Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 12, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues the new year with cases now over 119 million at 119,584,822
with 539,387 new cases (a .45% increase) 20,697,836 which are active,
98,886,986 closed with 96,236,460 recoveries (97.32% and 97.28% yesterday) and
2,650,236 deaths (2.68% and 2.72% 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 nearing 30
million at 29,989,883 with 80,368 new cases (a .27% increase) with 7,415,165
active cases of which 11,759 (.16% of active cases and back to daily decreases
and a now a decrease now of 17,512 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in
serious or critical condition, 22,574,718 closures, 545,358 of which
have been deaths (2.42% and 2.56% yesterday) and 22,029,360 of which have
been recoveries (97.58% and 97.44% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues
to improve and after many months is now .26% lower than the world rate and now
.15% lower than Canada which has the socialized type medicine Biden may well
want to implement here but at least has approved 4 vaccines as opposed to our
3 and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady
climb to 1641 ranks behind Belgium (1924), UK (1840) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing), Hungary (1724), and Italy (1682), and only
slightly worse than Portugal (1636), Bulgaria (1620), Spain (1545),
Mexico (1487), Peru (1456), France (1379), Sweden (1296) that never
closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid
rise in deaths, Brazil (1289), Poland (1236), Argentina
(1178) Switzerland (1162), Chile (1115), and Bolivia (1010) and we have now
conducted 376,068,767 tests (now at 1,131,537/M) compared to number 2 now
France at 863,827/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 1,512,519/M.
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/12/2021
101 million doses have been given, 2.30 million per day in the last week
(sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now
reduced to some 5 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many
believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 11,428,034 total
doses have been given (71.2% of doses received to again remain below U.S.
average of 75.8%), but even with the pressure of more than 1.95 million recall
signatures have been turned in, California has dropped from 42nd to
45th out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a
percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 9.1% of its population fully
vaccinated is tied for 48th place with Tennessee in percentage of
residents fully vaccinated. A long way to go to get herd immunity and lagging
behind in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and percentage of
population vaccinated compared to other states and a great reason to recall
this inept governor. As of 3/7/2021 the COVID Tracking Project stopped tracking
hospitalization data from the states so California’s data will no longer
appear.
Non CV Case News: Finally New York’s 2 Blue
Senators Schumer and Gillibrand have joined the cry that Cuomo needs to resign
as Little Fredo’s Cack News Network remains somewhat incapable of airing the
accusers of Cuomo’s sexual harassment (Al Franken must be wondering what took
Gillibrand so long to leave Cuomo’s sinking ship); Portland which had another
riot as the ANTIFA mob was out trying to burn down the federal court house
because the mayor had the temerity to propose a $2 million call back for the
police after homicides in Portland are off the charts; the NYT needs to change
its masthead to “All the News a Biased Rag Can Print” as on of its columnists Rachel
Cohen praises the pandemic and its over 500,000 deaths for making it possible
to implement radical programs like preventing utility shutdowns for non billing
payment and releasing criminals from prisons and jails (so typical of the left
that deaths of over 500,000 innocents are mere to be dismissed bumps in the
road on their path to change America); Sen. Feinstein’s mental erosion is once
again on display with her new “assault” weapons ban that is oblivious to the
rise in urban shootings as men of color other men and bystanders kill (to her
the 2nd Amendment is a speed bump to disarm law abiding citizens to
be ignored); Jake Tapper whose any vestige of objectivity has long since been flushed
down the crapper somehow found the temerity to tweet about the 6th
woman’s groping allegations (Jake both feet in the water and become a reporter
and report the news on Cuomo or exit the business!); Elizabeth Holmes’ trial on
securities fraud in Theranos will be postponed due to her expected delivery date
July until August 31; backers of a recall effort for L.A. DA Gascon have
formally started the process and have started the 160 day clock to obtain
580,000 signatures of registered voters to place a recall on the ballot https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; while Biden seems
to be in a full on increasing mental fade, leave it to a political cartoonist
to reveal the hypocrisy of the MSM and Blues on the caging of minors at the
border: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow: although 80% of
the recall Newsom signatures have been verified and 1.95 million signatures
have been collected, 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 March 11,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 537 persons shot of whom 102
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 “Managua Nicaragua” by Freddy
Martin and His Orchestra with Stuart Wade, the fact that your
pronouncements rarely produce a quotha from
listeners and a quote by one of the largest swindlers of all times Bernie
Madoff on money in politics, secure in the
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1. World Day Against
Cyber Censorship—created by Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders on
this day in 2008 to fight against censorship on the internet which sadly is in
full force and effect by social media giants like Twitter and Facebook against
conservative voices in a more destructive way than government could ever
imagine.
2. Working Moms Day—founded by Working
Moms of Milwaukee on December 17, 2019 and first celebrated on this day in 2020
to promote awareness for means of support and resources to deal with the issues
working moms face especially when teachers’ unions have held public schools
hostage and fought against reopening them for in class instruction.
3. 1947 Number One
Song—the
number 1 song in 1947 on this day with a run of 2 weeks in that position was “Managua
Nicaragua” by Freddy Martin and His Orchestra with Stuart Wade to share number
1 status with 10 other songs that year.
Here is a recording of “Managua Nicaragua” by Freddy Miller and His
Orchestra with Stuart Wade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5nzolCUeLg
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “quotha” which means an expression of surprise
or contempt which might describe your responses after hearing Biden’s lapses
and gaffes.
5. A Bain on Reds Who
Despise RINOs—celebrating the birth on this day in 1947 of Mitt Romney who made
a fortune with Bain Capital, saved the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, became a
Governor of Massachusetts, ran a pathetic campaign against Obama 2012 and lost
and returned to the Senate as the Junior Senator from Utah in 2019 and remained
during the Trump Administration a thorn in his side.
On
this day in:
a. 1933
President Roosevelt made his first address to the nation during the Great
Depression in a series of subsequent radio addresses that would be known as the
“fireside chats.”
b. 1989 Sir Tim Berniers-Lee submitted
his proposal for a worldwide information sharing system that would develop into
the World Wide Web.
c. 2009 Financier Bernie Madoff pled guilty to
one of the largest Ponzi schemes in Wall Street history mounting to near $100
billion and on June 29, 2009 was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison and
is now rotting in a federal penitentiary and has had his pleas filed in December,
2019 for compassionate relief due to kidney disease which is claimed to be
terminal denied in 2020.
d. 2011 A
reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant exploded and released
radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and
tsunami, contaminating a large area including ground water and leading to the decommissioning
of the other reactors in the site.
e. 2020 President
Trump suspended travel from Europe due to the CV pandemic for which he was
attacked as being xenophobic.
Reflections on the
influence of money in politics from the Ponzi Scheme master who must have
contributed millions to politicians to keep the heat from swindling off him: “I basically think everybody would be better
off … if people weren’t able to exert so much influence on politicians with
money. Politicians themselves would probably prefer not to deal with them—both
begging for and being beholden.” Bernie Madoff.
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