RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT March
22, 2022
CV World Cases: The planet continues with
cases still increasing but the increase slowing down with cases now passing
473 million at 473,334,154 cases, 57,757,995 of which are active, 415,576,159
closed with 409,467,625 recoveries (98.53%), and crossing the 6,000,000 barrier
6,108,534 deaths (1.47% )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 81 million at 81,454,852 with 17,182,509 active cases
of which 3016 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 .0176% 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 26,255 with 64,272,343 closures with 999,160 deaths
(1.55%) and with 63,273,183 recoveries
(98.45%). Our death rate percentage is .08% higher than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slowing climb to 2989 the
U.S. ranks behind Peru (6277) 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 (5297), Hungary (4693), Romania (3405), Brazil
(3055), and Poland (3027) and slightly higher than Argentina (2780), Columbia
(2692), Belgium (2619), Italy (2622), Russia (2502), Mexico (2454), UK (2393),
Chile (2300), Spain (2181), France (2153), Portugal (2110), Ecuador (1956),
Bolivia (1798), Sweden (1765) that never closed its economy
down like we did, and Switzerland (1551).
US Vaccinations:
As of 03/21/22 558.7 million doses, 245,845 per day last
week (76.1%) of population now vaccinated with at least one shot)
and in California 39,075 per day (which means at least 82.3% 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 72,375,870 total doses have
been given (83.3% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.1%),
California is still stuck at 12th of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of
doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 70.9%
of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 64.8% and
has moved from 13th to 12th 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 war in Ukraine continues with Russians making little if any
progress in advancing while Ukrainians are believed to be counterattacking as
the Russian continue to wage deadly missile and air attacks and shelling on
civilian targets (Secretary of Defense used the term “wood chipper” to describe
what Putin was pushing his troops into); Judge Ketanji Jackson Brown is in her
second day of testimony with Blues heaping praise and Reds grilling her over
some of her sentencing decisions on child pornography and teaching CRT in
elementary school but walking on egg shells to avoid being charged with racism;
Russian dissident Alexi Navalny has been charging Putin with war crimes in
Ukraine and has been sentenced to another 9 years in prison; in a possible explanation
of Putin’s dissatisfaction of Russian performance, news out that Russian spies
sent into Ukraine prior to the invasion to spy on Ukraine military dispositions
have been put under house arrest; MSNBC co-host Mehdi Hasan slammed Blue Rep
from New York Sean Maloney who is chair of the DCCC for wanting to end mask
mandates (watch the Blues fearful of losing seats shed their proclivity for
mask mandates like a person with a bad case of dandruff; HRC announced she has
tested positive for COVID-19 as has Jen Psaki who will miss Biden’s trip to
Europe to confer with NATO members; the public school Woke Warriors in Eau
Claire, Wisconsin are requiring that parents have to “earn” the right to know
their child’s sexual identity; NBC op-ed compared transgender Lia Thomas to
Jackie Robinson as a trailblazer (transgender male competing against biological
females is no different from person using performance enhancing drugs unfairly
competing against someone who does not); 1619 Project warrior Nikole Hannah-Jones
is off the wall again tweeting that tipping is a legacy of slavery and then
realizing the idiocy of such claim deleting it but not before a screen shot was
made to preserve her stupidity; Disney is in the cross hairs again for its
complicity in genocide against the Uyghurs and for not taking a position against
Florida’s ban on teaching sexual identity until after 3rd grade; in
a Britney Spears déjà vu actress Amanda Byne was successful in getting her
conservatorship which was put in place in 2013 at age 28 ended; after 5 people
were shoot in 2 separate incidents, Miami Beach has imposed a curfew for this
weekend to try to curb the violence; it
looks like Biden is hell bent to restart the Iran nuclear program with the
political cartoonist portraying the dangers and the use of American money to
aid Ira n
in its deadly endeavors:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to
collect data to show that through March 21,
2022, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 564 shot of whom 109
have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest
for this day in history, a video recording of “Can’t Fight This Feeling”
by REO Speedwagon; the fact that you oppose speakers whose presentations are
spinach; and a quote by William Shatner on his trip into space, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
memorable events like St. Patrick’s Day, Mothers’ Day, college graduations,
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1. World Water Day—created by the UN
in 1993 to promote awareness of the need for sustainable fresh water sources.
2. American Diabetes Association Alert Day—created by American Diabetes Association in 1988 and celebrated
on the 4th Tuesday in March to create awareness of the risk factors
for Type II Diabetes and promote lifestyle changes to avoid the risk of the
disease.
3. 1985 Number 1 Song—the number 1 song in 1985 on this day was “Can’t
Fight This Feeling” by REO Speedwagon in that position for 3 weeks to join 26
other number 1 songs while 17 acts hit the charts at Number 1 for the first
time. Here is a video recording of REO Speedwagon performing “Can’t Fight This
Feeling”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpOULjyy-n8 REO Speedwagon is an American pop
rock band formed in Champaign, Illinois that enjoyed commercial success in the
70’s and 80’s having 13 top 40 hits and selling some 40 million records and is
still performing and touring today.
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “spinach” not the leafy green vegetable
that Popeye the Sailor loved to eat but something spurious which describes too
often the arguments we hear out of the Swamp.
5. Still Trekking—celebrating the birth on this day in 1931 of noted Canadian actor
William Shatner best known as Captain Kirk in the Star Trek movies and
television series and a commercial pitchman
for Priceline.com and who at over 90 years of age aboard Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin
became the oldest man to go into space.
On this day
in:
a. 1972
SCOTUS ruled in the case of Eisenstadt v. Baird that unmarried couples
could possess contraceptives to let the good times roll.
b.
1993 Intel Corporation shipped its first Pentium chip featuring 60 MHz clock
speed, 100+MIPS and a 64 bit data path.
c. 1997 American figure skater Tara Lipinski at 14 years 8 months of age became
the youngest World Championship Figure Skater.
d. 2016 3 Islamist
suicide bombers killed 32 people and injured 316 at the Brussels Airport and
the Maelbeek/Maalbeek Metro Station.
e. 2019 the Special Counsel
investigating the 2016 election aka The Russian Collusion Hoax Investigation
concluded with Robert Mueller’s release of his report to the Attorney General.
Reflections on going into space at 90+ years of age: “It was
so moving to me. This experience; it was something unbelievable. Yeah,
weightlessness, my stomach went out, this was so weird, but not as weird as the
covering of blue – this is what I never expected. It’s one thing to say “oh the
sky ... and it’s fragile,” it’s all true. But what isn’t true, what is unknown,
until you do [go to space] is this pillow, there’s this soft blue. Look at the
beauty of that color. And it’s so thin and you’re through it in an instant. How
thick is it? Is it a mile?” William Shatner upon his return to Earth after a
far too brief trip into space on Blue Origin.
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