Ridley’s Believe It Or Not January 30, 2021
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with
surging cases now over 103 million at 103,072,832 with 461,177 new cases (a .26%
increase) 26,154,797 of which are active, 76,918,035 closed with 74,687,478
recoveries (97.10% and 97.10% yesterday) and 2,226,564 deaths (2.89% and 2.89%
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 26 million at 26,635,116 with 119,808 new
cases (a .45% increase) with 9,888,082 active cases of which 24,935 (.25% of
active cases and a decrease now of 4,336 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31)
are in serious or critical condition, 16,747,034 closures, 449,918 of
which have been deaths (2.69% and 2.69% yesterday) and 16,297,116 of
which have been recoveries (97.31% and 97.31% yesterday). Our death rate
percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .20% lower than
the world rate and .08% 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 1355 ranks behind Belgium
(1809), UK (1550) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), and
Italy (1461) and only slightly worse than Bulgaria (1305), Hungary (1292), Spain (1247), Peru (1224), Mexico (1207),
France (1161), Sweden (1144) that never closed its economy down like we
did but has recently been experiencing a rapid rise deaths, Portugal (1196) Switzerland (1078),
Argentina (1051), Brazil (1049), Poland
(980), Chile (955), and Bolivia (874) and we have now conducted 310,287,057
tests (now at 934,234/M) compared to Russia at 695,344/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 off the testing charts with tests at 1,052,637/M.
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of
1/30/2021 30.5 million doses have been given, 1.26 million per day in the last
week. In California 3,266,914 total doses have been given but typical of
Newsom’s ineptness and the power of growing signatures on his recall petition,
California has slightly improved is now at 38th out of 50 in terms
of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to
the state (57.7% only .3% ahead of 39th Florida (57.4%) and 10.0%
ahead of last place Kansas. A long way to go to get herd immunity but some
improvement relative to other states but still a good reason to recall this
inept governor. As of 1/29/2021 in California we have reduced hospitalizations
to 16,581 COVID-19 patients hospitalized occupying 29.7% of all hospital beds.
Non
CV Case News: It involved only 80 vaccinations but the outcry over GITMO
terrorist detainees being vaccinated while NYC 1st responders in
9/11 still waiting in line went through the roof causing the Pentagon to halt
its GITMO vaccination plan; in what is probably an opening salvo against Bic
Pen Biden and his executive orders in his war on fossil fuels, Rep. Crenshaw
has introduced a bill to protect oil and gas leases in the Gulf which Biden
wants to ban for a year (not sure if the Botox Witch of the West will ever
allow the bill to reach the floor but at least the lines in the sand are being
drawn for 2022); given the years of the Biden family members trying to profit
due to Biden’s position as Vice President, should come as no surprise that
Harris’ niece who like all good liberals flew to the inauguration of her aunt
in a private plane owned by a Biden donor is pedal to metal to push her book
and other business deals while Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff was just signed
on to a modeling contract with IMG
Models (remember all the flack over Ivanka’s clothing line—safe bet on these
two women’s business ventures on the sounds of silence from the MSM); Maxine
Waters continues to reveal her lack of any sense of ethics as new records show
she paid her daughter’s PR firm $250,000 for her reelection campaign (pity the
poor residents of her district as she must view them only as Plantation voting
slaves to keep her in office); in what hopefully is not an omen, Blue Rep.
Lynch of Massachusetts after receiving the second shot of the Pfizer vaccine
tested positive for the virus and is asymptomatic and in self quarantine; Biden
is warning of darker days due to the pandemic that is going to get worse and
for inept, “not my fault” Andrew Cuomo that warning is in spades as another
nursing home Dry Harbor which is reeling with an pandemic outbreak with 44
residents and 11 staffers testing positive since December 22, is hit with a
scandal of not giving a temporary patient 66 years old a vaccine who then was
moved to a hospital and died from COVID-19;
the recall Gavin Newsom movement continues to gather signatures over 1.2
million and enhanced by his failed policies the latest of which is the disaster
or a vaccine rollout, ranking 38th
in terms of the percentage of vaccines received actually administered
and is fortunately moving forward to the required goal of 1.5 million
signatures. https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/
Chicago/Baltimore Gun
Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through January 29, 2021, gun violence involving persons of color
shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 238 persons shot of
whom 49 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 “I Knew I Loved You” by Savage Garden, the fact
that your home town is spared of the purpresture by the left or the homeless
and a quote by Allen Lynch who was there on the results of the Tet Offensive, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like
Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries,
you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized
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1. School Day of
Nonviolence and Peace—created by poet Llorenc Vidal Vidal this day
in 1964 and influenced by the teaching of Gandhi to promote nonviolence as part
of the school curriculum.
2. National
Croissants Day—celebrating
that crescent shaped pastry which is the great delicious way to compliment a
breakfast.
3. 2000
Number One Song—the
number 1 song in 2000 on this day with a run of 3 weeks in that position was “I
Knew I Loved You” by Savage Garden to join 17 other number 1 songs. Savage
Garden was an Australian duo of Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones formed in 1994
and after success disbanded in 2001 with Hayes pursuing a solo career and Jones
leaving the music business to pursue a real estate career. Here is a recording
of Savage Garden performing “I knew I Loved You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjnmICxvoVY
4.
Word
of the Day—today’s
word of the day is “purpresture” which means to encroach on public property
which is what many restaurants had to do with city approval in order to survive
with outdoor dining only.
5. To Exit Doing What
You Love—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1878 of noted Estonian author A.H. Tammsaare who read
6 foreign languages and wrote all his work out in long hand and died not from
the Soviet’s reoccupation of Estonia but at his desk with a pen in hand.
On this day in:
a. 1945 in the deadliest
marine disaster in history largely unpublicized to this day, the German liner Wilhelm Gustloff, loaded with some
10,000 refugees, wounded soldiers and military personnel fleeing the Red Army
advancing on Prussia was hit by 3 torpedoes from a Soviet submarine and sank in
one hour with only some 500 survivors.
b.
1968 in a we never saw this coming moment, the Tet Offensive was launched by
the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces against the South Vietnamese,
Americans and allies ending up with a decimation of the Viet Cong but a
political nail in the coffin of the support of the Vietnam War and the belief
that we were winning.
c. 1975 National Monitor Marine
Sanctuary, the first of eventually 16 marine sanctuaries was established at the
site of the sinking of the USS Monitor Cape
Hatteras on December 30, 1862 while under tow with 16 of the 62 crewmen being
lost.
d. 1981 Richard Skrenta wrote the
first virus for Apple II computers, a 400 line boot virus named “Elk Cloner.” He
went on to found several internet companies which were acquired by public companies.
e. 1995 hydroxycarbamide became
the first preventative treatment for sickle cell disease to the joy of the
Afro-American community.
Reflections on the Tet
Offensive: "WE WON THE TET OFFENSIVE. We decimated the Viet Cong. And
our wonderful press made us losers. It was right at that point in time, I
think, that the press fully turned on the war in Vietnam and started not
necessarily generating news, but generating opinions. Because WE DECIMATED
THE VIET CONG during Tet. We decimated the North Vietnamese Army during
Tet. Had we pressed the advantage the turnout would have been different. But
when you are fighting a war based on politics, stuff happens."
Congressional Medal of Honor Winner and Sgt. in the First Cavalry Division.
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