Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 14, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues the new year with surging cases now
over 109 million at 109,382,123 with 1,133,778 new cases (a 1.05% increase) 25,355,132
of which are active, 84,026,991 closed with 81,615,991 recoveries
(97.13% and 97.13% yesterday) and 2,411,000 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 28,261,470 with 65,397 new cases (a .23% increase) with 9,540,008
active cases of which 19,400 (.20% of active cases and a decrease now of 9,871
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical
condition, 18,721,462 closures, 497,174 of which have been deaths (2.66%
and 2.66% yesterday) and 18,224,288 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 1497 ranks behind Belgium (1862), UK (1720) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing), Italy (1549), and Portugal (1505 and only
slightly worse than Hungary (1421),
Bulgaria (1392), Spain (1384), Mexico (1339), Peru (1314), France
(1252), Sweden (1226) that never closed its economy down like we did but has
recently been experiencing a rapid rise in deaths, Switzerland (1123),
Brazil (1121), Argentina (1105), Poland (1079), Chile (1017), and Bolivia (952)
and we have now conducted 335,113,418 tests (now at 1,008,726/M) compared
to Russia at 731,639/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 1,189,921/M.
US Vaccinations: In the
U.S. as of 2/14/2021 53.8 million doses have been given, 1.68 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 5,981,582 total
doses have been given (up to 74.2% 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 improved and is now at 38th 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 9,636/M
with COVID-19 patients hospitalized occupying 16.3% of all hospital beds.
Non CV Case News: The idiocy
of the defund the police pushed by the BLM Movement is coming home to roost as
Minneapolis residents outrage over rising crime and delayed police response time
has prompted its city council to approve a $6.1 million additional funding increase for police; the
Blues snap impeachment which predictably failed in the words of Sen. Graham has
opened a “Pandora’s Box” opening a great
possibility that if the Reds retake the House may impeach Kamala Harris for her
inciting remarks and raising bail money for rioters during the death of George
Floyd riots (although I think he is right I hope that a Red House would not go down
that path to create impeachment on demand); Adam Garcia, a 20 year veteran of
the Bakersfield Police Department, was adding icing to the recall cake now on
our menu by attacking policies of Governor Newsom that he claims are contributing
to crime and a lack of safety like releasing convicted felons from prisons due
to CV-19 fears; Impeachment Manager Swalwell
whose continued silence on Chinese spy Fang Fang remains outrageous appeared on
MSNBC to lamely explain why no witnesses were called because the managers did
not know what they would have said and regardless of what was said would not
have changed Senate votes (begs the obvious question of why the House voted for
impeachment when Trump was leaving office on the 20th and why Pelosi
would name him as a House Impeachment Manager); Mayor Lightfoot of Chicago
struggling with the obstruction of the teachers’ unions there has finally come
out with the obvious—the teachers’ unions are acting like political parties (an
effective adjunct for years to the DNC); as Little Fredo Chris of CNN refuses
to cover the expanding Cuomo nursing home deaths scandal, the network may have
earned another acronym—Cover-up News Never; 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 13,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 333 persons shot of whom 73
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 “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan
Lewis feat. Wanz, the fact that you are not viewed as a quat and a quote
from disgraced former Broward County Sheriff David Israel on the Stoneman High
School shooting, 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 poem at a great price tailored to the event and the
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1. World Marriage Day—celebrating since
1981 on the second Sunday in February which today falls on Valentine’s Day the institution of
marriage and the importance of committed couples to our social fabric.
2. League of Women Voters Day—commemorating the
formation of the League of Women Voters in 1920 and its efforts to promote
voter registration, voter education and voters’ right but in recent years has strayed
from its non partisan roots to support progressive ideas like banning the Keystone
XL Pipeline, climate change and gun control.
3. 2013 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 2013 on this day with a run of 4 weeks in
that position was “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat Wanz to join
10 other number 1 songs and 7 other acts recording their first number 1 song.
Here is a recording of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz singing “Thrift
Shop”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes
This hip hop duo was formed in Seattle in 2008 and since
2017 has been on hiatus. Wanz has been performing in the music business since the
early 80’s but in 2015 returned to his software roots as a quality assurance
engineer for Tableau that was acquired by Salesforce in 2019 for $15.7 billion.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quat” which means an insignificant person which describes far too many politicians
compare to their actual abilities.
5. Playing the
Roulette Wheel--celebrating the birth on this day in 1947 of noted singer,
songwriter and guitarist Timothy Buckley III, who was living on the edge of
dangerous driving, drinking and drugs and who after a night of drinking and
heroin ingestion on June 29, 1975 was taken home to his wife where he later died
of an overdose. His friend who provided the heroin pled guilty to involuntary
manslaughter and served 120 days in jail and 4 years probation.
On
this day in:
a. 1929 in a
shooting known as the Valentine’s Day Massacre which shocked even the most
numbed resident of the city from gangster shootings, 6 members of the “Bugs”
Moran gang and one mechanic were lined up against a garage wall by 4 persons in
police uniforms and shot to death.
b. 1989
Union Carbide agreed to pay to the Indian Government $470 million dollars for
damages and deaths arising out of the release of toxic industrial chemicals in
Bhopal, India.
c. 1989
in a glaring example of Islamic intolerance Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini
issued a fatwa calling for Muslims to execute author Salman Rushdie, the author
of The Satanic Verses.
d. 2005 YouTube
was founded by 3 former Pay Pal employees to be acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.6
billion.
e. 2018
19 year old Nicolas Cruz was alleged to have entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland, Florida and opened fire while some responding deputies
took cover and did not enter the building and kill 17 teachers and students and
wounded 17 others. Arrested within an hour and shown shooting on video
monitors, he has still not yet gone to trial.
Reflections on the Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting: "Feis had no gun, no rifle. And yet
he ran toward helping students," former Broward County Sheriff Scott
Israel at Aaron Feis’ funeral as 1 one of the 3 teachers killed who failed to
mention that too many of his deputies who were armed did not run to the sound
of gunfire.
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