RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT October 20,
2021
CV World
Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis
with cases now over 246 million at 246,586,837 cases, 17,807,469
of which are active, 224,779,368 closed with 219,846,826 recoveries
(97.81%), and 4,932,542 deaths (2.19% )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 46 million at 46,002,053 with 9,541,967 active cases of
which 14,797 are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady
decreases despite the Delta variable to .156 % of active cases and to
increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 14,474, 36,460,386
closures with 748,827 deaths (2.05%) and with 35,711,559 recoveries (97.95%).
Our death rate percentage is still .14% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2245
the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5956) 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; Bulgaria the new number 2 (3286), Hungary just passed by Bulgaria
(3162), Brazil (2815) which has been hit with a rapid rise in
deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2531), Columbia
newly added to the list (2460), and Romania (2257), and slightly better than Belgium (2213), Italy
(2182), Mexico (2180), UK (2,034), Poland (2018), Chile (1947), Spain (1861), Ecuador newly added to
list (1831), France (1793), Portugal (1782), Bolivia (1589), Sweden
(1468) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1280).
Tests: We
have now conducted 664,015,290 tests (2,020,903/M) just passed by France at 2,309,846
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 4,729,189/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 is 11th on my list of deaths
from the pandemic at 2180/M with 355,694 active cases and a fatality rate
of 8.36% 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: 32,161 Deaths/M 787
Honduras: Active
Cases: 248,700 Deaths/M 1,004
El
Salvador: Active cases: 14,495 Deaths/M 539
US Vaccinations: As of 10/20/2021
409.4 million doses, .816 million per day (down to 3 months for 75% of
population vaccinated) and in California 90,556 per day (which
means if the rate does not increase it will take us now only some 2 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 52,655,046 total doses have been given (86.7%
of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 82.7%), California has not
moved from 6th to 7th of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of
doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 60.4%
of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 57.1% and
has not moved from 15th in terms of getting vaccines
received into arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated
compared to other states.
Non CV
News: Nikolas Cruz, the shooter in the Parkland School case, entered a plea of
guilty to the killing of 17 persons at the school and now faces the penalty
phase where the jury will determine whether he will face life of execution; AG
Garland under severe criticism for his labeling of parents as domestic
terrorists and referring the matter to the FBI will face his first House
Oversight hearing on Thursday; in the Quinnipiac poll just released on Tuesday,
Biden’s approval continues to sink like a stone with an approval rate of 28%
among Independents, 3% among Reds and 80% among Blues (given the Blue
infighting between the expanding Progressives and the dwindling Moderates some
surprise approval is that high) and 58% of Americans do not want Trump to run
in 2024 (in a potential suicidal election mode 78% of Reds want him to run);
the mask wearing debate continues unabated for schools and the CDC Director
Walensky continues along with her allies the teachers unions to press for mask
mandates for kids returning to school (when will we ever get some unbiased
studies on the effectiveness of masks in preventing the spread of the COVID-19
virus?); the undermanned and underfunded CBP arrested more than 1.7 million
illegals, a record only surpassed in 1986 when the Amnesty Bill was passed; our
vaunted intelligence community was caught asleep at the switch as China
revealed that it had developed a hypersonic ICBM capable of carrying nuclear
warheads; McAuliffe may be cracking under the increasing signs that his support
of CRT and opposition to parents’ influencing what is taught in Virginia’s
public schools after he terminated a televised interview half way into it
slamming the interviewer for doing his job by asking “dumb questions” ( in Blue
speak questions that were not T-Ball or softball); Witless Whitmer has
indicated that she will veto a Red sponsored bill that enable students who so
desire to enter private schools where they will have a much better chance of
receiving a quality education as opposed to being trapped in a failed urban
school preparing them only for prison; leave it to the political cartoonist to
reveal how out of touch General Milley is concerning the issues that should
trouble the nation’s defense:
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that
through October 19, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color
shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 3800 persons
shot of whom 649 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 “All About
That Bass” by Meghan Trainor, the fact that your life is not generally
shambolic and a quote by Mike Mansfield on the night of the Saturday Night
Massacre bemoaning the decline of bipartisanship in Congress, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like
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1. World Osteoporosis Day—created by the United
Kingdom Osteoporosis Society on this day in 1996 and taken over by the International
Osteoporosis Federation since 1997 to promote awareness of the prevention, diagnosis
and treatment of osteoporosis and metabolic bone diseases.
