Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not May 3, 2021
CV World Cases: The
CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with cases now
over 154 million at 154,024,171 cases (153,479,745 yesterday), 19,437,745 of
which are active, 134,586,426 closed with 131,363,459 recoveries (97.61%
and 97.60% yesterday ,and 3,222,967 deaths (2.39% and 2.40 % 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 33,210,536
(33,180,441 yesterday) with 6,743,429 active cases of which 9,416 (9,466) yesterday
and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now still at .14% of active cases and now trending
down on decreasing the number of serious or critical cases to once again increase
the reduction from the 29,271 peak on
12/31/2020 to 19,855), 26,467,107
closed, with 591,332 deaths (2.23% and 2.24% yesterday) and with 25,875,775
recoveries (97.77% and 97.76% 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 and now .13% higher than Canada which
has the socialized type of medicine Biden may well want to implement here but
has approved 4 vaccines as opposed to our 3, one of which J&J is now no
longer on hold.
Standing: On a deaths per million population
measurement on a steady climb to 1778 the U.S. ranks behind Hungary the new
number 1 which has had a huge surge in deaths (2895), aping Hungary in terms of
increase in deaths Bulgaria (2389), Belgium (20886), Italy (2011), Brazil (1907)
which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and the
UK (1871) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Peru (1863),
and Poland (1801) and slightly better
than Spain (1674), Portugal (1669),
Mexico (1670), France (1608),
Argentina (1411), Sweden (1384) that never closed its economy down
like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise
in deaths, Chile (1380),
Switzerland (1224) and Bolivia (1103).
Tests: We have now
conducted 449,768,843 tests (now at 1,352,192/M) compared to number 2 now
France at 1,179,952/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 2,292,382/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 1670/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: 15,761 415Deaths/M
Honduras: Activecases: 129,540 532Deaths/M
El
Salvador: Active cases: 2,3160 328
Deaths/M
US Vaccinations: As of 5/3/2021 246.8 million
at 2.29 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 31,382,140 total doses have been given (79.2% of doses received slightly
less than the U.S. average of 79.0%), but even with the pressure of a recall to
be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has fallen
from 27th tied with South Dakota to alone in 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 32.0% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S.
average of 31.8% has fallen from 28th to 29th . 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: What is not surprising is
that NBC, WAPO and the NYT were lying and got caught claiming Giuliani had
prior warning before the FBI raid that
the FBI was investigating Russian involvement in the election but what is
surprising is that the troika of bias corrected that lie (lawyers are not above
the law but police raids on lawyers too often raise questions of the attorney
client privilege which is the cornerstone of our judicial system); Reds are
properly outraged over Biden’s idea of $4 billion in aid to the Northern Triangle
to improve conditions to deter flight to the U.S. (the three countries are
plagued by massive corruption and the remittances from those 3 countries in
excess of $16 billion a year far outweigh aid Biden is talking about); after a
marriage of 27 years Bill and Melinda Gates are calling it quits and will be
divorcing (Melinda will probably surpass McKenzie Bezos in terms of wealth
unless there was a far less generous prenuptial agreement in place); the Bidens
visited a 5th Grade classroom in Virginia and received an earful on
virtual learning some good and other bemoaning it was terrible with goods often
due to they could nap, eat or plead mic problems if they didn’t know the answer; the Multnomah
County Sheriff announced last week that no more citations for any rioting
charges but sadly the facts are on the federal level that of the 97 people
arrested on federal charges from May through October, 2021, 58 have had their
charges dismissed or are on track to be dismissed and most of the remaining 32
will probably also be dismissed (no wonder cops across the country are leaving
or disgusted when putting your life at risk to arrest someone means they are
even prosecuted).
