Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 3, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic
across the planet continues the new year with cases now past 115 million at 115,745,600
with 548,325 new cases (a .48% increase) 21,715,182 of which are active,
94,030,418 closed with 91,459,962 recoveries (97.27% and 97.27% yesterday) and
2,570,456 deaths (2.73% and 2.73% 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 29 million at 29,454,706 with 207,129 new cases (a .71% increase) with 8,912,805
active cases of which 14,357 (.16% of active cases and back to daily decreases and
a now a decrease now of 14,914 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in
serious or critical condition, 20,541,901 closures, 531,537 of which
have been deaths (2.59% and 2.59% yesterday) and 20,010,364 of which have
been recoveries (97.41% and 97.41% yesterday). Our death rate percentage
continues to improve and after many months is now .14% lower than the world
rate and now .02% lower than Canada which has the socialized type medicine
Biden may well want to implement here and on a deaths per million
population measurement on a steady climb to 1600 ranks behind Belgium (1905),
UK (1817) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Italy (1633),
and Portugal (1614) and only slightly worse than Hungary (1589), Bulgaria (1506), Spain (1502),
Mexico (1442), Peru (1409), France (1339), Sweden (1278) that never
closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid
rise in deaths, Brazil (1215), Poland (1173), Switzerland (1150), Argentina
(1153), Chile (1077), and Bolivia (994) and we have now conducted 363,407,751
tests (now at 1,093,599/M) compared to Russia at 765,877/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 1,354,173/M.
US Vaccinations:
In the U.S. as of 3/3/2021 80.5 million doses have been given, 2.01 million per
day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it
will take us now reduced to some 6 months to have 75% of the population
vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In
California 9,731,169 total doses have been given (76.2% of doses received
finally above U.S. average of 75.3?), but probably because of the pressure of more
than 1.5 million recall signatures have been turned in, California has improved
from tied at 29th to 28th out of 50 in terms of the percentage of
doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states. A long way
to go to get herd immunity and little improvement relative to other states and
a great reason to recall this inept governor. As of 3/3/2021 in California we
have reduced hospitalizations to 5,110 with COVID-19 patients hospitalized
occupying 8.9% of all hospital beds.
Non CV Case News: In an
attempt to pressure Congress or maybe a desire to delay exposure to the
American public of his fading mental faculties, Biden has announced he will not
deliver his Constitutionally required report on the state of the union until
after Congress votes on his COVID-19 relief package, the stimulus checks have
gone out, the vaccine money has gone out and the money to the schools has gone
out (so much for transparency and turning SOTUS into a Roman Coliseum event
with free bread and Reds being fed like Christians to the lions); in another
grim reminder that Biden’s mental faculties are fading and maybe fading faster
than thought possible, after speaking to House Blues virtually on the COVID-19
Relief Bill and then stating he was ready to take questions from them, the virtual
feed was almost immediately cut and the event ended (we are in a major heap of
trouble when a mentally failing president makes his handlers so insecure they
are unwilling to have questions from his own party seen by the American
public); in another example that the road through space is not a path free from
dangers, in the 3rd test of SpaceX’s SN10 Starship after going 6
miles up into space and landing upright in one piece a fire broke out and the
rocket exploded (depressing news for California is that SpaceX is moving
forward to build its manufacturing facility in Austin which raises the
questions of when Tesla will do the same or to Arizona due to California’s high
tax anti business regulatory environment); as Blues push forward with H.R.1
which Reds have alleged is a Blue power grab to distort elections and insure a
political stranglehold by the Blues, the AG’s of 20 states have signed and sent
a letter to Congress claiming the unconstitutionality of the bill (assuming
there is not one Blue in the Senate with integrity to put nation ahead of party
to vote against it if it is voted on as a budget reconciliation watch for
another major issue to be soon on the doorstep of SCOTUS; Maria Shriver, the ex
wife of another governor whose Reptilian Brain dwarfed that of Andrew Cuomo’s
has questioned whether Cuomo’s “apology” will be enough; L.A. DA Gascon whose
soft on criminal policies have sparked outrage in the community and among
career prosecutors and members of law enforcement fortunately is facing a
recall drive in which backers need 600,000 signatures https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; leave it to a
political cartoonist to expose the obliviousness of the Reptilian Brain of
Cuomo: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow: although 80% of
the recall Newsom signatures have been verified and 1.9 million signatures have
been collected, signature drive continues to insure a recall in the event that
any of the 1.5 million signatures already received are not valid to insure
Newsom is put on a recall ballot where he needs to be given his unmitigated
ineptness: https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/
Chicago Gun
Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through March 2,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 443 persons shot of whom 90 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 “Frenesi” by Artie Shaw and His
Orchestra, the fact that you do not tolerate a quisby in your company and
a quote by President H. W. Bush on the beating of Rodney King, 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 unique customized poem at a
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details on the pricing.
1. World Hearing Day—created by the WHO
in 2007 to promote awareness of loss of hearing and to promote solutions to
address the problem as in many industrialized countries the problem is growing
given the aging of the population.
2. Desk Fast Day—created by Better
Breakfast and celebrated since 2017 on differing days but this year on today to
celebrate and honor those workers who the pressures on work mean a breakfast meal
taken at the desk while working way between chews and sips.
3. 1941
Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1941 on this day with a run of 11 weeks not
continuous in that position was “Frenesi” by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra. Here
is a recording of “Frenesi” by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOHMYl5BCs
Shaw was a noted clarinetist and leader of one of the popular bands of the 30’s
and 40’s and who joined to the Navy to entertain the troops in the Pacific
during World War II and after resurrecting his band after the war moved on to
other pursuits, becoming a renown marksman and fly fisherman. He led an
interesting life with 8 wives and died at age 94 on December 30, 2004.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quisby” which means an idler, exactly the sort of person not needed in
the work force.
5. A Name Goes Far
But Sometimes Not Far Enough--celebrating the birth on this day in 1921 of noted actress Dianna
Barrymore, daughter of actor John Barrymore, whose last name opened doors to a
film acting career which due to her issues with drugs and alcohol soon ended as
did a television show when she failed to show up; she spent a year in rehab,
published an autobiography and died from alcohol and drug overdose on January
25, 1960 at age 38.
On
this day in:
a. 1859 the
Great Slave Auction ended after two days and the sale of 459 men, women and
children slave at a site near Savannah, Georgia organized by Pierce Mease
Butler, a large plantation owner with slaves and sizable gambling debts which
the auction was designed to pay for.
b. 1913 in evidence
of the growing suffragist movement, thousands of women marched on Washington, D.C.
in the Woman Suffrage Procession demanding the right to vote.
c. 1939 Gandhi
began a hunger strike against autocratic British rule in India.
d.
1991 an amateur video captured LAPD officers beating Rodney King after being
stopped in a traffic chase, which video would put in motion events that led to
the Los Angeles Riot in 1992.
e. 2005 Steven
Fossett landed in Kansas to become the first person to fly solo nonstop and
airplane around the world without refueling in 67 hours, 1 minute, 10 seconds
with an average speed of 342.2 M.P.H., without refueling or making intermediate
landings.
Reflections on the beating of Rodney King from the eyes of a
president: “What I saw made me sick. It's
sickening to see the beating that was rendered. There's no way in my view to
explain it away. It was outrageous.” President George H.W. Bush.
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