Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not February 9, 2021
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with
surging cases now over 107 million at 107,007,788 with 403,490 new cases (a .68%
increase) 25,590,547 of which are active, 81,820,731 closed with 79,469,540
recoveries (97.13% and 97.13% yesterday) and 2,351,191 deaths (2.87% and 2.87%
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 27
million at 27,700,629 with 99,317 new cases (a .36% increase) with 9,680,957
active cases of which 21,460 (.22% of active cases and a decrease now of 7,811
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition,
18,118,989 closures, 479,772 of which have been deaths (2.65% and 2.65%
yesterday) and 17,639,217 of which have been recoveries (97.35% and 97.35%
yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many
months is now .22% lower than the world rate and now .06% 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 1444 ranks behind Belgium (1848), UK (1672) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing), and Italy (1523) and only slightly worse
than Portugal (1430), Hungary (1374), Bulgaria (1371), Spain (1348), Mexico (1298), Peru (1282),
France (1226), Sweden (1202) that never closed its economy down like we did but
has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in
deaths, Switzerland (1114), Brazil (1094), Argentina (1091), Poland (1041),
Chile (993), and Bolivia (929) and we have now conducted 327,171,794 tests
(now at 984,900/M) compared to Russia at 719,312/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 1,157,947/M.
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of
2/9/2021 44.4 million doses have been given, 1.53 million per day in the last
week. In California 4,914,360 total doses have been given (66.5% of doses
received), but typical of Newsom’s ineptness and despite the power of growing
signatures on his recall petition, California has slightly improved and is now at
39th 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 but some improvement relative to
other states but still a good reason to recall this inept governor. As of 2/9/2021
in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 11,904/M with COVID-19
patients hospitalized occupying 19.824.5% of all hospital beds.
Non
CV Case News: The kangaroo court impeachment trial of Ex-President Trump has
begun with polls of Americans showing how deeply divided we are as a nation
with a slim majority favoring conviction (polls notwithstanding, there is no
chance that the Senate will have a 2/3 vote to convict as required by the
Constitution and the Senate will be distracted from addressing really important
issues like dealing with the pandemic); in another example of the vitriol felt
by Blues, a Constitutional Amendment has been reintroduced to limit the ability
of a president to pardon himself, his family, his administration officials and
campaign advisers (chances of this moving forward to even being placed before
the states to ratify are slim, none and nonexistent); in another example of the
world being made more dangerous due to cyber hacking, the water treatment
facility serving Oldsmar, Florida was hacked into and taken over for 3-5
minutes by an unknown hacker who remotely increased the amount of sodium
hydroxide used to treat water from 100 parts per million to 11,000 parts per
million; Neera Tanden, Biden’s pick to head up the Office of Management and
Budget, ran into to her past rabid bias against Reds in numerous past social
media examples (Say it isn’t so Joe, with Tanden your push for Unity is only a
charade for show); 51 House Reds have written to Biden condemning the tsunami
of illegal aliens across our Southern
border rising to 3,500 per day including 300 unaccompanied minors due in large
part to Biden’s reversal of most of Trump’s immigration policies and his siren
call of the need for a path of citizenship; the idea that a rabid
anti-Trumpster like Senator Patrick Leahy who in the absence of
Constitutionally required Chief Justice can somehow be impartial is mind
boggling; while Blues are fixated with insuring that Trump will be marginalized
forever and never hold office the Palm Beach City Council is having a hearing
to determine whether Trump is a “bona fide” employee of Mar-A-Lago and as such
can use the resort as a residence (another example of an abuse of NIMBY); WAPO
lives up to its well deserved reputation as a rag not worth reading as its
obituary heading for Marty Schottenheimer who died at age 77 of Alzheimer’s
Disease was slammed for its dig that his teams “faded in the postseason”
compared to its obit lauding Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who killed himself and 2
daughters by detonating a suicide vest to avoid capture by U.S. troops, as an
"austere religious scholar;” House Blues are moving forward with the idea
of a $1,400 stimulus check but eliminating it for any one earning more than
$200,000 while Biden in a meeting with top CEO’s is in favor of checks to those
earning $75,000; the Senate voted 56-44 to continue the impeachment trial of
Ex-President Trump; Biden has come out in opposition to the effort to recall
Newsom and the petition continues to attract more signatures now over 1.4
million (once the recall election is validated to go forward the question
should become will Senator Feinstein who appears to be at the end of her mental
rope retire to give Newsom a chance while he still is governor to name a Blue replacement?);
here’s the link to join the final
100,000 signatures to put Newsom 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 8, 2021,
gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color
in Chicago is alive and well with 308 persons shot of whom 64 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 “Low” by Flo Rida, the fact that you rarely
leave your tasks quab and a quote by Thomas Sowell on weather forecasts and
making bets on them, 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. Safer Internet
Day—created in 2004 with the goal of making the internet a
safer place for users especially children.
2. Read in the
Bathtub Day—celebrating
that time honored way of staying in a bathtub longer—reading one’s favorite
book and unless sitting down in a walk-in bath, making sure it is not dropped
into the water.
3. 2008
Number One Song—the
number 1 song in 2008 on this day with a run of 10 weeks in that position was “Low”
by Flo Rida to join 13 other number 1 songs and 7 other acts that had their
first number 1 song. Here is a recording
of Flo Rida singing “Low”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckKFxMw6z0c
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day is “quab” which means unfinished which describes the effort
that need to be made to unify this nation.
5. To Die In One’s
Sleep--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1975 of Clinton Grybas, considered by many to be one
of Australia’s best sports journalists and broadcasters but died on January 5,
2008 way too early from a head wound inflicted while sleep walking.
On this day in:
a. 1870 President Grant
signed a Joint Resolution of Congress creating the U.S. Weather Bureau.
b. 1950 Senator
McCarthy en route toward a path of censure by the Senate, falsely charged that
the State Department was riddled with Communists.
c. 1964 the Beatles made their first
appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show before
an estimated viewing audience of some 73 million.
d. 1971 the 6.5-6.7 Sylmar
Earthquake hit the Greater Los Angeles Area, killing 64 and injuring some 2,000
others.
e. 1971 Satchel Paige became the
first Negro League player to be inducted into
the
Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
Reflections on the weather forecast: “Would
you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why
should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even
less foundation?” Thomas Sowell, noted economist and fellow at the Hoover Institute.
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