Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 4, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues the new year with cases now nearing 116 million at 115,963,547
with 217,947 new cases (a .19% increase) 21,697,614 of which are active,
94,265,933 closed with 91,691,059 recoveries (97.27% and 97.27% yesterday) and
2,574,874 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 64,155 new cases (a .22% increase) with 8,910,778
active cases of which 14,281 (.16% of active cases and back to daily decreases and
a now a decrease now of 14,990 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in
serious or critical condition, 20,608,083 closures, 533,386 of which
have been deaths (2.59% and 2.59% yesterday) and 20,074,697 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 1605 ranks behind Belgium (1907),
UK (1821) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Italy (1639),
and Portugal (1617) and only slightly worse than Hungary (1605), Bulgaria (1520), Spain (1507),
Mexico (1448), Peru (1421), France (1344), Sweden (1280) that never
closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid
rise in deaths, Brazil (1223), Poland (1178), Argentina (1158) Switzerland
(1152), Chile (1084), and Bolivia (996) and we have now conducted 364,820,765
tests (now at 1,097,634/M) compared to Russia at 767,931/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 1,367,290/M.
US Vaccinations:
In the U.S. as of 3/4/2021 82.6 million doses have been given, 2.04 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 9,860,209 total doses have been given (74.5% of doses received to
again slide below U.S. average of 75.1%), but probably because of the pressure
of more than 1.5 million recall signatures have been turned in, California has slipped
back from 28th to 33rd 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 3/4/2021 in California we
have reduced hospitalizations to 5,110 with COVID-19 patients hospitalized
occupying 8.5% of all hospital beds.
Non CV Case News: Words matter
and maybe Biden’s failing mental acuities have destroyed his ability to
decipher what he says but his use of “Neanderthal” to describe Red thinking
really obliterates his false call for unity and brings back memories of
Hillary’s use of “deplorables” to describe Trump voters; Blue Representative
from Mississippi Bennie Thompson must be in Pelosi’s dog house as he listened
to his constituents and voted against H.R. 1 and compounded that fact by being
an African-American (maybe the stay was
short as he also filed a civil suit against President Trump for violating the
1871 Klu Klux Klan Act by “inciting” a riot to interfere with that activities
of the House on January 6, 2021); unlike the Nazis who censored by burning
books, Jeff Bezos is much more effective—he has them delisted and blocked from
Amazon if the content does not agree with his progressive views; while the
Seuss Foundation caved with respect to 6 of his books that the Cancel Culture
Warriors claimed were racist ignoring one of Seuss’ stepdaughters claimed he
had not a racist bone in his body, the New York Public Library is keeping the
books in circulation defying attempts of censorship; on the day when a
president used to sworn in, the head of the Capitol Police are requesting that
the Swamp remain an armed camp with National Guard soldiers for at least 2 more
months because of fears of far right riots (really seems like a leftist
boogeyman stretch); Joy Reid continues
to win the prize for the misnaming of the Century award as there is not an ounce
of Joy in her body only bias and hate as she spews out tweets claiming
conservatives would give back their tax cuts in exchange for being able to use
the N* Word; on the PC front, a black school resource Tampa Bay Police Officer
using the N*Word to describe students under his protection caught of body cam
has been fired and the Police Union now wants him back on the force; backers of
a recall effort for L.A. DA Gascon have formally started the process and have
160 days to obtain 580,000 signatures of registered voters to place a recall on
the ballot https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; while the left
applauded the death of Rush Limbaugh and heaped abuse on his memory. leave it
to a political cartoonist to reveal Limbaugh’s entry into the heavens: 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 3,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 455 persons shot of whom 91 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 “Moonlight Cocktail” by Glenn
Miller and His Orchestra with Ray Eberle
and the Modernaires as vocals, the fact that you do not tolerate a quisby
in your company and a quote by Arthur Ashe on the blood transfusion of his HIV
Virus, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
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1. National Grammar Day—created by Martha
Brockenbrough in 2008 to promote which has become somewhat of a dying art with
the advent of Spell check and grammar checking programs but still the hallmark
of an educated person.
2. Nationalist
Hospitalist Day—created by the Society of Hospital Medicine on this day in 2019 to
honor and commemorate the quality of medical care provided by hospitals especially
those that struggled with the volume of COVID-19 patients that swamped ICUs.
3. 1942
Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1942 on this day with a run of 11 weeks not
continuous in that position was “Moonlight Cocktail” by Glenn Miller and His
Orchestra with vocals by Ray Eberle and the Modernaires. Here is a recording of
“Glenn Miller and His Orchestra with vocals by Ray Eberle and the Modernaires: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4x3eSBmovc
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quisle” which means to betray which is what far too many politicians
are guilty of when it comes to keeping promises made to voters.
5. A Why To Have One’s
Own Stuntperson--celebrating the birth on this day in 1889 of noted actress Pearl
White better known as the “Queen of the Silents” who made many Perils of Pauline
movies but often did her own stunts and injured her back which caused her great
pain and led to alcohol use to deaden it and then to cirrhosis which killed her
on August 4, 1938 at the age of 48.
On
this day in:
a. 1797 John
Adams, the second president of the United States became the first president to
be inaugurated on this day which all presidents would follow until Franklin D.
Roosevelt became the last one to so be inaugurated on this day in 1933.
b. 1933 Frances
Perkins became the first female Secretary of Labor.
c. 1985 the FDA approved
a blood test to detect the presence of the HIV Virus in the nation’s donated blood
supply to prevent the transmission of AIDS to those patients receiving blood
transfusions as a result of their care.
d.
1998 SCOTUS ruled in the case of Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.
that laws prohibiting sexual harassment in the workplace apply when both
parties are of the same sex.
e. 2020 Nik
Wallenda became the first person to walk on a tight rope over the Masaya
Volcano in Nicaragua which fortunately for him did not erupt during his walk.
Reflections on loss of privacy due to disclosure of disease: “Just
as I'm sure everyone in this room has some personal matter he or she would like
to keep private, so did we. There was certainly no compelling medical or
physical necessity to go public with my medical condition. What I came to feel
about a year ago was that there was a silent and generous conspiracy to assist
me in maintaining my privacy.This has meant a great deal to me and Jeanne and
Camera." Arthur Ashe disclosing to reporters he had contracted the HIV
Virus through a blood transfusion.
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