Ridley’s Believe It Or Not September 22, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an
increasing basis with cases now over 230 million at 230,672,312
cases, 18,553,393 of which are active, 212,118,919 closed with
207,390,331 recoveries (97.77%), and 4,728,558 deaths (2.23% )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 43 million at 43,309,557 with 9,737,090 active cases of
which 23,740 are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to slight
decreases despite the Delta variant to .244 % of active cases and to
increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 5,531, 33,572,467
closures with 698,331 deaths (2.08%) and with 32,874,136 recoveries (97.92%).
Our death rate percentage is still .15% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to
2095 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (59365) 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 (3130), aping
Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2938), Brazil
(2759) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us
and Italy, Argentina (2507), Columbia newly added to the
list (2444), Belgium (2191), Italy (2162), and Mexico
(2087) and slightly better than Poland (1998), UK (1985), Chile (1935),
Romania (1879), Spain (1840), Ecuador newly added to list (1818),
France (1777), Portugal (1765), Bolivia (1573), Sweden
(1451) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland
(1264). 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 626,080,957 tests (1,878,015/M) just passed by France at
2,117,224 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 4,316,775/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 2079/M
with a fatality rate of 8.49% 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: 34,480 Deaths/M 716
Honduras: Active
Cases: 241,665 Deaths/M 945
El
Salvador: Active cases: 13,905 Deaths/M 481
US Vaccinations: As of
9/21/2021 386.8 million doses, .764 million per day (down to 4 months for
75% of population vaccinated) and in California 84,684 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 49,800,281 total doses have been
given (86.1% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 82.9%), but
due to the pressure of a recall vote for which ends today, California has
not moved from 10th of the 50 states in terms of the
percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states and at 58.1% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S.
average of 54.8% and has not moved from 15th 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: in a
large dense wildlife refuge where Laundrie abandoned his Mustang, Florida
authorities are using dogs and divers to search for him or a body of him; polls
on our cognitive disaster president have his approval rating below water and
lower than Obama and Bush but still higher than Trump; Biased and Clueless
Behar had the inanity to claim the real victim was not Lewinsky but Hillary
Clinton who could have become president (I guess the millions in speaking fees
and book deals plus even massive more millions for the Clinton Foundation have
not allayed her victimhood); Psaki was pressed on her propaganda briefing if
Biden has ever been to the Southern border or will go as she spun the narrative
of the CBP agents who were using their horses to block illegals from entering
the U.S. not whipping them as MSM biased stooges have falsely claimed; DHS
Secretary Mayorkas who went on TV to intone that if Haitian refugees arrived by
boat they would return is eating crow as the DHS has had to admit that the wave
of Haitians that arrived at the Texas border are be transported into the
interior with “promises to appear” (don’t hold your breath
Mayorkas); the Massachusetts State Police Union has sued the state over the
vaccine mandates of police officers; Ana Navarro of The View has
asserted that Blues of today would have voted to convict Bill Clinton after his
impeachment (doubtful after Hillary and her minions have continued to denigrate
and blast Monica Lewinsky); kiss the idea of one nation one flag goodbye as the
CRT infected school board for Essex Westford voted to keep the BLM flag
flying at the school’s flagpole; Biden remains hell bent on shoving vaccines
down the throats of the military as it came out to oppose preventing the
issuance of a dishonorable discharge for service personnel who refuse to be
vaccinated and opposed any exemptions for religious reasons or the fact that
the service person has had and recovered from COVID-19; the Iron Curtain of
PC and Woke is crashing down at Penn as the school informed students there
would be consequences if they did not use the pronounced requested by any
student identified with a pronoun; Di Blasio’s public school teachers vaccine
mandate has been approved by a state court; 2 Afghan refugees housed at
Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy have been indicted for sexual abuse one involving a
minor ( for our safety’s sake one can only pray that this is only a rare
isolated incidence, not a common occurrence due to cultural differences;
McDonald’s is trying to make the Earth a Happy Place as it announced that in
2025 its Happy Meals toys will be plastic free; the markets were up today as
the Fed announced it likely would begin tapering by the end of this year and
that rate hikes could be expected in 2022; with
outrage growing over pending vaccine mandates leave it to the political
cartoonist to graphically create the symbolism of the origin of the idea:
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for
this day in history, a music recording link to “Someone
Like You” by Adele, the fact that your children or you have never had
serpigo and quotes from British Captain Frederick MacKensie and British
Captain John Montresor recorded in American Captain William Hull’s journal, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like
Halloween or Veterans Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings,
or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a
unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the
recipient. Please contact me for details on pricing. 1. National Business
Women’s Day—created by the American Business Women’s Association (ABWA) and
first celebrated in 1982 on the anniversary of the founding of the ABWA on this
day in 1949 to promoted recognition and appreciation of the 1000’s of
businesses across the land that are owned by women.
