Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not May 10, 2021
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with cases now over
159 million at 159,491,460 cases (158,858,116
yesterday), 19,043,700 of which are active, 140,447,760 closed with 137,133,510
recoveries (97.64% and 97.63% yesterday ,and 3,314,250 deaths (2.36% and 2.37 %
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 33 million at 33,500,575
(33,464,425 yesterday) with 6,414,292 active cases of which 8,890 (9,002) yesterday
and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now s14till at .14% of active cases and now another
blip down to decrease the number of serious or critical cases to increase the
reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 20,381), 27,086,283 closed,
with 596,049 deaths (2.20% and 2.21% yesterday) and with 26,490,234 recoveries
(97.80% and 97.79% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly
improve and after many months is now .16% lower than the world rate after the
world’s spike in improvement.
Standing: On a
deaths per million population measurement on a steady climb to 1792 the U.S.
ranks behind Hungary the new number 1 which has had a huge surge in deaths (2977),
aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2452), Belgium (2111),
Italy (2037), Brazil (1975) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and
cases and passed us, Peru 1921, and the UK (1871) which had passed us despite
leading world in testing), and Poland (1852) and slightly better than Spain (1687), Mexico
(1683), Portugal (1671), France (1631), Romania (1518), Argentina (1478), Sweden
(1396) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been
experiencing a steady rise in deaths, Chile (1419), Switzerland (1230), and
Bolivia (1120).
Tests: We have now conducted 458,781,576
tests (now at 1,379,134/M) compared to number 2 now France at 1,215,923/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 2,432,745/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 has moved up
to 11th on my list of deaths from the pandemic at 1683/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: 12,967 425Deaths/M
Honduras: Activecases: 133,138 564Deaths/M
El
Salvador: Active cases: 2,305 331
Deaths/M
US Vaccinations: As of 5/10/2021
261.6 million doses and finally after days of dropping a second day of
increases to 2.12 million per day in the last week sounds impressive but if the
rate does not increase it will take us now increased to some 4 months to have 75%
of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd
immunity. In California 33,438,134 total doses have been given (79.6% of doses
received slightly more than the U.S. average of 79.3%), but even with the
pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s
term, California has only moved up from 26th to 25th tied
with Illinois out of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses
administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 35.5% of
its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 34.8% has moved
down from 24th tied with
Kansas to 26th among the 50
states. A long way to go to get herd immunity
in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of the
population fully vaccinated compared to other states which means a great reason
to recall this inept and hypocritical governor. Non CV News: North Carolina has
declared a state of emergency of the shutdown of Colonial Pipeline’s pipelines
as the company announced it was temporarily restarting the flow of natural gas
through Pipeline 4; the FBI has named the “DarkSide” as the ransomware hackers
of Colonial Pipeline that is still struggling to get natural gas permanently
flowing through its pipelines by weekend
(hope the FBI with or without help of our vaunted Big Tech Giants are pedal to
the metal trying to arrest these felons); Randi Weingarten, the president of
the American Federation of Teachers, a lackey stooge of the DNC, is defending
the critical race theory of Project 1619 the left is trying to shove down our
throats (a moment of sanity in Oklahoma as the governor there has banned the
teaching of it in public schools and universities as has the state assembly in
Tennessee); the FDA has approved the Pfizer
vaccine for COVID-19 for children; NASA Osiris REx probe after retrieving
samples from the asteroid Bannu has now begun its journey back to Earth; NBC
using the excuse of lack of diversity of the Hollywood Foreign Press Club that determines
the Golden Globe Awards announced it is not going to broadcast the 2022 ceremonies
because of concern over corruption and the lack of diversity (good way to get
Woke credits but ignoring the reason for the basement low ratings of this year’s
6.3 million viewers is the relentless politicization of the ceremony by the
leftist elite featured); the latest revelation that “yes Virginia” Biden has
gone progressive not moderate is the news coming out that his new deputy director
of policy and outreach Natalie Montelongo was tweeting that
people must look for the nearest ICE facility and shut it down.
