PRESIDENTIAL CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND COINCIDENCIES

From Worldometer,  COVID-19 new deaths:

           DAY USA   WORLD   Brazil      India   South Africa

June      9     1093    4732        1185      246         82

July       5       251    3572          535       421       173

             7       993    5504        1312       479       192

           12       380    4118          659       500       108

           15     1001    5760        1261       614       107

           19       412    4606          715       675         85

           22     1205    7128        1293     1120        572

           26       450    4307         556       715        114
Aug      1    1462     6429       1191       765        193
            3       467     4430         514       514        213

            5     1362     6292       1394       849        345

          10       534     4813         593     1013        198
          12     1504     6556       1242       835        130
          16       522     4525         582       961        162
          18     1358     6312        1365    1089        282
          21     1170     6062        1031      953        225
          22       974     5349          823      918        144
          23       430     4247          495      846          72

          24       510     4356          679      854        100

          25     1290     5856        1215    1066        149

          26     1289     6341        1090    1017        194
          27     1143     6057          970    1065        126
          28     1105     5711          868    1019        115

Summary:

• The USA, with 4% of the World population, has 22% of all deaths from COVID-19.  How Donald Trump keeps bragging that we are doing really well, and many believing him, is further evidence that something is really wrong with the American society.  

• Did you know that 45% of us (not me, mind you) believe in ghosts?  
• Further, in a recent Gallup poll, 33% thought flying saucers were evidence of alien visitation.  I would not be surprised if most of Trump's support comes from these two groups.
• But we're not all at the hopeless edge, for "only" 13% believe astrology is real and 2% contend that the Earth is flat.

• Yesterday:

• USA had 49,601 new cases and 1105 new deaths.
• China had 9 new cases and no deaths.
• California had 1449 new cases and 19 new deaths.
• Florida had 3197 new cases and 148 deaths.
• New York had 559 new cases and 6 new deaths.
• Hawaii had 265 new cases and 4 new deaths.
• Germany had 1549 new cases and 9 new deaths.

Yesterday I shared a few characteristics of our past presidents.  Today, I'll add a few more.  To begin, this statement was sent to me today:

     Any President elected in a year ending in zero has not finished his term. 

Of course, the implication is that either Biden or Trump will die in office.  So I checked.  The truth, from Snopes, is that since 1840 all but two did perish in office:

• 1840:  William Harrison died of pneumonia at the age of 68 only one month after his inauguration.
• 1850:  Zachary Taylor was elected in 1849 and died in 1850 from a stomach disease.

• 1860:  Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth just after starting his second term in 1865.
• 1880:  James Garfield was shot in the back in a DC railroad station waiting room by Charles J. Guiteau in 1881, and died a few months later.

• 1900:  William McKinley was shot at the beginning of his second term in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz while shaking hands at an exposition in Buffalo, dying a few days later.

• 1920:  Warren Harding expired of a stroke or heart attack in 1923, although there is a persistent rumor that his wife poisoned him.  Kind of reminds me of Donald Trump, for there was a whole host of scandals.  Melania?

• 1940:  Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected for a third term, and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage just after starting his fourth term in 1945.
• 1960:  John Kennedy was elected in 1960 and was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963, who in turn was assassinated by Jack Ruby.

• 1980:  Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 and almost assassinated by John Hinckley in 1981.  He went on to serve a second term, and passed away in 2004.
• 2000:  Bill Clinton, of course, just spoke at the Democratic National Convention.

President of the USA is a hazardous job.  18% (eight) died in office, and half of them were assassinated.  However, many of those news statements you receive in your e-mail are fake.  Yet, this one is awfully close to being true.  Of course, some do believe in the stars:

One of the two 20-year pattern’s failures — President Ronald Reagan — is explained by the sign the alignment of these two planets occurred under. Alignments under the earth signs (Taurus, Capricorn, and Virgo) have led to dead presidents, but Reagan’s term occurred under an air sign, accounting for his survival.

Sure, that must have been it.  And Clinton?  But to carry this particular coincidence conspiracy to a higher state of creepiness:

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