RIDLEY’S
BELIEVE IT OR NOT December 7, 2021
CV World
Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis
with cases now over 266 million at 266,644,134 cases, 21,200,608
of which are active, 245,438,262 closed with 240,161,556 recoveries
(97.85%), and cracking the 5,000,000 barrier 5,276,706 deaths (2.15% ))to
continue the low trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages
and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
CV USA Cases: Total
cases now over 50 million at 50,114,486 with 9,679,189 active cases of
which 13,934 are serious or critical,
(8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases with upticks despite the
Delta variable to .144% of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the
29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 15,337, 40,435,297 closures with 809,898 deaths
(2.00%) and with 39,625,399 recoveries (98.00%). Our death rate percentage is
.15% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2426 the U.S.
ranks behind Peru (5988) the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in
deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give
Peru the a new method of reporting; Bulgaria the new number 2 (4197), Hungary
(3700), Romania (2999), Brazil (2868) which has been hit with a rapid rise
in deaths now slowing down passed by Romania, Argentina (2548), and newly added
to the list Columbia (2494), and slightly better than
Belgium (2330), Poland (2268), Mexico (2256), Italy (2226), UK (2129), Russia newly added to list (1934), (Chile (1991), Spain
(1885), Ecuador newly added to list (1858), Portugal (1827), France
(1826), Bolivia (1615), Sweden (1485) that never closed its
economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1330).
Tests: No
need to tally tests as testing programs are functioning well.
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 22565/M with 348,385 active cases and a fatality rate of 8.31%
of closed cases 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 (regardless of number we need no more cases):
Guatemala: Active
Cases: 1079 Deaths/M
870
Honduras: Active
Cases: 245,799 Deaths/M 1028
El
Salvador: Active cases: 13,035 Deaths/M 580
US
Vaccinations: As of 12/06/21 462.3 million doses, .859 million per day (2
months left for 75% of population to be vaccinated) and in California 116,171
per day (which means at least 79% of the population of California has
received at least one shot which many believe is necessary to develop herd
immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is
required). In California 59,768,100 total doses have been given (84.2%
of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.4%), California has not moved
from 8th of the 50 states in
terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses
delivered to the states and at 63.3% of its population fully vaccinated
compared to the U.S. average of 59.4% and has
moved from 12th tied with Colorado to 14th in terms of the percentage of the population
fully vaccinated compared to other states.
Non CV
News: The trial of Officer Kim Potter
for the killing of Daunte Wright, who was originally portrayed by the left as a
model citizen as we now learn and the jury will not that Wright had a violent
past with three gunshot victims suing his estate and Minneapolis girds for a
George Floyd like riots in a not guilty verdict is laid down, starts tomorrow;
we will never know why Saule Omarova withdrew from being confirmed as Comptroller
of the Currency whether due to her Moscow State University background, her
theft in 1995 or her realization after watching Biden that he was a one trick,
one term or less pony or whether the handlers of Biden who are probably not
cognitively impaired suggested to her it was time to leave; doubt if Witless
Whitmer had the foresight to have Michigan pass a law that allowed schools to
install temporary barriers which a company call night lock did at the Oxford
High School, site of a recent shooting which probably saved a lot of lives and
is something every school should have installed due to numbers of school
shootings; while California is awash in smash and grab thefts, Governor Newsom
emboldened by recall victory by portraying Elder as a white suprematcist now
fears no voter wrath and is out of California off on a book promotion tour to
further augment his wealth; Chris Cuomo, the disgraced and fired “journalist”
from CNN and trying to ape his brother as an author to match his forced exit as
governor has just had his pending book deal with HarperCollins; if AOC and her
leftist Squad get their way and the Senate Blues accede to their demand that
the amnesty provisions be included in the reconciliation bill, our open border
with record numbers of illegals will be blown wide open; Biden’s Commission on
SCOTUS must have heard the voice of RBG from her grave arguing against
increasing the size of SCOTUS as it took no position on that issue (what the
left fails to realize is that politicizing the court by packing it will be a
fatal blow to its legitimacy and the rule of law we are supposed to live by); finally
we have heard the last of Smollett’s scripted testimony in court during his
trial; Cortez White, a BLM member, who has threatened the judge in the trial of
Officer Kim Potter has been arrested and denied bail while awaiting trial; Matthew Dowd the yo-yo politician who has gone
from Red to Blue to Indie and back to Blue has withdrawn from the Blue primary
for Texas Lt. Governor in the name of diversity to allow a non-white Christian
male to run; as Biden’s SCOTUS Commission took no position of Court Packing,
leave it to the political cartoonist to reveal how the Blues on the issue must
feel:
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that
through December 6, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color
shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 4310 persons
shot of whom 757 have died.
