RIDLEY’S
BELIEVE IT OR NOT December 6, 2021
CV World
Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis
with cases now over 266 million at 266,644,134 cases, 21,200,608
of which are active, 245,438,262 closed with 240,161,556 recoveries
(97.85%), and cracking the 5,000,000 barrier 5,276,706 deaths (2.15% ))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 50 million at 50,114,486 with 9,679,189 active cases of
which 13,934 are serious or critical,
(8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases with upticks despite the
Delta variable to .144% of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the
29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 15,337, 40,435,297 closures with 809,898 deaths
(2.00%) and with 39,625,399 recoveries (98.00%). Our death rate percentage is
.15% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2426 the U.S.
ranks behind Peru (5988) 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 the new number 2 (4197), Hungary
(3700), Romania (2999), Brazil (2868) which has been hit with a rapid rise
in deaths now slowing down passed by Romania, Argentina (2548), and newly added
to the list Columbia (2494), and slightly better than
Belgium (2330), Poland (2268), Mexico (2256), Italy (2226), UK (2129), Russia newly added to list (1934), (Chile (1991), Spain
(1885), Ecuador newly added to list (1858), Portugal (1827), France
(1826), Bolivia (1615), Sweden (1485) that never closed its
economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1330).
Tests: No
need to tally tests as testing programs are functioning well.
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 22565/M with 348,385 active cases and a fatality rate of 8.31%
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: 1079 Deaths/M
870
Honduras: Active
Cases: 245,799 Deaths/M 1028
El
Salvador: Active cases: 13,035 Deaths/M 580
US
Vaccinations: As of 12/06/21 462.3 million doses, .859 million per day (2
months left for 75% of population to be vaccinated) and in California 116,171
per day (which means at least 79% 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 59,768,100 total doses have been given (84.2%
of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.4%), California has not moved
from 8th of the 50 states in
terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses
delivered to the states and at 63.3% of its population fully vaccinated
compared to the U.S. average of 59.4% and has
moved from 12th tied with Colorado to 14th in terms of the percentage of the population
fully vaccinated compared to other states.
Non CV
News: Jussie Smollett took the stand and
provided some pretty salacious testimony at odds with why his supposed
attackers have testified to and will continue being cross-examined tomorrow and
as the jurors were dismissed for the day a stern warning from the judge not to
be viewing the internet or Google on the trial (if a case of he said they said
just one juror has to believe that his “attackers” were lying and dismissed in
that juror’s mind the check from Smollett to them); looks like Chris Cuomo’s
pal Don Lemon is mimicking him by providing Jussie Smollett as he was
devastated by Cuomo’s being fired; the Cack News Network is in damage control
mode over the firing of Chris Cuomo as Brian “Helter Skelter” Stelter
whitewashed the firing and failed to mention Cuomo’s first sexual harassment
accuser; while the evidence coming out of South Africa is that the Omicron
Variant is very mild in terms of symptoms, Fauci it appears was the driving
force behind the travel ban out of Africa and his pronouncements seem to have
nothing to do with the science but rather designed to put the fear of God into
Americans and more power in the hand of the ruling Blues; the PC wars to make
the sexes gender neutral in failing in the Latino communities as the term
“Latinix” is the new Woke term pushed by Blue Progressives to the dismay of the
Latino community who despise the use of the name; in Afghanistan where we cut
and run and left Americans and their Afghan allies behind, famine and
starvation are descending upon the land; David Wright, the former CEO of the
L.A. Department of Water and Power has agreed plead guilty to fraud in pushing
through a lucrative $30 million contract with a company he was going to join
shortly after the contract was signed without disclosing his conflict of
interest; the pro felon L.A. D.A. Gascon must have been emboldened as the recall effort
against him failed due to lack of enough signatures as a second recall effort
has be started as 14 thugs arrested in 11 smash and grab crimes have released
to due Gascon’s low or zero bail policies; while Russia moves over 100,000
troops into its border with Ukraine and China is provoking Taiwan by sending fighter
planes and bombers into Taiwan air space, the Biden Administration seems like a deer caught in
headlights frozen to be able to create a proper response in both cases; China
rapidly becoming our number one adversary is trying to open a military base at Equatorial Guinea’s port city of Bata on the
Atlantic Ocean Coast; as Biden’s policies are looking more and more like fatal
disasters, leave it to the political cartoonist to reveal what the Biden Grinch
is stealing from us as Christmas time:
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that
through December 5, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color
shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 4308 persons
shot of whom 755 have died.
