Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not February 5, 2021
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with
surging cases now over 104 million at 105,705,175 with 321,375 new cases (a .30%
increase) 25,905,177 of which are active, 79,799,998 closed with 77,498,720
recoveries (97.12% and 97.12% yesterday) and 2,301,678 deaths (2.88% 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 27,260,853 with 63,953 new
cases (a .23% increase) with 9,788,531 active cases of which 23,145 (.24% of
active cases and a decrease now of 6,126 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31)
are in serious or critical condition, 17,536,275 closures, 468,280 of
which have been deaths (2.67% and 2.67% yesterday) and 17,067,995 of
which have been recoveries (97.33% and 97.33% yesterday). Our death rate
percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .21% lower than
the world rate and now .07% 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 1410 ranks behind Belgium
(1830), UK (1634) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), and
Italy (1500) and only slightly worse than Hungary (1341), Bulgaria (1340), Portugal (1350), Spain (1313), Peru (1256),
Mexico (1256), Sweden (1195) that never closed its economy down like we did but
has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in
deaths, France (1193), Switzerland (1103), Argentina (1076), Brazil (1073), Poland (1024), Chile (979), and
Bolivia (904) and we have now conducted 319,529,491 tests (now at 961,970/M)
compared to Russia at 709,725/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 1,122,368/M.
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of
2/4/2021 36.7 million doses have been given, 1.34 million per day in the last
week. In California 3,984,752 total doses have been given (61.9% of doses
received), but typical of Newsom’s ineptness and the power of growing
signatures on his recall petition, California has slightly worsened and is now
at 34th 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 but some improvement relative
to other states but still a good reason to recall this inept governor. As of
2/4/2021 in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 14,138 with COVID-19
patients hospitalized occupying 24.5% of all hospital beds.
Non
CV Case News: Quid pro quo when you are the son of a president has its benefits
as Hunter Biden, his wife and 10 month old
son are renting a $25,000 a month house on a canal in Venice, CA a nine iron
away from the beach with 24/7 Secret Service protection that seems to have
caused the homeless to disappear; across the nation teachers’ unions are
digging in their heels and refusing to go back to in person schooling until the
schools in which if they are elementary have almost 0 risk of having the CV-19
virus spread are “safe” and teachers are vaccinated (urban school kids mostly
minorities are going to be devastated and Biden is held hostage by the unions
due to the contributions they made to him); Mayor Lightfoot is finally getting
a spine and making her last and best effort offer to recalcitrant teachers to
come back to work for in person learning in K-8; Biden’s idea of unity and
compromise was on full display as he indicated a “my way or the highway” on his
$1.9 trillion stimulus package (are there any Blues like Manchin who will not
go along with this partisan charade cram
down?); our border is becoming more and more each day as migrants are flocking
to Biden’s siren song of amnesty and are being arrested in droves but given
Biden’s misguided executive orders will soon be released with a notice to
appear at a future date for a hearing which almost to a person they will not
appear; “Sunny” Hostin of the clueless View
has spent too much time with Joy Behar and her bias as infected her as
Hostin slammed CNN commentator Van Jones for cooperating with Trump on criminal
justice reform and inanely claimed this black has lost the trust of the black
community; 94 days after the election, Claudia Tenney has finally been declared
a winner of the last disputed House Race by 109 votes narrowing the Blue margin
in the House to 9 seats (8 if Newsom listens to Lying Schiff and names him as
California’s AG); the airbrushing out of history against Trump continues as
Biden has indicated Trump as a former president will not have access to Intel
briefings; Warner, Hirono, and Klobuchar are leading a move to reform Section
230 to amend some the protections granted to internet websites (step in the
right direction but what they should be doing is following the lead of Florida
and its attempt to prevent the banning of political and campaigns by companies
like Twitter); Squad Rep Presley once again showed that she is so out of touch
with most Americans by claiming her surprise that lowering the voting age to 16
would be polarizing (lowering it to 18 could be justified because if old enough
then to be drafted, be bound by contracts and enlist in the military without
parental approval should be old enough to vote which a 16 year old is not and
usually has other things on his or her mind than what candidate would be best
for the nation); here’s the link to join
the final 100,000 signatures to put Newsom on a recall ballot where his
ineptness will have put him: https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/
Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com
is back to show that through February 4, 2021,
gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color
in Chicago is alive and well with 269 persons shot of whom 56 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 “Check On It” by Beyonce feat. Slim Thug, the
fact that your victories in life are never pyrrhic and two opposing quotes from
Sen. Lamar Alexander and Sen. Kamala Harris on the acquittal of the first
impeachment of Donald Trump, 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. California
Western Monarch Butterfly Day—created by the California State Legislature
in 2004 to promote awareness of the migration of the Western Monarch Butterfly that
migrates to coastal and southern California in October through March to
lay their eggs in Milkweed plants.
2. National Fart Day—not sure who created this
observance other than to know it has been observed on this day since 2008 and
was most likely created by a purveyor of bean dishes.
3. 2006
Number One Song—the
number 1 song in 2006 on this day with a run of 5 weeks in that position was “Check
on It” by Beyonce feat. Slim Thug to join 19 other number 1 songs and 18 other
acts achieving their first number one songs.
Here is a recording of Beyonce feat. Slim Thug performing “Check on It”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dUDzBdnmI
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day is “pyrrhic” which describes a victory too costly to have been
of value to the victor which hopefully will describe the snap impeachment of vengeful
Blues of Trump and his expected acquittal.
5. Once an Entrepreneur
Always an Entrepreneur—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1943 of Nolan Bushnell, noted graduate of the Stanford
Business School and co-founder of Atari and Pong and creator of Chuck E. Cheese
and Bushnell’s Law: “All the best games are easy to learn and difficult to
master. They should reward the first quarter and the hundredth.”
On this day in:
a. 1852 the New Hermitage
Museum in St. Petersburg opened to the public.
b.
1985 in a what took you so long moment, Ugo Vetere, the mayor of Rome, met with
Chedli Klibi, the mayor of Carthage, met in Tunis to sign a treaty of
friendship to bring an end to the Third Punic War which started 2,131 years ago.
c. 1988 Manuel Noriega, the former
dictator of Panama, was indicted on drug smuggling and money laundry charges,
and then tried, convicted and sentenced to 40 years to be released after 17
years for good behavior to be then sent to France for similar charges and
served another 7 years to be extradited to Panama to serve time after previously
being convicted in abstentia where he
died following surgery for a brain tumor.
d. 2019 Pope Francis became the
first Pope to visit and perform a Papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula in Abu Dhabi.
e. 2020 Donald Trump was acquitted in
his first partisan impeachment trial and if one is a betting man, a good chance
that history will repeat itself with another acquittal in his trial on the
second impeachment assuming it moves forward since he is no longer in office.
Reflections on the first
impeachment acquittal: “If this shallow, hurried, and wholly partisan
impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline
on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist,” Sen. Lamar Alexander
(R., Tenn.).
“The Senate trial of
Donald Trump has been a miscarriage of justice. Calif.). He’s going to escape
accountability because a majority of senators have decided to let him.” Sen.
Kamala Harris, then Sen. from California and now a heart beat away from Biden.
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