© April 10, 2021 Michael P.
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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not April 11, 2021
CV World
Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year
with cases now over 136 million at 136,613,950 cases (135,882,981
yesterday), 23,824,426 of which are active, 112,789,524 closed with 109,840,692
recoveries (97.39% and 97.38% yesterday and 2,948,832 deaths (2.61% and 2.62%
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 31 million at 31,918,591 (31,863,678 yesterday) with 6,862,240
active cases of which 9,172 (9087 yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (.13% of
active cases and now for the last 6 days reducing the decrease from the peak of
29,271 on 12/31/2020 to 20,099) are in serious or critical condition, 25,056,351
closed, with 575,829 deaths (2.30% and 2.30% yesterday) and with 24,480,522
recoveries (97.70% and 97.70% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues
to improve and after many months is now .31% lower than the world rate and now
.07% lower than Canada which has the socialized type medicine Biden may well
want to implement here but at least has approved 4 vaccines as opposed to our 3.
Standing: On a deaths per
million population measurement on a steady climb to 1732 the U.S. ranks behind
Hungary the new number 1 (2429), Bulgaria (20871), Belgium (2015), Italy (1892),
and UK (1864) which had passed us despite leading world in testing),
and only slightly worse than Portugal (1663), Brazil (1653) Spain
(1632), Peru (1640), Mexico (1610), Poland (1545) France (1510), Sweden
(1342) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been
experiencing a steady rise in deaths, Argentina (1269), Chile (1265),
Switzerland (1201), and Bolivia (1055).
Tests: We have now
conducted 419,380,697 tests (now at 1,261,254/M) compared to number 2 now
France at 1,063,877/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 as king of the mountain with respect to tests at
1,970,113/M.
CV Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by
Biden and his lackeys that there is no crisis of illegals surging across the
border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the
Northern Triangle and Mexico which is 11th on my list of deaths
from the pandemic at 1593/M and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in
terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows even though the
data may be suspect as underreported:
Guatemala: Active cases: 10,586 Deaths/M
386
Honduras: Active
cases: 115,202 Deaths/M 476
El
Salvador: Active cases: 1,480 Deaths/M
315
US Vaccinations: As of 4/11/2021
187 million doses have been given, 3.14 million per day in the last week
(sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now
reduced to some 3 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many
believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 22,754,163 total
doses have been given (78.4% of doses received to equal the U.S.
average of 78.7%), but with the pressure of a certain recall coming endangering
Newsom, California has risen up from 26th to 28th
tied with Indiana out of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses
administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 19.8% of
its population fully vaccinated has moved down from 34th tied with
Florida and Louisiana to 36th tied with Florida in terms of
percentage of population fully vaccinated. A long way to go to get herd
immunity and lagging in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and
percentage of population vaccinated compared to other states and a great reason
to recall this inept and hypocritical governor.
Non CV Case News: Lieutenant Nazario in his
Army uniform who is African and Hispanic was stopped near Windsor, Virginia after
with his blinkers on looking for a safe place to stop in the dark at an open BP
station and was approached with by 2 police officers guns drawn, pulled from
the car, pepper sprayed and cuffed and as his complaint alleges threatened with
bodily harm before being released (we need this sort of police behavior fueling
the BLM narrative like a hole in the head); in another example of how fraught with
danger police stops are, police in Minneapolis already on pins and needles due
to the Chauvin trial and the likely result of a not guilty verdict made a traffic
stop of 20 year old Daunte Wright who they tried to detain after learning he
had an outstanding warrant but failed as he was able to reenter his car and try
to drive away only to be shot and crash into a parked car several blocks away
and die prompting an angry crowd to gather and damage 2 police cars (hopefully
the body cams and car cam were on and the warrant was for a serious violent
felony to defuse another potential riot).
