RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT March
21, 2022
CV World Cases: The planet continues with
cases still increasing but the increase slowing down with cases now passing
471 million at 471,652,651 cases, 57,748,918 of which are active, 413,903,703
closed with 407,800,858 recoveries (98.53%), and crossing the 6,000,000 barrier
6,102,845 deaths (1.47% )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 passing 81 million at 81,410,101 with 17,405,406 active cases
of which 3129 are serious or critical, (15,517 on 12/12) (back to steady
decreases despite the increase in active cases due to the relative mildness of
the Omicron variant) to .0180% of active cases (back to back steady decreases
despite the increase in active cases due to the relative mildness of the
Omicron variant and to increase the reduction from the
29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 26,142 with 64,004,695 closures with 997,933 deaths
(1.56%) and with 63,006,732 recoveries
(98.44%). Our death rate percentage is .09% higher than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slowing climb to 2985 the
U.S. ranks behind Peru (6276) 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 (5290), Hungary (4688), Romania (3402), Brazil
(3055), and Poland (3024) and slightly higher than Argentina (2777), Columbia
(2692), Belgium (2615), Italy (2618), Russia (2499), Mexico (2454), UK (2387),
Chile (2300), Spain (2174), France (2151), Portugal (2110), Ecuador (1956),
Bolivia (1798), Sweden (1765) that never closed its economy
down like we did, and Switzerland (1549).
US Vaccinations:
As of 03/20/22 558.4 million doses, 226,974 per day last
week ( 76.0%) of population now vaccinated with at least one shot)
and in California 35,108 per day (which means at least 82.3% 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 72,309,362 total doses have
been given (83.2% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.1%),
California is still stuck at 12th tied with Nevada of the 50 states
in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses
delivered to the states and at 70.9% of its population fully vaccinated
compared to the U.S. average of 64.7% and has moved from 11th to 13th in terms of the
percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states (nothing
like a recall election to get Newsom’s attention and performance).
Non CV
News: The war in Ukraine continues with Russians making little if no
progress in advancing but continuing to wage deadly missile and air attacks and
shelling on civilian targets (Secretary of Defense used the term “wood chipper”
to describe what Putin was pushing his troops into; as the UN announced that 10
million Ukrainians have been displaced or fled the country due to Russian
targeted attacks on civilians, Fox News should be praised with its Red Cross
affiliated relief fund for humanitarian aid to Ukraine which has raised over $11
million but Richard Childress perhaps merits more praise for his donation of a
million rounds of ammunition delivered to Ukraine’s border for shipment to Ukrainian
forces filling up Russian body bags; one has to feel for Psaki as she fields
tough questions about the war in Ukraine but her answers on Russia’s concern on
how its war against civilians will be portrayed in the history books makes her
look like someone with their head in the sand as the only thing Putin cares
about will be the escalating number of body bags full of Russians; Ketanji
Jackson Brown is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on her
fitness to be confirmed as a SCOTUS Justice with Republicans concerned over her
past decisions trying to walk the thin line of “advise and consent” and the bogus
charges of “racism” being hurled at them by the MSM for doing anything other
than rubber stamping her nomination; while Americans earning less than $400,000
a year are being ravaged by inflation, in Waukee, Iowa Apple is taking a big
bite out of the bloated apple of corporate welfare receiving over $200 million
as an inducement to build a data processing center that would hire 50 employees
but which is now far behind schedule ( where is Senator Ernest, that noted hog
farmer who surged to election with her notable castration ad on her knowing how
to cut the pork?); with gas prices going through the roof, several Red run
states are considering or implementing reductions in or holidays in paying
state gasoline taxes (even California with its huge budget surplus is
considering a $400 rebate to car owners; after Biden was on his proverbial
knees begging Saudi Arabia to increase oil production, the kingdom refused and
called upon the global community to take action against the Houthis; NYC’s
former NYPD captain is not having much luck on the Big Apple’s crime surge as
weekend shootings this weekend were up 383% from 2021 and shootings during the
