Ridley’s Believe It Or Not April 13, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues
the new year with cases now over 137 million at 137,934,045 cases (137,226,511
yesterday), 24,109,324 of which are active, 113,824,721 closed with 110,854,982
recoveries (97.39% and 97.39% yesterday and 2,969,739 deaths (2.61% and 2.61%
yesterday) to continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased
recovery percentages and
decreased death percentages with some plateaus.
CV USA Cases: Total cases now
over 32 million at 32,061,286 (31,982,221 yesterday) with 6,865,233 active
cases of which 9,430 (9,203 yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (an increase to .14%
of active cases and now for the last 8 days an increase to reduce the decrease
from the peak of 29,271 on 12/31/2020 to 19,841 are in serious or critical
condition, 25,196,053 closed, with 577,109 deaths (2.29% and 2.29% yesterday)
and with 24,618,944 recoveries (97.71% and 97.71% yesterday). Our death rate
percentage continues to slowly improve and after many months is now .32% lower
than the world rate and now .05% lower than Canada which has the socialized
type medicine Biden may well want to implement here but at least has approved 4
vaccines as opposed to our 3.
Standing: On a deaths per million
population measurement on a steady climb to 1736 the U.S. ranks behind Hungary
the new number 1 (2487), Bulgaria (2135), Belgium (2021), Italy (1906),
and UK (1865) which had passed us despite leading world in testing),
and only slightly worse than Brazil (1677), Portugal (1663), Peru
(1657) Spain (1638), Mexico (1613),
Poland (1564), France (1521), Sweden (1346) that never closed its
economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise
in deaths, Argentina (1273), Chile (1274), Switzerland (1203), and
Bolivia (1057).
Tests: We have now conducted 421,881,062 tests (now
at 1,268,754/M) compared to number 2 now France at 1,077,024/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 2,022,301/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 11th on
my list of deaths from the pandemic at 1613/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: 11,213 Deaths/M
388
Honduras: Active
cases: 115,273 Deaths/M 485
El
Salvador: Active cases: 1,531 Deaths/M
315
US Vaccinations: As of 4/13/2021 192 million
doses have been given, 3.28 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 23,227,199 total doses have been given (78.1%
of doses received to near the U.S. average of 78.4%), but even with
the pressure of a certain recall coming endangering Newsom, California has barely
risen from 31st to 30th out of the 50 states in terms of the
percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states and at 21.6% of its population fully vaccinated has moved slightly up down from 39th tied with
Florida to 38th tied with Nevada in terms of percentage of
population fully vaccinated. 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 Case News: Collateral damage from the
Wright killing as the chief of police of
Minneapolis and the shooting officer Kim Porter resigned, the city manager was
fired for urging no rush to judgment and Minneapolis underwent a 3rd night of rioting with 60 arrest
with 2,000 National Guard on its streets as a decision of whether and with what
to charge Officer Porter with is expected tomorrow (if she is not charged with
something less than involuntary manslaughter safe bet is a massive riot and
Chauvin kissing any chance of a fair verdict; Rep. Talaib as to be expected
poured gasoline on the fire by calling for an end to policing and incarceration;
the looting of 20 stores in Minneapolis following Wright’s death in the eyes of
the MSM like the Cack News Network is whitewashed as a “protest” (call it what
is was and you might regain a shred of long ago lost credibility); despite Talib’s call for an end to policing, police in
Branford, Connecticut responded to a report of shots fired, and were fired upon
when they arrived with a shootout ensuing after they announced they just wanted
to talk to the shooter which sadly ended in his death.
