Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 25, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues the new year with cases now over 126 million at 125,031,604
with 850,683 new cases (a .68% increase) 21,568,131 which are active,
104,463,473 closed with 101,697,176 recoveries (97.35% and 97.35% yesterday)
and 2,766,297 deaths (2.65% and 2.65% 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 30,767,889 with 83,312 new cases (a .27% increase) with 7,015,921
active cases of which 8,699 (.12% of active cases and with slight 2 day blip up
and now a decrease of 20,572 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in
serious or critical condition, 23,751,968 closures, 559,604 of which
have been deaths (2.36% and 2.36% yesterday) and 23,192,364 of which have
been recoveries (97.64% and 97.64% yesterday). Our death rate percentage
continues to improve and after many months is now .29% 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 1683 ranks behind Hungary the new number 1 (1994), Belgium
(1958), UK (1856) which had passed us despite leading world in testing),
Bulgaria (1811), and Italy (1768), and only slightly worse than Portugal (1652),
Spain (1591), Mexico (1537), Peru (1521), France (1428), Brazil (1422),Poland
(1345), Sweden (1318) that never closed its economy down like we did but has
recently been experiencing a steady rise in deaths, (1345),
Argentina (1219), Switzerland (1182), Chile (1171), and Bolivia (1027) and we
have now conducted 395,165,054 tests (now at 1,188,568/M) compared to number 2
now France at 939,884/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 as king of the mountain with respect to tests at 1,762,926/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 1532/M and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle
in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows even though the
data may be suspect as underreported:
Guatemala: Active cases: 10,677
Deaths/M 373
Honduras: Active cases: 110,380 Deaths/M 450
El Salvador: Active cases: 767
Deaths/M 306
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/25/2021
133 million doses have been given, 2.51 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 16,062,266 total
doses have been given (76.7% of doses received to almost equal the U.S. average
of 76.8%), but with the pressure of a certain recall coming endangering Newsom,
California has improved to tied with South Carolina at 32nd from 35th out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses
administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 13.9%% of
its population fully vaccinated has moved down from 39th to 42nd
out of the 50 states in terms of percentage
of population fully vaccinated 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: Our president
who claimed he was in the Senate 120 years ago had his first press conference
but refused to take any question from Fox and predictably had leftist
journalists praising his performance as hitting it out of the park (which
perhaps is easy to when either the questions are known in advance or the ball
is on a tee); too bad the camera was not on the eyes of Kamala Harris that
probably were rolling upwards when Biden expressed his thoughts on running
again when he will be 82 (mentally he seems he has passed that age by at least
20 years today); photos revealed in his scripted press conference that Biden is
probably the first president in history to have to rely upon crib sheets to try
to conceal his lapses, mental wanderings and cognitive difficulties (sadly the
Chinese, North Koreans and Russians must have been watching and licking their
chops over the weak and feeble president we are burdened with; D.A. Gascon must feel he is immune to recall
wrath as in another soft on crime hard on victims’ rights to safety, he
declined to prosecute a rabid gang member who shot and killed a 40 year old man
whose only crime was to be in a car that had broken down (this Soros funded “D.A.”
in name only when it comes to citizen needs to be recalled); the Blue Botox
Queen has come out to blast the Newsom Recall as a Trump back ploy and
dismissed any need for the Blues to run a backup candidate (hope this arrogance
and cockiness she will choke on); the University of Southern California trying
to purge itself of being known as the University of Sexist Concealment has
agreed to pay $858 million to some 700 female plaintiffs who had alleged sexual
abuse claims against USC staff doctor George Tyndall who had worked there for
almost 3 decades and has been charged with
35 counts of sexual misconduct conduct free on bail awaiting trial which
if convicted could result in a 64 year prison sentence; 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 ratings of CNN
and MSNBC fall like hot air balloons without hot air to keep them up, leave it
to the political cartoonist to capture their rating fall with lack of fake news
to spread about Trump: https://www..com
foxnews
/politics/cartoons-slideshow.
Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is
back to show that through March 24, 2021, gun violence involving
mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well
with 672 persons shot of whom 124 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 “Young Love” by Tab Hunter, your
behavior is not randan and quotes on the trials and retrials of the Scottsboro Boys, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like
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1. Medal of Honor Day—created by a law
enacted on November 15, 1990 and first celebrated on March 25, 1991 to honor
recipients of the Medal of Honor first bestowed for exceptional bravery during
the Civil War on this day in 1863 for 6 Union Army soldiers who participated in
the Great Locomotive Chase.
2. EU Talent Day—celebrated on the
birthday of noted Hungarian composer and pianist Bartók Béla to promote
recognition of the importance of artistic talent for society, its culture and
well being and to encourage the development of talent throughout the EU.
3. 1957 Number One
Song—the
number 1 song in 1957 on this day with a run of 4 weeks in that position was “Young
Love” by the Tab Hunter to share number 1 status with 21 other songs
that year. Here is a recording of “Young
Love “ by Tab Hunter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5LRe4xecZQ
Hunter was a noted singer and heart throb of the 50’s and 60’s and who was a
closet gay who came out in his 2007 autobiography and married his partner of 30
years, Phil Glaser, in 2013.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “randan” which means uproar or riotous
conduct which residents of Minneapolis hope they will not see following the end
of the Minneapolis officers charged in George Floyd’s death which starts next
week.
5. Hard Woman to
Pass—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1982 of noted IndyCar and stock car racer Danica
Patrick who was the first woman to win an IndyCar race and retired with the
highest Indianapolis 500 standing for a woman and after retirement has her own
winery and is a commercial spokesperson for number companies including Go
Daddy.Com and Lyft.
On
this day in:
a. 1931 9 African
Americans who became known as the Scottsboro Boys were arrested in Scottsboro,
Alabama and charged with raping 2 white women; found guilty the trial and the
subsequent retrials provide a real case of racism and lack of justice which
hopefully we as a nation have moved from.
b. 1948 after analyzing weather data
from a tornado that had hit Tinker Air Force Base on the 20th and
comparing the data to what was occurring the morning of the 25th, meteorologists
made a tornado forecast warning of tornadoes to hit the base later in the
day which occurred making the forecast the first successful tornado forecast in
history.
c. 1979
the world’s first reusable rocket ship, the Space Shuttle Columbia was delivered
to the JFK Space Center to be readied to be launched into space.
d. 1995 the
world became a smaller place as WikiWikiWeb the first wiki was released to the
public by Ward Cunningham.
e. 1996 in a move
that probably warmed the cockles of EU vegetarians, the EU banned the import of
British beef due to outbreaks of mad cow disease in the U.K.
Reflections on the
miscarriages of justice occurring in the trials of the Scottsboro Boys: "The
testimony of the prosecutrix in this case is not only uncorroborated, but it
also bears on its face indications of improbability and is contradicted by
other evidence, and in addition thereto the evidence greatly preponderates in
favor of the defendant. It therefore becomes the duty of the Court under the
law to grant the motion made in this case." --Judge Horton granting the
defense motion to set aside the death sentence and verdict in Alabama v
Patterson (Record, 6/22/33)
"There
shouldn't be any trial for them damn niggers-- thirty cents worth of rope would
do the work and it wouldn't cost the county much." --Decatur lunchroom
proprietor (Goodman, 211)
"We all have a
passion, all the men in this courtroom, and that is to protect the womanhood of
the state of Alabama." -- Prosecutor Knight addressing the jury in the
third Patterson trial, Nov. 30, 1933
"He couldn't
get us to the chair fast enough." -- Haywood Patterson commenting on Judge
Callahan (NY Times, 1/22/36)
"Do not
quibble over the evidence: Say to yourselves we're tired of this job and put it
behind you. Get it done quick and protect the fair womanhood of this
state."-- Prosecutor Hutson addressing the jury in the fourth Patterson
trial (NY Times, 1/23/36)
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