RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT March 1 2022
CV World Cases: The planet continues on an
increasing basis with cases now over 437 million at 437,846,432
cases, 62,249,029 of which are active, 375,554,383 closed with 369,575,737
recoveries (98.41%), and passing the 5,900,000 barrier 5,978,646 deaths (1.59%
)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 80,649,244 with 26,172,800 active cases
of which 7779 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 .031 % 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 21,492, 54,476,444 closures with 975,301 deaths
(1.79%) and with 53,501,143 recoveries (98.21%). Our death rate percentage is .20%
higher than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slowing climb to 2918 the
U.S. ranks behind Peru (6245) 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 (5185), Hungary (4579), Romania (3342), Brazil
(3020), and Poland (2954) and slightly higher than Argentina (2749), Columbia
(2680), Belgium (2585), Italy (2570), Mexico (2425), Russia (2413), UK (2356),
Chile (2186), Spain (2125), Portugal (2078), France (2012), Ecuador (1947),
Bolivia (1796), Sweden (1686) that never closed its economy
down like we did, and Switzerland (1511).
US Vaccinations:
As of 03/01/22 553.1 million doses, 387,952 per day last
week ( 75.6%) of population now vaccinated with at least one shot)
and in California 61,415 per day (which means at least 81.7% 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 71,568,918 total doses have
been given (83.4% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.2%),
California has not moved from 12th of the
50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of
doses delivered to the states and at 70.4%% of its population fully vaccinated
compared to the U.S. average of 64.3% and has moved from 10th to 8th
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: Biden gave his SOTUS tonight with retreads of his Inauguration
Speech about unity and coming together which were immediately discarded, banned
Russian planes from our commercial airspace but not Russian oil from being
imported into our gas tanks and not one word about increasing domestic oil
production, only a pinprick not lasting release from our Strategic Petroleum
Reserve (at least stated he felt empathy for the inflation he has caused but did
not fess up to and true to form gaffed big time confusing Ukrainians with
Iranian); Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has entered its 6th day and
there is some speculation the miles long convoy headed to encircle Kviv has
been stalled for lack of fuel and munitions (if true they are sitting ducks for
drones and cruise missiles if the West can accelerate shipments of such weapons
to Ukraine); Russia is still trying to justify its invasion which most of the
world and probably an increasing number of Russians as body bags must be
arriving back home not justifying it either; Secretary of State is pointing out
the obvious—why should a nation like Russia that has invaded a country and is
bombing and rocketing civilian targets be permitted to remain on the UN Human
Rights Council; as the idiocy of this nation importing oil from Russia and
under the guise of fighting climate change trying to shut down or at least
hinder our domestic oil industry is totally mindboggling and Psaki may have
indicated that such foolishness may be coming to an end with a comment that all
sanctions are on the table; Harris never ceases to amaze us with her tone deaf
out of touch reality when commenting on Biden’s nomination of the first female
black to SCOTUS that voters got what
they asked for (like inflation, supply chain bottlenecks, soaring energy
prices, open border with criminals, human trafficking and illegal drugs pouring
across and a collapse in Afghanistan and a Russian invasion of Ukraine as she
cackled she may have gone off script); the supply chain for European made cars
including high end luxury ones just got worse as the Felicity Ace which
was carried 4,000 autos, when it was disabled after it caught fire in the
Atlantic on February 16, 2022 and was being towed to Portugal, sank in heavy seas
off of a chain of Portuguese islands; while Ukrainians are fighting for their
lives against the Russian Bear that has invaded their country, our idiotic
Climate Change Czar is complaining that the efforts to fight climate change are
being sidetracked by the Russian invasion, leave it to the political cartoonist
to reveal how out of touch with the Ukrainians suffering our elitist Kerry is:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and
well to collect data to show that through February 28, 2022, gun violence
involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago
is alive and well with 398 shot of whom 87 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 “One Bad Apple” by the
Osmonds; the fact that you do not need to be sophomoric to get your point
across; and a quote by J.G. Ballard on Watergate, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift
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1. Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday)—celebrating the beginning of 40 days of debauchery and celebration
endings on Ash Wednesday with this year being the first Mardi Gras celebrated in
two years with the COVID-19 anti-virus restrictions being lifted as opposed to
be installed or increased (at least mask wearing mandates were good training
for the mask wearing at the various balls and a parties held on this day around
the world but especially celebrations to the max in New Orleans and Rio Di Janeiro.
2. National Planning
a Wedding Day—created by the
Knot and first celebrated on this day in 2017 to prompt engaged couples to move
their engagement forward toward matrimony.
3. 1971 Number 1 Song—the number 1 song in 1971 on this day
was “One Bad Apple” by the Osmonds
on a run in that position for 5 weeks
to join 22 other number 1 songs and 15 other acts hit the charts at
Number 1 for the first time, including Janis Joplin, who became the second artist
to attain that status posthumously. Here is a video recording of the Osmonds
performing “One Bad Apple”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4CcgblWC8k This Ogden, Utah group
of male siblings was a popular rock group from 1970-1980.
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “sophomoric” which means bombastic which politicians often
call upon to liven up another otherwise boring speech.
5. Surname Into a Verb—celebrating the birth on this day in 1927 of Robert Bork,
noted Circuit Court of Appeals Justice, Solicitor General famous for firing the
Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox after the Attorney General and Deputy
Attorney General resigned rather than comply with Nixon’s order during the “Saturday Night Massacre” during
Watergate Scandal, Yale Law Professor, and Reagan Nominee to SCOTUS who faced a
confirmation roadblock probably due to his actions during Watergate to “Bork”
him and deny him the nomination 58-42. He passed on December 19, 2012 at age
85.
On
this day in:
a. 1893
electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gave the first public demonstration of radio
in St. Louis, Missouri.
b. 1954 5
Puerto Rican Nationalist supporters entered the visitors’ gallery at the Capitol
and fired 30 rounds at members of Congress debating an immigration bill,
wounding 5 members, 1 seriously. Tried and convicted and sentenced to essential
life prison terms, Jimmy Carter commuted their sentences to time served.
c. 1974 a grand jury indicted 7 Nixon Administration aides and officials
who would be known as the “Watergate Seven’—H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman,
John Mitchell, Charles Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian and Kenneth
Parkinson for their roles in hindering the Watergate investigation and named
President as an unindicted co-conspirator.
d.
2005 in a youth has its advantages SCOTUS in the case of Roper v. Simmons
ruled 5-4 that executing juveniles convicted for murder was unconstitutional.
e. 2006
Wikipedia produced its one millionth article “Jordanhill railway station.”
Reflections on Watergate: The American Dream has run out of
gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its
dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its
nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.” J.G. Ballard,
noted English author, writer, and essayist
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