Ridley’s Believe It Or Not April 7, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues the new year with cases now over 133 million at 133,477,061cases
(132,820,519 yesterday), 22,966,614 which are active, 110,510,447 closed with
107,617,862 recoveries (97.38% and 97.38% yesterday and 2,892,585 deaths (2.62%
and 2.62% 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 31,613,123 (31,519,836 yesterday) with 6,862,266 active cases of
which 9,042 (8,774 yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (.13% of active cases and now
for the last 3 days reducing the decrease from the peak of 29,271 on 12/31/2020
to 20,229) are in serious or critical condition, 24,750,857, closed, with
570,797 deaths (2.31% and 2.31% yesterday) and with 24,180,060 recoveries (97.69%
and 97.69% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after
many months is now .31% lower than the world rate and now .09% 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 1717 ranks
behind Hungary the new number 1 (2324), Bulgaria (2015), Belgium (1999), UK (1862) which had passed us despite leading world
in testing), and Italy (1861), and only slightly worse than Portugal (1660),
Spain (1626), Peru (1603), Brazil (1579), Mexico (1577), France (1488), Poland
(1473), Sweden (1338) that never closed its economy down like we did but has
recently been experiencing a steady rise in deaths, Argentina (1244),
Chile (1237), Switzerland (1197), and Bolivia (1048). We have now conducted 412,825,692
tests (now at 1,241,639/M) compared to number 2 now France at 1,036,817/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 1,938,745/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 11th on
my list of deaths from the pandemic at 1577/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: 8,585
Deaths/M 380
Honduras: Active cases: 114,039 Deaths/M 467
El Salvador: Active cases: 1,114
Deaths/M 313
US Vaccinations: As of 4/7/2021 171 million
doses have been given, 3.03 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 20,865,862 total doses have been given (76.2%
of doses received to almost equal the U.S. average of 76.1%), but with the
pressure of a certain recall coming endangering Newsom, California has risen up
from 34th to 28th out of the 50 states in terms of the
percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states and at 18.8%% of its population fully vaccinated has moved up from 40th
tied with North Carolina to 36th tied with Idaho in terms of
percentage of population fully 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 and hypocritical governor.
Non CV Case News: On the personal protection front in an era of
defunding the police, Ohio’s new stand your ground law goes into effect today
and Psaki announced that Biden would be taking action on gun control by
executive action on Thursday; on the border Harris has gone MIA as the surge of
illegals continues, with heart wrenching videos of children dropped over the
wall or abandoned by coyotes (problem is Harris must view the crisis at the
border is only a crisis because not enough illegals are crossing the border to
become future Blue voters); on the why doesn’t he resign front, Cuomo has been
caught with another blatant lie on his nursing home death’s scandal after
having denied knowledge of the underreporting back in July 2020 which was
revealed finally this year in January we find that his senior staff were
discussing the matter and made the call not to disclose and the 9th
sexual harassment victim who remains anonymous has given chilling details of
his closing the door after she entered his office and his grabbing her and
pulling her forcibly toward her to grope her; the L.A. Sheriff’s Department
revealed that Woods was going 84-87 miles an hour when his vehicle went
airborne to hit a tree at 75 miles an hour and denied Woods received any
special treatment (guess that the black box data on speed must not be
admissible in a reckless driving charge that under Gascom’s get out of jail
card policies would not have been prosecuted anyway); Reds have been howling
that minor children coming to the border are being raped and sexually abused
and now Governor Scott is demanding that a DHS migrant facility in San Antonio
be closed due to child sexual abuse occurring there; the only positive benefit
of the surge in illegals and unaccompanied minors is that a slim reed of sanity
may be appearing in the Biden Administration as it now is considering that it
may fill in some gaps in the wall (given the Blues desire for more illegals to
become Blue voters, don’t hold your breath); California is as Blue as Blue can
be and Reds will face a rough road in replacing him after the Secretary of
State verifies that enough signatures in
the over 2 million that signed the petition are validated but former Trump
adviser Brad Parscale may be assisting transgender Caitlyn Jenner in her
possible run to be governor (if Jenner would siphon off Blue votes hope she
enters); it looks like the school day for elementary school children may be
reduced to some three hours and then childcare which should fire up the Recall
Newsom and the outrage over our teachers union; 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 Biden continues
to lie about the content of Georgia’s new election law to justify the movement
of the MLB All Star Game to Denver, leave it to the political cartoonist to
capture the Biden’s lies: https://www..comfoxnews/politics/cartoons-slideshow
Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through April 6, 2021, gun
violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago
is alive and well with 820 persons shot of whom 150 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 “Theme from a Summer Place” by Percy
Faith, that in discussion you are able to ratiocinate and a quote from Jonathan
Glover on the Rwanda Genocide, secure in the
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1. World Health Day—created by the World
Health Organization in 1948 and first celebrated in 1950 to celebrate the
founding of the World Health Organization and to promote specific health issues
and solutions each year.
2. National Beer Day—celebrating the
effective date of the Cullen-Harrison Act on this day in 1933 which allowed the
production and sale of 3.2% beer and led to the repeal of the 18th
Amendment with the ratification of the 21st Amendment.
3. 1960 Number One
Song—the
number 1 song in 1960 on this day with a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Theme
from a Summer Place” by Percy Faith to share number 1 status with 18 other
songs that year and 11 other acts that recorded their first number 1 song. Here is a recording of “Theme from a Summer
Place”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M
Faith from Canada was a
noted band leader and composer but was an avid smoker and died on February 9,
1976 at the age of 67.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “ratiocinate” which means to rationalize or argue logically which sadly
describes something we rarely see in our politicized environment.
5. How to Make a Story Short—celebrating the birth
on this day in 1931 of noted short story writer and novelist Donald Barthelme
who was a chain smoker especially when writing and died from throat cancer too
early with many novels left to write on July 23, 1989 at 58.
On
this day in:
a. 1940 Booker T.
Washington became the first African American to be featured on a U.S. postage
stamp.
b. 1964 IBM announced the IBM 360.
c. 1969
the publication of RFC-1 marked the birthday of the internet.
d. 1978 development of the neutron bomb which would kill but do little damage
to structures was canceled by President Carter.
Reflections on what the
birth of the internet gave us: “The internet gave us access to everything; but
it also gave everything access to us.” James Veitch, a noted up and coming
English comedian best known for his humorous scamming, but this quote sadly in
the era of lost privacy is all too true.
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