Ridley’s Believe It Or Not September 17, 2021
CV World Cases:
The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis
with cases now over 228 million at 228,377,752 cases, 18,740,744 of which are active, 209,637,008 closed with 204,944,697 recoveries (97.76%),
and 4,692,311 deaths (2.24% 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 over 42 million at 42,799.907 with 9,679,042 active cases of
which 25,156 are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to slight
decrease despite the Delta variant to .260
% of active cases and to increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on
12/31/2020 to 4,115 , 33,120,865 closures with 690,714 deaths (2.09%) and with
32,430,151 recoveries (97.91%). Our death rate percentage is now .15% lower
than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2072
the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5934) 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 9.26% 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 3.77%
of its closed cases have died (3128), aping Hungary in terms of increase in
deaths Bulgaria (2898), Brazil (2751) which has been hit with
a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2501), Columbia newly added to the
list (2441), Belgium (2188), Italy (2158), and slightly
better than Mexico (2070), Poland (1997), UK (1976), Chile (1932), Romania (1853), Spain (1834), Ecuador newly added to list (1812), France
(1772), Portugal (1761), Bolivia (1570), Sweden (1448) that
never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1261). As
vaccine mandate hysteria grows in the U.S., if you are infected you have a
1.614% chance of dying and if you are over 65 the percentages of deaths for
that group is 78%.
Tests: We
have now conducted 617,825,317 tests (1,853,369/M) just passed by France at 2,049,442
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 4,242,833/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 but passed the
UK to drop to 10th on
my list of deaths from the pandemic at 2067/M with a fatality rate of 8.55%
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: 40,322 Deaths/M 707
Honduras: Active
Cases: 239,030 Deaths/M 936
El
Salvador: Active cases: 13,281 Deaths/M 472
US Vaccinations: As of 9/16/
2021 383.0 million doses, .782 million per day (down to 4 months for 75%
of population vaccinated) and in California 88,524 per day
(which means if the rate does not increase it will take us still some 3
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 49,388,384 total
doses have been given (86.5% of doses
received to exceed the U.S. average of 83.0%), but due to the pressure of a
recall vote for which ends today, California has moved from 9th to 10th of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of
doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 57.5%
of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 54.2% and
has moved down from 15th
place to 16th place as a percentage of the population fully
vaccinated.
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
is aping the workforce during the pandemic by “working” remotely as once again
he is off to Delaware but given his cognitive dysfunctionality doubt he is
doing any work on the issues that faced but rather just resting; our vaunted
over the horizon capabilities in Afghanistan that the Pentagon touted to
minimize the failure of our cut and run botched withdrawal was exposed to be a
failed myth as the Pentagon had to admit that the drone strike that “killed an
ISIS-K terrorist setting off numerous secondary explosions” was a complete lie
killing an aid worker and his 7 children delivering water; Michigan schools are
probably failing but at least in Mt. Pleasant Public Schools the teachers must
be aspiring stylists who strive to cut hair as they cut a 7 year old biracial
girls hair without her parent’s permission to remedy a hair cutting by other
bullying students on one side (the father has accused the school of racism and
filed a $1,000,000 lawsuit); shaking and baking in California today in a
epicenter near Carson with a 4.3 earthquake that caused no significant damage;
our self-proclaimed icon of foreign policy experiences has another crisis as
the UK and the US evidently persuaded Australia to replace France to supply
Australia with a nuclear submarine, prompting France to recall its Ambassador
to the United States; Blinken, who like his namesake trio Wynken, Blynken and
Nod is asleep at the switch in dreamland, has quietly removed a Facebook post
claiming the US would stand with the people of Hong Kong; 2 of Gavin Newsom’s 4
children under the age of 12 have tested positive for COVID-19 and are in
quarantine; New York’s new Governor Kathy Hochul has released almost 200
prisoners from Rikers Island incarcerated for “technical reasons” involving
parole violations (testing positive for drugs and alcohol or missing parole
officer appointments doesn’t seem technical giving the offender a get out of
jail card); Rachel Maddow, a biased leftist pseudo journalist with 0
