Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 16, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues the new year with surging cases now
over 109 million at 109,919,194 with 537,071 new cases (a .49% increase) 22,833,913
of which are active, 87,085,281 closed with 84,659,865 recoveries
(97.21% and 97.21% yesterday) and 2,425,416 deaths (2.79% and 2.79% 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 28,298,996 with 59,226 new cases (a .21% increase) with 9,439,537
active cases of which 18,931 (.20% of active cases and a decrease now of 10,340
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical
condition, 18,918,665 closures, 499,309 of which have been deaths (2.64%
and 2.65% yesterday) and 18,419,356 of which have been recoveries (97.36%
and 97.35% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after
many months is now .15% lower than the world rate and now .05% 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 1503 ranks behind Belgium (1867), UK (1735) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing), Italy (1559), and Portugal (1525) and only
slightly worse than Hungary (1435), Spain
(1411), Bulgaria (1398), Mexico (1346), Peru (1319), France (1267),
Sweden (1232) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently
been experiencing a rapid rise in deaths, Switzerland (1128), Brazil
(1124), Argentina (1107), Poland (1085), Chile (1022), and Bolivia (954) and we
have now conducted 337,267,136 tests (now at 1,015,113/M) compared to
Russia at 735,063/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
1,218,786/M.
US Vaccinations: In the
U.S. as of 2/15/2021 54.6 million doses have been given, 1.64 million per day
in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will
take us some 8 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many
believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 6,153,109 total
doses have been given (up to 76.3% 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 improved and is now at 33rd
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 2/16/2021 in California we have reduced
hospitalizations to 9,299/M with COVID-19 patients hospitalized occupying 15.5%
of all hospital beds.
Non CV Case News: Cuomo may be
a lying politician on the nursing home scandal but when it comes to pulling wool
over the voters eyes he remains a master as 61% of New Yorkers in one poll approve
of his handling of communications on the pandemic (doubt if anyone who lost a
loved one in the nursing homes due to CV-19 was in the polling sample); good to
see that Blue politicians in New York must still think it is the Year of the
Rat as they are abandoning and attacking Cuomo like rats leaving a sinking ship
(even the nation’s most pathetic mayor De Blasio has joined the chorus); the
stench from the Feces City by the Bay has spread to its school board as it is spending
time not on reopening the schools to in class learning but rather an inane effort
to rename schools with “offensive names
like Washington or Lincoln” (the board must be oblivious to the fact that the
school kids hurt worst by a lack of in classroom learning are minorities and
special needs); the Los Angeles School Board not to be outdone by its leftist
neighbor up North, is proposing to reduce is school police force and replace
many of its members with “school climate coaches” to address poor performance
of minorities, high absenteeism and disciplinary and suspension issues; in a déjà
vu Reagan/Tip O’Neill amnesty with secure borders moment without the secure
border deception, Biden is proposing amnesty for the over 11 million illegals (number
may be far in excess of that number) while at the same time destroying ICE’s
ability to deport and turning our borders into open borders (if you think the
caravans of illegals was off the charts in the past prepare for a tidal wave of
unskilled, illiterate illegals with kids that will devastate our cities’ and
states’ abilities to provide education and other social services; the Conway
household may be enjoying some new marital bliss as George Conway has cut his
ties to the Lincoln Project and called for its disbandment as details of contributions
going to co-founders mostly and a growing scandal of sexual harassment by
co-founder John Weaver; VP Harris seems to be filling out her dance card with
the 25th Waltz as she is making calls to foreign leaders without Biden
(at 78 and with all the signs of a fading mental capacity, a safe bet would be
he never completes his term); in a glaring and perhaps deadly reminder of the
folly of the war on fossil fuels and the total reliance on renewable energy,
the freezing weather in Texas caused many of the wind turbines that supply 23%
of the electricity to Texas to freeze up resulting in massive black outs across
the state (hopefully a wakeup call to the likes of Biden, Kerry and AOC if they
have the integrity to listen); Dr. Fauci has become the Yo-Yo Man from his flip
flops early on mask wearing to his most
recent attacking Harris for starting from scratch to reversing that attack
yesterday (was he looking over his shoulder fearful that an attack on a Biden
Administration member means the axe?); 6 term “Red” Rep Kingzinger who was
disowned by 11 family members for supporting an invocation of the 25th
against Trump and voting to impeach him is off to the RINO races by announcing
the formation of a PAC to take back the Republican Party from the influence of Trump;
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 15,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 345 persons shot of whom 73
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 “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson feat. Bruno
Mars, the fact that Blues have joined the chorus denouncing the quatsch heard at Cuomo’s news conference and a quote
from Louis Armstrong on celebrating Marti Gras in New Orleans, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like
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1. Elizabeth Peratrovich
Day (Alaska)—honoring the accomplishments of this Tlingit born on July 4, 1911
in Petersburg, Alaska (the Alaskanpoet’s boyhood home), who was a tireless activist for equality for
Alaska Natives and was instrumental in securing the passage of the Anti Discrimination
Act of 1945 to become the first state or territory to require full and equal
accommodations, facilities, and privileges to all citizens in places of public
accommodations within the jurisdiction of the Territory of Alaska and to provide
penalties for violation.
2. Marti Gras—celebrated in the
colonies first in present day Louisiana
in 1703 and really took off in terms of celebrations when New Orleans was
founded in 1718 expanding to society balls, street parties and dinners until
the Spanish acquired Louisiana in 1762 and ended the practice which fortunately
was revived after Louisiana became a state in 1812. The parades have been
cancelled, restaurants shut down and bars limited to package sales so Bourbon
Street in the French Quarter is devoid of any traffic and blocked of due to
fears of having a CV super spreader event.
3. 2015 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 2015 on this day with a run of 14 weeks in
that position was “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars to join 8 other
number 1 songs and 5 other acts recording their first number 1 song. Here is a
recording of Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars singing “Uptown Funk”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0
Mark Ronson is a 45 year old English born singer who splits half his time here
and the other in England where he is known as one of England’s best dressed men
and an avid cannabis user.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quatsch” which means nonsense which is what we heard at Cuomo’s first
news conference on the nursing home scandal.
5. Hard
Without Balance--celebrating the birth on this day in 1962 of English singer Geoffrey
Laurence Burton better known to his fans as John Balance who formed one of the
first openly gay duos but used drugs and alcohol too much and lost his balance
and fell from a 2nd story balcony on November 13, 2004 and died from
the fall.
On
this day in:
a. 1923 Howard
Carter unsealed in Egypt the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
b. 1968
in Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency phone system was created.
c. 1978
the first computer bulletin board was created (CBBS in Chicago).
d. 1996 the
Chicago bound Amtrak Capitol Limited collided with a MARC commuter train near
Silver Springs, Maryland, killing 3 crew and 8 passengers and injuring 11
passengers on the MARC train and injuring 15 passengers on the Capitol Limited.
e. 2005 Russia ratified the Kyoto
Protocol, causing it to come into effect.
Reflections on celebrating
Marti Gras in New Orleans: "There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it
don't look like it's about to come true — to be King of the Zulu's parade.
After that, I'll be ready to die." — Louis Armstrong, fortunately for his
fans after being king on March 1, 1949, he was with us for 22 years until July
6, 1971.
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