Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 21, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues the new year with cases now over 123 million at 122,818,961
with 892,988 new cases (a .73% increase) 21,320,382 which are active,
102,391,567 closed with 99,666,415 recoveries (97.34% and 97.34% yesterday) and
2,725,152 deaths (2.66% and 2.66% 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 30,494,601 with 77,398 new cases (a .25% increase) with 7,239,220
active cases of which 8,721 (.12% of active cases and back to daily decreases
and a now a decrease now of 20,550 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in
serious or critical condition, 23,255,381 closures, 554,989 of which
have been deaths (2.39% and 2.39% yesterday) and 22,700,392 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 .13% 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 1670 ranks behind Belgium (1948), Hungary (1894), UK (1851)
which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Italy (1738), and Bulgaria (1732) and only
slightly worse than Portugal (1647), Spain (1559), Mexico (1523), Peru (1504),
France (1410), Brazil (1371), Sweden (1307) that never closed its economy down
like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise
in deaths, Poland (1304), Argentina (1198), Switzerland
(1174), Chile (1158), and Bolivia (1022) and we have now conducted 388,878,098
tests (now at 1,169,930/M) compared to number 2 now France at 894,789/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 1,650,869/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 1523/M and the 3 countries in the Northern
Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows:
Guatemala: Active cases: 10,352
Deaths/M 369
Honduras: Active cases: 108,396 Deaths/M
441
El Salvador: Active cases: 684
Deaths/M 304
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/21/2021
124 million doses have been given, 2.49 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 14,708,175 total
doses have been given (77.9% of doses received to again remain below U.S.
average of 79.4%), but with the pressure of a certain recall coming endangering
Newsom, California has moved from 36th to 35th out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses
administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 12.6% of
its population fully vaccinated has moved from 42nd to 39th
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: Thanks to Biden’s open
invitation to illegals and his amnesty plan, we are running out of room on the
border to hold the tidal wave so Biden will be spending nearly $100 million to
house them in hotels while thousands of our fellow Americans are living in the
feces, urine, rats, used needles and trash in the streets (change the greeting
tune for this fading mental chief https://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2021/03/for-biden-play-not-here-comes-chief.html; the border
continues to disappear and the nation along with it as the CBP is releasing
illegal aliens into the interior without an asylum court hearing date (probably
recognizing the reality that most illegals never appear as it its getting
easier for illegals to stay here without fear of deportation); Majorakis has
proven after he was dragged kicking and screaming that the border surge of
illegals was more than a challenge but shows he like most in Biden’s
Administration has TDS Stage 4 as he has the inanity to claim that the border
surge is Trump’s fault; Trump is blasting Biden for the surge in illegals which
is causing death and human tragedy while Biden says he will visit the border at
some time not now because “he knows what’s going on at those facilities
(strange words from a man who doesn’t know who his appointees often are); while
the pandemic may have brought out the best in us struggling to survive and help
others survive it has also brought out the worst of us who populate our criminal
population with a study finding some $200 billion in unemployment benefits
fraud during the pandemic; in another example of the rabid intolerance of the
left and their stupidity , guest columnist John McCall of the Ocean City Sentinel left a threatening
voice mail on the answering machine of Red Rep from New Jersey Jeff Van Drew
who had the temerity to vote against the confirmation by the Electoral College
of Biden’s election that McCall would “do everything in my power to ensure you
are deposed if not dead” (when will the FBI be knocking on this idiot’s door?);
Trump backed the widow of Congressman-Elect Lettow in Louisiana who died after
being elected from COVID-19 and she won;
we can breath easier as mile long Asteroid 2001 F032 missed Earth by over
a million miles on Sunday; 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 20, 2021, gun violence involving
mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well
with 630 persons shot of whom 112 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 “Secret Love” by Doris Day,
the fact that you are blessed with not having a ragmatical personality
and a quote from eye witness Humphrey
Tyler to the Sharpeville Massacre, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events
like Mother’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings,
or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a
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1. World Poetry Day—created by UNESCO
in 1999 to promote the Alaskanpoet’s favorite subject and hobby poetry in all
its splendid forms from free verse to rhymes.
2. World Down
Syndrome Day—first observed in 2006 to promote awareness of Down Syndrome, a
condition caused by a child being born with an extra 21st chromosome.
3. 1954 Number One
Song—the
number 1 song in 1954 on this day with a run of 1 weeks in that position was “Secret
Love” by Doris Day to
share number 1 status with 9 other songs that year. Here is a recording of “Secret Love” by Doris
Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiueIiFJdN8
Day was a noted and prolific singer,
actress on the silver screen and TV and in her later years a passionate animal
activist. She passed away on May 13,
2019 after contracting pneumonia at age 97.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “ragmatical” which means wild or
ill-behaved, exactly the sort of behavior one should want to shy away from.
5. In the Genes—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1986 noted actor Scott Clinton Reeves who is also the son
of Clint Eastwood and who has a lengthy list of movie roles but unlike his
father no stints as a director yet.
On this day
in:
a. 1937 in
Ponce, Puerto Rico a peaceful demonstration of unarmed civilians celebrating
the end of slavery on the island in 1873 by Spain and to protest the
imprisonment on the leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Pedro Albizu
Campos on charges of sedition was broken up by police gunfire under the orders
of Governor Blanton Winship, killing 21, 2 of whom were police shot by fellow
officers by mistake and wounding some 200 people. Despite the outrage Winship
was only removed as governor and no police officer was dismissed or charged
with a crime.
b. 1943 Wehrmacht officer Rudolf Gerdsdorff
armed with two suicide bombs plotted to kill Adolf Hitler while he was visiting
a museum honoring German dead of WWI but after setting the fuses for ten
minutes Hitler left sooner than anticipated sadly for the German people but Gerdsdorff
was able to defuse the bombs in a public bathroom and was shortly sent back to
the Russian Front where he escaped suspicion. He survived the war to be employed
in collaborating in an extensive study of German responses to D-Day and the
Normandy Campaign for the American Army but was unable to join the Bundeswehr.
c. 1960 at Sharpeville, South Africa, police
opened fire on blacks demonstrating against apartheid, killing 69 and wounding
180 with many of the shot victims shot in the back as they tried to flee.
d. 1970 the
first Earth Day Proclamation was issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
e. 2006 to the
future bane of conservatives Jack Dorsey launched Twitter, now infamous and despised
for banning conservative office holders, authors and public figures from
Twitter.
Reflections on the
Sharpeville Massacre that led to the galvanizing of world opinion against South
Africa and its policy of apartheid: ”Before the shooting, I heard no warning to
the crowd to disperse. There was no warning volley. When the shooting started
it did not stop until there was no living thing in the huge compound in front
of the police station. The police have claimed they were in desperate danger
because the crowd was stoning them. Yet only three policemen were reported to
have been hit by stones - and more than 200 Africans were shot down. The police
also have said that the crowd was armed with 'ferocious weapons', which
littered the compound after they fled.
I saw no weapons, although I looked
very carefully, and afterwards studied the photographs of the death scene.
While I was there I saw only shoes, hats and a few bicycles left among the
bodies. The crowd gave me no reason to feel scared, though I moved among them
without any distinguishing mark to protect me, quite obvious with my white
skin. I think the police were scared though, and I think the crowd knew it.” Humphrey
Tyler, assistant editor, Drum magazine, present
at the massacre
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