week had doubled; leftist author Ellen Hopkins tweeted that she wouldn’t want
Justice Thomas to die but wouldn’t mind if the flu like symptoms which
hospitalized him forced him to retire which she had the sense to at least
delete after posting; Bush was rightfully mocked for appearing a naval ship
proclaiming the war in Iraq was “Mission Accomplished” and the political
cartoonist portrays what Biden has accomplished to the detriment of the
nation:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to
collect data to show that through March 20,
2022, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 549 shot of whom 107
have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest
for this day in history, a video recording of “Jump” by Van Halen; the
fact that you oppose nations like Russia that wish to spiflicate their
neighbors; and a quote by President Carter on boycotting the Moscow Summer
Olympics, secure in the knowledge that if
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1. World Poetry Day—created by UNESCO
in 1999to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry
around the globe:
In our 24/7
world getting smaller each day/When pressing issues and problems hold sway/There
never is enough time to slow down and smell a rose/
Too bad we don’t rule in poetry and campaign in prose/Poetry energizes the soul/Moves
the masses to achieve worthy goals/Put to music in patriotic songs/We are soon
marching to right the world’s wrongs/Tears flow, hearts warmed and laughter
summoned by the muse/Needed emotions in bureaucratic prose too easy to lose/On
World Poetry Day put the prose away/Let poetry your troubles or boredom allay/©
3/21/2022 The Alaskanpoet
2. International Day of the Forests—created by the UN General Assembly on November 28, 2012 to
promote awareness of the importance of trees within and without of the forest
to our wellbeing and commerce and those fauna and flora protected and nourished
by them.
3. 1984 Number 1 Song—the number 1 song in 1984 on this day was “Jump”
by Van Halen on a run in that position for 57 weeks noncontinuous to join 19 other number 1 songs and 14 other acts
that hit the charts at Number 1 for the
first time. Here is a video recording of Van Halen performing “Jump”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYN7mTi6HM Van Halen was an American pop rock
band formed in Pasadena in 1973 and went on to be a dominant musical force in
the 80’s but Eddie Van Halen who smoked and struggled with alcohol and drugs
came down with tongue cancer which he fought for 5 years before having a stroke
on October 6, 2020 and dying the same day at age 65 and brought an end to the band.
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “spiflicate” which means to overcome or
destroy by violence which describes to a tee what Putin is trying to do in
Ukraine to the civilian population because his forces driving against Ukrainian
troops are getting delayed filing up too many body bags.
5. Working Class Rocker—celebrating the birth on this day in 1949 of noted pop
singer Edward Mahoney, better known to his fans as Eddie Money who had 11 top
40 hits in the 70’s and 80’s but struggled with drugs and alcohol and picked up
a third strike for being a lifetime smoker to be diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer
of the esophagus on August 24, 2019 that led to his death on September 13, 2019
at age 70.
On this day
in:
a. 1925
the Butler Act became law in Tennessee which forbade the teaching of evolution in public schools.
b.
1952 Alan Freed presented the first rock and roll concert the Moondog
Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio.
c. 1970 the first Earth Day proclamation was issued by San Francisco Mayor
Joseph Alioto.
d. 1980 President
Jimmy Carter announced that the U.S. would boycott the Moscow Summer Olympics
in response to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan that would turn into
over time the Soviets equivalence of our Vietnam War.
e. 2006 the social media site Twitter
was founded, now infamous for its proclivity in censoring and banning
conservative tweets.
Reflections on Boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics due to
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: ““I can’t say at this
moment what other nations will not go … “ the president told the athletes who
had assembled at the White House. But, he added, “ours will not go. I say that
not with any equivocation; the decision has been made. The American people are
convinced that we should not go … The Congress has voted overwhelmingly, almost
unanimously, which is a very rare thing, that we will not go. And I can tell
you that many of our major allies, particularly those democratic countries who
believe in freedom, will not go.” Jimmy Carter announcing the boycott.
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