Ridley’s Believe It Or Not May
27, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic
across the planet continues on a slowing down basis the new year
with cases now over 169 million at 169,404,850 cases (168,869,102
yesterday), 14,741,377 of which are active, 154,663,473 closed with 151,144,574
recoveries (97.72% and 97.72% yesterday, and 3,518,899 deaths (2.28% and 2.28%
yesterday) to continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased
recovery percentages and decreased death percentage with some plateaus, dips,
and rises.
CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 33 million at 33,976,833 (33,950,633
yesterday) with 5,707,223 active cases of which 6,729 (6,841) yesterday and
8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now down to .12% of active cases and now another blip down
to decrease the number of serious or critical cases to increase the reduction
from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 22,542), 28,269,610 closed, with 606,312 deaths
(2.14% and 2.15% yesterday) and with 27,663,298 recoveries (97.86% and 97.85%
yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly improve and after
many months is now .14% lower than the world rate.
Standing: On a deaths per million
population measurement on a steady but slowing climb to 1822 the U.S. ranks
behind Hungary the new number 1 which has had a huge continuing surge in deaths
with the increase barely slowing down and improving slightly to 4.17% of its closed cases have died (3077),
aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2553), Belgium (2139), Brazil (2125) which has been hit with a rapid
rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy (Italy (2083), Peru (2056),
Poland (1942) and the UK (1873) which had passed us despite leading world in
testing and now has new deaths barely increasing), and slightly better
than Spain (1708), Mexico (1708), Portugal (1674), France (1667), Argentina (1659),
Romania (1576), Chile (1496), Sweden (1419) that never closed its
economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise
in deaths, Switzerland (1239),
and Bolivia (1204).
Tests: We have now conducted 476,292,193
tests (now at 1,431,385/M) compared to number 2 now France at 1,275,749/M) as
we are conducting more tests in number and 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 2,644,284/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 moved up to 11th on my list
of deaths from the pandemic tied with Spain at 1708/M 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: Activecases: 12,219 442Deaths/M
Honduras: Activecases: 144,677 622Deaths/M
El
Salvador: Active cases: 2,570 343
Deaths/M
US Vaccinations: As of 5/27/21
290.7 million doses at 1.62 million per day down from yesterday’s 1.70 million on
per day in the last week sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it
will take us now back to some 4 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated
which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 37,669,020
total doses have been given (80.6% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average
of 80.5%), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall
which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has not moved from 24th out of the 50 states in terms
of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to
the states and at 42.2% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S.
average of 40.0% has not moved from 20th
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: Witless Whitmer may be joining Andrew Cuomo’s concealing COVID-19 deaths at long term care facilities
as lawyers representing the journalist who sued under FOIA to obtain nursing
home deaths statistics are claiming she may have undercounted such deaths by
100%; murders and crimes are soaring as the Defund the Police Movement is going
pedal to the metal to cut and slash police budgets across the nation, prompting
in the case of Minneapolis to seek federal and state help; in an appropriate
application of karma, Antonio Brown, an Atlanta city council member who voted
to slash $73 million from the budget of the Atlanta Police Department, has been
indicted for trying to defraud financial institutions and is running for mayor
on a platform of defunding the police, misleadingly sugar coated as “reimaging
the police” had his car stolen in broad daylight by 4 teenagers (hate to say it
but could not happened to more misguided politician); in a perhaps too little
too late moment as China has had almost a year and a half to destroy any
evidence of its complicity and with “whistleblowers” in China silent as they to
know whistleblowing is a death sentence, the Biden Administration is launching
a probe of the origin of the virus, forced to do so as China has refused to
cooperate with WHO’s investigation (ironic that prior to this announcement, the
Biden Administration quietly shut down a similar probe by the State Department
(Biden’s biggest fear should be that the 90 day probe determines Chinese
complicity and he will be forced to impose sanctions on China which most likely
he does not have the spine to do so); add YouTube to the heavy hand of censorship
as it blocked a video of a mom excoriating the Atlanta School Board for its
mask mandate for children because of “medical misinformation” that the virus
does not affect children (Georgia needs to ape Florida but expand Florida’s ban
of social media’s banning of candidates to include all speech involving issues
being ruled on by public bodies); Where’s Waldo is set to display her ignorance
of economic facts and reality by claiming the root cause of the border crisis
is the lack of economic opportunity and will propose $4 billion in investment
in the Northern Triangle (an amount that is dwarfed by remittances from illegal
immigrants here from there and would take years to see any tangible
improvements while today we are being overrun by illegals attracted by the
thought that if they get here nothing but freebies and they won’t be deported);
Mayor Lightfoot of Chicago who has announced she will only grant interviews to
journalists of color has by sued by the Daily Caller in Federal District
Court for discrimination (as shootings of victims of color by shooters of color
continue at record rates, she remains clueless and without any ideas on how to
address the problem—which by being ignored sounds like a truer definition of
racism); in a win one for the 2nd Amendment, Ira Cox-Berry tried to kidnap
an 11 year old girl from an Ogden elementary school and was stopped by a school
employee with a concealed gun permit who held the man until police arrived and
arrested him; Nevada has committed to undermining open and fair elections by
allowing ballot harvesting of mail in ballots and allowing for straight ticket voting.
