Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 21, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues the new year with surging cases now nearing
112 million at 111,863,912 with 1,064,095 new cases (a .96% increase) 22,156,190
of which are active, 89,687,322 closed with 87,211,760 recoveries
(97.24% and 97.23% yesterday) and 2,475,262 deaths (2.76% and 2.77% 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 28 million at 28,740,321 with 68,455 new cases (a .24% increase) with 9,297,755
active cases of which 17,206 (.19% of active cases and a decrease now of 12,065
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical
condition, 19,442,566 closures, 510,500 of which have been deaths (2.63%
and 2.63% yesterday) and 18,932,066 of which have been recoveries (97.37%
and 97.37% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after
many months is now .13% lower than the world rate and now .03% 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 1537 ranks behind Belgium (1883), UK (1770) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing), Italy (1585), and Portugal (1568) and only
slightly worse than Hungary (1483), Spain
(1435), Bulgaria (1423), Mexico (1385), Peru (1349), France (1287),
Sweden (1247) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently
been experiencing a rapid rise in deaths, Brazil (1152), Switzerland
(1137), Argentina (1125), Poland (1115), Chile (1043), and Bolivia (970) and we
have now conducted 347,767,593 tests (now at 1,046,717/M) compared to
Russia at 746,705/M) as we are conducting more tests in number and
on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain
small populations like Bahrain, Denmark, Israel, Malta, Singapore
and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at
1,243,646/M.
US Vaccinations: In the
U.S. as of 2/20/2021 63.1 million doses have been given, 1.33 million per day
in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will
take us some 9 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many
believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 7,453,768 total doses
have been given (up to 81.2% of doses received), but typical of Newsom’s
ineptness and because more than 1.5 million recall signatures have been turned
in, due to the power of growing signatures on his recall petition, California
has moved up slightly to now tied at at 35th out of 50 in terms of
the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states. A long way to go to get herd immunity and little improvement relative
to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor. As of 2/20/2021
in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 7,747 with COVID-19 patients
hospitalized occupying 12.7% of all hospital beds.
Non CV Case News: Former VP
Pence has declined an opportunity to speak before CPAC amid some reports of a
growing rift between him and Trump; Psaki continues to solidify her claim to
the “Dodger in Chief” as she refused to answer a question of whether the
president still considers Cuomo the gold standard in the response to the
pandemic (given his cover up and the number of nursing home deaths caused by
his directive his gold standard is really that of iron pyrite); Boeing is finally recovering from the 737 Max groundings
and is now facing a 777 Dreamliner with a PW4000 engine catastrophe on a United
Airlines flight to Hawaii and potential grounding of of its 777 Dreamliners for
more examination; Biden is revealing that at age 21 he walked into the U.S. Senate and sat down in the Presiding
Senator’s Chair only to be arrested (if true as opposed to prior recounting of
arrests or successes a revealing moment of a different period in our history);
Big Fredo may be moving closer to aping The
Godfather as his actions in distorting NY nursing home deaths may be
criminal (an early test of Biden’s vow to have an independent DOJ?); CNN cannot
it seems rid itself of covering for Cuomo’s nursing home deaths scandal and
continues to merit falling ratings and disgrace; in California where money is
the mothers’ milk of politics it is legal for politicians to request contributions
to their favorite charities and the only requirement is that the donation if
over $5000 must be reported (Newsom who will be facing most likely a recall
soon collected at Newsom’s behest $226 million and if anyone does not believe
those payments reek with quid pro quo they are total fools: finally some nations
are rising up a against Big Tech where it will hurt them most in their pocket
book as Canada is joining Australia to require payment from Facebook on content
from Canadian news sources (could not happen to a more arrogant company than
one led by Zuckerberg; although 80% of the recall Newsom signatures have been
verified, signature drive continues to insure a recall in the event that any of
the 1.5 million signatures already received are not valid to insure Newsom is
put on a recall ballot where he needs to be given his unmitigated ineptness: https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/
Chicago Gun
Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through February 20,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 376 persons shot of whom 79 have
died.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for
this day in history, a musical link to “The Box” by Roddy Ricch, the
fact that you can be when required a quiddle and a quote by Richard Nixon on
why he went to China, 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. National Grain
Free Day—created by Siete Family Foods on February 19, 2019 and celebrated
on this day in 2019 to promote non food grains that many people are allergic
to.
2. Mother Language Day--created by UNESCO November 17, 1999 and first celebrated on this
day in 2000 to promote the preservation of mother languages that with urbanization
and the internet are slowly becoming extinct.
3. 2020 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 2020 on this day with a run of 11 weeks in
that position was “The Box” by Roddy Ricch to join 21 other number 1 songs and
13 other acts with their first number 1 song. Here is a recording of Roddy
Ricch singing “The Box”:
`https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNZqm3dxd2w%20
This former Cripps started rapping at a very early age and his rapping career
is in high gear.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quiddle” which means a fastidious person which is a good trait to
possess in the tendency for “fake news”.
5. Loss of the Oomph--celebrating the
birth on this day in 1915 of noted actress and “Oomph Girl” designated by
Warner Brothers in 1939 as “The Oomph Girl” who received some 250 marriage
proposals in a week but although working steadily was a 3 pack a day smoker and
died of cancer on January 21, 1967 at the age of 51.
On
this day in:
a. 1878 the
first telephone directory was published in New Haven, Connecticut.
b. 1925 The New Yorker published its first issue.
c. 1948
to the joy of auto racers and the bane of greeners, NASCAR was incorporated.
d. 1972 President
Nixon visited China to begin the normalization of Sino-American relations.
e. 1995 Stephen
Fossett landed in Leader, Saskatchewan after becoming the first person to cross
the Pacific in a solo balloon.
Reflections on Nixon’s trip in 1972 to China: “Taking the long view, we simply cannot afford to leave China forever
outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its
hates and threaten its neighbors." Richard Nixon, sadly we also need to
have a more open eye to Chinese practices that are not in our best interests
and pose existential threats to this country.
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