Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 19, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues the new year with surging cases now
over 111 million at 110,779,817 with 260,018 new cases (a .23% increase) 22,639,175
of which are active, 88,400,660 closed with 85,943,798 recoveries
(97.22% and 97.22% yesterday) and 2,456,862 deaths (2.78% and 2.78% 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 28,512,285 with 30,619 new cases (a .11% increase) with 9,330,107
active cases of which 18,090 (.19% of active cases and a decrease now of 11,181
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition,
19,212,797 closures, 502,795 of which have been deaths (2.62% and 2.63%
yesterday) and 18,707,002 of which have been recoveries (97.37% and 97.37%
yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many
months is now .16% lower than the world rate and now .05% 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 1522 ranks behind Belgium (1878), UK (1761) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing), Italy (1577), and Portugal (1554) and only
slightly worse than Hungary (1467), Spain
(1426), Bulgaria (1415), Mexico (1372), Peru (1338), France (1276),
Sweden (1248) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently
been experiencing a rapid rise in deaths, Brazil (1141), Switzerland
(1136), Argentina (1119), Poland (1106), Chile (1035), and Bolivia (964) and we
have now conducted 341,868,230 tests (now at 1,028,993/M) compared to
Russia at 741,911/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
1,243,681/M.
US Vaccinations: In the
U.S. as of 2/18/2021 59.1 million doses have been given, 1.58 million per day
in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will
take us some 9 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many
believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 6,669,137 total
doses have been given (up to 76.8% of doses received), but typical of Newsom’s
ineptness and because more than 1.5 million recall signatures have been turned
in, due to the power of growing signatures on his recall petition, California
has fallen back and is now at 37th
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 2/17/2021 in California we have reduced
hospitalizations to 8,866/M with COVID-19 patients hospitalized occupying 14.7%
of all hospital beds.
Non CV Case News: Cuomo is
defiantly mounting the best defense to a scandal is an offense defiantly
lashing out at “crazy Republicans” as a watchdog in Albany is claiming that
Cuomo’s policy of sending infected COVID-19 patients from hospitals caused some
1000 deaths (when liberals like AOC join the cry increasing in number and
volume each day from Blues New York office holders demanding an investigation
as impeachment talk is spoken much more safe bet may be that this arrogant I
did no wrong governor is not long to remain in Albany); in another example of
the despicable bias of the MSM, MSNBC and CNN have largely gone dark over the
expanding Cuomo nursing home scandal but going pedal to the metal on Cruz’
ill-advised trip to Cancun for which he readily admitted was a mistake and
returned back to Texas the day (how idiotic can the “journalists” at CNN and
MSNBC be to advance the proposition that Cruz’s mistake is equivalent to
Cuomo’s deception and killing seniors policy?); as a Paris Court has found the
French government guilty of not abiding by its commitments to the Paris Accords
Biden is fulfilling his campaign promise and rejoining the Paris Accords (given our litigious society let’s hope such a ruling does not produce
a tidal wave of litigation against the government for not complying with the
Paris Accords here); the Trump policy of requiring asylum seekers to remain in
Mexico until their case is heard is now ended and the first 25,000 illegals are
going to start being admitted into the country (watch the number of illegals
trying to enter to skyrocket knowing that if they can cross they will most
likely not be deported); after 7 years of marriage and 4 kids Kim Khardashian
has filed divorce papers against Kanye West; the Texas power grid has been
restored and power has returned but many Texans have water problems due to
broken water mains and warnings to boil water before using it; good news on the
endangered species front as scientists have been able to clone from the DNA of
a black nosed ferret that had died 30 years ago another black nose ferret;
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 18, 2021, gun
violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago
is alive and well with 356 persons shot of whom 76 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 “God’s Plan” by Drake, the
fact that you are approach issues in a quicksticks manner and a quote from James
Bradley on the Battle of Iwo Jima, 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 Fried
Fish Day/ National Tartar Sauce Day—celebrating a bookend holiday at the beginning of Lent and the
need to observe a meatless Friday which is much easier with a fried fish meal
with a decent amount of tartar sauce to go with it.
2. National Vet
Girls Rise Day—created by Veterans with Answers in 2017 to honor the services of
women veterans to our armed forces throughout the years.
3. 2018 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 2018 on this day with a run of 11 weeks in
that position not continuous was “Gods Plan” by Drake to join 11 other number 1 songs. Here is a
recording of Drake singing “God’s Plan” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVfcZ0ZcFM
Drake is a very
successful Canadian singer, rapper and popularizer of the “Toronto Sound.”
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quicksticks” which means without delay which does not describe how our
political process works most of the time.
5. Not Blind to
Music--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1936 of Samuel Joseph Myers, noted blues vocalist and
harp player who became legally blind at age 7 due to juvenile cataracts but
taught himself Braille and was successful in the music business but not in
smoking and came down with throat cancer that killed him on July 17, 2006 at
age 70.
On
this day in:
a. 1915 British
naval forces started shelling the Ottoman forts protecting The Dardanelles
without success which forced the Allies to later mount the disastrous campaign
landing at Gallipoli which almost doomed Winston Churchill’s political career.
b. 1945 some 30,000 Marines landed on Iwo Jima
in a battle that would “insure the existence of the Marine Corps for a 1000
years” at a cost of 25,000 casualties, including some 7,000 dead while only 216
Japanese surrendered.
c. 1953
in a blow to the First Amendment, the Georgia Literature Commission was
established to assist local prosecutors to enforce censorship laws and
fortunately was abolished in 1973.
d. 1963 Betty
Friedan published The Feminine Mystique that
reignited the feminist movement.
e. 1976 in a really what took you so long
moment, President Ford issued Proclamation 4066 which formally rescinded FDR’s
Executive Order 9066 which authorized the removal of Japanese Americans from
the West Coast into internment camps inland,
Reflections on the Battle of Iwo Jima: ““Some optimistically hoped the
unprecedented bombing of the tiny island would make the conquest of Iwo Jima a
two- to three-day job. But on the command ship USS Eldorado,
Howlin' Mad shared none of this optimism. The general was studying
reconnaissance photographs that showed every square inch of the island had been
bombed. "The Seventh Air Force dropped 5,800 tons in 2,700 sorties. In one
square mile of Iwo Jima, a photograph showed 5,000 bomb craters." Admiral
Nimitz thought he was dropping bombs "sufficient to pulverize everything
on the island." But incredibly, the enemy defenses were growing.
There were 450 major defensive installations when the bombing began. Now there
were over 750. Howlin' Mad observed: "We thought it would blast any island
off the military map, level every defense, no matter how strong, and wipe out
the garrison. But nothing of the kind happened. Like the worm, which becomes
stronger the more you cut it up, Iwo Jima thrived on our bombardment.” James
Bradley, Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of
Iwo Jima.
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