hurricane Isiasis at only CAT 1 is
bearing down on Florida then to run up the East Coast, bringing lots of rain
and potential for flooding.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of July 31, 2020, the
number of shootings increased by 19 to 2,326, of whom 412 have died ( with 7 more deaths so much for the
defund the police movement and for the effectiveness of Chicago’s
stay at home order and a complete dereliction of duty by Mayor Lightfoot other
than swearing at people outraged over the killings); 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 217 behind Chicago now at 195 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 more deadly and more
numerous than shootings by police or random mass shootings?).
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a musical link to NSYNC, the fact that your life is not
pediculous, and a quote from Bill Helmer
on Charles Whitman being shot back at, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift
for any memorable events like Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays,
weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you
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1. World Scout Day—celebrating the week long opening on this day in 1907 of the
first Scout Camp on Brownsea Island.
2. Mead Day—created
by the American Homebrewers’ Association in 2002 and celebrated on the first
Saturday in August to promote the brewing of mead, an alcoholic beverage that has
been around for millenniums and whose main base to be fermented is honey.
3. 2000 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 2000 on this day on a run of 2
weeks was “It’s Gonna Be Me” by NSYNC in their first number 1 song. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMlWwIXg3M.
This 5 person boy band started in 1995 and played until 2002 when its members
including Justin Timberlake pursued solo careers. The name was picked as Justin
Timberlake’s mother thought their voices were in sync and the name is created
from the letter of the first name of each member.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pediculous” which
means lousy which probably describes Biden’s candidacy and the amount of
enthusiasm for him to a tee.
5. Not Grateful to Be Dead--celebrating the birth on this day in 1942 of noted guitar player
and singer and founder of the Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia, who smoked heavily, used
drugs heavily and suffered from diabetes and after checking into to a rehab
facility following his release from Betty Ford died from a heart attack on
August 9, 1995.
On this
day in:
a. 1883 to the joy of breakfast lovers
everywhere, Henry Perky patented shredded wheat.
b. 1966 Charles Whitman after
stabbing his wife and mother to death went to the Texas Tower at the University
of Texas, killing 3 in the tower and then going to the observation deck,
barricading himself in and in the next 96 minutes shot and killed 11 and wounded
31, before being shot and killed by an Austin policeman as police and civilians
were firing from the ground to distract Whitman.
c. 1981 MTV began broadcasting.
d. 1993 the Great Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 peaked after flooding some 30,000 square miles,
killing some 32 people and causing some $15 billion in property damage.
e. 2007 the 8 lane I-35W Bridge over the
Mississippi River at Minneapolis, one of 75,000 bridges in the nation that had
been rated “structurally deficient” collapsed during rush hour, killing 13 and
injuring 145 others.
Reflections on the Texas
Tower Shootings and the civilians’ response: “These guys were pretty good shots.
There was a lot of lead flying up there at him.” Bill Helmer, a graduate
student was there witnessing the shootings.
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