Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not February 3, 2021
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with
surging cases now over 104 million at 104,201,132 with 544,811 new cases (a .52%
increase) 25,915,407 of which are active, 78,686,844 closed with 76,414,150
recoveries (97.11% and 97.12% yesterday) and 2,272,694 deaths (2.89% and 2.88%
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 27,101,510 with 128,367 new
cases (a .48% increase) with 9,807,712 active cases of which 23,641 (.24% of
active cases and a decrease now of 5,630 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31)
are in serious or critical condition, 17,293,798 closures, 460,388 of
which have been deaths (2.66% and 2.66% yesterday) and 16,833,410 of
which have been recoveries (97.34% and 97.34% yesterday). Our death rate
percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .23% lower than
the world rate and .08% 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 1386 ranks behind Belgium
(1822), UK (1606) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), and
Italy (1487) and only slightly worse than Bulgaria (1327), Hungary (1321), Portugal (1302), Spain (1291), Peru (1242),
Mexico (1230), France (1187), Sweden (1178) that never closed its economy
down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid rise deaths, Switzerland (1096), Argentina (1066),
Brazil (1062), Poland (1002), Chile (967),
and Bolivia (893) and we have now conducted 316,570,606 tests (now at 953,053/M)
compared to Russia at 704,247/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 1,078,606/M.
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of
2/2/2021 33.7 million doses have been given, 1.32 million per day in the last
week. In California 3,649,640 total doses have been given (64.4% of doses
received), but typical of Newsom’s ineptness and the power of growing
signatures on his recall petition, California has slightly improved is now at 25th
out of 50 in terms of the percentage of
doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the state. 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 2/2/2021 in California
we have reduced hospitalizations to 14,999 with COVID-19 patients hospitalized
occupying 24.5% of all hospital beds.
Non
CV Case News: AOC is being rightfully slammed for falsely claiming her life was
in danger and almost murdered during the storming of the Capitol when she was
not even there but in the Cannon House Building (gasoline on a fire is what you
get form this inane leftist); when will the MSM force Kerry to his
environmentally holier than thou attitude bury as he flies in a private jet to
Iceland to accept Arctic Circle climate award as opposed on a commercial jet
climb aboard (total sanctimonious hypocrite picked by Biden to be his “Climate
Czar”)?; Biden’s misguided executive order to allow transgender males claiming
female status to participate in women’s sports will decimate all the progress
women have made in sports thanks to Title IX a point Biden’s pick for Education
Secretary Miguel Cardona completely dodged Senator Rand Paul’s questions on
that point; one party state New York has its Blues aiding in Cuomo’s cover-up
of nursing home deaths scandal as they blocked attempts by Reds to subpoena
records of nursing home deaths that Cuomo refuses to release; Liz Cheney who
held the number 3 position in the Red Caucus of the House has easily survived a
bid by conservative members to oust her given her vote to impeach Trump; the
standard leftist chant that wealthy Americans need to pay their fair share of
taxes is falling on deaf ears as the 1% of Americans who are the wealthiest pay
40.1% of the federal taxes in the nation; not sure whether it is the
frustration over the stench of feces on
the sidewalks or the inability to work because the schools in Feces City are
not open to in person learning but San Francisco has become the first city to
file suit against its own school board for failing to follow state guidelines
and open its schools for in person learning; Lady Justice is supposed to be
blind and not lie but in the case of Lying Adam Schiff’s push to be named
California AG, if Newsom listens to him Newsom must be out of his mind (would
be next to impossible to a more dishonest political hack find); the recall
Gavin Newsom movement continues to gather signatures over 1.2 million and may
have reached 1.3 million and enhanced by his failed policies the latest of
which is the disaster of a vaccine rollout is fortunately moving forward to the
required goal of 1.5 million signatures. https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/
Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com
is back to show that through February 2, 2021,
gun violence involving persons of color shooting persons of color in
Chicago is alive and well with 256 persons shot of whom 55 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 “Hey Ya” by OutKast, the fact that supermarkets
have a great selection of delicious pyrenes and a quote by Amilcar Cabral on
what is needed for successful decolonization, secure in the knowledge that if you
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1. National Girls
and Women In Sports Day—created by a joint resolution of Congress in
1986 to honor the contributions of female athletes in sports and to our
community as a whole, but sadly unless Biden does not come to his senses and
rescind his inane executive order requiring transgenders to be able to compete
in women’s sports, women’s participation will be decimated by transgender biologic
males dominating the sports.
2. Take a Cruise Day—not sure who created this
observance or when but one would celebrate it by being on a cruise which the
industry would love to have you do but I suspect cruise ships actually sailing
due to the CV panic are few and far between and the industry is awash in a sea
of red ink with most of the cruise fleet moored.
3. 2004
Number One Song—the
number 1 song in 2004 on this day with a run of 6 weeks in that position was “Hey
Ya” by OutKast to join 11 other number 1 songs. Here is a recording of OutKast performing “Hey
Ya”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw
4.
Word
of the Day—today’s
word of the day is “pyrene” which means a fruit-stone which is a fruit like a
cherry, peach, apricot or plum.
5. Bad Blood—celebrating or if an investor
bemoaning the birth on this day of Elizabeth Holmes, who dropped out of
Stanford to form Theranos, a company which was supposed to have unique blood
test technology that needed only a drop of blood and who raised millions at increasing
valuations to become a billionaire only to have the investors and the SEC
discover the representations made as to the results of the tests done to be
fraudulent; she was criminally charged with fraud in March 2018 and after
several delays some of which were caused by the CV pandemic is scheduled to go
to trial in June of this year.
On this day in:
a. 1933 in an if the world
had only listened moment Adolf Hitler spoke of the policy of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe and its ruthless Germanisation
were the official policy goals of the Nazis.
b.
1959 in what would come to be known as “The Day the Music Died,” Buddy Holly,
the “Big Bopper” and Ritchie Valens crashed in a private plane in bad weather
near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all aboard.
c. 1960 British Prime Minister Harold
MacMillan spoke of the “winds of change” that signaled that Britain would
support decolonization and the ultimate setting of the Sun on a reduced British
Empire.
d. 1984 Doctor John Buster and
his research team at UCLA Harbor Hospital announced the first embryo transfer
from one woman to another 38 weeks earlier had
resulted
in a live birth, the first of over 200,000 births that have subsequently resulted
from his procedures over the years.
e. 1995 the Space Shuttle Discovery was launched and piloted by
the first female, Eileen Collins to pilot a Space Shuttle and made the first
docking at the Soviet’s MIR Space Station.
Reflections on the
missing link to successful decolonization: “Always remember that the people are
not fighting for ideas, nor for what is in men’s minds. The people fight and
accept the sacrifices demanded by the struggle in order to gain material
advantages, to live better and in peace, to benefit from progress, and for the
better future of their children. National liberation, the struggle against
colonialism, the construction of peace, progress and independence are hollow
words devoid of any significance unless they can be translated into a real
improvement of living conditions.”
― Amílcar Cabral, Return to the
Source: Selected Speeches of Amilcar Cabral Cabral was a noted
anti-colonialist in the fight for independence of Guinea-Bissau but was
assassinated 6 months before independence by disgruntled members of his party
seeking independence.
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