Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 20, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues the new year with cases now over 122 million at 122,818,961
with 586,151 new cases (a .48% increase) 21,289,308 which are active,
102,115,804 closed with 99,394,812 recoveries (97.34% and 97.33% yesterday) and
2,720,992 deaths (2.66% 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 30,417,203 with 60.456 new cases (a .20% increase) with 7,243,670
active cases of which 8,715 (.12% of active cases and back to daily decreases
and a now a decrease now of 20,556 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in
serious or critical condition, 23,233,989 closures, 554,794 of which
have been deaths (2.39% and 2.39% yesterday) and 22,679,195 of which have
been recoveries (97.61% and 97.61% yesterday). Our death rate percentage
continues to improve and after many months is now .27% 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 1669 ranks behind Belgium (1948), Hungary (1874), UK (1851)
which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Italy (1733), and Bulgaria (1731) and only
slightly worse than Portugal (1647), Spain (1559), Mexico (1519), Peru
(1493), France (1410), Brazil (1370), Sweden (1307) that never closed its
economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise
in deaths, Poland (1300), Argentina (1198) Switzerland
(1173), Chile (1153), and Bolivia (1022) and we have now conducted 388,653,070
tests (now at 1,169,271/M) compared to number 2 now France at 894,795/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 1,650,892/M.
CV Open Gate: Lost in the
pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys that there is no crisis of illegals
surging across the border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and
spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico which is 9th on my
list of deaths from the pandemic at 1519/M and the 3 countries in the Northern
Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows:
Guatemala: Active cases: 9894 Deaths/M 368
Honduras: Active cases: 107,830 Deaths/M 441
El Salvador: Active cases: 980 Deaths/M
303
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/20/2021
121 million doses have been given, 2.25 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 14,276,195 total
doses have been given (75.6% of doses received to again remain below U.S.
average of 77.5%), but with the pressure of a certain recall coming endangering
Newsom, California has remained at 36th out of 50 in terms of the
percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states and at 12.1% of its population fully vaccinated has moved from 42nd
to tied at 41st with New York 42nd 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: In a rare day in New York,
not a new single female has come forward to allege another instance of sexual
harassment but the bullying nature of the beast was revealed in a telephone
recording threatening a progressive group that if it did not upgrade its “tepid”
endorsement of him in his 2018 gubernatorial
race he was going to label its leader a “child molester” (from the lips
of the quasi feminist so quick to blame Trump for the sick sex addict’s assault
on 3 Atlanta massage parlors only the sounds of silence); COVID-19 suited up
for March Madness and blocked VCU’s chance to play against Oregon for violation
of CV protocols, sending VCU home and Oregon on to the next game; Stanford plays Cal in the Big Game for the
Axe Trophy but in wrestling as Stanford 162 lb weight class wrestler Shane
Griffith won the national championship in his weight class even as Stanford
plans to axe the program due to revenue losses in other sports caused by the CV
pandemic; the CV war is active and well on college campuses as the University
of Florida has suspended conservative student groups for not wearing masks and
not practicing social distancing, claims the groups deny; proving that dormant
when used to describe volcanoes is never really dormant, after 6,000 years Mount
Fagradalsfjall volcano, located on the Reykjanes Peninsula near Iceland’s
capital and its International Airport erupted;; 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 Minneapolis
girds for the start of the George Floyd police causing death trial leave it to
the political cartoonist to capture the fears of small business owners over the
lack of police protection in a riot follows a not guilty verdict: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow.
Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is
back to show that through March 19, 2021, gun violence involving
mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well
with 621 persons shot of whom 110 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 “Till I Waltz Again With You” by Teresa
Brewer, the fact that you avoid ragabash people in your daily dealings
and a quote from Libby Riddles on winning the Iditarod, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
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1. Vernal Equinox—celebrating the
first day of spring and the end of winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
2. Great American
Meatout—first
celebrated in March, 1985 to promote the vegan diet by encouraging the absence
of meat for today. Not sure who the sponsors are but have to believe Beyond
Meat today is one of the major contributors.
3. 1953 Number One
Song—the
number 1 song in 1953 on this day with a run of 5 weeks in that position was “Till
I Waltz Again With You” by Teresa
Brewer to share number 1 status with 8 other songs that year. Here is a recording of “Till I Waltz Again
With You” by Teresa Brewer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZkTC0YmfVY
Brewer was a prolific singer who recorded over 600 songs in a 50 year career
and may be remembered as inspiring Elvis to sing in his first public
performance “Till I Waltz Again With You.” Her waltzing ended for good on
October 17, 2007 at age 76.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day as we end the “q’s” to continue the “r’s”
is “ragabash” which means an idle, worthless fellow, exactly the sort you would
never if you knew his background want to hire.
5. Prophetic Name
for a Band—celebrating the birth on this day in 1976 of noted singer,
songwriter and occasional actor Chester Bennington who was the lead singer for
the band Linkin but later formed his own band Dead by Sunrise and sadly let
depression and substance abuse get the best of him and was found dead by
hanging by sunrise on July 20, 2017 at age 41.
On this day
in:
a. 1815 after
escaping from exile on the island of Elba, Napoleon entered Paris with an army
of 140,000 and 200,000 volunteers to begin his “Hundred Days Rule” that would
come to an end following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
b. 1923 the Arts Club of Chicago
opened the first public exposition of the works of Pablo Picasso.
c. 1985 Libby Riddles became the first woman
to win the Iditarod which was won for the 5th time this year by
Douglas Seavey.
d. 1987 to
the joy of those suffering from HIV or who would be infected in the future, the
FDA approved the anti-AIDS treatment AZT.
e. 2003 the U.S.
along with its Allies, Great Britain, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq in
search of WMD that did not exist in a war we never should have fought.
Reflections on winning
the Iditarod by the first woman to accomplish the feat who fortunately lost 30
miles from Nome stopped at house in the dark and got her bearings: ”The moment
when I won the Iditarod is going to be a pretty hard moment to beat, ever, in
my whole life, really. One of my less famous quotes was, ‘If I die now, it’ll
be okay.’ Because that was just spontaneously what it felt like. It’s like,
‘Wow, how are we ever going to beat this one?’” Libby Riddles
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