Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 16, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues the new year with cases now over 121 million at 121,080,253
with 463,386 new cases (a .38% increase) 20,758,777 which are
active, 100,321,476 closed with 97,644,088 recoveries (97.33% and 97.33%
yesterday) and 2,677,388 deaths (2.67% and 2.67% 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 30
million at 30,169,103 with 87,446 new cases (a .29% increase) with 7,288,968
active cases of which 9,342 (.13% of active cases and back to daily decreases
and a now a decrease now of 19,929 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in
serious or critical condition, 22,880,135 closures, 548,645 of which
have been deaths (2.40% and 2.41% yesterday) and 22,331,490 of which have
been recoveries (97.60% and 97.59% yesterday). Our death rate percentage
continues to improve and after many months is now .27% 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 1651 ranks behind Belgium (1939), UK (1845) which had
passed us despite leading world in testing), Hungary (1786), Italy (1705), and Bulgaria (1660) and only
slightly worse than Portugal (1642), Spain (1552), Mexico (1501), Peru
(1477), France (1395), Sweden (1299) that never closed its economy down like we
did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in deaths,
Brazil (1309), Poland (1258), Argentina (1184) Switzerland (1166),
Chile (1133), and Bolivia (1016) and we have now conducted 382,236,267
tests (now at 1,150,039/M) compared to number 2 now Spain at 886,272/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 1,581,110/M.
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/16/2021
111 million doses have been given, 2.44 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 12,686,451 total
doses have been given (73.0% of doses received to again remain below U.S.
average of 77.5%), but with the pressure of more than 1.95 million recall
signatures have been turned in, California has moved up from 43rd to
42nd out of 50 in terms of
the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states and at 10.5% of its population fully vaccinated has moved up slightly to
44th in terms of percentage of residents 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.
Non CV Case News: Harris on sexual harassment
remains the Hypocrite in Chief when it comes to Blues like Cuomo as opposed to
Reds like Kavanaugh as her lips remain sealed when it comes to Cuomo’s
dalliance; 4 hours after the first attack on 3
Asian massage parlors targets target which killed 8 people, Robert Long
has been arrested in Georgia; Tiger Woods who may have gotten a get out off a
reckless driving charge is back in Florida working on rehab following his
multiple leg injuries after driving from Palos Verdes; in another example of
the proclivity of the MSM like WaPo to distort and lie, the quote from Donald
Trump to Georgia election official to “find fraud” in the election which made
its way up the ladder to be instrumental in the 2nd impeachment has
been discovered to be a complete lie and distortion as the recording was found
and recovered in the official’s computer trash file; Newsom accepting the
inevitable that he will face a recall election, is using the Blue predictable
race card, claiming the supporters of the petition are racists against
Hispanics (people not getting unemployment because of his ineptness are
outraged not because of the color of their skin but the thinness of their
wallets due to being out of work due to his shut downs and no checks because of
his EDD crashing; Biden has no plans to visit the Southern Border to see the
chaos his executive orders and statements have created but at least is going to
come out of his Oval Office bunker to hold a Press Conference on March 25
(lottery to hold would be to predict how large a screen for the teleprompter he
will need to conceal his mental fadings); kiss the idea of assimilation at
Columbia goodbye as the school announced separate graduation ceremonies for
Blacks, Asians, Latinx, FLI (first generation graduation/low income and
Lavendar (members of the LGBTIAQ+ community; 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/; as Biden speaks
of small gatherings for the 4th of July assuming we follow the CDC’s
rules leave it to a political cartoonist to reveal how Biden is going to get us
to follow his mask in public rules https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow.
Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is
back to show that through March 15, 2021, gun violence involving
mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well
with 591 persons shot of whom 108 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 “Cruising Down the River “ by Russ
Morgan and His Orchestra with vocals by the Skylarks, the fact that no
one would ever consider calling you a quoz and a quote by William Calley after
his conviction for mass murders at the Mai Lai Massacre, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
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1. St. Urtho Day—created on this day
in 1956 by Richard Matthison to celebrate the myth of St. Urtho who drove the
toads later changed to locusts from Finland to protect the vineyards and
celebrated in Minnesota and best celebrated by wearing royal purple and lime
green and having a grasshopper to drink.
2. Freedom of
Information Day—founded by John Bohannon and celebrated on or near March 16, the
anniversary of the birth of James Madison, regarded as the Father of the
Constitution and a prime proponent for openness in government which has a proclivity
for treating citizens like mushrooms, keeping them in the dark and covering
them with cack.
3. 1949 Number One
Song—the
number 1 song in 1949 on this day with a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Cruising
Down the River)” by Russ Morgan
and His Orchestra with the Skylarks as vocals to share number 1 status
with 8 other songs that year. Here is a
recording of “Cruising Down the River” by Russ Morgan and His Orchestra with the Skylarks as vocals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCmAOqLMj_Q
Russ was a big band leader during the 30’s and 40’s, had several TV shows
during the 50’s. He often performed in hotels and in 1965 landed an 8 week
contract at the Dunes in Las Vegas that lasted 12 years. His baton was taken
away permanently at age 65 on August 7, 1969. The Skylarks were a singing group
of 4 soldiers serving in the Panama Canal in 1942 who added two female singers
after the war and performed background singing form many artists in the 50’s
and 60’s and performed their farewell concert in the Hollywood Palladium in
1979.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day as we end the “q’s” to start the “r’s”
tomorrow is “quoz” which means an absurd thing or person which is well used
when describing many of our politicians in office today.
5. Cancer Thrives In Private Also—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1912 of Pat Nixon First Lady under Richard Nixon who was a
heavy smoker but never allowed herself to be seen smoking in public only to
come down with lung cancer and die from it on June 22, 1993 at the age of 81 to
be followed by a grieving Nixon after a marriage of 53 years some 10 months
later.
On
this day in:
a. 1968 in
Mai Lai, South Vietnam, in a dark day for the American military, U.S. soldiers
under the command of Lt. Calley massacred some 347-500 civilian old men, women,
and children.
b. 1984 the CIA Station Chief in Beirut,
Lebanon, William Buckley was kidnapped by Hezbollah, tortured in captivity and
then executed sometime in 1985.
c. 1995 in a better late than never moment the
State of Mississippi formally ratified the 13th Amendment abolishing
slavery that had been ratified by the requisite number of states in 1865 and
added to the Constitution.
d. 2003
American activist Rachel Corrie was crushed by a bulldozer leveling a home in Rafah,
Gaza Strip by an IDF armored bulldozer since the home was believed to have been
used in smuggling weapons used against the Israelis.
e. 2020 the Dow fell
12.93% its second largest percentage drop, losing 2997.10 points the largest
point drop in its history as the CV pandemic was spreading and the Fed
announced lowering its interest rate target to 0-.25%
Reflections on the Mai-Lai
Massacre: “My troops were getting massacred and mauled by an enemy I couldn’t
see, I couldn’t feel and I couldn’t touch—that nobody in the military system
ever described them as anything other than Communism. They didn’t give it a
race, they didn’t give it a sex, they didn’t give it an age. They never let me
believe it was just a philosophy in a man’s mind. That was my enemy out there.”
Lt. Calley’s statement to the court after being found guilty of mass murder.
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