Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not May 2, 2021
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with cases now
over 153 million at 153,479,745 cases (152,788,755 yesterday), 19,472,904 of
which are active, 134,006,841 closed with 130,790,646}\ recoveries (97.60%
and 97.59% yesterday ,and 3,216,145 deaths (2.40% and 2.41 % 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 33 million at 33,180,441
(33,148,008 yesterday) with 6,765,579 active cases of which 9,466 (9,553) yesterday
and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now still at .14% of active cases and now trending
down on decreasing the number of serious or critical cases to once again increase
the reduction from the 29,271 peak on
12/31/2020 to 19,805), 26,414,862
closed, with 591,062 deaths (2.24% and 2.24% yesterday) and with 25,823,800
recoveries (97.76% and 97.76% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues
to slowly improve and after many months is now .16% lower than the world rate after
the world’s spike in improvement and now .09% higher than Canada which has the
socialized type of medicine Biden may well want to implement here but has
approved 4 vaccines as opposed to our 3, one of which J&J is now no longer
on hold.
Standing: On a deaths per million population
measurement on a steady climb to 1777 the U.S. ranks behind Hungary the new
number 1 which has had a huge surge in deaths (2884), aping Hungary in terms of
increase in deaths Bulgaria (2389), Belgium (2086), Italy (2007), Brazil (1907)
which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and the
UK (1871) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Peru (1863),
and Poland (1800) and slightly better
than Spain (1672), Portugal (1669),
Mexico (1670), France (1603),
Argentina (1411), Sweden (1384) that never closed its economy down
like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise
in deaths, Chile (1380),
Switzerland (1221) and Bolivia (1102).
Tests: We have now conducted
448,984,680 tests (now at 1,349,834/M) compared to number 2 now France at 1,172,798/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 2,292,382/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 1670/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: Activecases: 15,761 Deaths/M415
Honduras: Activecases: 129,043 Deaths/M530
El
Salvador: Active cases: 2,190
Deaths/M 3276
US Vaccinations: As of 5/2/2021 245.6 million
at 2.42 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 31,135,031 total doses have been given (78.7% of doses received slightly
less than the U.S. average of 78.6%), but even with the pressure of a recall to
be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has risen
29th to 27th tied with South Dakota out of the 50 states in terms of the
percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states and at 31.7% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S.
average of 31.6% has risen slightly from
30th to 28th. A long
way to go to get herd immunity in terms of getting vaccines received into arms
and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states which
means a great reason to recall this inept and hypocritical governor.
Non CV News: At Point Loma the not so
subliminal Biden Message of if you get here you can stay and fill your bag with
free goodies resulted in deadly consequences as an overloaded boat smuggling 30
illegals capsized near Point Loma, destroying the boat, killing 3 and sending
27 to the hospital (Biden’s policies have blood on his hands, more smuggling
money into the hands of the cartels and yet Where’s Waldo is MIA on the growing
crisis at the border for 39 days and counting); watching Biden wearing his mask
if he can find it outdoors after being fully vaccinated and apparently
oblivious to latest CDC flip flop that masks outdoors in small gatherings are
not needed is like watching an Abbot and Costello routine of “Who’s On First”
and sends the wrong signal to people delaying getting vaccinated that the vaccinations
don’t work because our president is still wearing a mask; our once vaunted “free
press” is in a complete free fall when it comes to Where’s Waldo—raves over her
shoes and fashion and the fact she crochets but totally ignores her MIA on
border’s deadly crisis; with a chip shortage becoming more and more of a problem
for a variety of manufacturers, Intel has just announced plans to build a $10
billion chip manufacturing plant, sadly not here but in Israel (wonder what about
Biden’s planned corporate tax increase plan drove their locational decision?).
While BLM protests have to often
morphed into riots with burning and looting, leave it to the political
cartoonist to reveal the blindness to a white guilt policy of not criminally prosecuting looters that merely
encourages them to loot more:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is back to show that through May 1, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 1079 persons shot of whom 192 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 “Morning Train (Nine to Five)”
by Sheena Easton, that you enjoy using a
rejoinder in arguments or discussion when the need arises and a quote by Leslie
Gore on coming out, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Mother’s
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1. Motorcycle
Mass and Celebration of the Bikes Day—not sure the identity of the Catholic priest who created
this observance, but it has been observed on the first Monday of May since 1999
and given how deadly on the highways or streets a motorcycle collision can be a
great idea to enlist the aid of the powers above but I would have thought the
day to celebrate this would be either the first or last day of the Sturgis
Motorcycle Rally.
2. World
Tuna Day —procreated by the UN General Assembly in 2016 to promote
sustainable fishing practices for this valuable food source.
3.
1981 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1
song in 1981 was “Morning Train (Nine to Five)” by Sheena Easton on a
run of 2 weeks in that position to join 16 other songs reaching number 1 and 9
other acts which achieved their first number 1 status. Here is a recording by Sheena
Easton of “Morning Train (Nine to Five”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_3vZYOYNYU
Easton was born in Scotland and has 6 Grammy nominations and 2 awards to her credit,
has a prolific recorder of albums and singles and has the distinction of being
the only singer to have having a top 5 song in each of Billboard’s primary
singles charts—pop and AC, country and AC and R&B and dance and in personal
life has the dubious distinction of having 4 short-lived marriages from 8
months to 18 months before ending in divorce.
4.
Word of the Day—the word of the day
is “rejoinder” which means a sharp and clever answer, something with Biden’s
fading mental acuity you would never expect to hear.
5. Win One for Secondhand Smoke? —celebrating the
birth on this day in 1946 of noted singer, songwriter, actress and activist
Lesley Sue Goldstein, better known to her fans as Lesley Gore. Lesley was a
closet lesbian who did not come out until 2005 but was in a long-term
relationship with her female partner Lois Sasson for 33 years who died from COVID-19
on December 30, 2020 but who had the misfortune of being a nonsmoker but
contracting lung cancer and dying from it on February 16, 2015 at age 68.
On this day in
a. 1964
in a bold move reminiscent of Italian midget submarines placing limpet mines of
two Royal Navy battleships the HMS Queen Elizabeth and the HMS Valiant
and sinking them in Alexandria Harbor in WWII, Viet Cong frogmen attached
mines to the USS Card, an escort aircraft carrier, while she was berthed
at the docks in Saigon, and sank her but like the two Royal Navy
battleships, she was refloated and repaired and back in action in 7 months.
b. 1972 an early morning fire broke
out in the Sunshine Mine located between Wallace and Kellogg, killing 92 miners
in Idaho’s deadliest mine disaster.
c. 1989 the Soviet Union began to collapse
when Hungary opened its gates to Austria, allowing a flood of East Germans to
begin fleeing from East Germany.
d. 2008 Cyclone Nargis makes
landfall in Burma killing some 138,000 people and leaving millions homeless.
e. 2011 Osama bin Laden, the
mastermind behind the attacks of 9/11 and Number 1 on the FBI’s Most Wanted
List, was killed in his compound in Abbottobad, Pakistan one half mile from
Pakistan’s Kakul Military Academy by Navy Seals in an attack then Vice
President Biden urged that the Seals not make.
Reflections on coming out: “I met a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I
saw what a difference a show like In the Life [PBS Show on Gay and Lesbian issues] can
make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are
probably two gay people in the whole damn town.” Lesley Gore
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