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a recording link to “Near You” by Francis Craig and Band
with Bob Lamm, the fact that you do not suffer from sitiomania, and a quote from
The Labor World, January 8, 1908 on the Monongah Mine Disaster, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events
like Thanksgiving or Veterans Day, college graduations, birthdays,
weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you
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1. National
Gazpacho Day—celebrating a cold soup that originated originally in the Andalusian
region of Spain originally consisting of oil, vinegar, onions, garlic and breadcrumbs
with tomatoes and peppers added after Spain’s exploration of the New World and
is the perfect refreshing entrée for a hot day which makes one wonder why the day
is not honored in the summer here unless the creators were living in the
Southern Hemisphere.
2. National Pawn Brokers Day—celebrating those lenders who often step in to
provide needed cash when because of credit history or timing or amounts traditional
lenders will not and a source of potentially cheap deals for shoppers when the
loan is not paid off.
3. 1947 Number 1 Song
USA—the number 1 song in 1947 on this day was “Near You” by Francis Craig and His Orchestra
with Bob Lamm on a run of 12 wees in
that position to join 10 other songs that achieved number 1 status. Here’s a recording
of Francis Craig and His Orchestra with Bob Lamm performing “Near You”: https://www.youtube watch?v=angPhGHb5F4.com/
Craig was a noted Nashville honky tonk piano player with his own
Nashville band and best remembered for this song being the first number one
song out of Nashville as a ”B” Side to Craig’s theme song “Red Rose” and the song “Dynamite” written in 1938 which
became the official fight song of Vanderbilt University. Lamm
was a blind vocalist.
4. Word of
the Day—the word of the day is “sitiomania” which means a morbid
aversion to food which is a characteristic that gourmets and gourmands cannot
relate to.
5. Alcohol May Slow Down the Backswing But Not the Car—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1980 of Danielle Downey, who was the two-time New York
State amateur golf champion, played golf on both the men’s and women’s high
school golf team, had a stellar career at Auburn University and played in the
Futures Tour and LPGA for 6 years combine before retiring to become Director of
Golf at Auburn. Sadly, after a night on the town after dinner and drinking too
much with friends and tired of waiting for her sister to come and pick
her, against advice of friends tried to drive
home and ended up crashing into a tree at a high rate of speed, not wearing a
seat belt with a BAT level of .024 and thrown from her car to died on January
30, 2014 after arriving at a hospital at age 33.
On
this day in:
a. 1907
in Monongah, West Virginia two coal mines
had explosions that resulted in 362 miners dying and only 1 rescued and 4 escaping
to become the worst mining disaster in U.S. history that prompted the creation
by the U.S. of the Bureau of Mines.
b. 1957 in
a disastrous way to enter the space race after the Soviets had successfully launched
Sputnik on October 4, 1957 a Vanguard Satellite was launched from Cape
Canaveral and on national TV exploded after rising 4 feet into the air from the
launch pad.
c. 1969 at the Altamont Speedway in
Livermore, California at a free concert with the Grateful Dead (backed out at
last moment because of violence at the event), Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The
Flying Burrito Brothers, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and The Rolling Stones
as the final act, 18 year old Meredith Hunter who had been punched and thrown
off the stage tried again to climb on while the Rolling Stones were performing but
this time showing a gun in his hand prompting one of the Hells Angels to stab
him twice and kill him.
d. 1992 Babri Masjid, a Muslim mosque in India,
believed by Hindus to have been built on
the birth place of the Hindu deity Rama was destroyed by a Hindu mob which prompted
immediate riots across India resulting
in 2,000 deaths and a further six weeks of riots in Bombay which resulted in
another 900 deaths.
e. 2017 the Trump Administration
formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Reflections
on the impact of the Monongah Coal Mine Disaster from The Labor
World, January 8, 1908: “ In the appeal issued by the Monongah Relief
Committee it is stated that of the 3,000 inhabitants of Monongah the mine
disaster destroyed one-half of the breadwinners. Two hundred and fifty wives,
1,000 children and many unborn children are left without means of support…..Paul
Kellogg Special Representative of the Charities and Special Commons, ‘The
statement of the case made in the appeal is not too strong. Putting the average
wage at $50 a month (which was given me as fair), an income of $20,000 a month
has been cut off from this working population— $240,000 a year. There will not
be so many mouths to feed by one-fourth; but in the face of this loss, the real
significance of where the burden of industrial disaster falls, stands out. And
the character of the town stands out. This is not a community. It is not paying
its way. It uses the well and strong. It is part of the working plant of the
coal industry. Sympathetic and kindly as may be their sufferance for the weeks
following the disaster, these broken families must move away, as surely as the
bodies of the men who supported them had to be removed from the mine offings,
so that the work could go on.’”
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