Ridley’s Believe
It Or Not April 24, 2021
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with cases now
over 146 million at 146,972,105 cases (146,225,032 yesterday), 19,294,415 of
which are active, 127,677,290 closed with 124,567,087 recoveries (97.56%
and 97.56% yesterday ,and 3,110,603 deaths (2.44% and 2.44% yesterday) to
continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages
and decreased death percentage with some plateaus, dips, and rises (have no
idea why the comparatively large improvement in deaths and recoveries
yesterday).
CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 32 million at 32,780,457
(32,735,074 yesterday) with 6,860,726 active cases of which 9,769 (9,832
yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now reduced to .14% of active cases and now still
back on a decreasing path of the number of serious or critical cases to once again increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 19,502, 25,919,731 closed, with 585,773 deaths (2.26%
and 2.26% yesterday) and with 25,333,958 recoveries (97.74% and 97.74%
yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly improve and after
many months is still .18% lower than the world rate after the world’s spike in
improvement and now .04% higher than Canada which has the socialized type
medicine Biden may well want to implement here but has approved 4 vaccines as
opposed to our 3, one of which J&J is on hold.
Standing: On a deaths per million population
measurement on a steady climb to 1761 the U.S. ranks behind Hungary the new
number 1 which has had a huge surge in deaths (2741), aping Hungary in terms of
increase in deaths Bulgaria (2292), Belgium (2060), Italy (1971), UK (1869)
which had passed us despite leading world in testing), and Brazil (1822)
which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us, Peru (1770),
Poland (1725), Portugal (1667), Spain (1659),
Mexico (1650), France (1571), Sweden
(1372) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been
experiencing a steady rise in deaths, Argentina (1344), Chile (1337),
Switzerland (1214) and Bolivia (1083).
Tests: We have now conducted 438,353,248 tests (now at 1,318,061/M)
compared to number 2 now France at 1,134,199/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 2,181,710/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 12th on my list of deaths
from the pandemic at 1650/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: 18,110 Deaths/M
407
Honduras: Active
cases: 123,070 Deaths/M 508
El Salvador: Active
cases: 1,880 Deaths/M 322
US Vaccinations: As of 4/25/2021 225.6 million doses have been
given, 2.82 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 28,302,062 total doses have been given (78.4% of doses
received to exceed the U.S. average of 77.6%), but even with the pressure of a
certain recall coming endangering Newsom, California has risen from 25th
to 23rd out of the 50 states in terms of the
percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states and at 27.8% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S.
average of 28.0% has risen from 33rd to 32nd . 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 News: Even the most rabid
Blue believes that the young unaccompanied minors even if citizens are too
young to vote so why is the rag book published by Harris given out them while
in detention (this lying equals the
means ideologue claims she had no idea the book was being given out to read); Where’s
Waldo still not having met the press is even not prepared to go anywhere near
the border even flying over it to meet with Mexico’s President but will hold a
virtual conference to discuss the root causes on of which is so easy to see and
right before her eyes—an open border and handcuffs of deportation; Elvis had a
hit record “Blue Suede Shoes” but Biden and his IRS minions are playing a new
record Blue Suede Slow Walking Shoes in the disbursement of the $1400 stimulus checks as a Side B to Newsom’s long
running hit Blue Suede EDD Crashing Unemployment Checks Shoes; Red Oklahoma
State Senator Nathan cracked an non PC joke involving plastic straws and Biden’s
and Harris’ abilities and has told PC critics in essence to pound sand; Mad
Maxine still in spike land ecstasy over Chauvin’s conviction had the audacity
to attack the Chauvin Trial Judge for having the temerity to chastise her for
her jury intimidation remarks (if the Pelosi Puppet Blues had a shred of spine,
they would have voted on her censure resolution which a safe bet would be that
enough Blues would have voted “yes”.
