Ridley’s Believe It Or Not January 17, 2021
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with
surging cases now over 95 million at 95,234,208 with 455,464 new cases (a .48%
increase and .71% yesterday) 25,280,277 of which are active, 70,125,024
closed with 68,087,035 recoveries (97.09% and 97.09% yesterday) and 2,038,019,
deaths (2.91% and 2.91% yesterday) to continue the trend of increased cases
with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages
with some plateaus.
CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 23
million at 24,454,500 with 148,457 new cases (a .61% increase and .84%
yesterday) with 9,631,206 active cases of which 28,840 (.30% of active cases
and a decrease now of 431 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious
or critical condition 14,823,374 closures, 406,971 of which
have been deaths (2.75% and 2.75% yesterday) and 14,416,403 of which have
been recoveries (97.25% and 97.25% yesterday). Our death rate percentage
continues to improve and after many months is now .16% lower than the world
rate and .10% 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 1226 ranks behind Belgium (1756),
Italy (1360), UK (1311) which had passed us despite leading world in
testing), and Bulgaria (1225), and only slightly worse than Peru (1167), Hungary
(1176), Peru (1167) Spain (1140), Mexico (1082), France (1075), Sweden (1019)
that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been
experiencing a rapid rise in deaths, Argentina (1000), Switzerland (999), Brazil
(983), Chile (910) that we recently passed, Bolivia (816) and Ecuador (805) and we have now conducted 1,648,249
more tests to bring the total to 285,401,375 (now at 859,485/M compared to
Russia at 661,786/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, Malta,
Singapore and UAE) but for the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with
tests at 927,419/M.
Non
CV Case News: Parler is in court seeking an injunction to Amazon’s abrupt
cancellation of service removing the communication app used by some 12 million
followers hiding behind its algorithms of hateful or calling for violence speech
(seems like many other Social Media giants followed Amazon’s lead act leading
one to wonder whether a collusion in concert to bar conservative thought from
the internet was occurring); Josh Hawley who had the temerity to question the
election of Biden because certain battleground states violated the rules of law
governing their elections has had Loews cancel a fund raiser because a liberal
lawyer was outraged that the chain was supporting a “traitor” and Simon and
Shuster cancelled its book deal with him on The
Tyranny of Big Tech; Fox News is airing a special tonight on the issue of
whether China still has leverage over Eric Swalwell due to his past association
with Fang Fang: https://www.foxnews.com/media/china-swalwell-spy-leverage-fang-fang-gordon-chang:
the political fallout from the storming of the Capitol continues as MLB
announced it is suspending political contributions from its PAC and evaluating its
guidelines; in another example that the divide is increasing not decreasing in
this country, the FBI arrested Daniel Baker, a self-described hard core leftist,
for trying to recruit supporters to attack Trump supporters planning to protest
at Florida’s capital the inauguration of Biden; Pelosi after working up the
Blues into a frenzy that Trump was a “clear and present danger” and calling the
Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to make sure the nuclear codes were secure
from any rash action by him now is setting no time to present Articles of
Impeachment to the Senate; Alec Baldwin who must have mixed feelings about the
election as he will no longer be playing Trump on SNL is in the news making a
fool of himself by touting he had a dream that Trump was being tried for
sedition in a courthouse with a noose out front (sick person with divisiveness
we need not); Rusty Hicks, the Chairman of the California Democratic Party who
had previously called the Newsom recall attempt a coup and linked it to the storming
of the Capitol has walked back those comments as the recall petition continues
to gather signatures over a million https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In the new-year gun violence is unchecked
primarily with shooters of color shooting and killing victims of color but it
looks like my data site Hey Jackass.com has now been blocked from giving out
daily data.
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a musical link to “Like a Virgin” by Madonna, the fact
that you live in Southern California and have no psychrophobia and a quote on the
Northridge Earthquake by Linda Sieger who lived through it along with her
husband and baby born the morning of it, 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
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1. National Bootleggers’
Day—created by
Infinium Spirits on this day in 2016 to commemorate Templeton Rye, one of the
more noted bootleg whiskeys that was produced in Templeton, Iowa shortly after
Prohibition came into effect on this day in 1920. The whiskey was reintroduced legally
in 2006 and produced by a distillery owned by Scott Bush and Myer Kerkhoff, the
grandson of Alphonse Kerkhoff, one of the more notable bootleggers in Templeton.
2.
National
Cable Car Day—celebrating
the issuance of the first patent in relation to the cable car on this day in
1871 which led to on September 1, 1873 the commencement of the Clay Street Hill
Railroad commencing operations in San Francisco.
3. 1985
Number One Song—the
number 1 song in 1985 on this day with a run of 6 weeks, 2 of which were at the
end of 1984, in that position was “Like a Virgin” by Madonna, joining 26 other number
one songs. Here is a recording of Madonna singing “Like a Virgin”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkSxhG4cbPo
The “Queen of Pop” is still on a roll, recording and performing and raking in
the dough.
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day is “psychrophobia” which means fear of the cold which given
climate change will be coming into disuse in the future.
5. High/Low Woman—celebrating or bemoaning
depending on your political outlook the birth on this day in 1964 of former
First Lady Michelle Obama.
On this day in:
a. 1917 Prohibition went
into effect after being ratified on the prior day.
b.
1977 capital punishment was resumed in the United States with Gary Gilmore having
the dubious distinction of being the first to be executed since Aaron Mitchell
on April 12, 1967 after electing death by firing squad.
c. 1992 in a better late than
never moment Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa visiting South Korea
apologized for enslaving Korean women as “comfort women” to satisfy the sexual
urges of the Japanese soldiers in World War II.
d. 1964 the 6.7 Northridge
Earthquake, whose epicenter was the town of Reseda, struck the San Fernando
Valley with effects felt throughout Southern California, killing 57 people, injuring
over 8700 people and causing an estimated $13--$44 billion in property damages.
e. 1998 Matt Drudge on The Drudge Report broke the Bill Clinton
Monica Lewinsky Scandal.
Reflections on the Northridge Earthquake: " A week before my son was
born, my husband and I couldn't decide if our son's middle name would be
Sebastian or Samson. I laid the argument to rest by saying God would give us a
sign. I gave birth to my son on Jan. 17, 1994, at 12:30AM in the Kaiser of
Woodland Hills. My husband went home to catch a little sleep before returning
to us later in day. The quake hit at about 4:00AM. When my husband and I were
reunited, the first thing I said, "I'm never asking God for a sign
again." Almost 20 years later, I still haven't asked for a sign and yes,
my son's middle name is Samson! We were impacted severely by the quake. Our
apartment was uninhabitable for about a week, so we were homeless with a
newborn and back then they had you leave the hospital less than 24 hours after
a birth. I can tell you that the hospital was not prepared for the quake. I
have other stories to tell about that time, but I like this one best.” Linda
Sieger
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