Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 22, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues the new year with surging cases now past
112 million at 112,207,479 with 343,567 new cases (a .31% increase) 22,087,129
of which are active, 90,120,350 closed with 87,636,950 recoveries
(97.24% and 97.24% yesterday) and 2,483,400 deaths (2.76% and 2.76% 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 28,803,625 with 63,304 new cases (a .22% increase) with 9,243,998
active cases of which 16,922 (.18% of active cases and a decrease now of 12,349
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical
condition, 19,559,627 closures, 512,044 of which have been deaths (2.62%
and 2.63% yesterday) and 19,047,583 of which have been recoveries (97.38%
and 97.37% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after
many months is now .14% lower than the world rate and now .04% 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 1541 ranks behind Belgium (1885), UK (1773) which had passed us despite
leading world in testing), Italy (1589), and Portugal (1574) and only slightly
worse than Hungary (1488), Spain (1446),
Bulgaria (1425), Mexico (1388), Peru (1356), France (1294), Sweden
(1247) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been
experiencing a rapid rise in deaths, Brazil (1157), Switzerland (1139),
Argentina (1126), Poland (1115), Chile (1047), and Bolivia (972) 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 2/22/2021 64.2 million doses have been given, 1.37 million per day
in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will
take us some 10 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many
believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 7,604,725 total
doses have been given (up to 82.9% 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 down slightly to now at 36th 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 2/22/2021
in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 7,313 with COVID-19 patients
hospitalized occupying 12.2% of all hospital beds.
Non CV Case News: The hot water
Cuomo is in keeps getting hotter as Reds in New York are introducing legislation
to strip him of his emergency powers, Mayor De Blasio is slamming him for his
nursing home deaths, and the I word is being circulated along with the criminal
behavior charges (true to form Cuomo is blaming everyone including Trump for
his problems other than taking responsibility for his actions; Garland is
mouthing all the right responses to avoid a characterization that he will be
like Holder, a wing man for Biden and would not interfere with the Durham
investigation or any investigation of Hunter Biden; in yet another example of
judicial independence that the left was ranting due to the 3 confirmation to SCOTUS
by Trump was threatened, SCOTUS refused to block a subpoena of Trump’s tax
returns by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr.; Kristen Clark,
nominated by Biden to head the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ had her past
come up to haunt her with her claims that blacks are superior to whites (
nothing like a bit of reverse racism to stoke the flames of diviseness); John
Kerry who was an architect of the Iran nuclear deal was exposed meeting with
Iranian officials in an attempt to thwart Trump’s plans to withdraw from the agreement
(another Logan Act violation that under Biden will never see the light of
day?); the lone voice of sanity on the Clueless View, Meghan McCain, hit the nail on the head when she urged that
it is time for Fauci and his yo-yo pronouncements that may or may not have
anything to do with the science to be replaced; leave it to cartoonists to cut
through the spin to show us reality: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow;
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 21,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 378 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 “Driver’s License” by Olivia Rodrigo,
the fact that you enjoy a lot of quiety in your life and a quote by Mike
McKinley on the Great White Fleet, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
memorable events like Mother’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings,
or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a
unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the
recipient. Please contact me for the details on the pricing.
1. European Day for
Victims of Crime—celebrated on this day since 2015 to promote the policy that the
criminal law should have as one of its goals in addition to the prevention of
crime compensation for its victims.
2. National
Margarita Day--created by Todd McCalla in the 2000’s to protest the
low grade high corn syrup margarita mixes that frequent store shelves that
demean the character of this lively drink that has been around since the 30’s
and 40’s in the salted rim or salt less variety.
3. 2021 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 2021 on this day with a run of 6 weeks in
that position was “Driver’s License” by Olivia Rodrigo as the number 3 number
one song out of the box. Here is a recording of Olivia Rodigro singing “Drivers License”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDBbnmKpqQ
This 18 year old singer’s debut single is a great way to start a singing career
to bolster and acting career on the Disney Channel.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quiety” which means tranquility which is a state of being too often
missing in our lives.
5. Alcohol Is a
Killer of Nine Lives--celebrating the birth on this day in 1885 of Patrick Sullivan,
noted animator and creator of “Felix the Cat” silent cartoons but who was a
raging alcoholic rarely sober and died of alcoholism and pneumonia on February
15, 1933 at the age of 37.
On
this day in:
a. 1909 the “Great
White Fleet” of 16 battleships led by the USS Connecticut returned to the United States after a circumnavigation
ordered by President Theodore Roosevelt that had started on December 16, 1907.
b. 1947 the “Long
Telegram” advocating a policy of containment of the Soviet Union written by
George Kennan was received by Washington, D.C.
c. 1974
Samuel Byck attempted to hijack a Delta Airlines flight from Washington
Baltimore Airport in order to assassinate Richard Nixon by crashing it into the
White House, killing a policeman and shooting both pilots one of who died
before being wounded by police causing him to shoot himself in the head and
shortly die.
d. 1980 in the
Summer Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, the U.S. Ice Hockey Team in the
Semifinals came from behind to defeat the heavily favored Soviet team 4-3 in
the game forever known as “The Miracle on Ice” to advance to the finals and win
the Gold Medal by coming from behind and defeating Finland 4-2.
e. 1994 Aldrich
Ames and his wife were charged with espionage for the Soviet Union which resulted
in the execution by the Soviets of numerous CIA assets revealed to them by Aldrich.
In a plea bargain, his wife was sentenced to 5 years and he was sentenced to
life without possibility of parole and is rotting away in a minimum security
federal prison awaiting his 80th birthday on May 26.
Reflections on the Cruise of the Great White Fleet: “The fleet's Japan
visit had the desired result: it generated good will between both countries and
eased tensions that might otherwise have led to open conflict. Much of the
credit goes to Sperry, whose skill as a diplomat and professionalism as an
officer were crucial.” The Cruise of the
Great White Fleet Journalist Second Class Mike McKinley.
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