RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT March
9, 2022
CV World Cases: The planet continues with
cases still increasing but the increase slowing down with cases now over 451
million at 451,740,204 cases, 59,887,860 of which are active, 391,852,344
closed with 385,808,654 recoveries (98.46%), and crossing the 6,000,000 barrier
6,043,698 deaths (1.54% )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 81,064,103 with 24,644,636 active cases
of which 5158 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 .021 % 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 24,113, 56,419,467 closures with 989,473 deaths
(1.75%) and with 55,429,994 recoveries (98.25%). Our death rate percentage is .21%
higher than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slowing climb to 2960 the
U.S. ranks behind Peru (6260) 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 (5247), Hungary (4631), Romania (3373), Brazil
(3039), and Poland (2991) and slightly higher than Argentina (2766), Columbia
(2687), Belgium (2597), Italy (2592), Russia (2453), Mexico (2442), UK (2372),
Chile (2232), Spain (2159), France (2133), Portugal (2096), Ecuador (1952),
Bolivia (1798), Sweden (1730) that never closed its economy
down like we did, and Switzerland (1523).
US Vaccinations:
As of 03/09/22 555.6 million doses, 297,158 per day last
week ( 75.8%) of population now vaccinated with at least one shot)
and in California 36,258 per day (which means at least 81.9% 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 71,889,489 total doses have
been given (83.2% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.2%),
California has moved from 10th to 12th tied
with Illinois of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered
as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 70.6%% of its
population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 64.5% and has moved from 12th 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: Russia has bombed a maternity and children’s hospital Mariupol injuring
17 but fortunately killing no one while the word of the Russians once again has
been shown to be not worthy of trust as a no fire exit path was shelled on
people trying to flee the city; the U.S. and the UK are sending more and more
anti-aircraft missiles to counter Russian air strikes (what would it take for
the U.S. to install Iron Dome anti-aircraft and rocket systems; Energy
Secretary Jennifer Granholm refused to answer questions about our energy crisis
and her aides blocked the views of reporters and tried to whisk away (height of
ludicrously that Biden is so blinded and awed by the Green New Deals insane war
on fossil fuels that he is blocking oil companies from increasing production
and instead looking to foreign sources); with the aid of MSM lackeys like CNN,
the Biden Administration is trying to blame high gas prices on Putin and his
invasion even though prices were on a steady upward climb well before Putin
started to mass his troops (Biden refuses to acknowledge the reason for higher
prices is his administration’s attack on domestic oil production); Climate Czar
Kerry is back in the news again inanely claiming that the over 2 million
Ukrainian refugees fleeing the country pale by comparison to the refugees
caused by climate change (wonder when this mammoth carbon emitter will forego
his private jets and fly in commercial aircraft like the rest of us mere
mortals?); the UK is confirming confirmations by Russia that it has been using
thermobaric bombs in Ukraine ( $64 question when this war is over is whether
Putin will be charged with war crimes and prosecuted): Leonid Nevzlin, a
Russian oligarch who fled Russia 20 years ago and is now living in Israel, has
renounced his Russian citizenship due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; if a
person can charge his or her EV at home overnight it will be far less expensive
that having a gasoline engine powered car but if the car has to be charged in
quick charging station, it may cost more a gas powered vehicle (the Achilles
Heel for EV’s is the range and the scarcity of public charging stations); Jussie
Smollett will return to court tomorrow for sentencing for lying to police on
his hoax racial hate crime; HRC is back in the news again with speculation that
she will rise from the political graveyard to run for president in 2024 but
leave it to the political cartoonist to reveal the political baggage that would
rise with her in any such run:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and
well to collect data to show that through March 8, 2022, gun violence
involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago
is alive and well with 452 shot of whom 96 have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest
for this day in history, a recording of “Love Machine” by The Miracles;
the fact that your doctor will often prescribe spansules for you; and a quote
by former Treasury Secretary William Woodin on the Emergency Banking Relief Act, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift
for any memorable events like St. Patrick’s Day, Mothers’ Day, college
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1. National Meatball Day—not sure who created this day or when only that the
meatball is a good way to stretch out one’s purchase of hamburger which given
the inflation hitting us in the supermarkets is a great idea.
2. National False Teeth Day—celebrating dental devices that have been around for
centuries to enable people to be able to smile, eat and speak after having lost
due to cavities, infections or accidents their natural teeth and now being
replaced by dental implants.
3. 1976 Number
1 Song—the number 1 song
in 1976 on this day was “Love Machine” by The Miracles on a
run in that position for 1 week to join 25
other number 1 songs while 15 acts hit
the charts at Number 1 for the first time. Here is a recording of The Miracles
performing “Love Machine”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=513jP1SUgnQ. The Miracles were the first successful recording group
for Berry Gordon’s Motown Records and often referred to as Motown’s “soul
supergroup.”
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “spansule” which means a time release
capsule which when taken often avoid upsetting the stomach and allow for better
absorption of the dosage taken orally.
5. Taking the High Road—celebrating the birth on this day in 1969 of noted TV
journalist and former co-host of The Five on Fox News who was a special
adviser to President Trump and is now dating Donald Trump, Jr. and has earned
the “taking the high road” nom de plume since her first marriage was to Gavin
Newsom when he was Mayor of San Francisco but did not get involved to encourage
voters to recall him in favor of Larry Elder.
On
this day in:
a. 1841
SCOTUS ruled in the case of United State v. Schooner Amistad that the 49 slaves being transferred from Havana,
Cuba to the Province of Puerto Precipe who mutinied and seized control of the
vessel were within their rights to do so and when the ship was boarded off the
coast of Long Island, were to be freed.
b. 1933
with the nation’s banking system imploding and a wave of runs on banks by
terrified depositors and states declaring bank holidays, President Roosevelt
introduced the Emergency Banking Relief Act which had been drafted by the Treasury
Department during the Hoover Administration to a Joint Session of Congress
which was passed by the House and Senate on the same day.
c. 1960 to the joy of patients needing dialysis on a regular basis to
survive, Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implanted a shunt he had invented into a
patient so he could receive dialysis on a regular basis.
d.
1997 The Notorious B.I.G. after attending the Soul Train Music Awards in Los
Angeles, was shot and killed in a drive by shooting after leaving a party at
the Petersen Automotive Museum. The murder has never been solved.
e. 2011
the Space Shuttle Discovery launched on February 24, 2011 landed for the
final time after 39 flights into space to be followed during the year by its
two sister Space Shuttles—Endeavor and Atlantis.
Reflections on the passage of the Emergency Banking Relief
Act: "The emergency banking legislation passed by the Congress today is a most
constructive step toward the solution of the financial and banking difficulties
which have confronted the country. The extraordinary rapidity with which this
legislation was enacted by the Congress heartens and encourages the country." Secretary
of the Treasury William Woodin, March 9, 1933.
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