The hubris and ego of Cuomo defy the
imagination as he is after his idiotic orders that sent CV infected patients
into nursing homes to kill the residents there is now hectoring the
unvaccinated to get vaccinated before they kill their grandparents (enough of
this lying hypocrite—when does New York rise up and impeach him to send him
packing?); Jeff Tobin of CNN who was granted leave but not fired after being caught
masturbating during Zoom sessions is still absent and CNN is mum on whether he
has been axed or will return; another shooting and killing of a black, this one
Erick Derrel Smith who is alleged to have murdered his ex-girlfriend and her
nephew and then kidnapped a baby and who died in a shootout with police with
the baby taken to the hospital (hopefully even the most rabid BLM anti-cop
haters will have a hard time pushing the narrative that the police were not
justified); Governor DeSantis has suspended his COVID-19 emergency orders,
signed bills preventing the requirement of vaccine passports and limiting CV
emergency orders to 7 days; while CV cases continue to decline and more and
more of the population is vaccinated, the Pentagon citing CV concerns has
banned the 30 year old tradition of veterans on motorcycle in tribute to
missing veterans citing CV concerns (easier for an illegal with or without CV
to cross the border than Americans to peacefully assemble to pay tribute to
veterans); Germany with CV deaths at
1000/M has cancelled Ocktober Fest for the 2nd year.
While the attacks by the BLM, Blues
and MSM on Senator Tim Scott have continued unabated, leave it to the political
cartoonist to reveal them as the true divisive racists in this country:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com
is back to show that through May 2, 2021, gun violence involving mostly
persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well
with 1085 persons shot of whom 192 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 “I Like Rock and Roll” by Joan Jett and the Blackbirds, that you enjoy having
a relache when under the gun to meet a deadline and a quote by the Florida
Times Union and Citizen on the great fire of 1901, 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. Sun
Day—created by President Jimmy
Carter on this day 1978 to promote the use of solar power to produce
electricity and after over 40 years solar power in the first 5 months of 2020 produced
only 3.2% of our nation’s electricity.
2. World Press Freedom Day—created
by the UN General Assembly in December 1993 and celebrated on this day since
1994 to promote a free press not constrained by the government. We in America
are lucky to have a free press which today although not restrained by the
government is under woke attack by its leftist members and more and more
frequently guilty of censorship by omission of articles or events damaging to
the left’s agenda.
3. 1982 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1
song in 1982 was “I Love Rock and Roll” by Joan Jett and the Blackbirds on a
run of 7 weeks in that position to join 14 other songs reaching number 1 and 9
other acts which achieved their first number 1 status. Here is a recording by Joan
Jett and the Blackbirds of “I Love Rock and Roll”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ecqUhec-s
Jett and the Blackbirds are still rocking and rolling and are on tour this
year, COVID-19 permitting.
4.
Word of the Day—the word of the day
is “relache” which means an interval of rest which watching Biden stumble and
fumble through the easiest conversation is something that he needs a lot of.
5.
Checkmate Way to Young—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1995 of a noted young chess phenom Ivan Bukavshin who
was defeating his peers right and left in chess tournaments but faced a drug checkmate
from which he could not escape and died from an overdose of No-Spa.
On this day in
a. 1901
a fire broke out in Jacksonville, Florida and when it had burned out 8 hours
later, the fire had burned
146 city blocks, killed 7 people, destroyed more than 2,368 buildings, and left
almost 10,000 residents homeless (a third of the city’s population).
b. 1952 the Kentucky Derby was telecast
nationally for the first time.
c. 1999 Oklahoma was hit with a F5 tornado
that caused $1 billion in damages, 45 deaths and 665 injuries and produced the
highest winds on the planet ever recorded 300 m.p.h. +/- 20.
d. 2001 the U.S. lost its seat on
the U.N. Human Rights Commission, a seat which it had occupied since 1947.
e. 2016 a wildfire descending toward
Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada caused the evacuation of 84,000 residents who
later returned to 2400 homes that had been burnt
to the ground.
Reflections on courage and destruction in the Great Fire of 1901: ”The
young ladies of the force [Western Union], cool and calm, were standing to
their posts, even when the building 40 feet across the street was crumbling. The city
building went, a department building, the armory, the County Courthouse, the
Clerk’s office with the county records, the Criminal Courthouse, the city jail
and the High and Grammar schools and the Catholic church and orphanage,
Motyairs Memorial Church, St. John’s Episcopal Church and the convent. The
scene was one that beggars description.” Florida Times-Union and
Citizen describing the carnage.
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