Ridley’s Believe It Or Not August 13, 2021
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing
basis with cases now over 206 million at 206,667,144 cases (205,986,378
yesterday); 16,899,679 of which are active, 189,767,465 closed with 185,412,972
recoveries (97.71% and 97.70% yesterday, and 4,354,493 deaths (2.29% and 2.30%
yesterday) to continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased
recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips,
and rises.
CV USA Cases: Total
cases now over 37 million at 37,251,086 (36,130,367 yesterday) with
6,508,866 active cases of which 17,341 are serious or critical, (17,136 yesterday
and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now on a serious upswing due to Delta virus up to .266
% of active cases and now a steady increase in the number of serious or
critical cases to decrease the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to
11,930, 30,742,420 closed, with 636,664 deaths (2.07% and 2.07% yesterday) and
with 30,105,756 recoveries (97.93% and 97.93% yesterday). Our death rate
percentage is no longer stuck at 2.08% since July 12, 2021 and now .22% lower
than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a
deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow
climb to 1911 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5890) 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 to have a fatality
rate of 9.31% of total cases now; Hungary the new number 2 has had a huge
continuing surge in deaths with the increase now slowing down and improving
slightly to 3.86% of its closed cases have died (3118), aping
Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2659), Brazil
(2647) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us
and Italy, Columbia newly added to the list (2391), Argentina
(2378), Belgium (2171), Italy (2127), Poland (1992), and the UK (1916) which
had passed us despite leading world in testing and now has new deaths barely
increasing), and slightly better than Mexico (1892), Chile (1880),
Romania (1798), Ecuador newly added to list (1776), Spain (1763), Portugal
(1725), France (1719), Bolivia (1528), Sweden (1438) that never
closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1252).
Tests:
We have now conducted 553,001,608 tests (1,659,858/M) just passed by France at
1,708,184 who is now 1st 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 as king of the mountain with respect to tests at 3,740,598/M.
CV
Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys that
there is no crisis of illegals surging across the border is that fact that
COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico
which has been passed by Argentina and newly added Columbia to move down to 12th on
my list of deaths from the pandemic at 1892/M with a fatality rate
of 9.36% of closed cases and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in terms
of active cases and deaths per million are as follows even though the data may
be suspect as underreported (regardless of number we need no more cases):
Guatemala: Active
Cases: 40,392 Deaths/M 599
Honduras: Active
Cases: 202,043 Deaths/M 825
El
Salvador: Active cases: 9.592 Deaths/M 425
US Vaccinations: As of 8/13/2021
354.8 million doses, down from .729 million per day to .716 million per
day (down to 6 months to go for 75% of population vaccinated) and in California
87,091 per day (88,922 yesterday) which means if the rate does not increase it
will take us still some 4 months to have 75% of the population of California
vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than
Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required). In California
46,286,694 total doses have been given (88.4% of doses received to exceed the
U.S. average of 85.8%), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled
this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has moved
down from 15th to 16th tied with Kentucky of the 50
states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of
doses delivered to the states and at 54.0% of its population fully vaccinated
compared to the U.S. average of 50.5% has moved down from 17th to 18th
among the 50 states. A long way to go still to get herd
immunity in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of
the population fully vaccinated compared to other states which means a great
reason to recall this inept and hypocritical governor.
Non CV News: Biden’s
fleeing to Wilmington for a vacation has been cancelled as he returned from
Wilmington to Camp David as it looks like despite years and billions of dollars
on equipping and training Afghanistan forces, the country facing the surging
Taliban is going to collapse like a house of cards (we can only hope we do not
have the optics replay of a conga line of terrified Americans and refugees
getting on helicopters to flee which even if we do will not have to see them
landing on aircraft carriers and then pushed over the side); Blue state New
York has lost 1 House Seat but sadly for Reds, Blue NYC despite all its woes
and ineptness gained population while upstate New York lost so Blues are
licking their chops to be able to redistrict the 8 Red seats down to 4 or 3; Grammy
Award singer Erykah Badu who revealed Obama’s hypocrisy dancing on the dance
floor maskless at his 60th birthday bash has apologized for being a
terrible guest of exposing his hypocrisy; Mayorakis on a leaked audio speaking
to Border Patrol Agents admitted what anyone with an IQ higher than room temperature
would know that the surge of illegals is unsustainable (but no solutions
suggested like the obvious of finishing the border wall, having illegals apply
for amnesty in a U.S. consulate in their home country and automatic deportation
of anyone seeking amnesty who is applying here after illegally crossing the
border; the hypocrisy of a double standard on impeachment was on display once
more when with only 14 days left before his resignation became effective the
Blue controlled Assembly suspended impeachment proceedings but in Trump’s case
with only 7 days to go before his term ended, Trump was impeached by Pelosi and
her puppets in the House; after what evidence that exists that would show
