Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 26, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues the new year with cases now past 113 million at 113,958,389
with 408,282 new cases (a .36% increase) 21,909,571 of which are active,
92,038,418 closed with 89,510,696 recoveries (97.25% and 97.25% yesterday) and
2,527,722 deaths (2.75% and 2.75% 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 29 million at 29,122,324 with 69,392 new cases (a .24% increase) with 9,075,264
active cases of which 15,837 (.17% of active cases and a decrease now of 13,434
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical
condition, 20,047,060 closures, 522,667 of which have been deaths (2.61%
and 2.61% yesterday) and 19,524,393 of which have been recoveries (97.39%
and 97.39% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after
many months is now .14% 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 1573 ranks behind Belgium (1893), UK (1797) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing), Italy (1610), and Portugal (1596) and only
slightly worse than Hungary (1534), Spain
(1478), Bulgaria (1465, Mexico (1415), Peru (1380), France (1318),
Sweden (1265) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently
been experiencing a rapid rise in deaths, Brazil (1184), Poland (1146), Switzerland (1145), Argentina
(1141), Chile (1061), and Bolivia (983) and we have now conducted 355,916,805
tests (now at 1,071,159/M) compared to Russia at 754,921/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 1,308,915/M.
US Vaccinations: In the
U.S. as of 2/26/2021 70.5 million doses have been given, 1.45 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 8,310,945 total
doses have been given ( 73.6% 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 up 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 2/24/2021 in California we
have reduced hospitalizations to 6,152 with COVID-19 patients hospitalized
occupying 10.7% of all hospital beds.
Non CV Case News: At the CPAC
Convention, speakers came out swinging at Big Tech, the cancel culture of the
left and Cuomo (can Reds if they turn to Trump again bring back the RINOs and
insure his rhetoric divorced from his policies brings in that diminishing
number of moderate Blues and growing number of Indies?); the Biden
Administration faced with an ignored foreseen surge in illegals is turning to
the Obama and Trump playbook and creating tent cities to house them (rarest of
the rare is a potential illegal who will be listening to Psaki’s pronouncements
that now is not the right time to cross the border even though the Wall
construction has halted ICE severely handcuffed in its ability to deport
illegals, even criminals among them); books by Dr. Seuss that have freed
millions of beginning school readers from the boredom of inane Dick, Spot and
Jane readers are being banned from the Loudon School District because they are
racist (when if ever will this nonsense of wrongly perceived racism end?); the
Buffalo School District is now promoting the idea that not some but all whites
promote systematic racism (God help us!); Big Fredo Cuomo may has some company
on the Nursing Home CV Deaths Front, has Red legislators in Michigan are
demanding an investigation of Witless Whitmer’s handling of nursing homes
during the pandemic; in a reaffirmation of the 4th Amendment, the
liberal leaning 9th Circuit in a 3 judge panel ruling found
California’s ban of magazines with more than 10 rounds unconstitutional last
year and will be revisiting the issue with the full court; Blue DA of San
Francisco Boudin announced that his 76 year old father serving a 75 to like
sentence for murder during a Brink’s armored car robbery in 1981 has been
vaccinated while in prison for CV; Blinken must have nodded off during a
virtual meeting with Mexico’s Foreign Secretary as he had the Mexican Flag
displayed upside down; the Chancellor of the nation’s largest school district
New York City has announced his resignation to have time to grieve over the
death of friends and family members to COVID-19; leave it to a political
cartoonist to expose the myth of Pelosi’s COVID-19 relief bill as being
directed to COVID-19 relief 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 25,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 407 persons shot of whom 82 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 “Alone” by Tommy Dorsey and His
Orchestra with vocals by , the fact that you enjoy songs in quinible and a quote by Pope John Paul II on environmental protection, secure in the knowledge that if you
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1. National Skip the
Straw Day—created by Susan Tate and the Coral Keepers on February 8, 2017 to
promote the end of plastic straws which are dangerous to marine life and
pollute the ocean waters.
2. International Stand
Up to Bullying Day—celebrated since 2008 on the last Friday in February and the third
Friday in November and created when 2 Nova Scotia high school seniors Travis
Price and David Shepherd were outraged that a fellow student was being bullied
for wearing a pink shirt to school and purchase 5 pink shirts at a discount
store and sent them to fellow students to wear to protest the bullying; the
idea quickly spread and has been celebrated since 2008.
3. 1936
Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1936 on this day with a run of 4 weeks in
that position was “Alone” by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. Here is a
recording of Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Cliff Weston on vocals
performing “Alone”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLWXhj1CMho
Dorsey was a trombone player in the big band
era and known as the “Sentimental Gentleman of Swing” but after a big meal and
using sleeping pills he choked to death in his sleep on November 26, 1951 after
a big meal. Weston was a big band singer who had 2 number 1 recordings and died
at age 47.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quinible” which means a high pitched voice.
5. A Lasting
Hibernation Too Soon--celebrating the birth on this day in 1943 of Robert “The Bear”
Hite, the co-lead vocalist for the band Canned Heat who on April 5, 1981 during
a break in a performance at the Palomino Club in North Hollywood was handed a
vial of heroin which he snorted and went into a coma and after failing to be
revived with cocaine some roadies drove him not to a hospital but to a band
member’s home where he died at age 38.
On
this day in:
a. 1914 the third
sister ship to the RMS Titanic and the RMS Olympic, the HMMS Britannic
was launched and was supposed to be more “unsinkable” than the Titanic while still being fitted out World War I broke
out and she was requisitioned as hospital ship and had the misfortune of
running into a man made iceberg in the form of a German mine on November 21,
1916 near Greece after returning from Great Britain after unloading its wounded
passengers and quickly sank, but unlike the Titanic, 1035 survived the sinking and only 30
lost their lives as the ship quickly sank to merit the distinction of being the
largest liner to ever sink.
b. 1935 to the joy
of the out manned RAF who would later fight in the Battle of Britain, Robert
Watson-Watt carried out a demonstration near Daventry, England that would lead
to the creation of radar.
c. 1971 to the joy
of environmentalist present and in the future UN Secretary General U Thant
signed a UN Proclamation designating the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
d.
1993 in an omen of what would happen over 8 years later a truck packed with
over 1000 pounds of explosives in the
parking garage under the North Tower of
the World Trade Center exploded killing 6 people and injuring a 1000 but failed
in its goal to topple the North Tower
into the South Tower to collapse both towers. All of the 6 perpetrators
save Yasin who remains on the FBI’s most wanted list have either been killed or
are rotting time in prison.
e. 1984 having
accepted an invitation to perform, the New York Philharmonic performed in
Pyongyang a concert broadcast live throughout North Korea in the first ever visit
by Americans to North Korea since the Korean War but failed to accomplish
despite some hopes for a softening of American North Korean relations.
Reflections on Earth Day: “The Earth
will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We
cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future
generations.”—Pope John Paul II
How true the observation is on Earth Day and the other 364 days in the year.
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