2. National Online
Recovery Day—created by Lion Rock on July 15, 2020 and first celebrated on
this day in 2020 to promote telehealth services as a means of fighting alcohol
and drug abuse.
3. 2010 Number 1
Song USA—the number 1 song in 2010 on this day was “Someone Like You” by
Adele on a run in that position of 1 week to join 13 other songs
that achieved number 1 status and join 8 other acts that achieved
their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a music video
of “Someone Like You” by Adele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQl3WQQoQ0 Adele, a
British mezzo-soprano singer songwriter has been performing since 2006 and has
sold over 120 million records while gaining 15 Grammy awards and on a roll at
age 33.
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day
is “serpigo” which means ringworm which is a parent’s worst nightmare for kids
in elementary or preschool.
5. Fair and Balanced at Fox-- celebrating
the birth on this day in 1958 of Neil Cavuto who before joining Fox was a
journalist for the Public Broadcasting Service and now hosts on the Fox
Business Channel Your World with Neil Cavuto. Neil has been a frequent
critic of President Trump.
On this
day in:
a. 1776 21 year old Captain
Nathan Hale having been captured as a spy for the Americans was hanged by the
British.
b. 1823 Joseph Smith the founder of the
Mormon religion claimed to have found the Golden Plates that God had told him
had been buried by the Angel Moroni and were translated by him to create the Book
of Mormon.
c. 1948 Gail
Halverson a pilot during the Berlin Airlift started parachuting candy to Berlin
children on the flight path to the airport where the Berlin Airlift planes were
landing.
d. 1975 17 days after
Lynne “Squeaky” Fromme had tried and failed to assassinate President Ford,
Sarah Jane Moore who had been evaluated by the Secret Service as not being a
threat and had been stopped a day earlier for having an illegal 44 Magnum and
120 bullets which were confiscated but she was released, from a distance of 40
feet shot with an unfamiliar pistol and missed Ford and as she was raising her
arm to shoot again was tackled by a gay former decorated Vietnam War and
disabled Marine Oliver Sipple who grabbed her arm probably saving Ford’s
life. She was arrested, pled guilty, was sentenced to life in prison and after
serving 32 years was paroled at age 77 and is still alive today at age 91.
e. 1993 a river barge struck a
railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama and 8 minutes later Amtrak’s Sunset
Limited crossing the bridge derailed into the river, killing 47 people and
injuring over 100 in Amtrak’s deadliest accident:
Reflections on the execution of Nathan Hale: “He behaved with great composure and resolution, saying
he thought it the duty of every good Officer, to obey any orders given him by
his Commander-in-Chief; and desired the Spectators to be at all times prepared
to meet death in whatever shape it might appear.” Frederick MacKensie, a
British Officer’s Diary. “On the morning of his execution, my station was
near the fatal spot, and I requested the Provost Marshal [William
Cunningham] to permit the prisoner to sit in my marquee while he was making the
necessary preparations. Captain Hale entered: he was calm, and bore himself
with gentle dignity, in the consciousness of rectitude and high intentions. He
asked for writing materials, which I furnished him: he wrote two letters, one
to his mother and one to a brother officer. He was shortly after summoned to
the gallows. But a few persons were around him, yet his characteristic
dying words were remembered. He said, 'I only regret, that I have but one life
to lose for my country.” From the journal of American Captain William Hull who
met British Captain John Montresor who was present at the hanging (do not
be surprised if the Cancel Culture Movement does not try to excise Hale’s last
words from the history taught to our children. Please enjoy the poems on
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