It’s all in the name as the White House
changes Where’s Waldo‘s husband’s first name from Doug to Douglas to make him
appear more serious (new flash Waldo it’s your and Biden’s policies that are
key not your first names); in another example of the left’s total intolerance
for any ideas they think do not follow lock, stock and barrel their leftist
dogma, Professor Andrew Donadio of Texas Tech and a faculty adviser for a
conservative student group Turning Point has been met with a barrage of leaflets
on campus distributed by 2 colleagues, Julia Gruber and Andrew Smith, blasting
him for all manner of sins, racism and hate speech; Biden who took forever to
call the border situation a crisis at least has come out and called a spade a
spade and condemned the Ottoman Empire’s genocide of Armenians in World War I;
the Indonesian submarine missing off the coast of Bali is now believed to have
sunk and with all oxygen now gone the
crew of 53 should be presumed dead; 7 deputies in Pasquotank County, North Carolina have been put on
administrative leave after shooting a black who tried to flee in his car after
deputies tried to serve an arrest warrant for felony drug charges.
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 dust
settles across this land following riots and the mustering of the National Guard
to try to prevent them leave it to the
political cartoonist to exposed the true feelings Blues have for the forces of
law and order:
Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back
to show that through April 23, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons
of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 970
persons shot of whom 177 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 “Tie a Yellow Ribbon to the Ole Oak Tree” by Tony Orlando and Dawn,
that online shopping is so much easier since you can enjoy redhibition and a
quote by Elizabeth Joy on the Fashion Revolution, 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 details on the pricing.
1. National Day for Laboratory Animals—created by the
National Anti-Vivisection Society on this day in 1979 UNESCO and first celebrated
of April 23, 1995 to promote the end of using animals in research which almost
too often results in their death—tough to balance concern for animals and the
fact that without animal trials many life-saving drugs would not make it to the
human market.
2. Fashion
Revolution Day—first celebrated on this day in 2014 the anniversary of
the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh that caused the death of
1133 garment workers and injured over 2500 to promote the end of exploitation of
low paid garment workers in developing countries.
3. 1973 Number 1 Song
USA—the number 1 song in 1973 was “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak
Tree” by Dawn feat. Tony Orlando on a run of 4 weeks in that position to join 20
other songs reaching number 1 in a year in which 14 groups had their first
number 1 song including Jim Croce who achieved his posthumously as the third
artist to accomplish that fact. Here is
a recording by Dawn feat. Tony Orlando of “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole
Oak Tree”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGBw4pmR5ro Orlando has
been performing since 1959 and after the band Dawn and Tony Orlando, he weathered
a bout of cocaine addiction but is still performing at the ripe old age of 77.
4.
Word of the Day—the word of the day
is “redhibition” which means return of a defective product and cancellation of
a sale which the FTA and policies like Amazon have made a consumer no longer in
most cases to heed caveat emptor.
5. One Letter Short—celebrating the birth on
this day in 1940 of popular noted mystery/crime novelist
Sue Grafton with the exploits of female private investigator Kinsey Millhone in
the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California the thrilled millions of readers
with her alphabet series from A Is For Alibi to Y Is For Yesterday, her last novel
published on August 22, 2017 before her death on December 2017 from appendix
cancer deprived her fans being able to read the Z Is For ___ she intended to write. On this day in a. 1918 in a preview of the nature of war in World War II at the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux in the first tank to
tank battle in history 3 British tanks engaged 3 German tanks after the British
lost 2 tanks and the Germans 1, the 2 German tanks retreated pursued by the British
tank which was destroyed by artillery fire.
b. 1957 after the introduction of
UN Peacekeeping forces the Suez Canal which had been closed due to the 1956
Egypt Israel War in France and Britain had participated with little success,
the Suez Canal was reopened to traffic.
c. 1967 General Westmorland held a press
conference where he claimed the Viet Cong and NVA thought they could win due to
the ant-war movement in the U.S.
d. 1980 in a moment that typified the
weakening of the U.S. military following the end of the Vietnam War, 8 servicemen died in
the Iranian Desert in Operation Eagle Claw designed to rescue our hostages
seized in the takeover of our embassy in Tehran.
e. 1996 Congress passed with broad bipartisan
support the Anti-Terrorist and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 following
the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing and the 1995 Oklahoma City Federal Building
Bombing.
Reflections
on the Fashion Revolution: “Ethical fashion is the recognition that there are
human beings behind the clothes that we wear.” – Elizabeth Joy, founder of
Conscious Life and Style
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