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a recording link to “Buttons and Bows” by Dinah Shore, the
fact that you do not skelder people in your dealings with them, and a quote
from Isoruku Yamamoto on the effects of the U.S. declaration of war against
Japan, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
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1. National
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day—celebrating this day on December, 1941 when
the leading Japanese attack plane over Peral Harbor radioed back to its carrier
“Tora, Tora” initiating the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, a day in infamy that would bring the
United States into a war with Japan soon joined by Hitler’s insane declaration
of war against us. A day to remember the sacrifice of the 2403 Americans,
including 68 civilians who died that day and the dwindling number of military
veterans that are in their late 90’s and early 100’s
2. International Civil
Aviation Day—created by the International Civil
Aviation Authority on December 7, 1994, that has now grown to some 190 nations
setting standards for civil aviation to promote safety and ease of flight in
the skies.
3. 1948 Number 1 Song
USA—the number 1 song in 1948 on this day was “Buttons and Bows” by Dinah Shore on a run of
8 weeks in that position to join 8 other songs that achieved number 1 status.
Here’s a recording of Dinah Shore performing “Buttons and Bows”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfW9-0EzYxA
Shore
was a top female vocalist during the 40’s and recorded 80 hit songs during her
career and was successful on TV and on the links as an avid golf fan until she
died 5 days before her 77th birthday of ovarian cancer on February
24, 1994.
4.
Word of the Day—the word of the day is “skelder” which means to
obtain by cheating or swindling which describes what we are doing to our
children and grandchildren with our massive increases in our national debt..
5. Cigarettes Are a Singer’s Curse—celebrating the birth on
this day in 1950 of Canadian singer/songwriter Ron Hynes best known for his
song “Sonny’s Dream” but who struggled with heroin and smoking cigarettes which
he was unable to quite until diagnosed with throat cancer to undergo radiation
treatment that put the cancer in remission but scorched his vocal chords into
retirement trying to bet back to music once his chords had recovered but sadly died
on November 19, 1965 at age 64.
On
this day in:
a. 1842
the first concert by the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra founded by Corelli Hill.
b. 1963 to
the joy of football fans and the bane of the “Zebras” Instant Reply made its
debut at the Army/Navy football game played in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
c. 1972 Apollo 17 the last mission to the
Moon successfully was launch and as leaving took the iconic picture known as The
Blue Marble:
d. 1982 Charles Brooks, Jr. a convicted murderer who had been sentenced to death on April 25, 1978 in Texas had the dubious distinction to be the first person in the U.S. to be executed by lethal injection.
e. 1987 David Burke a ticket agent for U.S. Air who had purchased PSA Airlines had been fired for stealing $70 in cocktail receipts and had failed following an interview with his manager Ray Thompson to be reinstated. On this day in 1977 he purchased a ticket on PSA flight 1177 from LAX to SFO and boarded unknown to Thompson. Near San Luis Obispo, he shot and killed Thompson, shot and killed a flight attendant, then shot into the cockpit and killed the pilot and copilot and a PSA pilot riding in the cabin as he tried to reach the cockpit as Burke put the plane into a steep dive which resulted in the deaths of all aboard other that the 5 already dead.
Reflections
on the impact of the declaration of war against Japan by the architect of the
attack on Pearl Harbor: “A lot of people are feeling relieved or saying
they’re ‘grateful to Admiral Yamamoto’ because there hasn’t been a single air
raid. They’re very wrong: the fact that the enemy hasn’t come is no thanks to
Admiral Yamamoto, but to the enemy himself. So if they want to express
gratitude to somebody, I wish they’d express it to America. If the latter really made up its
mind to wade in on us, there’d be no way of defending a city like Tokyo.”
Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto
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