Ridley’s Believe It Or Not January 12, 2021
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year
with surging cases over 92 million at
92,035,548 with 787,145 new cases (a .86% increase and .64% yesterday) 24,182,398 of which are
active, 67,853,150 closed with 65,882,548 recoveries (97.10% and 97.09%
yesterday) and 1,970,602 deaths (2.90% and 2.91% yesterday) to continue the
trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and
decreased death percentages with some plateaus.
CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 23 million at 23,196,299
with 173,433 new cases (a .75% increase and .84% yesterday) with 9,163,873 active cases of which 29,222 (.32%
of active cases and a decrease of 49 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are
in serious or critical condition 14,205,859 closures, 389,621
of which have been deaths (2.74% and 2.76% yesterday) and 13,816,238 of
which have been recoveries (97.26% and 97.24% yesterday). Our death rate
percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .17% lower than
the world rate and .16% lower than Canada which has the socialized type
medicine Biden may well want to implement here and on a deaths per
million population measurement on a steady climb to 1173 ranks behind Belgium
(1738), Italy (1321), UK (1222) which had passed us despite leading
world in testing), and Bulgaria (1196), and only slightly worse than Peru (1156),
Spain (1127), Hungary (1125), France (1053), Mexico (1046),
Argentina (987), Switzerland (975), Brazil (960), Sweden (954) that never
closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid
rise in deaths, Chile (895) that we recently passed, Bolivia (894) and Ecuador (798) and we have now conducted 2,361,374
more tests to bring the total to 275,604,865 (now at 830,036/M compared to
Russia at 645,963/M so Trump was telling truth that we conduct more tests in
number and on a per capital basis for nations (other than those nations that
contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark, Israel, Malta,
Singapore and UAE) but for the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with
tests at 898,410/M.
Non
CV Case News: Vice President Pence has politely told the Wicked Witch of the
West to get back on her broom and said he would not initiate the 25th
Amendment so the Blues with of all icons of patriotic fervor Eric Swalwell
named by Pelosi as one of the prosecutors (Fang must be so pleased her boy is
in the spotlight of power again; Blues commence impeachment proceedings
tomorrow with a few Fed defectives including Liz Cheney who is the Chairman
the House Republican Conference
Committee that has prompted calls that she should be removed from her post; In an internal memo, the FBI has issued a
warning that it has credible threats of armed protests at state capitals during
the Biden inauguration; Pelosi in what In what is a real threat to our
democracy and Constitution is moving
forward to impeach the president with 8 days left in his term after trying to
get Pence to invoke the 25th which was never designed for this (what
would Pelosi do if Trump resigned and Pence as the new president pardoned
Trump, his family members, cabinet members and anyone one in authority who
worked on the campaign?—can one imagine the howl of the Blues wanting every
last ounce of flesh from Trump’s body?); Biden is going to start his 100 days
of Unity Agenda with an impeachment trial that will not please the 75 million
or so Americans who voted for Trump as it is almost guaranteed the Blues will
have enough votes to impeach him to send him to a Senate impeachment trial that
will not start before the 19th; Alabama ended the college impacted
CV season with a crushing destruction of Ohio State 52-24 (if there is an NFL
expansion slot open, could not go wrong with Alabama as a team and Sabin as a
coach); Newsom’s vaccine rollout continues to be a disaster with California an
epicenter of new cases and deaths but fortunately the recall petition for
Gruesome Newsom has now surpassed 1,000,000 signatures and only needs 500,000
more to put the recall Newsom petition on the ballot: https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/
Chicago/Baltimore
Gun Violence: In the new-year gun violence is unchecked primarily with shooters
of color shooting and killing victims of color but it looks like my data site
Hey Jackass.com has now been blocked from giving out daily data.
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a musical link to “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” by Rupert
Holmes, the fact that you do not suffer from pseudodosmia, and a
quote on human cloning by Lewis Thomas, secure in the knowledge that if you
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1. National Poetry
at Work Day—created
by the editorial staff of Tweetspeak to be celebrated on the second Tuesday in
January starting in 2013 to promote not poetry per se but poetry created in the
workplace and by the workplace as many poets were forced to have day jobs while
they create their poetry.
2. National Pharmacists
Day—commemorating
the contribution to our health care system by pharmacists who may be become
even more indispensable as distribution
centers for the COVID-18 vaccine which is experiencing great logjams in terms
of getting the vaccine into the arms of more Americans.
3. 1980
Number One Song—the
number 1 song in 1980 on this day with a run of 1 week in that position was “Escape
(The Pina Colada Song)” by Rupert Holmes, joining 16 other number one songs. Here
is a recording of Rupert Holmes singing “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb6l38eP-4w
Holmes is a noted singer, songwriter, playwright and author. He is still going
strong at age 73.
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day is “pseudosmia” which means a false perception of odors which
sadly seems to be one of the symptoms of CV infection.
5. Cracking the
Brass Ceiling---celebrating
the birth on this day in 1944 of Cynthia Robinson, one of the founding members
of the Sly and the Family Stone as a vocalist and a rarity an African American
female trumpet player whose trumpet was finally taken from her for good on
November 23, 2015 at the age of 71 from cancer.
On this day in:
a. 1967 James Bedford who
had just died from cancer was cryogenically preserved to await the day when
cancer has been cured so he can be unthawed and rejoin the human race and his friends
and relatives who are at least 53 years older.
b.
1991 the U.S. Congress authorized President H.W. Bush to use military force to
force Iraq out of Kuwait, an act which Hussein foolishly chose to ignore,
c. 1998 in a great move for humans
as human beings, 19 European nations agreed to ban cloning of human beings.
d. 2004 the world’s largest
ocean liner as opposed to a cruise ship, the RMS Queen Mary 2 made its
maiden voyage.
e. 2010 a massive earthquake struck Haiti
near its capital Port-au-Prince which was almost totally destroyed, killing
200-300,000 people and injuring thousands more.
Reflections on Human Cloning:
“The cloning
of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along
with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer
poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.” Lewis Thomas, noted 20th
Century physician, essayist and yes poet.
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