Ridley’s Believe It Or Not April 4, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues the new year with cases now over 132 million at 132,293,589
cases (126,652,389 on 3/25,2021), 22,891,916
which are active, 109,401,673 closed (104,851,468 on 3/25,2021) with 106,531,480
(102,073,196 on 3,25/2021) recoveries (97.38% and 97.35% on 3/25/2021) and 2,870,193
(2,778,272 deaths (2.62% 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 31
million at 31,471,399 (30,874,323 on 3/25/2021) with 6,898,479 active cases (7,019,302
on 3/25/2021 active cases of which 8,722 (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (.13% of active cases
and with slight increase of 3/25/2021 and now a decrease of 20,549 from a peak
of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition, 24,572,920
(23,825,021 on 3/25/2021), closed, with 569,039 (561,030 on 3/25/2021)
deaths (2.32% and 2.35% on 3/25/2021) and with 24,003,881 (23,263,991 on
3/25/2021) recoveries (97.68% and 97.65 on 3/25/2021) yesterday). Our death
rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .30% lower
than the world rate and now .10% 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 1712 ranks behind Hungary the new number 1 (2274),
Belgium (1993), Bulgaria (1967), (1993), UK (1861) which had passed us despite
leading world in testing), and Italy (1843),
and only slightly worse than Portugal
(1660), Spain (1620), Peru (1587), Mexico (1571), France (1482), Brazil
(1551), Poland (1455), Sweden (1330) that never closed its economy down like we
did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in deaths, Argentina
(1235), Switzerland (1190), Chile (1231), and Bolivia (1045). We have now
conducted 410,359,109 tests (now at 1,234,260/M) compared to number 2 now France
at 1,030,731/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 1,871,876/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 1571/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: 8,592
Deaths/M 379
Honduras: Active cases: 112,614 Deaths/M 463
El Salvador: Active cases: 761
Deaths/M 312
US Vaccinations: As of 4/5/2021 167 million
doses have been given, 3.05 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 20,309,146 total doses have been given (80.2%
of doses received to almost equal the U.S. average of 80.4%), but with the
pressure of a certain recall coming endangering Newsom, California has is tied
with 2 other states at 29th out of 50 in terms of the percentage of
doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 18.1%%
of its population fully vaccinated has moved up from 41st to 40th
of 41st 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: The
unbeaten season for Gonzaga came to an end as Baylor beat them 86-70 to win its
first NCAA Championship; the MLB All Star Game which was supposed to be played in Atlanta and was moved
because of false claims of voter suppression in the new Georgia voter election
law and will now be played in Denver at Coors Field (fortunately the PC Woke
Warriors must have been told by the PGA to pound sand as the Masters in Augusta,
Georgia will tee off starting this Thursday and leftist CBS must have found
some spine as it will broadcast the event); the move out of Atlanta of the game
will have an adverse economic impact of $100 million and wanna-be governor
Stacy Abrams must be eating crow and Psaki today seemed to waffle on the issue
of whether Biden supported the move as she indicated Biden supported MLB rights
to make the decision not whether he supported it; on The View McCain and
Goldberg got into a spat over the hypocrisy of the MLB doing business with a
Communist Party company that dropped Houston Rockets NBA games because its GM
supported a Hong Kong prodemocracy movement; in a tale of two polls, Biden is
getting a 73 % approval rating over his handling of the CV pandemic but on
immigration and the border security he is receiving 56% and 55% disapproval ratings
respectively; the Cack Biased System was spreading it thick on “60 Minutes” for
deceptively deleting Governor De Santis’ response to the charge that he allowed
2 pharmacy outlets to vaccinate for COVID-19 in exchange for a campaign
contribution; Stelter at the Cack News Network was in true Helter Skelter mode
after obsessing for 4 years over any Pinocchio’s received by Trump, made no
mention on the 4 Pinocchio’s received by Biden over his false characterization of the Georgia
election law reforms; Harris our new immigration czar has gone MIA probably due
to more pressing concerns over furnishing of her new residence; 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 MLB guzzles the
Woke propaganda on Georgia’s new election laws, leave it to the political
cartoonist to capture their drunken Woke binge: https://www..com
foxnews
/politics/cartoons-slideshow.
Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is
back to show that through April 4, 2021, gun violence involving
mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well
with 784 persons shot of whom 144 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 “Tequila” by The Champs, your behavior is free
from rannygazoo acts and a quote from General Mark Clark on the benefits of the
CCC, secure in the knowledge that if you
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1. National Flash
Drive Day—created
by USB Direct in 2018 and celebrated on this day since 2019 to commemorate
those handy devices to store and save data.
2. White House Easter Egg Roll—created
by President Rutherford B. Hayes on April 22, 1878 and celebrated on the Monday
after Easter on the South Lawn or in the White House with some brief
interruptions due to wars or renovations and sadly a victim of COVID-19 in 2020
and 2021.
3. 1958 Number One
Song—the
number 1 song in 1958 on this day with a run of 5 weeks in that position was “Tequila”
by The Champs to share number 1
status with 17 other songs that year.
Here is a recording of “Tequila “ by The Champs appearing on American
Bandstand, hosted by a very young looking Dick Clark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyl7GP_VMJY
The Champs were a rock and roll band, Chicano
rock and Tex-Mex ha band active from 1957-1965 and resurrected by Dave Burgess
in 2020 with different members; the band was named after Gene Autrey’s horse
Champion and the song was a Side B record that sold over a million copies.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “rannygazoo” which means foolish
nonsense which describes to a tee the bulk of what we hear coming out of the
Swamp.
5. No Higher Devotion—celebrating the birth
on this day in 1981 of Michael W. Mansoor, a Medal of Honor Winner Navy Seal,
who threw himself on a grenade tossed by an insurgent that landed near him and
some fellow Seals and Iraqi soldiers on a rooftop in Ramadi on September 29,
2006 killing him but saving from death and injury those near the exploding
grenade.
On
this day in:
a. 1933 as The
Great Depression was gathering momentum President Roosevelt signed 2 Executive
Orders, 6101 and 6102 creating the Civilian Conservation Corps and banning the
possession of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates by U.S. citizens.
b. 1956 Fidel Castro declared he was
at war with Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, who, with Castro’s rebel army
approaching Havana, fled the country on January 1, 1959.
c.
1969 two days of protests and parades against the Vietnam War began in Los
Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and several other cities.
d. 1985 Atlantic Southeast
Airlines Flight 1311, an EMB 120, crashed near Brunswick, Georgia, killing all
23 aboard, including former Senator John Tower and Space Shuttle astronaut
Sonny Carter.
e. 1999 in an example that
the wheels of justice move albeit slowly sometimes as 2 Libyans are handed over
for trial in the Netherlands for the bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland on
December 21, 1988 of Pan Am Flight 103 that killed all 270 aboard.
Reflections on the Civilian
Conservation Corps: “In my way of thinking, the CCC was a monumental success in
saving the youth of the 1930’s…endowing the individual CCC enrollee with a
feeling of dignity, for he was giving his Country an honorable and worthwhile return
for what it was doing for him and for his family economically-such a stark contrast
to the shameful, character-robbing Welfare Programs on today.” General Mark W.
Clark
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