Hard to believe but Biden is saying after the abysmal job report that
Americans must start accepting jobs offered or lose their expanded unemployment
compensation benefits (encouraging moment but given his behind the scenes
progressive handlers don’t hold your breath) ; in a rare display of bipartisan
unity Blues and Reds, save Rep. Omar who was typically on an anti-Israeli rant,
were condemning Hamas for launching dozens of rockets at Jerusalem; it looks
like until Iran has some of its patrol boats sunk instead of just warning
shots, it will continue to play a dangerous game of chicken with U.S. warships
in the Persian Gulf; Where’s Waldo continues to avoid the border knowing she
will fail and does not want to damage her changes for a 25th
Amendment move into the Oval Office.
As the surge of illegals streaming across our border continues unabated,
leave it to the political cartoonist to point out the idiocy of the left’s
charge of systematic racism as the newest targets of that racism are trying
their best to get into this country:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is
back to show that through May 9, 2021, gun violence involving mostly
persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well
with 1146 persons shot of whom 200 have died.
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a video musical link to “Like a Prayer” by Madonna, the fact that
you rarely merit a reprehend and a quote from Mark Salmon on the burden on
small business, 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 details on
the pricing. 1. National
Small Business Day—created
by the Small Business Administration in 1993 to commemorate the contribution of
small businesses (less than 20 employees) that create most of the new jobs in America
and who have been through a very challenging year with the effects of the COVID-19
being a disaster.
2. World
Lupus Day—observed since 2010 to promote awareness and seek a cure for
lupus, an auto-immune disease that affects some 5,000,000 people, a large majority
of which are women.
3. 1989 Number 1
Song USA—the number 1 song in 1989 was “Like a Prayer” by Madonna on a
run of 3 weeks in that position to join 31 other songs reaching number 1 and while
12 acts achieved their first number 1 status. Here is a video recording by Madonna
of “Like a Prayer”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fzeNUqQbQ
Madonna, the “Queen of Pop” at 62 is still one of the highest grossing female artists
of all time and shows no signs of slowing down or cutting back her concerts and
records.
4.
Word of the Day—the word of the day
is “reprehend” which means to rebuke which is something we are not doing enough
of over the Biden created chaos at the border.
5.
Dumb to Drop a False Id—bemoaning the
birth on this day in 1903 of Otto Bradfisch who joined the SS and rose to command
Einsatzkommando (EK)
8, who were responsible for killing thousands of Jews in the
Soviet Union following its invasion by the Wehrmacht on June 21, 1941. At wars
end Bradfisch with the Red Army closing in managed to steal the paybook of a German
officer Carl Evers and fled to the West to be captured by the Americans, then turned
over to the British and released in August of 1945 and he wisely continued to
use the name Carl Evers until he started working for an insurance company and
reverted to his real name which resulted in his arrest and sentenced to 13
years in prison from which he was released on October 16, 1965 after serving 4
years, 2 months and 26 days or about 1 hour for each of 37,000 Jews killed by his command to finally die at
age 91.
On this day in
a. 1837 banks in New York City suspended the
payment of specie and would no longer redeem commercial paper at face value
which led to a 5 year recession and decline in wages and output and was known
as the Panic of 1837.
b. 1940 in a real “oops” moment the
Luftwaffe mistakenly dropped 60 bombs on the German city of Freiburg which was
146 kilometers from the nearest French city of Nancy that it might have been targeting,
killing 57 German citizens.
c. 1962 Marvel Comics published the first issue
of The Incredible Hulk.
d. 1975 Sony introduced the Betamax videocassette recorder which would
ultimately lose in the VCR wars to the VHS format.
e. 2013 1 World Trade Center in NYC became
the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
Reflections
on burdens on small business: “The
federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and
create jobs instead of harnessing it with onerous regulations and a repressive
tax code.” Matt Salmon, former Red Representative from Arizona and right on
with his observations.
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