Edward Shimenti of
Zion, convicted of providing support to ISIS despite his assertion at his
sentencing hearing that he was a “big teddy bear” was sentenced to 13.5 years
in a federal prison; Hideki Matsuyama became the first Japanese to win the
Masters by 2 strokes over Will Zalatoris; San Marcos High School teacher Alissa Piro
caught on camera during a Zoom lesson loudly berating students complaining
about not being able to have in person learning (another example of teachers’
union inspired hostage taking of students education) https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-zoom-covid;
Oak Grove School District consisting only of K-8 schools in San Jose County is
voting on a hybrid school reopening plan in which K-6 and 8th are in
hybrid half in and half virtual with the 7th graders all confined to
virtual in their homes (so much for the billions the schools are getting from
Newsom to open with in person learning); 19 days have come and gone and “Where’s
Waldo” Harris remains MIA in revealing her her plans on the immigration crisis
at the border.
Convicted rapist
Harvey Weinstein already serving a 23 year sentence in New York has been
secretly indicted by a Los Angeles Grand Jury on 11 counts of rape and assault
on 5 women in 2013-2014 and should soon be extradited to stand trial which if
convicted would result of up to another 140 years in prison; perhaps in an
appropriate bad karma, China, the creator of COVID-19, has discovered that its
vaccine is not very effective (hate to say it and would hate to wish death on
anyone but could not happen to more deserving country); backers of a
recall effort for L.A. DA Gascon have formally started the process and have
started the 160 day clock to obtain 580,000 signatures of registered voters to
place a recall on the ballot https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; as the
prosecution in the Chauvin will most likely next week and tensions in Minneapolis
rise as the city nears a verdict, look to the political cartoonist to more accurately display the
difficulty of a fair trial:
Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to
show that through April 10, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of
color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 864 persons
shot of whom 157 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 “Can’t Buy Me Love” by the Beatles, that in enjoy
advocating for animals that are recherché and a quote from Steve Wozniak on the Apple I and II and
Jobs role, secure in the knowledge that if you want to
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1. National Pet Day—created
by Colleen Paige in 2005 to celebrate the joy and comfort pets provide and to
promote understanding awareness of the millions of animals whose home is a
shelter or in a pound awaiting euthanasia and the joy to be realized in opening
one’s home to a shelter or pound animal.
2. National Ranch Water Day—first
celebrated on this day in 2021 to promote the consumption of Ranch Water which
is the Texas version of the Skinny Margarita also known as the “Official West
Texas Cocktail consisting of tequila, lime juice and soda water. 3. 1964 Number One Song—the
number 1 song in 1964 on this day with a run of 5 weeks in that position was “Can’t
Buy Me Love” by The Beatles to share number 1 status with 22 other songs that
year and 10 other acts that recorded their first number 1 song. Here
is a recording by The Beatle of “Can’t Buy Me Love”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srwxJUXPHvE The
Beatles invaded the U.S. in person and on the charts in 1964 with 5 number 1
songs that spent a total of 18 weeks in the number 1 position.
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day is “recherché” which
means exotic or rare which describes to a tee too many of our endangered
species.
5. Proof
That Systematic Racism Is a Myth—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1925 of white Viola Lizzio, a mother of 5 who heeded
Martin Luther King, Jr’s call and traveled from Detroit to participate in the Selma
to Montgomery protest marches but sad while taking fellow participants back to
the Montgomery airport was shot and killed by KKK members firing from a passing
car to die at age 39.
a. 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968 banning discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing.
b. 1976 the Apple 1 was introduced.
c. 1986 in Dade County, Florida in broad daylight FBI agents were involved in a massive shootout with 2 wanted armored car and bank robbers who were killed but not before the outgunned FBI agents had 2 killed and 5 wounded, the aftermath of which shootout prompted the introduction of the .40 S&W round with its enhanced stopping power was introduced.
d. 1993 450 inmates rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, killing 9 inmates and one guard over conditions in the prison were in control for 11 days before the takeover ended and the prisoners returned to their cells.
e. 2002 over 200,000 demonstrators marched on the Presidential Palace in Caracas, demanding the Hugo Chavez resign prompting his supporters to open fire, killed 19 demonstrators.
Reflections on the Apple I: “Steve Jobs didn’t really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I can’t deny that.” Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet, and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day in History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.
© April 11, 2021 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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Poet Extraordinaire, Beyond Compare
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