RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT April
4, 2022
CV World Cases: The
planet continues with cases still increasing but the increase slowing down
with cases now passing 492 million at 492,859,601 cases, 59,535,808 of
which are active, 434,323,793 closed with 428,144,490 recoveries (98.58%),
and crossing the 6,000,000 barrier 6,179,303 deaths (1.42% )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 81,867,963 with 15,018,006 active cases
of which 1803 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 .012% 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 27,468 with 66,849,957 closures with 1,008,679 deaths
(1.51%) and with 65,841,278 recoveries
(98.49%). Our death rate percentage is .09% higher than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slowing climb to 3016 the
U.S. ranks behind Peru (6287) 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 (5339), Hungary (4732), Romania (3424), Brazil
(30698), and Poland (3054) and slightly higher than Chile (2927), Argentina (2789),
Columbia (2695), Italy (2652), Belgium (2647), Russia (2533), Mexico (2462), UK
(2420), Spain (2192), France (21774),
Portugal (2138), Ecuador (19576), Bolivia (1832), Sweden (1795)
that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1565).
US Vaccinations:
As of 04/04/22 561.2 million doses, 248,127 per day last
week (76.2%) of population now vaccinated with at least one shot)
and in California 31,873 per day (which means at least 82.5% 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 72,704,550 total doses
have been given (83.1% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 79.9%),
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 71.1% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S.
average of 64.9% and has not moved from
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: Day 41 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was President Zellenskyy
visit the Bucha massacre site warning the Russians that Ukraine is better
equipped to discover war crimes that the Allies in WWII as a Russian blatant
lie that the bodies in Bucha were put their after the Russians had withdrawn as
satellite images clear show civilian bodies while the Russians were still
fighting; France and Germany are expelling Russian diplomatic personnel over
the Bucha atrocities and Zelenskyy will be addressing the UN on the issue of
Russian war crimes; Nikki Halley has raised the question of why given their
atrocities is Russia still a member of the UN Human Rights Agency and is
demanding the Biden Administration push for its removal; Hunter Biden, who
increasingly is in the hot seat over his past dealings with China, Russia and
Ukraine and the extent of knowledge and involvement of Biden in those dealings,
is now also raising complaints from the GOP over the $30,000 a month rent the
Secret Service is paying to house Hunter’s Secret Service detail in Malibu to
be near the $20,000 a month house in Malibu he is renting ( he must be selling
a lot of his pathetic art to be able to afford that lifestyle); the Carolinas filled
out half the last dance card with South Carolina winning the Women’s NCAA March
Madness on Sunday and North Carolina losing to Kansas in Men’s March Madness on Monday; Elon Musk, who
believes in free speech and must be troubled over Twitter’s proclivity to
censor conservatives with the bogus claim of stopping fake news, is now the
holder of almost 10% of the stock of Twitter and is the largest shareholder
(the leftist elite must be in a panic over the possibility that conservative
voices will no longer be censored (Musk is a very astute man and we should not
be surprised that Twitter stock after his purchase was up some $10 per share); Gary
Winfield, a black Democratic State Senator from Connecticut living in New
Haven, had to experience what some of his constituents are exposed to—having
shots fired at his house, fortunately not hitting anyone in his family living
in the house; not only are most journalists at MSM biased against nonleftists
or nonprogressives given their attack on Florida’s law banning discussion of
sexual orientation before the 4th grade in elementary schools it
looks like they are too lazy to read it to see it does not ban the word gay; Blue
Governor Polis has just signed legislation that makes abortion a fundamental
right and strips the fetus of any rights (frightening disregard of human life
especially in late term abortions where the fetus clearly is able to survive
outside the womb and must feel pain when killed in the womb); another “rat” has
left the Cackles sinking ship, the Deputy Chief of Staff, Michael Fuchs; Merit
Garland is getting pressure from the left and MSM and most likely the Biden
Administration to prosecute Trump for the January 6, 2021 “insurrection’” (if
Garland folds and launches a politically fueled indictment we really are in
dangerous waters); as gas prices soar, driving up the cost of all goods that
must be transferred by truck and van, to quell the anger of voters Biden is
releasing oil from the strategic oil reserve to preserve his reelection:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey
Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through April 3,
2022, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 649 shot of whom 121 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 “Save the Best for Last” by Vanessa
Williams; the fact that your sporran is the right tartan for your clan; and a
quote by David Cameron on the value of NATO, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
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1. Victims of Violence Day—commemorating all those who have lost their lives or been
physically assaulted fighting segregation and celebrated on this day which is
the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968.
2. 404 Day—inspired by the internet notice that
the linking to the web site has been attempted but the sender is unable to connect
with the site which is a frustrating notice to bloggers and which the
Electronic Freedom Foundation now uses to promote its fight against censorship
in the schools and libraries.
3.
1992 Number 1 Song—the number 1 song in 1992 on this day was “Save
the Best of Last” by Vanessa Williams in that position for 5 weeks to join 11 other number 1 songs and
6 other acts that hit the charts at Number 1 for the first time in a year that
marked the lowest number of number 1 songs and the last year that no artist had
more than 1 number 1 song. Here is a
video recording of Vanessa Williams performing “Save the Best for Last”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q72H9ajrZDQ. Williams had the distinction of
being the first African American crowned as Miss America and the dubious
distinction of having to resign when nude photos of her were going to be in an
issue of Penthouse was going to
be published shortly before her term was going to end. She has had a successful
recording career and as a stage and screen actress and is still performing
today at age 59.
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “sporran” means
an ornamental pouch worn in front of a kilt which explains why you most likely
never see a male Scot with a purse.
5. Star in Chains—celebrating the birth on this day in
1966 Michael Starr, the original bassist for Alice in Chains, struggled with
alcohol and drugs, prescription and illegal and could not break free of the
chains of addiction to end up dead from an overdose on March 8, 2011 at age 44.
On this
day in:
a. 1949
12 nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty which created NATO, the expanded
membership is giving Putin such anxiety and one of the reasons for his unprovoked
invasion of Ukraine.
b. 1975 Microsoft was founded
by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
c. 1991 Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and 6 others, including 2
school children on the ground were killed when a helicopter sent to examine in
midair a problem with the landing gear in his plane collided with the airplane
over an elementary school over Merion, Pennsylvania. Heinz’s widow married John
Kerry who flies in a corporate jet to avoid a replication of that accident.
d. 2017 perhaps
emboldened by his chemical weapons attacks on Syrian civilians which produced
no U.S. response from the Obama Biden Administration after crossing its “red
line in the sand,” Assad’s Air Force launched a chemical and nerve gas weapons
attack on the village of Khan Shaykhun, killing at least 89 people and wounding
541. Instead not reacting like Obama, President Trump on April launched 59
cruise missiles at the Shayrat Air Base in Syria, believed to be the location
where the attack originated from.
e. 2020 China held a national day of
mourning for the Chinese killed by the COVID-19 epidemic that it caused.
Reflections on NATO: “Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the
Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never
take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure
peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU,
alongside NATO, who made that happen.”
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