RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT
February 21, 2022
CV World Cases: The planet continues on an
increasing basis with cases now over 424 million at 424,240,213
cases, 67,173,124 of which are active, 359,066,889 closed with
353,157,944 recoveries (98.35%), and passing the 5,900,000 barrier 5,908,945
deaths (1.65% )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 passing 80 million at 80,145,282 with 27,255,881 active cases
of which 11,130 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 .041 % 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 18,141, 52,889,401 closures with 960,157
deaths (1.82%) and with 51,929,244 recoveries (98.18%). Our death rate
percentage is .17% higher than the
world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2873 the U.S.
ranks behind Peru (6211) 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 (5127), Hungary (4501), Romania
(3291), Brazil (2998), and Poland (2907) and slightly higher than
Argentina (2735), Columbia (2670), Belgium (2563), Italy (2540), Mexico (2407),
Russia (2371), UK (2346), Chile (2140), Spain (2105), France (2025), Portugal
(2056), France (2140), Ecuador (1944), Bolivia (1791), Sweden
(1648) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1502).
US Vaccinations:
As of 02/21/22 550.0 million doses, 664,384 per day last
week ( 75.4%) of population now vaccinated with at least one shot)
and in California 99,747 per day (which means at least 81.5% 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 71,044,784 total doses have
been given (83.1% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.2%),
California has moved from 14th to 13th
tied with Nevada of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses
administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 70.1%% of
its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 64.1% and
has moved from 13th to 11th 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: The Kremlin has indicated Russia will recognize the independence
from Ukraine of the Russian speaking areas of Donetsk and Luhansk in Eastern
Ukraine as the UN Security Council met in Emergency Session unfortunately to
have to endure Russian lies like Ukraine was trying to seek nuclear weapons
from the United States (reminiscent of Gromyko lying about the presence of
nuclear missiles in Cuba revealed to the world on TV by Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge) and the futility of any action due to Russia’s veto power even if its
new found sidekick China does not join; look for Putin to start sending troops
over into those regions at their request to protect them; sanctions that should
have been levied when Russia started massing troops and arms on the border
months ago will be announced by Biden tomorrow which will have zero effect of deterring
Russian aggression; the State Department is warning Americans in Ukraine of the
obvious that a Russian invasion will interfere with commercial air travel in
and out of the country; Joyless Reid went ballistic over a RNC Meme that
honored great presidents on Presidents’ Day but had the temerity to include only
Republicans and dismiss Biden and exclude Obama during Black History Month; Bob
Becker a Blue foil on The Five for many years has died at age 73, cause
of death not revealed; emboldened by the Canadian Freedom Convoy, a U.S.
trucker convoy headed to the Swamp to protest the cost of fuel and vaccine mandates
may have plans to shut down the Beltway that surrounds Washington, D.C.; at a McDonald’s
drive-thru in Midvale some 12 miles south of Salt Lake City with a 4 year old
and 3 year old in the back seat when his order was not right the dad pulled a
gun and when the police arrived told the 4 year old to shoot at the police
which he did, slightly wounding the officer in the arm (what is this world
coming to?); the Beijing Winter Olympics came to an end on Sunday and for NBC
the viewing ratings have been a disaster and given the drop in viewers probably
major pushback on the advertising rates the network was able to extort; Kyle
Rittenhouse announced the formation of the Media Accountability Project to
raise money to pursue media outlets that defame and libel especially those who
convicted him before the verdict and those dumb enough like Whoopi Goldberg who
claimed he was a murderer even after his acquittal (look for the charge of “fake
news” to be replaced by “defamation news”; deaths of overdoses involving fentanyl
have double since 2019 in 30 states and as a grim reminder of that appalling
statistic, police in Commerce, Colorado recovered fentanyl in a house that 5 died
from an overdose, leaving a 4 month old the only person still alive in the
house; as Canada is being treated to Trudeau’s brand of tyranny, leave it to the
political cartoonist to portray the reality of his power grab which the
Canadian Parliament has extended with an extension of Canada’s legislation providing
for martial law:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to
collect data to show that through February 20, 2022, gun violence
involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago
is alive and well with 353 shot of whom 79 have died while 2021 shootings
numbers compared to 2020 are 4544 to 4248 and deaths are 846 compared to 797.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest
for this day in history, a video recording of “Hey Paula” by Paul and
Paula, the fact that you view yourself as a solonist, and quote on World War I
by Ernest Hemingway, secure in the
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1. Presidents Day—celebrating the birthday of George Washington which has been a
federal holiday since 1880 and celebrated since 1971 on the third Monday of
February.
2. International
Mother Language Day—created by UNESCO on November 17, 1989 to promote awareness
of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
3. 1963 Number 1 Song—the number 1 song in 1963 on this day
was “Hey Paula” by Paul and Paula on a run of 3 weeks in that position to
join 20 other songs that achieved number 1 status and 18 other acts that
achieved their first number one song. Here’s a video recording of Paul and
Paula performing “Hey Paula”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vOo-3XWxpo The two were a duo
that performed in the mid 60’s before going their separate ways.
4.
Word of the Day—the word of the day is “solonist” which means a wise man like
the man whose holiday we celebrate today.
5. Bringing Violence Onto the Screen in Spades—celebrating the birth on this day in 1925 of Sam Peckinpah
former Marine and noted director of such violent films as The Wild Bunch,
Straw Dogs, The Get Away and Cross
of Iron who battled heavy drinking and drugs and died of a heart attack on
December 28, 1984.
On
this day in:
a. 1915
the Battle of Verdun began with the Germans attacking and when it ended on
December 18, 1916 it was still in French hands with the Germans suffering 336-355,000
casualties and the French 379-400,000.
b. 1948 to
the joy of auto racing fans NASCAR as incorporated.
c. 1971 the UN Treaty the Convention on Psychotropic Drugs was signed in
Vienna, Austria.
d. 1972
Richard M. Nixon landed in Red China to normalize relations between the 2
nuclear powers.
e. 1995
Steven Fossett landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, becoming the first person to fly
solo in a balloon across the Pacific Ocean.
Reflections on World War I battles like the carnage that
occurred at Verdun: “World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged
butchery that has ever taken place on Earth. Any writer who said otherwise just
lied. So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up or fought.” Ernest Hemingway,
noted American writer who volunteered as a Red Cross Ambulance driver and was
wounded on the Italian Front on July 8, 1918.
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