Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not April 25, 2021
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with cases now
over 146 million at 146,972,105 cases (146,225,032 yesterday), 19,294,415 of
which are active, 127,677,290 closed with 124,567,087 recoveries (97.56%
and 97.56% yesterday ,and 3,110,603 deaths (2.44% and 2.44% yesterday) to
continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages
and decreased death percentage with some plateaus, dips, and rises (have no
idea why the comparatively large improvement in deaths and recoveries
yesterday).
CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 32 million at
32,780,457 (32,735,074 yesterday) with 6,860,726 active cases of which 9,769
(9,832 yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now reduced to .14% of active cases
and now still back on a decreasing path of the number of serious or critical
cases to once again increase the
reduction from the 29,271 peak on
12/31/2020 to 19,502, 25,919,731 closed,
with 585,773 deaths (2.26% and 2.26% yesterday) and with 25,333,958 recoveries
(97.74% and 97.74% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly
improve and after many months is still .18% lower than the world rate after the
world’s spike in improvement and now .04% higher than Canada which has the
socialized type medicine Biden may well want to implement here but has approved
4 vaccines as opposed to our 3, one of which J&J is on hold.
Standing: On a deaths per million population
measurement on a steady climb to 1761 the U.S. ranks behind Hungary the new
number 1 which has had a huge surge in deaths (2741), aping Hungary in terms of
increase in deaths Bulgaria (2292), Belgium (2060), Italy (1971), UK
(1869) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), and Brazil
(1822) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us,
Peru (1770), Poland (1725), Portugal (1667), Spain (1659), Mexico (1650), France (1571), Sweden (1372) that
never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a
steady rise in deaths, Argentina (1344), Chile (1337), Switzerland
(1214) and Bolivia (1083).
Tests: We have now conducted 438,353,248 tests (now at
1,318,061/M) compared to number 2 now France at 1,134,199/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 2,181,710/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 12th on my list of deaths
from the pandemic at 1650/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: Activecases: 18,110 Deaths/M407
Honduras: Activecases: 123,742 Deaths/M508
El
Salvador: Active cases: 1,960 Deaths/M
323
US Vaccinations: As of 4/25/2021 228.7 million doses have
been given, 2.75 million per day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the
rate does not increase it will take us now reduced to some 3 months to have 75%
of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity.
In California 28,798,648 total doses have been given (79.8% of doses received
to exceed the U.S. average of 78.7%), but even with the pressure of a certain
recall coming endangering Newsom, California has fallen from 23rd to
tied with Illinois at 24th out of the 50 states in terms of the
percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states and at 28.4% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S.
average of 28.5% is stuck at 32nd .
A long way to go to get herd immunity and lagging 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 and hypocritical governor.
Non CV News: Where’s Waldo claiming the border
crisis is complex and will take time to resolve to justify her refusal to go to
the border citing CV issues (she is vaccinated and like Biden is usually no
matter how alone she might be wearing a mask—looks like she doesn’t want to
tarred with the open border failure); MSM may lie continually on the border
issue but by a vote of 46-15% Americans feel the situation at the border has
gotten worse under Biden; Chauvin’s medical expert previously the State Medical
Examiner in Maryland is now going to have his reports reviewed after a letter signed
by over 400 doctors questioned his testimony on the cause of Floyd’s death;
Fauci whose idiocy decimated restaurants who expended substantial funds to create
outdoor dining with social distancing to survive and were forced to closed due
to CDC guidelines has now seen the light and stated that CV infection in
outdoor settings is miniscule (finally rectifying an error that sent many
businesses into bankruptcy and closure); hypocrisy rules and parents and school
children drool as the Chandler School District cancelled the school prom due to
CV concerns yet saw fit to hold a large retirement party for its school
superintendent.
The Oscars are going on in L.A.’s Union
Central Station with attendees limited to 170 and mask less with no host and
wondering how low the drop in ratings will continue to drop (after listening to
the elite with their gated communities and armed guards with no need for police
and way too much anti-police over the top rhetoric, the safe bet is viewers
will flee the Awards Ceremony and hopefully start boycotting the movies stop
filling the pockets of the leftist biased elite); for those thinking to walk on
Mars the first time thanks to SpaceX, Elon Musk has given a chilling prediction—people
will die and the quarters will be cramped and the food not good on the pioneer
trip to Mars; in a who needs Brady moment Rob Gronkowski who played football at
Arizona, caught after 2 tries, a football dropped from 600 feet before the
Wildcats annual spring scrimmage game; James O’Keefe founder of Veritas, after
being banned by Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, is in the process of suing CNN and
Twitter—nothing like a multimillion
dollar judgment to shed Twitter’s biased algorithms and force CNN to cease its fake news; forget
about we will pay your sales tax promos, a Wyoming roofing company has the best
inducement to buy a new roof—a new Ar-15. In 1993 the Reptilian Brain-in-Chief
invited Epstein and Maxwell to the White House
after Epstein had donated funds to renovate the Oval Office.
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 the dust settles across
this land following riots and the mustering of the National Guard to try to
prevent them leave it to the political
cartoonist to exposed the true feelings Blues have for the forces of law and
order:
Chicago Gun
Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through April 24, 2021, gun
violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in
Chicago is alive and well with 986 persons shot of whom 178 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 “TSOP (the Sound of Philadelphia) by MFSB and The Three Degrees,
the need to redintegrate the American Dream and a quote by Thomas Edison on
solar energy, secure in the knowledge
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1. Parent
Alienation Awareness Day—founded by Canadian activist Sarvy Emo and
first observed on this day in 2006 to bring awareness to the tragic collateral
damage arising out of divorces with children involved where the custodial
parent 24/7 tries to alienate the noncustodial parent from the children with
damaging effects to the children.
2. World Malaria Day—created by the World Health
Organization in 2007 to promote awareness of the disease and education on how
to treat and curtail its spread.
3.
1974 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1
song in 1974 was “TSOP (the Sound of Philadelphia)” MFSB and The Three Degrees
on a run of 2 weeks in that position to join 34 other songs reaching number 1
in a year in which 25 groups had their first number 1 song. Here is a recording by MFSB and The Three
Degrees of “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z0QE44smfo
MSSB
standing for “Mother, Father, Sister and Brother” was a group of 30 studio
musicians based at Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound Studios and the song TSOP was instrumental
in creating the disco fever and success.
4. Word of the Day—the
word of the day is “redintegrate” which means “resuscitate or restore” our prosperity
before it is damaged by Biden policies beyond repair.
5. Still
Ticking—celebrating the birth on this day in 1940 of noted actor and director
Al Pacino who has been on the big screen since 1969 and is still going strong
today. On this
day in
a. 1901
true to government’s belief that if it moves, “tax it,” New York became the first
state to require license plates on cars.
b. 1954 the first practical solar cell was demonstrated
by Bell Laboratories.
c. 1959 The Saint Lawrence Seaway linking the
Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean was officially opened to shipping.
d. 1961
Robert Noyce was granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
e. 1988 John Demjanjuk after being deport
from the United States to Israel was sentenced to death for his role as a
concentration camp guard which was ultimately overturned permitting him to
return to the United States in 1993 where he was deported once again to Germany
in 2009 to face trial for killing prisoners at another concentration camp,
tried and convicted and sentenced to 5 years on May 12,2011 but was staying in
a nursing home pending his appeal and died before a verdict was handed down on March
17, 2012 at the age of 91.
Reflections
on solar cells: “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our
house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy
– sun, wind and tide. … I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a
source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before
we tackle that.” Thomas Edison
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