2. Unity Day—created by the PACER
National Center for the Prevention of Bullying in 2011 and now celebrated on
the Wednesday closest to October 22nd to promote awareness of the
harmful effects of bullying and seek to prevent it. If you see someone wearing
orange today that person is not getting into the spirit of Halloween but rather
showing the person’s support for the day.
3. 2014 Number 1
Song USA—the number 1 song in 2014 on this day was “All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor on a run in that position of 8 weeks to
join 10 other songs that achieved number 1 status and join 5 other
acts that achieved their first number 1
song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a music video of “All About That
Bass” by Meghan Trainor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk This 27 year old singer/songwriter and television personality won
the 2016 Grammy for Best New Singer, has released 3 albums and enjoyed sales of
11 million records on her debut single “All About That Bass.”
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is
“shambolic” which means chaotic which describes our open border and the Biden
Administration being MIA in trying to handle the illegals surging across in
record numbers.
5. The Czar That Wasn’t There—celebrating or bemoaning depending on your point of view the birth on this day in 1964 of Kamal Harris,
the nation’s first female Vice President and first Asian American Vice
President serving with Joe Biden.
On
this day in:
a. 1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee began its
investigation of Communist infiltration of Hollywood’s film industry that
resulted in the film studios banning suspected Communist actors, directors,
screenwriters, musicians and other members of the entertainment industry from
being employed by the studios.
b. 1973 in what became known as the “Saturday
Night Massacre” President Nixon ordered AG Richardson and Deputy AG Ruckelshaus
to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox which they refused to do and
resigned causing the Solicitor General Robert Bork to do so who then wanted to
resign but was urged by Ruckelshaus to remain for the good of the DOJ.
c. 1977 enroute to Baton Rouge to
perform at LSU, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s chartered plane ran out of fuel and crashed near
Gillsburg, Mississippi, killing the pilot and co-pilot, 3 band members and the
assistant road manager and seriously injuring the rest of the band and several
road crew members.
d. 1981 Kathy Boudin after dropping
off her infant son Chesa Boudin, who is now the embattled liberal D.A. in Feces
City subject to a recall effort, with a babysitter, joined 3 former members of
the Weather Underground and 6 members of the Black Liberation Army to rob a
Brink’s armored car at the Nanuet Mall in Nanuet, New York, killing 1 and
wounding 2 before fleeing with $1.6 million and became engaged in a shootout
that killed 2 Nyack police officers. She pled guilty to 1 count of felony
murder and robbery and was sentenced to 20 years to life and was paroled in
2003 and is now an adjunct professor at Columbia University.
e. 2011 Libyan rebels
captured deposed ruler Khadafy in his home town of Sirte and killed him and his
son Mutassim shortly thereafter.
Reflections on the
Saturday Night Massacre by the then Senate Majority Leader: “In the weeks ahead the Senate is going to do what it has done all
this year and that is to act constructively, to attend to our business, to keep
politics to a minimum, and to make certain that this government of yours and
ours functions. Perhaps out of this will come a purification and a cleansing which
will be beneficial to the whole country, and which will bring about a
reordering of our priorities so that we can attend to the needs of our people
first, and perhaps out of this will come a closer look at what the political
office holders do. Their records will be scanned more carefully, and that is as
it should be, and that is as it must be. We’re all paying a price at the moment
because I think all of us in some degree are responsible for what we have
allowed to occur. We’ve lost our sense of morality, I believe, to a certain
degree, We’ve become too materialistic minded, and maybe a return to the old
values and the old virtues might, in my opinion, stand us in good stead today.”
Senator Mike Mansfield at a speech honoring Frank Church in Boise, Idaho,
October 20,1973 Sadly in Congress those words on both sides of the aisle have
been more often than not by the partisan ad hominem attacks on each other
ignored.
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