Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not February 11, 2021
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with
surging cases now over 108 million at 108,248,345 with 395,250 new cases (a .37%
increase) 25,448,099 of which are active, 82,800,246 closed with 80,424,059
recoveries (97.13% and 97.13% yesterday) and 2,376,187 deaths (2.87% and 2.87%
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 27
million at 27,700,629 with 286,820 new cases (a 1.04% increase) with 9,594,011
active cases of which 20,883 (.22% of active cases and a decrease now of 8,388
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition,
18,393,438 closures, 486,435 of which have been deaths (2.64% and 2.64%
yesterday) and 17,907,003 of which have been recoveries (97.36% and 97.36%
yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many
months is now .23% lower than the world rate and now .07% 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 1464 ranks behind Belgium (1861), UK (1696) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing), and Italy (1535) and only slightly worse
than Portugal (1462), Hungary (1394), Bulgaria (1382), Spain (1373), Mexico (1308), Peru (1289),
France (1236), Sweden (1220) that never closed its economy down like we did but
has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in
deaths, Switzerland (1119), Brazil (1106), Argentina (1097), Poland (1062),
Chile (1002), and Bolivia (934) and we have now conducted 330,063,039 tests
(now at 993,587/M) compared to Russia at 723,442/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 1,178,587/M.
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 2/11/2021
48 million doses have been given, 1.62 million per day in the last week. In
California 5,291,493 total doses have been given (down to 66.7% of doses
received), but typical of Newsom’s ineptness and despite the power of growing
signatures on his recall petition, California has slightly improved and is now
at 36th out of 50 in terms of
the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states. 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 2/11/2021
in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 11,516/M with COVID-19
patients hospitalized occupying 18.8% of all hospital beds.
Non
CV Case News: The Blues in the kangaroo court impeachment trial of Ex-President
Trump have rested their case and the defense of ex-President Trump will begin
tomorrow; already the Blues expecting that the Senate will not find Trump
guilty of the impeachable offense charged are laying plans to use the 14th
Amendment to try to bar Trump from serving any federal office; we now find that
the Boss upon his arrest in November for DWI refused to take a blood test and
the officer charging him claimed he reeked of alcohol (good for Jeep to pull
the ad); given the Biden Family’s entanglements with China, after Biden’s call
with China’s Xi Jinping, he finally said something astute after pooh poohing
the threats of China as an existential threat to the U.S., namely that China is
“going to eat our lunch” alluding to their work in high speed rail (what about
IP theft, hacking, currency manipulation, military saber rattling and unfair
trade practices Joe?); Biden’s call for opening the schools seems to be limited
to one day a week in classroom teaching to the anger and dismay of most parents
and the science that says infections in elementary schools are almost nonexistent;
Meghan McCain is by no means a raving conservative but Blues should listen when
she attacks Biden’s pick Neera Tanden as totally unsuitable as head of Office
of Management and Budget due to her leftist rants and rhetoric (why Biden
should expend political capital on this nominee is mind boggling when even
Sanders is dodging questions of whether he would vote for her confirmation); in
what a difference a scandal makes, John Weaver, the co-founder of the
anti-Trump super PAC the Lincoln Project, is under fire for at least 10 claims
of harassment which the PAC evidently ignored as it raised millions to defeat
Trump and line the pockets of those connected with the Lincoln Project (wonder
if since the target was Trump, Blues and MSM gave them a free pass?); in the
sordid Brittany Spears conservatorship a judge ignoring her father’s wishes
that he remain the sole conservator, has ruled that Bessemer Trust Co. will be
the co-conservator; hard to believe but Cuomo is facing heat over his
pandemic emergency powers as Mayor Di Blasio is demanding they be ended; the
Grey Lady is becoming more and more rightfully called the Rag Lady as it
refused to publish an editorial by conservative Bret Stephens that would have criticized
the editors of this once decent newspaper; as Newsom was heckled by recall
chanters in Fresno, here’s the link to join the final less than 100,000
signatures needed to put Newsom on a recall ballot where he needs to be given
his unmitigated ineptness: https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/
Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com
is back to show that through February 10, 2021,
gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color
in Chicago is alive and well with 314 persons shot of whom 67 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 “Tik Tok” by Kesha, the fact that you love linguine with quahogs
and a quote by President Eisenhower on whether the Rosenbergs should be
executed for espionage for the Soviets, 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
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1. National
Inventors’ Day—created by President Reagan on this day in
1983 to promote the contributions of inventors to our society and economy and
celebrated on the anniversary of the birth of Thomas Edison who had received
over 1,000 patents.
2. National Shut In
Day—promoting the
reaching out to those who are confined to nursing homes or unable to leave
their homes whose day would soar to new heights by receiving a visit, a call,
or note and needed today more so than ever as countless of people otherwise fit
and mobile have been the subject of stay-at-home orders due to the pandemic.
3. 2010 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 2010 on
this day with a run of 9 2 weeks in that position was “Tik Tok” by Kesha to
join 16 other number 1 songs and 8 other acts having their first number 1 song.
Here is a recording of Kesha singing “My “Tik Tok”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6XpLQM2Cs
Kesha burst on the music scene in 2005 and has been on a
roll, having overcome an eating disorder in 2004.
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day is “quahog” which means a hard shell clam delicious raw or in
chowders or in a sauce over linguine.
5. Sending Tina Fey to the Unemployment
Line--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1964 of Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska and
Vice Presidential candidate with John McCain, who is still actively involved in
conservative Republican candidates and while a VP candidate gave Tina Fey’s career
a tremendous boost while she portrayed her on Saturday Night Live.
On this day in:
a. 1937 the Flint Sit Down
Strike against General Motors ended when GM recognized the union.
b. 1953 President
Dwight Eisenhower denied the clemency opinions for convicted Soviet spies
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were then executed on June 19, 1953 in the Sing
Sing Electric Chair.
c. 1980 Nelson Mandela after serving
27 years as a political prisoner in South Africa was released from Victor
Verster Prison outside of Cape Town, South Africa.
d. 1990 Buster Douglas, a 42-1
underdog, knocked out Mike Tyson in a Heavyweight Championship Fight in Tokyo
in 10 rounds to claim the title which he lost to Evander Holyfield 8 months
later.
e. 2015 the Vatican announced that
Pope Benedict XVI would resign as Pope due to his advanced age.
Reflections on the Rosenbergs’
execution: “I am convinced that the only conclusion to be drawn from the
history of this case is that the Rosenbergs have received the benefits of every
safeguard which American justice can provide. There is no question in my mind
that their original trial and the long series of appeals constitute the fullest
measure of justice and due process of law. Throughout the innumerable
complications and technicalities of this case no Judge has ever expressed any
doubt that they committed most
Serious acts
of espionage.
Accordingly,
only most extraordinary circumstances would warrant Executive intervention in
the case. I am not unmindful of the fact that this case has aroused grave
concern both here and abroad in the minds of serious people aside from the
considerations of law. In this connection I can only say that, by immeasurably
increasing the chances of atomic war, the Rosenbergs may have condemned to
death tens of millions of innocent people all over the world. The execution of
two human beings is a grave matter. But even graver is the thought of millions
of dead, whose death may be directly attributable to what these spies have
done.
When
democracy's enemies have been judged guilty of a crime as horrible as that of
which the Rosenbergs were convicted: when the legal processes of democracy have
been marshaled to their maximum strength to protect the lives of convicted
spies: when in their most solemn judgment the tribunals of the United States
has adjudged them guilty and the sentence just. I will not intervene in this
matter." President Dwight Eisenhower, rejecting a plea for clemency of the
Rosenbergs.
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