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is back to show that through May 26, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 1400 persons shot of whom 246 have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a video musical link to “Hollaback Girl” by Gwen Stefani, the fact that you are not plagued with rhinotillexomania and a quote from Japanese Admiral Togo Heichachiro to the wounded and captured Russian Admiral in command of the defeated Russian Baltic Sea Fleet on paper airplanes, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Father’s 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 the pricing.
1.National Gray Day—created
by Monica Leingang on May 9, 2013, the anniversary of her husband Gary’s
birthday to promote awareness of and raise funds for brain cancer that had
killed him in 2010 and who before he died asked her to “make something good”
out of his impending death; the group Voices Against Brain Cancer supported her
efforts and the date for observance was changed in 2015 to today. No one how powerful
they are is immune to this terrible disease as the deaths of Ted Kennedy and
John McCain aptly illustrate.
2. Red Nose Day—created
by Richard Curtis, one of Great Britain’s more successful scriptwriters, not to honor the
profession of being a clown but to raise money to end childhood poverty with
funds going to programs that keep children safe, healthy, educated and
empowered so if you see someone wearing a red nose today chances are that
person is not going to a birthday party as entertainment but rather who
supports the efforts of Save the Children during Red Nose Day.
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “rhinotillexomania” which means the compulsive nose picking habit which in social settings most people frown on.
5. Not Safe As a Safety--celebrating the birth on this day in 1988 of Tyler Sash who played safety for the University of Iowa and left his senior year to play 2 years for the New York Giants but was cut in August 2013 and was found dead at his home on September 8, 2015 from an overdose of drugs. His family released the results of tests performed after his death that revealed like too many football players, he was suffering from Stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy which is caused by too many collisions to the head.
On this day in
a. 2005 the Battle of Tsushima, the first and last sea battle between modern steel battleships, commenced on this day and ended of the 28th with a decisive defeat by the Japanese of the Russian Baltic Sea Fleet of 45 vessels which had travelled some 13,000 miles from Russia to meet its almost complete doom with only 10 Russian ships escaping.
b. 1933 in response to the crash of the stock market and the beginning of The Great Depression, the Securities Act of 1933 was signed into law regulating the sale of securities and requiring their registration initially with the Federal Trade Commission.
c. 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge linking San Francisco with Marin County was opened to pedestrian traffic.
d. 1962 a fire started in a coal seam some 300 feet below the surface in Centralia, Pennsylvania, then a town of some 1500 people, and despite all efforts to extinguish it continues to burn today as the town has been almost completely abandoned and the structures in it razed.
e. 2016 President Barack Obama became the first U.S. President to visit in Hiroshima the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and meet with the Hibakusha, Japanese affected by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Reflections on the Battle of Tsushima: “Defeat is a common fate of a soldier and there is nothing to be ashamed of in it. The great point is whether we have performed our duty . . .. For you, especially, who fearlessly performed your great task until you were seriously wounded, I beg to express my sincerest respect . . .” Admiral Togo Heichachiro, commander of the Japanese Fleet that defeated the Russian Baltic Sea Fleet speaking to its commander Admiral Zinovy P. Rozhdestvenski who was wounded and captured by the Japanese.
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