RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT February 17, 2022
CV World
Cases: The planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now
over 419 million at 419,526,290 cases, 70,335,935 of which are active,
349,190,655 closed with 343,315,772 recoveries (98.32%), and passing the
5,800,000 barrier 5,874,883 deaths (1.68% )to continue the low trend of
increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death
percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
CV USA Cases: Total
cases now nearing 80 million at 79,826,117 with 28,020,909 active
cases of which 13,544 are serious or critical, (15,517 on 12/12)
(back to steady decreases despite the increase in active cases due to the
relative mildness of the Omicron variant) to .048 % of active cases (back to
back steady decreases despite the increase in active cases due to the relative
mildness of the Omicron variant and to increase the
reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 15,727, 51,005,208 closures
with 953,038 deaths (1.87%) and with 50,052,170 recoveries (98.13%). Our death
rate percentage is .19% higher than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2852 the U.S.
ranks behind Peru (6192) the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in
deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give
Peru the a new method of reporting; Bulgaria (5067), Hungary (4466), Romania (3268), Brazil
(2981), and Poland (2891) and slightly higher than Argentina (2720), Columbia
(2658), Belgium (2556), Italy (2525), Mexico (2395), Russia (2350), UK (2340),
Chile (2112), Spain (2089), France (2078), Portugal (2041), Ecuador (1938),
Bolivia (1789), Sweden (1640) that never closed its economy
down like we did, and Switzerland (1496).
US Vaccinations:
As of 02/17/22 548.4 million doses, 416,356 per day last
week ( 75.3%) of population now vaccinated with at least one shot)
and in California 58,090 per day (which means at least 81.3% of the
population of California has received at least one shot) which many believe is
necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe
that 90% is required). In California 70,616,475 total doses have
been given (83.5% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 81%),
California has moved from 13th to 14th of
the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage
of doses delivered to the states and at 69.8% of its population fully
vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 63.9% and has moved from
10th to 11th tied with Washington in terms of
the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states
(nothing like a recall election to get Newsom’s attention and
performance).
Non CV
News: Flip Flop Fauci is pontificating again in a fashion that many say
is contrary to the science on the virus that removing mask mandates in schools
would be risky while indicating the data on the need for boosters is being
monitored (has this man operating under the rightful suspicion of funding data
function research at the Wuhan Lab and participating in a coverup to discredit
the lab as a source of the virus passed his expiration day and with his
sidekick Walensky should be removed?), WAPO was blasted for its article lambasting
the only black justice on SCOTUS for ruling like white conservatives (only rags
like WAPO can bleach the skin of a black with its leftist bias and turn him or
her into a white suprematcist); Rep. Omar with her tweet blasting journalists
for revealing names of donors to Canada’s Freedom Convoy has raised a firestorm
in the MSM as journalists responded that the donor information had been revealed
by a hack and the donor shutting down business was due to threats received (however
the donor information was received, it should never have been released and Twitter’s
vaunted algorithms should have prevented such release); Amazon has dropped BLM from
its charity program not due to its Marxist bent or the fact that the alleged assassin
of a Blue Louisville Mayoral candidate was bailed out by BLM but rather due to
financial and reporting discrepancies; a New York Judge has ruled that Trump
and his 2 children, Don, Jr. and Ivanka must testify under oath in the AG’s
investigation of his business practices (a legitimate pursuit of justice or a
politically motivated witch-hunt to keep Trump off the ballot in 2024?);
Blinken appeared at the Security Council denouncing Russia and claiming its
continued hostility to Ukraine threatens global stability while Russia seems to
be playing the Nazis’ 1938 Sudetenland card by a false flag attack on 2 Russian
separatist provinces in Ukraine (apprehensions over an imminent invasion tanked
the market and to the bane of Russia’s economy largely dependent on petroleum
production caused a drop in crude oil prices); New Mexico has joined the ranks
of states accused of triage for COVID patients based on race and faces a law
suit if it does not withdraw race based guidelines; the president of the SFO school
board who was recalled along with 2 other members by a major landslide of
voters put her head in the sand and blamed “white suprematcists”; Build Back
Better is like the zombies in The Walking Dead as Schumer keeps scheming
to try to sugar coat parts of it to pass as inflation fighters (lightbulb has
finally been turned on by the free spending Blues to realize seats will be lost
in a landslide far exceeding normal midterm losses); the automotive supply chain
just got worse as a cargo ship carrying up to 4,000 vehicles including Porsches
has caught fire in the Atlantic and adrift 100 miles from the Azores after its
22 crew members have been lifted off it; with crises facing us growing like weeds leave it to the
political cartoonist to portray the chaos facing the Blues:
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a video recording link to “Calcutta” by Lawrence Welk, the fact that you rarely engage in soliloquy unless practicing a speech, and a quote by Anders Fogh Rasmussen on the need for the Red Cross, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Valentine’s Day or St. Patrick’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 pricing.
1. National PTA Founders’ Day—celebrating the work and legacy of the founders of National Congress of Parents and Teachers by Phoebe Hearst and Alice Birney in 1897 and the founder of the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers by Selena Butler in 1926 which June 22, 1970 merged to become the National PTA membership in which has never been more important in dealing with school boards due to CRT and Corona Virus Mandates affecting schools as parents are struggling to force schools to stay open.
2. National Cabbage Day—celebrating a tasty vegetable cooked or eaten raw in slaw and if you fail to celebrate it by eating servings of cabbage today not to worry as it is paired up with corned beef on March 17th.
3. 1961 Number 1 Song—the number 1 song in 1961 on this day was “Calcutta” by Lawrence Welk on a run of 2 weeks in that position to join 21 other songs that achieved number 1 status and 15 other acts that achieved their first number one song. Here’s a recording of Lawrence Welk’s Band performing "Calcutta": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aWkhuAu8go Welk was an accordionist, bandleader and host of The Lawrence Welk Show on TV from 1951 to 1982 and whose musical style was known as “champagne music” which was corked for good on May 17, 1992 at age 89.
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “soliloquy” which means talking to oneself which when not in the context of a dramatic production can be a sing of schizophrenia.
5. Airing It Out—celebrating the birth on this day in 1963 of perhaps the greatest basketball player yet to be seen Michael Jordan who stands 5th in all-time scoring behind Kobe Bryant and tied with Wilt Chamberlain in the all-time leaders of points per game average of 30.1 and but for his two year hiatus from the sport in professional baseball would be 4th and famous for the Nike Air Jordan basketball shoes and his efforts to have popularized the sport globally.
On this day in:
a. 1863 a group of residents of Geneva formed the International Committee for the Relief to the Wounded, the precursor for the International Committee of the Red Cross.
b. 1964 SCOTUS ruled in the case of Westberry v. Sanders that Congressional Districts have to approximate the same population.
c. 1972 cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceeded those of the Ford Model T.
d. 1980 Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy Polish mountaineers became the first to successfully climb Mt. Everest in the winter.
e. 1996 In a great day for humans Russian Chess Master Garry Kasparov defeated IBM’s supercomputer Big Blue in a chess match.
Reflection on the need of the Red Cross in times of war or other disasters: “I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.” Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark. His comments could easily apply to the Russians' aiding the separatists in the Donbas area of Ukraine.
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