RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT April 3, 2022
CV World Cases: The planet continues with cases still
increasing but the increase slowing down with cases now passing 491
million at 491,017,722 cases, 59,253,873 of which are active, 431,763,849
closed with 425,589,539 recoveries (98.57%), and crossing the 6,000,000 barrier
6,174,310 deaths (1.43% )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 81,826,371 with 15,292,238 active cases
of which 1988 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 .0130% 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 27,283 with 66,534,133 closures with 1,008,159 deaths
(1.52%) and with 65,525,974 recoveries
(98.48%). 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 3015 the
U.S. ranks behind Peru (6285) 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 (5332), Hungary (4732), Romania (3423), Brazil
(3068), and Poland (3053) and slightly higher than Chile (2922), Argentina (2789),
Columbia (2694), Italy (2648), Belgium (2640), Russia (2529), Mexico (2462), UK
(2417), Spain (2192), France (2174),
Portugal (2138), Ecuador (1956), Bolivia (1832), Sweden (1796)
that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1565).
US Vaccinations:
As of 04/02/22 561.2 million doses, 223,358 per day last
week (76.2%) of population now vaccinated with at least one shot)
and in California 27,963 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 40 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has Russians withdrawing
from Kviv either being pushed back by Ukrainians or being forced to leave after
being exposed to radiation after digging trenches near Chernobyl digging
through the earthen cover of contaminated soil and leaving the areas vacated
strewn with deadly mines and booby traps to kill or maim civilians that escaped
injury during Russian missile and shelling attacks but also leaving evidence of
war crimes of citizens with their hands tied behind their backs executed
(Russian people are in the dark with the false narrative of denazification
being foisted upon them and probably have no knowledge of atrocities against
civilians be unleashed by Russian troops and arms); despite threat of smelting
his Oscars by Penn, Zelenskyy was not Zoom invited to the Oscars but was for
the Grammys and gave an impassioned plea for aid to fight the Russians; mass
shooting in Sacramento with 6 killed and 12 wounded but before the victims are
all identified and on stolen gun recovered and no shooters in custody or named
as persons of interest Newsom is calling on stricter gun control (watch for
Biden jump on the bandwagon calling for the same thing); while we are looking
at record numbers of nonwhite illegals coming across the border, University of
South Carolina Gamecocks stayed in the locker room to protest racial
discrimination while the National Anthem
was played then came out to beat UConn (maybe someone should ask these pampered
woke targets if there is so much discrimination here why are so many of those
who are supposedly discriminated against flocking to this nation at great risk
and significant cost to enter); Lia Thomas a transgender who won the 500 meter
in the NCAA Championship may be the Willie Horton equivalent for athletics
given the Blues’ crusade for transgender rights and the ability to compete in women’s
sports at least in Colorado where the Republican candidate for Senate is
blasting his Blue incumbent for supporting transgenders to the detriment of
women’s sports; HRC who is sounding more and more like a candidate in 2024 aped
the Biden two step on Ukraine then walked it back indicating we could do much
more to defeat Putin (doubt if Biden will even remember the attack); Seattle’s
taxpayer supported Museum of Pop Culture is sponsoring a summer camp for 12-18
year olds to explore “your drag” not the races but the queens; when most states
are trying to ape the success of South Dakota, Texas and Florida, some
misguided governors of Blue States seem like lemmings wanting to ape
California’s jump over the cliff into disaster.
Chicago Gun
Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that
through April 1, 2022, gun violence involving mostly persons of color
shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 644 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 “Coming Out of the Dark” by Gloria
Estefan; the fact that your sponsalia are for causes that are worthy; and a
quote by John Doe Whistleblower on the Panama Papers, 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, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries,
you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized
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1. First Day of Ramadan—Ramadan is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam and is celebrated by Muslims from 29 to 30 days and is observed by
Muslims in prayer, fasting, contemplation and community to commemorate Muhammed’s
first revelation in 610.
2. World Party Day—inspired by the novel Flight: A
Quantum Fiction Novel by Vania Bonta
in which at the end of the book the world unites is worldwide celebration and
first celebrated on this day 1996, a year after the novel was published. Also
known as P-Day with the slogan by celebrants that “Party is the opposite of
war.”
3. 1991 Number 1 Song—the number 1 song in 1991 on
this day was “Coming Out of the Dark” by Gloria Estefan in that position for 2 weeks to join 26 other number 1 songs while
14 acts hit the charts at Number 1 for
the first time and Mariah Carey had 3 number 1 songs. Here is a video recording
of Gloria Estaban performing “Coming Out
of the Dark”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS7qLDizDYo Gloria Estefan, the Cuban born singer known
as the “Queen of Pop” and an influential creator of the “Miami Sound” has had 3
Grammys and is still performing at age 64.
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “sponsalia” means
espousals which sadly in school boards across the nation teaching CRT seems to
be the sponsalia of the day.
5. Not a Reliable Member of the Crew”—celebrating the birth on this day in
1961 of former Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers
who signed on as a free agent with the Cleveland Indians after the 1992 season
but during spring training on March 23, 1993 took fellow teammates Bob Ojeda
and Steve Olin on a nighttime boating trip of Little Lake Nellie, Clermont,
Florida along with a BAC of .14 and crashed into an unlit dock at a high rate
of speed, killing him and Olin and severely injuring Ojeda.
On this
day in:
a. 1973
in a beginning of the end of all peace and quiet and freedom from disturbance,
Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first hand held mobile phone call to Joel
Engels of Bell Labs.
b. 2000 District of Columbia
District Court Judge Thomas Jackson found Microsoft guilty of monopolization
and would rule on June 7, 2000 that the company be broken up into two entities.
He was overruled by the Court of Appeals that castigated Judge Jackson for bias
and failing to recuse himself.
c. 1986 Jiverly Antares Wong, born in South Vietnam who immigrated to the
U.S. in the 80’s with his mother and father and became a naturalized citizen in
1995, entered the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton,
New York where he had taken 3 months of English language classes and shot and
killed 13 people while wounding 3 before turning the gun on himself.
d. 2010 Apple,
Inc. released the iPad, the first generation tablet computer.
e. 2016 over 11.5 million sensitive
financial documents known as the “Panama Papers” from over 214,000 offshore
companies created by and leaked from the Panama law firm of Mossack Fonseca by
a “John Doe” whistleblower whose identity is still unknown began being
published.
Reflections on the Panama Papers: “The
collective impact of these failures has been a complete erosion of ethical
standards, ultimately leading to a novel system we still call Capitalism, but
which is tantamount to economic slavery. In this system—our system—the slaves
are unaware both of their status and of their masters, who exist in a world
apart where the intangible shackles are carefully hidden amongst reams of
unreachable legalese.”―
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