Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 7, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues the new year with cases now over 117 million at 117,423,659
with 352,875 new cases (a .30% increase) 21,945,716 which are
active, 95,477,943 closed with 92,873,343 recoveries (97.27% and 97.27%
yesterday) and 2,604,600 deaths (2.73% and 2.73% yesterday) to continue the
trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased
death percentages with some plateaus.
CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 29
million at 29,689,485 with 35,202 new
cases (a .12% increase) with 8,827,142 active cases of which 13,324 (.15% of
active cases and back to daily decreases and a now a decrease now of 15,947
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical
condition, 20,862,343 closures, 537,784 of which have been deaths (2.58%
and 2.589% yesterday) and 20,324,559 of which have been recoveries (97.42%
and 97.42% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after
many months is now .15% lower than the world rate and now .02% lower than
Canada which has the socialized type medicine Biden may well want to implement
here but at least has approved 4 vaccines as opposed to our 3 and on
a deaths per million population measurement on a steady climb to 1618 ranks
behind Belgium (1913), UK (1827) which had passed us despite leading world in
testing), Italy (1652), Hungary (1446) and Portugal (1625) and only slightly
worse than Bulgaria (1535), Spain (1521), Mexico (1466), Peru (1436),
France (1355), Sweden (1282) that never closed its economy down like we did but
has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in deaths, Brazil (1234), Poland
(1197), Argentina (1163) Switzerland (1155), Chile (1096), and Bolivia (1002)
and we have now conducted 369,036,634 tests (now at 1,110,485/M) compared
to number 2 now France at 841,034/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 off the testing charts with tests at 1,382,664/M.
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/7/2021 90.4
million doses have been given, 2.16 million per day in the last week (sounds
impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now reduced to
some 6 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is
necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 10,634,752 total doses have
been given (76.6% of doses received to again slide below U.S. average of 77.6%), but probably
because of the pressure of more than 1.5 million recall signatures have been
turned in, California has moved up from to
tied for 34th to 33rd out of 50 in terms of the percentage of
doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states. A long way
to go to get herd immunity and little improvement relative to other states and
a great reason to recall this inept governor. As of 37/2021 in California we
have reduced hospitalizations to 4,291/M with COVID-19 patients hospitalized
occupying 7.5% of all hospital beds.
Non CV Case News: The Queen made a speech to
the Commonwealth that ignored Harry and Meghan Markel and stressed the
importance of unity in her typical class act ahead of the royal outcasts
interview with Oprah Winfrey for which CBS is reported to have paid at least $7
million (not sure how much of that goes into Harry’s and Meghan’s s pockets); in
a Sturgis déjà vu without the Harleys, 300-400,000 cycles are expected to
descend on Fort Lauderdale this week for Spring Vacation; on the CV battlefront
a new drug Molnupiravir, by Merck and
Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, has been reported to be showing significant progress
in stopping the spread of infection and cell damage by those infected with
COVID-19; the Recall Gavin backers have announced 1.95 recall signatures as
they move to their St. Patrick’ Day Goal of at least 2 million signatures to
insure that the number of invalidated signatures do not defeat their attempt to
recall this inept governor; McKenzie Scott, billionaire ex-wife of Jeff Bezos
has just remarried Dan Jewett, a private school science teacher in
Seattle; Little Fredo Chris who with no
Trump to attack must be wondering when he will be getting a pink slip is being
mocked for for his claim that he is “black on the inside;” in a recent book
Obama is seen supporting Warren, claiming Buttigieg couldn’t win because he was
gay and too short and had tepid if best support for Biden; Lebron James has
indicated that his decision to take or not take the COVID-19 vaccine is a
private one between him and his family;; backers of a recall effort for L.A. DA
Gascon have formally started the process and have 160 days to obtain 580,000
signatures of registered voters to place a recall on the ballot https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; while Green New
Deal backers taunt their large carbon foot prints, leave it to a political
cartoonist to reveal the hypocrisy of carbon warrior like John Kerry: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow: although 80% of
the recall Newsom signatures have been verified and 1.95 million signatures
have been collected, signature drive continues to insure a recall in the event
that any of the 1.5 million signatures already received are not valid to insure
Newsom is put on a recall ballot where he needs to be given his unmitigated
ineptness: https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/
Chicago
Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through March 6,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 489 persons shot of whom 94
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 “There Are Such Things” by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers as
vocals, the fact that you do not face quilquous issues and a
quote by John Lewis on the beating he received on Bloody Sunday, secure
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1. National Finisher’s
Medal Day—created by the Little Rock Marathon on February 5, 2018 and
celebrated on the first Sunday in March thereafter to award anyone who has had
the determination and drive to train for and then finish a marathon, half
marathon or any the endurance races.
2. National Cereal
Day—celebrating
the breakfast of choice or many Americans to free themselves from the high
cholesterol; breakfast of meat and eggs which when topped with fruit or berries
is a high fiber, high protein winner.
3. 1943
Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1943 on this day with a run of 5 weeks not
continuous in that position was “There Are Such Things” by Tommy Dorsey and His
Orchestra with vocals by Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers. Here is a recording
of “There Are Such Things” by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with vocals by Frank
Sinatra and the Pied Pipers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lBmxVnhVW4
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quisquous” which means perplexing or difficult to deal with which
describes how Biden must describe the issues he faces.
5. Hard to Make
Millions Playing in Dive Bars--celebrating the birth on this day in 1944 of noted guitarist,
singer and songwriter Towne van Zandt who struggled with drugs and alcohol and
never really achieved his full potential as an artist and died too early from a
heart attack brought on by years of drug and alcohol abuse on January 1, 1997
at age 53.
On
this day in:
a. 1900 ocean
liner travel became safer as the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first ship to transmit a wireless message to
shore.
b. 1944 U.S. Army
forces at Remagen, Germany captured the Ludendorff Bridge before the Germans
could blow it into the Rhine and started pouring into Germany by the thousands
to shorten the war.
c. 1965 a group of 600 peaceful Civil
Rights protesters trying to cross a bridge at Selma, Alabama to reach the state
Capitol at Montgomery was brutally attacked by state and local police whose
brutality was captured on TV and shocked the nation and almost killed one of
the marchers who became a long term Congressman, John Lewis. https://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/search?q=A+bridge+too+far
d. 1986
divers from the USS Preserver located
the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Challenger that had exploded shortly after
takeoff on the bottom of the ocean floor.
e.
2007 The House of Commons voted to make the House of Lords 100% elected.
Reflections on March
7, 1965 on Bloody Sunday at Selma, Alabama: “ Lewis: Mr.
Williams said, “Mr. Major, I would like to have a word, can we have a word?”
And he said, “No, I will give you two minutes to leave.” And again Mr. Williams
said, “Can I have a word?” He said, “There will be no word.” And about a minute
or more Major Cloud ordered the Troopers to advance, and at that time the State
Troopers took their position, I guess, and they moved forward with their clubs
up over their—near their shoulder, the top part of the body; they came rushing
in, knocking us down and pushing us.
Hall: And were you hit at that time?
Lewis: At that time I was hit and knocked down.
Hall: Where were you hit? Lewis: I was hit on my head right here.
Hall: What were you hit with?
Lewis: I was hit with a billy club, and I saw the State Trooper that
hit me.
Hall: How many times were you hit with?
Lewis: I was hit twice, once when I was lying down and was
attempting to get up.
Hall: Do we understand you to say were hit . . . and then attempted to get up
and
Were hit—and was hit again? Lewis: Right”—From John Lewis’s
testimony at District Court Hearing to enjoin Alabama officials from attacking
the next march on Montgomery through Selma which was granted.
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