Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 5, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues the new year with cases now over 116 million
at 115,963,547 with 696,212 new cases (a .60% increase) 21,794,896
of which are active, 94,864,883 closed with 92,273,538 recoveries
(97.27% and 97.27% yesterday) and 2,591,295 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 138,998 new cases (a .47% increase) with 8,874,812
active cases of which 13,618 (.15% of active cases and back to daily decreases
and a now a decrease now of 15,653 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in
serious or critical condition, 20,718,889 closures, 535,563 of which
have been deaths (2.58% and 2.59% yesterday) and 20,183,329 of which have
been recoveries (97.42% and 97.41% yesterday). Our death rate percentage
continues to improve and after many months is now .15% lower than the world
rate and now .03% 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 1608 ranks behind Belgium (1910),
UK (1824) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Italy (1644),
Portugal (1620) and Hungary (1620) and only slightly worse than Bulgaria
(1529), Spain (1521), Mexico (1455), Peru (1427), France (1350), Sweden
(1282) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been
experiencing a rapid rise in deaths, Brazil (1231), Poland
(1188), Argentina (1161) Switzerland (1152), Chile (1088), and Bolivia (998)
and we have now conducted 366,795,011 tests (now at 1,103,757/M) compared
to Russia at 770,670/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 1,382,664/M.
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/5/2021
85 million doses have been given, 2.08 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 10,076,471 total doses have
been given (74.0% of doses received to again slide below U.S. average of 74.5%), but probably
because of the pressure of more than 1.5 million recall signatures have been
turned in, California has moved back
from 33rd to tied for 34th to 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 3/5/2021 in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 4,714
with COVID-19 patients hospitalized occupying 7.8% of all hospital beds.
Non CV Case News: The mislabeled Blue
COVID-19 Relief Act took a giant step forward to being passed after Blue
Senator Manchin and Blue leaders reached a compromise on the Unemployment
extension features of the bill; the New York AG has instructed Cuomo to
preserve all documents relating to his office’s sending COVID-19 positive
patients into nursing homes and the reporting of the deaths occurring there; a
slim reed of sanity on the minimum wage was evidenced among Blues as 8 Blues
voted against a $15 an hour federal minimum wage; 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 Swamp
remains a walled off armed camp, leave it to a political cartoonist to mock the
idiocy of Pelosi’s actions with the National Guard and barbed wire: 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 4, 2021, gun violence involving
mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well
with 463 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 “There Are Such Things” by Tommy
Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank
Sinatra and the Pied Pipers, the fact that you are not facing any
problems that are quisquilous, and a quote by Doctor Joseph Warren on the
coming struggle with Great Britain, secure
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1. World Day of
Prayer—celebrated
on the first Friday of March and tracing its roots back to 1887 and given the
scourge of the pandemic, the divisiveness in our nation and the issues facing
the world today, needed more so than ever.
2. National Dress in
Blue Day—created by Anita Mitchell, a Stage 4 colorectal cancer survivor,
in 2006 to promote awareness of the disease and to raise money for its cure and
prevention.
3. 1943 Number One Song—the number 1 song
in 1943 on this day with a run of 5 weeks not continuous in that position was “There
Are Such Things” by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with vocals by Frank Sinatra
and the Pied Pipers. Here is a recording of Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with
vocals by Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers singing “There Are Such Things”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlB2L_Vpuy8
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quisquilous which means perplexing or difficult to deal with which
sadly describes the mental problems Biden seems to be facing.
5. Triple Threat
Trumped by Smokes and Booze—celebrating the birth on this day in 1927 of Jack Cassidy a noted
triple singer and actor who appear on theater, movies and TV but who struggled
with alcohol and bipolar disorder who after a night of drinking, came home, lit
up a cigarette and passed out on a couch which then caught fire and killed him
on December 12, 1976 at the age of 49.
On
this day in:
a. 1770 in
Boston, 5 Americans including Crispus Attucks, a man believed to be African-American,
were shot and killed by British troops; the soldiers were put on trial and
defended by John Adams who procured acquittals for 6 of the accused.
b. 1836 Samuel
Colts patented his .34 caliber revolver.
c. 1963 in a “Day the Country Music Died” Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins,
Cowboy Copas and their pilot non instrument rated pilot Randy Hughes on a
flight back from a Kansas City, MO concert crashed into a wooded area near Camden,
Tennessee in adverse weather.
d. 1974
Israeli forces withdrew from the West Bank of the Suez Canal.
e. 2021
Pope Francis began a 4 day visit to Iraq, the first ever Papal visit to that
country that has suffered 723,189 cases and 23,548 deaths during the pandemic.
Reflections on the
Boston Massacre: “Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our
enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be
free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes
of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the
happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.”― Joseph
Warren, noted American physician involved in patriot causes in Boston, and as an
officer of colonial militia at the battle of Bunker Hill was killed on June 17,
1775 at the age of 34.
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