Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not April 8, 2021
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year
with cases now over 134 million at 134,329,077 cases (133,477,061
yesterday), 23,255,567 of which are active, 111,073,510 closed with 108,164,903
recoveries (97.38% and 97.38% yesterday and 2,908,607 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 31,700,146 (31,613,123 yesterday)
with 6,867,854 active cases of which 9,050 (9042 yesterday and 8,599 on
3/25/2021) (.13% of active cases and now for the last 4 days reducing the
decrease from the peak of 29,271 on 12/31/2020 to 20,221) are in serious
or critical condition, 24,832,292, closed, with 573,638 deaths (2.31% and
2.31% yesterday) and with 24,258,654 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 .08% 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 1725 ranks behind Hungary the new
number 1 (2352), Bulgaria (2032), Belgium (2004), Italy (1869), and UK
(1863) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), and
only slightly worse than Portugal (1661), Spain (1629), Peru (1612), Brazil (1596),
Mexico (1582), France (1500), Poland (1498), Sweden (1340) that never closed
its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise
in deaths, Argentina (1249), Chile (1246), Switzerland (1200), and
Bolivia (1050). We have now conducted 414,884,206 tests (now at 1,247,811/M)
compared to number 2 now France at 1,040,120/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 1,954,731/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 1582/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: 9,038 Deaths/M
381
Honduras: Active
cases: 114,027 Deaths/M 469
El
Salvador: Active cases: 1,111 Deaths/M
313
US
Vaccinations: As of 4/8/2021 175 million doses have been given, 3.04 million
per day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase
it will take us now reduced to some 3 months to have 75% of the population
vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In
California 21,243,518 total doses have been given (76.2% of doses received
to equal the U.S. average of 76.2%), but
with the pressure of a certain recall coming endangering Newsom, California has
risen up from 28th to 26th out of the 50 states in
terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses
delivered to the states and at 19.2% of its population fully vaccinated has
moved up from 36th tied with
Idaho to 37th tied with Idaho and North Carolina 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: Biden fresh from his 4 Pinocchio’s on the Georgia election law
is pronouncing that his first trench of expected executive orders on gun
control do not violate the 2nd Amendment (may be right with respect
to unserialized ghost guns and gun owners await with trepidation over what is
next); Psaki dismissed the numerous calls between Biden and Obama merely close
friendship while many Reds suspect given Biden’s perceived mental degradation an
attempt to create a 3rd Obama term; U.S. taxpayers are spending $60
million a week to become the bloated nanny state to house unaccompanied minors while
we have thousands of homeless with children; while Harris remains MIA on the
border crisis, DHS Secretary Majorakis
has made his 3rd trip to the border, meeting with sheriffs of counties
on the border with apparently some agreement for weekly meetings (keep your
fingers crossed that some sane border protection polices in existence during
Trump will be restored); we now know that Stacey Abrams pressured MLB to move
the MLB All Star Game out of Atlanta and thereby deprive the city of some $100
million in revenue and it is refreshing to hear 2 times winning World Series
pitcher David Wells condemn the movement and affirm his commitment to not watch any more MLB games (mix politics
especially politics with a false narrative and you face the 2 edged sword of
boycott); on the baseball front for the Chicago White Sox’s home opener, Mayor
Lightfoot and Governor Pritzker were booed heavily when they walked out on the
field, much louder that the boos reserved for the Kansas City Royals; March a
month in Biden’s eyes there was no crisis, a decade record 19,000 CBP encounters
with unaccompanied minors, yet Biden still blames Trump; Pelosi whose credibility
for veracity is nil drove her head further under the sand to claim that the Biden
Administration has the border under control; the COVID-19 yo-yoing CDC is now
proclaiming that racism is a public health hazard (stick to medicine CDC and
you might reclaim some of the credibility you have lost during the pandemic); as
the prosecution is putting on experts that Floyd died from the flow of oxygen
due to Chauvin’s knee as opposed to fentanyl in his system, Clooney displayed
his ego of knowing all things by advising Floyd’s lawyer how to rebut the
defense argument (Clooney an ability to memorize a script does not convey any
degree of intelligence!); 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 belie the border surge of illegal immigrants including minor
children because he has announced that now is not the time from them to come,
leave it to the political cartoonist to disconnect the reality of the situation
from his hypocrisy:
Chicago Gun
Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through April 7, 2021, gun
violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago
is alive and well with 834 persons shot of whom 154 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 “Blue Moon” by The Marcels,
that in discussion you are able to avoid
the razzmatazz and a quote from Caroline Elkins on the Mau Mau Rebellion, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events
like Mother’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings,
or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a
unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the
recipient. Please contact me for the details on the pricing. 1. National
Alcohol Screening Day—created by the National Institute of Health in 1999 and observed
on the Thursday of the first full week in April to promote the self-screening
to determine whether a person has a substance problem and needs to address it.
2. International
Romani Day—created by the International Romani Union in 1990 to raise
awareness of the issues facing Romanis, including discrimination.
3. 1961
Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1961 on this day with a run of 3 weeks in
that position was “Blue Moon” by the Marcels to share number 1 status with 21
other songs that year and 15 other acts that recorded their first number 1
song. Here is a recording by the Marcels of “Blue Moon”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoi3TH59ZEs
The Marcels were formed in 1959 named after a popular female hair style at that
time and were unusual in that they were integrated, but after success with “Blue
Moon” and touring in the South, white audiences were not please top listen to
an integrated group and the two white members left the band. Music may dissolve
barriers but in the early 60’s in the South not the audience.
4. Word of
the Day—today’s word of the day is “razzmatazz” which means meaningless
talk, hype, or nonsense which is too often the currency of politicians.
5. Drinking
Like a Fish Means Not Surviving Like a Fish--—celebrating the birth on
this day in 1963 of noted hedge fund manager and TV business commentator Seth
Tobias who sadly too early drowned in his pool on September 4, 2007 under the
influence of alcohol, cocaine and Ambien.
On this day
in:
a. 1913
the 17th Amendment was ratified, mandating the direct election of
senators.
b. 1952
during the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman called for a seizure of the
U.S. domestic steel industry, which attempt was overturned quickly by SCOTUS.
c. 1953
Jomo Kenyatta was convicted of fomenting the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya and
sentenced to 7 years in prison to be released in 1959 and in Kenya’s first
election after independence from England serve as president from December 12, 1963
until his death from natural causes on August 22. 1978.
d. 1975 Frank Robinson
managed the Cleveland Indians in the first baseball game managed by an African
American.
e. 1987 Al Campanis, the General
Manager of the Dodgers resigned over racially disparaging remarks he had made
on Nightline two days earlier.
Reflections
on the casualties among Kenyans during the Mau Mau Rebellion: “I now believe
there was in late colonial Kenya a murderous campaign to eliminate Kikuyu
people, a campaign that left tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands,
dead.” Caroline Elkins, noted historian of the Mau Mau Rebellion.
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