When
it comes to free speech Twitter tells us to pound sand as it deleted black
columnist Jason Whitlock’s Twitter account for criticizing BLM founder Patrisse
Cullors’ $1.4 million purchase of an estate near Malibu because it violated its
rules on publishing private information (what an absolute crock as news of the
purchase was reported and purchase price would be available in L.A. County Recorder’s
office showing transfer tax paid computed on the purchase price; on the CV
front, Johnson and Johnson, following the death of one woman out of the 7
million who have received the one shot vaccine, has halted clinical trials and
suspended its roll out in Europe; in secret recordings of CNN’s technical director
of news by Project Veritas, he admits
what many of us believe is the Holy Grail, that CNN was tasked to create
propaganda not report news to insure that Trump was not reelected and bragged
about CNN’s role in insuring Biden’s reelection; finally on April 28, Biden will deliver his
SOTUS to a Joint Session of Congress; it is now being revealed that Andrew Cuomo
has indicated in no uncertain terms that he feels he is like Sonny Corleone of The
Godfather in terms of his ability to
intimidate people (the time has come to impeach this arrogant tyrant and better
yet prosecute him over his deliberate underreporting and lying and concealing
the facts about the extent of the
nursing home deaths).
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
Biden continues pass off his $2 trillion welfare enhancement as infrastructure
building and repair, look to the political cartoonist to more
accurately portray the reality of his attempt to disguise the reality of his plan.
Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back
to show that through April 12, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons
of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 887
persons shot of whom 159 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 “(You’re My) Heart and Soul” by The Righteous Brothers, that you
finding a new restaurant that is recondite and a quote from Panel 4 of the
Jefferson Memorial, secure in the knowledge that
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1. International
FND Awareness Day--created by the Bridget Mildon on this day in
2013 to promote awareness of Functional Neurological Disorder which is the
result of problems in interface between the brain and body and how signals are
transmitted or received and manifests itself in a variety of symptoms like limb
weakness or seizures.
2. National
SCRABBLE Day—celebrating that great board game created by
Alfred Butts, an architect thrown out of work by the Great Depression, who
created the game then known as Lexicon
in 1933 and after being turned down by game manufacturers to James
Brunot who with Butts tweeked the rules and changed the name to “SCRABBLE” in
1948 and started selling the game with great difficulty until Macy’s got wind
of the game and sales took off resulting in the Brunots licensing to Seichow
and Righter the rights to manufacture, distribute and sell the game which they
did successfully to buy the trademark in 1972 to sell to Coleco and after that company went B/K, Hasbro acquired the
assets to continue making and selling the game today.
3. 1966 Number One Song—the
number 1 song in 1966 on this day with a run of 3 weeks in that position was “(You’re
My) Soul and Inspiration” by the Righteous Brothers to share number 1 status
with 25 other songs that year. Here is a recording by The Righteous
Brothers performing “(You’re My) Soul and Inspiration”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzrPs-hLKmM
Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield formed
the duo in 1963 and performed as a duo until 1968 to go on to sole careers
until 1975 to reunite as a duo briefly and reunite again in 1981 to perform and
tour together until Hatfield died of a heart attack in 2003 with cocaine in his
system.
4. Word of
the Day—today’s word of the day is “recondite” which
means little known or out of the which describes the vacation spot or fishing
hole we all would like to find.
5. A
Distinction Not Sought—celebrating the birth on this day in 1945 of
James Kelsu who as a rookie was the stating guard for the Buffalo Bills in the
1968 season and the team’s rookie of the year but having been enrolled in ROTC
had to fulfill his military obligation and entered the Army as a second
lieutenant and arrived in South Vietnam as a member of the 101st
Airborne in November, 1969 leaving a wife who was pregnant and a 2 year old
daughter to die in a mortar attack on Fire Base Ripcord on July 21, 1970, two
days before his wife gave birth to a baby boy. He was the last of only two NFL
players to die in the Vietnam War.
On this day in:
a.
1870 the New York City Museum of Metropolitan Art was founded.
b. 1943
The Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
c. 1964
Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win a Oscar as Best Actor
for his performance in Lilies of the Field.
d. 1976 the Treasury Department reintroduced the
Jefferson $2 Bill on the anniversary of Jefferson’s 233rd birthday
as part of the U.S. Bicentennial Celebration.
e. 1997 Tiger Woods won his first Master’s at
the age of 21, as the youngest to win it and won it with a record low scoring
270 that would stand until 2020.
Reflections from the Jefferson Memorial as
edited in red and deleted in black on Panel 4: "I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes
in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne
with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find
practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with
the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more
enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and
opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance
also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear
still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever
under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." - Jefferson to
H. Tompkinson (AKA Samuel Kercheval), July 12, 1816
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