objectivity and who was a leading proponent of the false Trump Russian
collusion, has given her tongue to a cat on the indictment by Durham of a
Clinton lawyer who is charged with lying to the FBI on their probe of the
origin of the Russian collusion; jury has found Robert Durst
guilty of 1st degree murder, lying in wait to kill Susan Berman to
prevent her from giving testimony that would conflict his alibi over his wife’s
disappearance; for those who thought Biden’s strong words on the terrorists
involved in the killing of the 13 Americans service persons at the Kabul
Airport, leave it to the political cartoonist to reveal the true targets of
Biden’s wrath: 
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive
and well to collect data to show that through September 15, 2021, gun
violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in
Chicago is alive and well with 3334 persons shot of whom 567 have died.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for
this day in history, a music recording link to “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” by Soulja Boy, that your life is full of seraphic
moments and a quote on Occupy Wall Street by Artur Davis, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events
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1. National
Concussions Awareness Day—created in 2016 by Brooke Mills, a freshman who suffered a concussion
in her freshman year of high school, and observed on the third Friday in
September to promote the importance of recognizing the symptoms of a
concussion, treating the concussion and enhancing rules and equipment in sports
to minimize the incidence of concussions like the rule in football that bans
targeting by a player of his head on the head of the other player that results
in the ejection of the targeter for 2 halves or portions thereof.
2. Citizenship
and Constitution Day—created by Senator Robert Byrd in
2004 to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on this day in 1787
and requiring all federal agencies and all schools that receive federal funding
to provide education on this day about the Constitution which is sorely needed
as one could expect that most students are clueless about the Constitution and
why the provisions are what they are and the rights of the citizens it
protects.
3. 2007
Number 1 Song USA—the
number 1 song in 2007 on this day was “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” by Soulja Boy
on a run in that position of 7 weeks nonconsecutive
to join 17 other songs that achieved number 1 status and to join 7 other acts that achieved their
first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a music video of “Crank
That (Soulja Boy)” by Soulja Boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UFIYGkROII
. Soulja Boy was one of the first rappers to market on social media and his
number 1 single was the first number 1 single to sell 3 million copies.
4. Word of
the Day—the
word of the day is “seraphic” which means serene or blissful which does
describe the chaos at the border that Biden is responsible for and continues to
ignore.
5. Reaching Bottom-- celebrating
the birth on this day in 1960 of Canadian singer/songwriter John Bottomley who
started with the band Tulpa before launching a solo career in 1990 and won the
Juno Award for the Most Promising Male Vocalist in 1992 with his second album.
He released 11 albums but sadly suffered from clinical depression and hung
himself on April 6, 2011.
On this day in:
a. 1849 abolitionist Harriet
Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland to begin a career of freeing slaves
from their owners via the Underground Railroad.
b. 1961 the first stadium with a retractable
roof, the Civic Arena, opened in Pittsburgh and the first retraction of the
roof occurred at a Carol Burnett show on July 4, 1962.
c. 1983 Vanessa Williams became
the first African American to be crowned Miss America but resigned under pressure from the Miss America Pageant
Organization near the end of her reign when she learned that Penthouse would soon be publishing unauthorized
nude photos of her. In a better late than never moment in 2016 the head of the
Miss America Pageant publicly apologized to her.
d. 2001 the New York Stock
Exchange opened after being closed on 9/11, the longest period of time the it
had been closed since the Great Depression.
e. 2011 The Occupy Wall Street
movement began in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
Reflections
on the Occupy Wall Street Movement: “When you hear the party that glorified
Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the
men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your
children about work?” Artur Davis, former Democratic Representative who now has
returned to the practice of law and who has been both a Democrat and a
Republican and if still a Democrat today has to be one of those very rare
moderate Democrats that used to be the backbone of the party.
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