Chinese culpability in origin of the pandemic has been destroyed by China, China has announced that it will cooperate in
WHO’s new probe on the origins of the virus; St. Louis sheriffs who were hired
to provide security for Cori Bush while off duty have been fired while Bush
continues to promote defunding the police justifying her actions on private
security because she might die without it (not wanting to wish that on anyone
what about her constituents with reduced policing and not having the money for
private security?); Newsom must be panicking with the ads linking the recall to
the anti-vaxers, the Reds who stormed the Capitol and complaining about the cost
as he indicated Biden and Harris would be campaigning for him and against the
recall; the Texas House Sergeant at arms is visiting
the homes of Blue Texas House Representatives seeking to arrest them for not
appearing at a special session; Mayor Lightweight and CPD Superintendent David
Brown put their respective feet in their mouth calling slain policed officer
Ella French “Ella Frank” and “Ella Fitzgerald” (couple that with the 2nd
in command of the CPD not wanting to wait for the bagpipes to arrive for the
traditional sacred send off for a fallen Ella French from the hospital to the
medical examiner’s office and one should not be surprised that members of CPD
feel that they are not supported and are leaving the department in droves); CNN
was shoveling cack warning that 4 Broward County school teachers had just died
from COVID when school is not even open for another week; as the West is being
ravaged by massive wildfires, leave it to the political cartoonist to point out
the folly of more spending as a way to curb the flames of inflation:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to
collect data to show that through August 12, 2021, gun violence
involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago
is alive and well with 2781 persons shot of whom 475 have died.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for
this day in history, a music video link to “The Glory of Love” by Peter Cetera, that you
enjoy the fact you cannot be accused of being a scrimshank, and a quote by Jo-Ann
Mapson on lefthanders, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Labor
Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know
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1. International
Lefthanders Day—created by Dean Campbell, the founder of Lefthanders
International, Inc. and first celebrated
on this day in 1976 to create awareness of the uniqueness of and the
difficulties faced by 7 to 10 percent of the population who are left-handed in
a righthanders’ world, including this poet’s mother.
2. Blame
Someone Else Day—created by Anne Moeller and A.C. Vierow of Clio,
Michigan on this Friday in 1982 and thereafter on the first Friday the 13th
of the year. Fortunately it is only celebrated once a year other wise people
making mistakes and celebrating it’s not their fault would never take the time
to look at their role in the mistake and correct their shortcomings.
3. 1986 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1986
on this day was “The Glory of Love” Peter Cetera for 2 weeks in that position
to join 29 other songs that achieved number 1 status and join 19 other acts
that achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100.
Here is a music video of “The Glory of Love” by Peter Cetera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQHhqDRn4_c
Peter is best remembered for being one of the original members the rock
band Chicago from 1967 to 1985 before embarking on a successful career as a
solo; still alive today but had retired from the music business in 2019.
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “scrimshank”
which means to avoid work or duty which describes VP Harris’s MIA performance
on the border thus far.
5. Collect 30,000 Books But Not the Ones That Would Have
Saved Him—celebrating the birth on this day in 1920 of noted actor and WWII
Silver Star recipient who went right from the battlefield to the entertainment
industry in such films as The Birdman of Alcatraz, Stalag 17, and Riot
in Cell Block 11, but none of the books he collected must have warned of
the dangers of smoking and alcoholism and he died from emphysema on April 16,
1992.
On this day in:
a. 1792 King
Louis XVI was arrested and declared to be an “enemy of the people” by the
National Assembly as the first step toward his date with the guillotine on January 21, 1793.
b. 1961 in what would be
known as “Barbed Wire Sunday” East Germany started erecting a wall between West
Berlin and East Berlin to prevent the exodus of East Germans fleeing into West
Berlin and then into West Germany.
c. 1964 Peter Allen
and Gwynne Evans had the dubious distinction of being the last persons to be
executed for murder in the United Kingdom for the murder of John Allen West.
d.
1969 the 3 Apollo 11 astronauts received a ticker tape parade in New York City
and then flew to Los Angeles for a State Dinner to be awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom.
e. 2020
relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates were formally established.
Reflections on being
left-handed: “She knew for a fact that
being left-handed automatically made you special.
Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Linus Pauling, and Albert Schweitzer were all
left-handed. Of course, no believable scientific theory could rest on such a
small group of people. When Lindsay probed further, however, more proof
emerged. Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, M.C. Escher, Mark Twain, Hans
Christian Andersen, Lewis Carrol, H.G. Wells, Eudora Welty, and Jessamyn West- all
lefties. The lack of women in her research had initially bothered her until she
mentioned it to Allegra. "Chalk that up to male chauvinism," she
said. "Lots of left-handed women were geniuses. Janis Joplin was. All it
means is that the macho-man researchers didn't bother asking.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, The Owl & Moon Café.
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