Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 15, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues the new year with cases now over 120 million at 120,616,867
with 199,838 new cases (a .17% increase) 20,731,818 which are
active, 99,885,049 closed with 97,216,776 recoveries (97.33% and 97.32%
yesterday) and 2,668,273 deaths (2.67% and 2.68% 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 30
million at 30,081,657 with 9,292 new cases (a .13% increase) with 7,358,720
active cases of which 9,397 (.13% of active cases and back to daily decreases
and a now a decrease now of 19,874 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in
serious or critical condition, 22,732,229 closures, 547,418 of which
have been deaths (2.41% and 2.41% yesterday) and 22,184,811 of which have
been recoveries (97.59% and 97.59% yesterday). Our death rate percentage
continues to improve and after many months is now .26% lower than the world
rate and now .15% 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 16476 ranks behind Belgium (1930), UK (1843) which had
passed us despite leading world in testing), Hungary (1772), and Italy (1697), and
only slightly worse than Portugal (1641), Bulgaria (1633), Spain (1545),
Mexico (1499), Peru (1472), France (1383), Sweden (1296) that never
closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid
rise in deaths, Brazil (1303), Poland (1248), Argentina
(1180) Switzerland (1162), Chile (1132), and Bolivia (1015) and we have now
conducted 384,364,335 tests (now at 1,144,426/M) compared to number 2 now
Spain at 879,122/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 1,556,392/M.
US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/14/2021
109 million doses have been given, 2.43 million per day in the last week
(sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now
reduced to some 5 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many
believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 12,306,608 total
doses have been given (75.2% of doses received to again remain below U.S.
average of 80.3%), but with the pressure of more than 1.95 million recall
signatures have been turned in, California has moved up from 45th to
43rd out of 50 in terms of
the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states and at 10.1% of its population fully vaccinated has moved up slightly to
46th in terms of percentage of residents vaccinated. A long way to
go to get herd immunity and lagging behind in terms of getting vaccines
received into arms and percentage of population vaccinated compared to other states
and a great reason to recall this inept governor.
Non CV Case News: Nothing like a predictable surge
of illegals trying to cross the border heeding the amnesty call of Biden for
reality to hit Blues in the face as Senator Durbin indicates a call for amnesty
is not now viable (should go further and demand border must be secured
including finishing the Wall); Biden finally opened his mouth on Cuomo’s sexual
harassment scandal by saying we should wait to see what the investigation finds
and did not call for his resignation probably, given his past history of what
many would call inappropriate touching, he would need to resign himself;
Cuomo’s ratings among New Yorkers are sinking like a stone with 43% approval
rate and 1/3 thinking he should resign immediately; Biden will soon be
introducing a massive tax hike that by increasing corporate rates from 21% to
28% and rates on anyone earning more than $400,000 and increasing the capital
gains tax on incomes over $1,000,000 to pay for a planned $4 trillion spending
increase bill that many fear will be crippling to an economy ravaged by the CV
pandemic and just now slowly reopening; Joy Behar again demonstrates she needs
a vastly improved prescription to see Antifa riots which have spread across the
nation or a comprehensive mental check up as this Joyless and clueless host of The View is a fictitious idea not a real
thing; the Minneapolis City Council approved a $27 million settlement of the
wrongful death suit filed by his family which has prompted lawyers for Chauvin
to have the judge recall for further questioning on the issue of prejudice 7
jurors already selected (how any officers can receive a fair trial in
Minneapolis when the jury to a person must know, ala the Rodney King not guilty
verdict, their city will be burned to the ground if a not guilty verdict is
rendered); Newsom has evidently learned nothing from the arrogance of embattled
Cuomo, as he ignores his ineptness, arrogance and hypocrisy over his own stay
at home lock down orders to attack the recall effort which unless a very, very
large portion of the signatures turned in are ruled invalid will be on the
ballot as the misguided work of the “anti-mask anti-vax extremists (interesting
he didn’t name the hypocritical likes of Harris who swore she would not prior
to the election be vaccinated by any vaccine developed under the Trump
Administration which she of course then did after the election); backers of a
recall effort for L.A. DA Gascon have formally started the process and have
started the 160 day clock to obtain 580,000 signatures of registered voters to
place a recall on the ballot https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; as Biden is still
in “hidin” not holding a press conference since inauguration, leave it to a
political cartoonist to reveal what must be going on in his rapidly fading mind
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow; though 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 14,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 587 persons shot of whom 107
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 “Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)” by Peggy Lee, the
fact that your life is not consumed by quotidian days and a quote by Talaat
Pasha on justification for the Armenian Genocide, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
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1. World Consumer
Rights Day—created on this day in 1983 by the International Organization of
Consumer Unions to advance the rights of consumers and allay or end the “caveat
emptor” policies found in the consumers’ marketplace.
2. International Day
Against Police Brutality—first observed in Montreal on this day in 1997 to protest police
brutality which has to be an observance the BLM Movement can get behind if they
have not done so already.
3. 1948 Number One
Song—the
number 1 song in 1948 on this day with a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)” by
Peggy Lee to share number 1 status with 8 other songs that year. Here is a recording of “Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)” by
Peggy Lee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64qYKrJNt6c
This 13 time Grammy nominee was a talented singer, songwriter and actress who
performed into the 90’s often in a wheel chair and her Mañana finally came on January 21, 2002 at age 81 from diabetes and a
heart attack.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “quotidian” which means commonplace,
especially when mundane which would rarely describe any day in the Trump
Presidency.
5. AQB Dutchman—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1926 of noted quarterback and football coach Norm Van
Brocklin (the “Dutchman”) whose during his first three years with the Rams
alternated with Bob Waterfield and after Waterfield retired went on to be name
to 9 Pro Bowls as a quarterback. Best known for his dislike of soccer style
kickers that rule the game today but a heavy smoker who took his last snap from
a heart attack on May 2, 1983.
On
this day in:
a. 44 B.C.
Julius Caesar was assassinated at a meeting of the Roman Senate at the Theater
of Pompey in Rome by being stabbed 23 times by a group of Senators led by
Brutus and Cassius but who failed in their assassination to restore the Roman
Republic but whose assassination has left us with the warning “Beware of the
Ides of March.”
b. 1921 Talaat Pasha, the chief
architect of the Turkish Armenian Genocide, was assassinated in Berlin by a 23
year old Armenian student Soghomon Tehlirian who was arrested, tried and found
not guilty after a 2 day trial due to temporary insanity caused by the genocide
and to this day is considered a national hero by Armenians and who ultimately
moved to the Bay Area where he worked as a postal clerk before his death.
c. 1952 in Cilaos, Réunion in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa 73 inches of
rain, a new world record, fell in 24 hours from March 15th to March
16th.
d. 1965
President Lyndon Johnson reacting to Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama told
Congress “We shall overcome” while advocating passage of the Civil Rights Act
of 1965.
e. 2019 some 1.4
million students in a 123 countries skipped classes to protest the lack of
action on climate change.
Reflections on the sick
justification by the Ottomans for the Armenian Genocide: “There
is no use for you to argue. We have already disposed of three quarters of the
Armenians. There are none at all left in Bitlis, Van, and Erzerum. The hatred
between the Turks and the Armenians is now so intense that we have got to
finish with them. If we don’t, they will plan their revenge.” Talaat Pasha in a
statement to U.S. Ambassador Morgenthau
1915.
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