Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 18, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues the new year with cases now over 122 million at 122,137,590
with 540,795 new cases (a .44% increase) 21,053,054 which are
active, 101,084,536 closed with 98,387,565 recoveries (97.33% and 97.33%
yesterday) and 2,696,971 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 30,263,597 with 49,258 new cases (a .16% increase) with 7,302,648
active cases of which 9,259 (.13% of active cases and back to daily decreases
and a now a decrease now of 20,012 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in
serious or critical condition, 23,010,207 closures, 550,905 of which
have been deaths (2.39% and 2.40% yesterday) and 22,459,302 of which have
been recoveries (97.61% and 97.60% yesterday). Our death rate percentage
continues to improve and after many months is now .28% lower than the world
rate and now .14% 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 1657 ranks behind Belgium (1942), UK (1848) which had
passed us despite leading world in testing), Hungary (1828), Italy (1716), and Bulgaria (1695) and only
slightly worse than Portugal (1645), Spain (1556), Mexico (1508), Peru
(1487), France (1402), Sweden (1305) that never closed its economy down like we
did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in deaths,
Brazil (1335), Poland (1280), Argentina (1192) Switzerland (1170),
Chile (1143), and Bolivia (1019) and we have now conducted 384,297,177
tests (now at 1,156,203/M) compared to number 2 now France at 894,805/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 1,627,764/M.
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/17/2021
117 million doses have been given, 2.47 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 13,161,027 total
doses have been given (74.7% of doses received to again remain below U.S.
average of 76.6%), but with the pressure of a certain recall coming endangering
Newsom, California has moved up from 42nd to 38th out of 50 in terms of the
percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states
and at 11.0% of its population fully vaccinated is still at 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: The race card drums for
Sen. Warren as she has come out against
the filibuster rule in the Senate claiming like so many other things in her
world it is racist; McCarthy has introduced a resolution in the House to remove
Fang tainted Rep. Swalwell from his seat on the Intel Committee raising the
obvious question Pelosi is deaf to that if in the private sector Swalwell could
not get a security clearance why is he privy to our nation’s secrets by being
on the Intel Committee? (sadly the spineless Blues under the iron rule of the
Pelosi tyrant have voted to table the resolution); CA Blue Rep Jimmy Green must
be in a snit over the razor thin majority the Blues have in the House as he
will be introducing a resolution on Friday to remove Rep. Green from Georgia
from the House and worse has convinced 72 Blues to support it (bad enough the
Blues in an unprecedented move removed her from her committee assignments); Newsom
finally has wiped the ego from his eyes to see the recall writing of the wall
and is not raising money to prevail in the recall election (his latest out of
touch faux pas was claiming to be a Zoom parent for his kids’ education when
his 4 kids in of course private school have had the luxury of not being held
hostage by the teachers’ unions and have had in room teaching since
November—nice try for sympathy Gavin but no cigars); Rand Paul, who is a
practicing M.D., and Fauci were at each other’s throats over whether vaccinated
people needed to also wear masks which Paul very forcibly was claiming the science
showed they did not; in yet another Biden gaffe which is closer to reality than
his mental failings Biden on Thursday referred to Harris as President Harris
(he may be closer to reality than we give him credit for concerning his awareness
of the likelihood of the 25th Amendment); in a move to change the
name but the curriculum remains the same the Confucius Institutes which have
been viewed as propaganda arms of the Chinese Communist Party is changing its
name to the Center for Language Education and Cooperation but using the same teaching
materials; 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 blamed
Trump before the election of putting minors into cages, leave it to a political
cartoonist to reveal the reality of the Biden cages: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow.
Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is
back to show that through March 17, 2021, gun violence involving
mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well
with 601 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 “If“ by Perry Como, the fact
that you avoid rabullous behavior; and a quote from Mexican President Lázaro
Cárdenas, on Mexico’s nationalization of its oil and facilities secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
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1. Supreme Sacrifice
Day—commemorating
and honoring those persons like Good Samaritans, first responders, and soldiers
who have made the supreme sacrifice so
others might live. Not sure who created this observance or when it was first
celebrated but the honorees of this day should never be forgotten and those who
benefited from their sacrifice should continue each day to live a good life.
2. National
Bio-Diesel—celebrated on the anniversary of the birth of Rudolph Diesel to
promote the use of replaceable fuel made from plants to the tune of 1.9 billion
gallons produced in the U.S. in 2019.
3. 1951 Number One
Song—the
number 1 song in 1951 on this day with a run of 6 weeks non continuous in that position was “If” by Perry Como to share number 1 status
with 9 other songs that year. Here is a
recording of “If” by Perry Como:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHe_xxVV73A
Como or “Mr. C” as he was known as was a noted singer and television performer who
sang for some 65 years, selling millions of records to die in his sleep 6 days
before his 89th birthday on May 12, 2001.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day as we end the “q’s” to continue the “r’s” is
“rabullous” which means scurrilous which
describes too many of our social media warriors who use the internet to falsely
attack others they disagree with.
5. Dusted Off the
Mat—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1971 of professional wrestler Mike Bell who had a
history of substance abuse issues including prescription drugs who died while
in the Ramona House rehab facility in Costa Mesa from self inhalation of the chemical
difluoroethane in Dust Off on December 14, 2008 at age 37.
On this day
in:
a. 1874 the Hawaiian
Kingdom signed a treaty with the United States granting the U.S. exclusive
trading rights.
b. 1938 Mexico created Pemex by
nationalizing all foreign owned oil reserves and facilities.
c. 1965 Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov left his Voskhod
2 spacecraft orbiting the Earth for 12 minutes to become the first person to
walk in space.
d. 1968 the
U.S. Congress repealed the Gold Standard to back U.S. Currency.
e. 1990 in the
largest art theft in U.S. history 12 works of art valued at $500 million were
stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum in Boston and the culprits
have never been caught nor any of the art ever recaptured or returned.
Reflections on the rationale
for nationalizing Mexico’s oil resources and facilities: “Who is not aware of
the irritating discrimination governing construction of the company camps?
Comfort for the foreign personnel; misery, drabness, and insalubrity for the
Mexicans. Refrigeration and protection against tropical insects for the former;
indifference and neglect, medical service and supplies always grudgingly
provided, for the latter; lower wages and harder, more exhausting labor for our
people. The tolerance which the companies have abused was born, it is true, in
the shadow of the ignorance, betrayals, and weakness of the country's rulers;
but the mechanism was set in motion by investors lacking in the necessary moral
resources to give something in exchange for the wealth they have been
exploiting.” President Lázaro Cárdenas,
Speech to the Nation, March, 18, 1938 Please enjoy the poems on
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