Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 13, 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 838,889 new cases (a .77% increase) 25,422,
087 of which are active, 83,665,147 closed with 81,261,091 recoveries
(97.13% and 97.13% yesterday) and 2,404,056 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 28 million at 28,196,073 with 85,384 new cases (a .30% increase) with 9,549,012
active cases of which 19,555 (.20% of active cases and a decrease now of 9,716
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical
condition, 18,647,061 closures, 496,033 of which have been deaths (2.66%
and 2.66% yesterday) and 18,151,028 of which have been recoveries (97.34%
and 97.34% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after
many months is now .21% lower than the world rate and now .04% 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 1493 ranks behind Belgium (1859), UK (1717) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing), and Italy (1545) and only slightly worse than
Portugal (1492), Hungary (1414), Bulgaria (1389), Spain (1384),
Mexico (1330), Peru (1308), France (1249), Sweden (1226) that never closed its
economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid rise
in deaths, Switzerland (1122), Brazil (1118), Argentina (1104),
Poland (1076), Chile (1012), and Bolivia (944) and we have now conducted
334,805,401 tests (now at 1,007,815/M) compared to Russia at 728,900/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 1,189,938/M.
US Vaccinations: In the
U.S. as of 2/13/2021 50.1 million doses have been given, 1.66 million per day
in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will
take us some 8 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many
believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 5,768,764 total
doses have been given (up to 71.6% of doses received), but typical of Newsom’s
ineptness and because more than 1.5 million recall signatures have been turned
in despite the power of growing signatures on his recall petition, California
has fallen back and is now at 39th 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 and little improvement relative
to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor. As of
2/12/2021 in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 9,998//M with
COVID-19 patients hospitalized occupying 17.1% of all hospital beds.
Non CV Case News: The Mulligan
Impeachment trial is over and by a vote of 50 Blues and 7 Reds voting in favor
of impeachment and 43 Reds voting against, Trump was acquitted; a bit of
fireworks in the trial when the House Managers looked like they wanted to call
witnesses to testify on a Trump’s state of mind and then realizing such an plan
would extend the trial for weeks on end when the outcome baring some unexpected
“I am guilty admission” would be an acquittal and the wrath of the American
people, backed off and no witnesses were called; after the verdict Pelosi was
in her typical partisan biased form ripping the Reds as being cowards for not
voting to convict (sure way to obtain unity is to viciously attack the other
side as being cowards when you need their votes in the Senate and given the
slimmest of the slim margins in the House, may need them in the House also);
T.J. Dulco a former Deputy Press Secretary became the first Biden appointee to
fall on his sword to protect Biden after he threatened Politico reporter Tera
Palmeri and received only a one week suspension without pay by resigning (China
is paying attention and Biden’s response after earlier promising to fire anyone
committing such acts will lead them to believe that he like Obama’s Syrian red
lines in the sand is all threat and no action); more than 1.5 million irate
Californians have signed the Recall Newsom Petition as they continue to seek
more signatures to insure enough valid signatures have been collected; Hell hath
no fury like an anti-Trumpster as news today is that one of Trump’s impeachment
defense team, Michael van der Veen, has had his home vandalized and he and his
law firm threatened (in the PC world of the left, right to counsel only exists
if you are a Blue?); the nursing home cover up scandal by Cuomo just got more
interesting as the Acting Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey
Strauss, is the mother-in-law of Melissa DeRosa, the aide who revealed the
Cuomo cover up on the number of nursing home deaths; to insure a recall in the
event that any of the 1.5 million signatures already received are not valid to
insure Newsom is put 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 12,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 326 persons shot of whom 69
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 “Set Fire to the Rain” by Adele, the
fact that you have not endured any quassations today and a quote from Willy
Brandt on German reunification 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. World Radio Day—created by UNESCO
and first celebrated on this day in 2012 to promote awareness of the importance
of radio as a means of communication and entertainment.
2. Global Movie Day—established by the
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to promote via social media
discussion and sharing of viewers’ favorite movies at a time when movie
theaters are largely shut down or open on limited capacity due to the pandemic.
3. 2012
Number One Song—the number 1 song in 2012 on this day with a run of 2 weeks in
that position was “Set Fire to the Rain” by Adele to join 12 other number 1
songs. Here is a recording of Adele singing “Set Fire to the Rain”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjqYTpE6Qdg This
32 year old Brit has been performing since 2006, has sold over 120 million
records with 15 Grammys and went on a successful weight loss program where she
lost some 100 pounds.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quassation” which is an act of being shaken or shaking which describes
what one feels during one of our numerous California earthquakes.
5. The Show Must Go
On Even If the Actor Cannot--celebrating the birth on this day in 1939 of Oliver Reed, noted
English actor who was a functioning binge drinker and alcoholic during his
career and died from a heart attack on May 2, 1999 after being in a drinking
contest with a group of English sailors and consuming vast quantities of alcohol.
Gladiator which he had a starring
role in had not been completed and his remaining parts were completed by a body double and computer generated imaginary
and he was posthumously nominated for a BAFTA Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
On
this day in:
a. 1954 Frank
Selvy playing for Furman University became the first and only player for a
Division I NCAA team to score 100 points in a game which he did against Newbury
College.
b. 1960
with its nuclear test called Gerboise
Bleue France became the 4th country to possess nuclear weapons.
c. 1990
an agreement was reached for a two stage reunification of Germany.
d. 2011 the
American Indian Tribe, the Umatilla, was
permitted to hunt Bison just outside of Yellowstone Park, a right granted to
them by treaty in 1855 but denied for over a hundred years.
e. 2021
former President Trump was acquitted in his second impeachment trial.
Reflections on the
reunification of the 2 Germanys: “Now we are in a situation where what belongs
together will grow together.” Willy Brandt in a radio interview on November 10,
1989, the day after the intra-border controls were ended by East Germany.
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