Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 15, 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 240,388 new cases (a .22% increase) 22,992,763
of which are active, 86,629,748 closed with 84,212,685 recoveries
(97.21% and 97.13% yesterday) and 2,417,063 deaths (2.79% 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 28,298,996 with 37,526 new cases (a .13% increase) with 9,496,033
active cases of which 19,329 (.20% of active cases and a decrease now of 9,942
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical
condition, 18,802,963 closures, 497,868 of which have been deaths (2.65%
and 2.66% yesterday) and 18,305,095 of which have been recoveries (97.35%
and 97.34% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after
many months is now .14% lower than the world rate and now .12% 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 1499 ranks behind Belgium (1864), UK (1724) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing), Italy (1553), and Portugal (1514 and only
slightly worse than Hungary (1426), Spain
(1399), Bulgaria (1392), Mexico (1342), Peru (1314), France (1258),
Sweden (1226) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently
been experiencing a rapid rise in deaths, Switzerland (1126, Brazil
(1123), Argentina (1105), Poland (1082), Chile (1021), and Bolivia (952) and we
have now conducted 335,928,770 tests (now at 1,011,180/M) compared to
Russia at 733,694/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
1,211,709/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: Cuomo held a
news conference complete with slides in order to blame everyone else but not
himself for the nursing homes death in his state which was not up to Emmy
standards but did stoke the fires calling for an independent investigation (did
not listen to all the questions, but no one seemed to ask the question of why
he didn’t utilize the USN Mercy or the Javits Center temporary hospital built
by the Army Corps of Engineers); wonder if since his brother denied any fault
whether brother Chris will now feel safe enough to cover the story for CNN;
Pelosi in her typical “I can do no wrong fashion,” demeaned Red House leaders
who demanded answers of why there was little if any security for the House when
data from the FBI showed that the storming of the Capitol was preplanned, not spontaneous;
Harris who added fuel to the anti
vaccine forces by vowing she would not be vaccinated by any vaccine developed by
the Trump Administration and once the election was over was vaccinated is ignoring
reality and ignoring Biden’s own CV Czar Fauci by falsely claiming the Biden Administration
on the vaccine distribution had to start from scratch; not sure whether the Capitol
Police Department Union’s 92 % vote of no confidence on senior leadership is a
reflection on Nancy Pelosi whose responsibility includes the safety of the
Capitol but some it should cause Pelosi to dump her defiant attitude over her
lack of preparation for January 6th storming of the Capitol despite
numerous indications there would be a problem; in yet another example of the
leftist rush by the Blues, Dejuan Tatro, the new strategic adviser for outreach
to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has blasted the Capitol
Police as “White Supremacists” and justified looting following riots protesting
the death of George Floyd due to systematic racism (I wonder how many black owned
businesses in Minneapolis that were damaged and looted would agree with that idiotic
proposition); signature drive continues 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 14, 2021, gun
violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago
is alive and well with 336 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 “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry feat.
Juicy J, the fact that you are not viewed as a quatch and a quote from Laurence
Silberman and former Iraqi Premier Allawi on justification for the Iraqi War, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like
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1. Susan B. Anthony Day—celebrating the
birth of pioneer suffragette Susan B. Anthony on this day in 1820 who was tireless
in her fight for women’s right to vote and equality and who died on March 13,
1906 over 14 years before the XIX
Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920, granting women the right to vote.
2. President’s Day—commemorating the birthdays
of Presidents Washington and Lincoln and honoring the Office of the Presidency.
3. 2014 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 2014 on this day with a run of 4 weeks in
that position was “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry feat. Juicy J to join 9 other number
1 songs and 5 other acts recording their first number 1 song. Here is a
recording of Katy Perry feat. Juicy J singing “Dark Horse”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSOMA3QBU0
Perry has been on a role ever since she changed her birth name of Katherine
Hudson to Katy Perry. Juicy J is a 45 year old hip hop rapper.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quatch” which means a person who has embarrassed himself either through
actions or speech which when it comes to gaffes describes our president to a
tee.
5. Danger on the
Ground and in the Heavens--celebrating the birth on this day in 1935 of Roger Chafee, a U.S.
Navy pilot selected into NASA’s astronaut program and selected as the third
pilot on Apollo 1 which was the first of the rockets that would land a man on
the Moon and was scheduled to lift off on a test flight of the command and
service module on February 21, 1967 but in a test of flight systems on January
27, 1967 a fire broke out aboard the capsule on the launch pad, killing him and
fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Ed White.
On
this day in:
a. 1946 the
first general purpose computer ENIAC was dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania.
b. 1972
to the joy of recording artists everywhere, federal copyright protection was
extended to sound recordings.
c. 1992
serial cannibalistic killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison in Milwaukee
which would prove to be a short period before he was beaten to death by a
fellow inmate, Christopher Scarver, on February 28, 1994.
d. 2001 the first
draft of the human genome project was published in Nature.
e. 2003
protests were held worldwide in some 600 cities to protest the proposed war against
Iraq to rid the country of nuclear weapons that were later proved to not exist;
some 8 million to 30 million participated to sadly no avail as the invasion
began on March 20, 2003.
Reflections on the justifications
for invading Iraq on March 20, 2003:
March 31, 2005 - “The intelligence community was
absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass
destruction (in Iraq).” - Laurence Silberman, co-chairman, Commission on the
Intelligence Capabilities of the United States regarding weapons of mass
destruction.
March 19, 2006 - “We are losing each day on average 50 to
60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then
God knows what civil war is.” - former interim Prime Minister Allawi.
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