Ridley’s Believe It Or Not June 20, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues on a slowing down basis the new year with cases now
over 179 million at 178,127,503 cases (178,939,856 yesterday), 11,572,986 of
which are active, 167,554,517 closed with 163,675,595 recoveries (97.68%
and 97.68% yesterday, and 3,879,122 deaths (2.32% and 2.32% 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 34 million at 34,402,047 (34,401,712
yesterday) with 5,089,786 active cases of which 3,989 (4,253) yesterday and
8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now down to .078% of active cases and now a significant
reduction to decrease the number of serious or critical cases to increase the
reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 25,282, 29,311,926 closed, with
617,083 deaths (2.11% and 2.11% yesterday) and with 28,694,843 recoveries (97.89%
and 97.89% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly improve
and after many months is
now .21% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a
steady but slow climb to 1854 the U.S.
ranks behind Peru (5684) 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 9.39% 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 3.92%
of its closed cases have died (3108), aping Hungary in terms of increase in
deaths Bulgaria 2608), Brazil (2340) which has been hit with a
rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Belgium (2159), (Italy
(2108), Poland (1979) and the UK (1876) which had passed us despite leading
world in testing and now has new deaths barely increasing), and Argentina
(1946), and slightly better than Mexico (1773), Spain (1724), France
(1693), Romania (1690), Portugal (1678), Chile (1629), Sweden
(1431) that never closed its economy down like we did, Bolivia (1354) and
Switzerland (1247).
Tests: We have now conducted 498,689,211 tests (now at
1,498,123/M) compared to number 2 now France at 1,383,023/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 2,931,615/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 been passed by Argentina to move down to 11th on
my list of deaths from the pandemic at
1772/M with a fatality rate of 10.500% 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: 18,307 Deaths/M 474
Honduras: Active
Cases: 153,750 Deaths/M 671
El Salvador: Active
cases: 3,308 Deaths/M 357
US
Vaccinations: As of 6/19/21 317.1 million doses finally after increasing
slightly for several days to decrease from 1.36 million per day to 1.29 million
which means if the rate does not increase it will take us still some 4 months
to miss Biden’s goal of having 75% of the population vaccinated by the 4th
of July which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California
41,346,145 total doses have been given (85.1% of doses received to exceed the
U.S. average of 83.7%), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled
this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has finally moved up from 24th to 22nd of the 50 states in terms
of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to
the states and at 47.9% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S.
average of 44.9% has not moved from 18th 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: If you were hoping
for some sanctions top deter China from replicating its behavior on a new virus
don’t hold your breath as all we got out of Biden at the G-7 is a threat that
China faces isolation from the world community if it does not cooperate with WHO
on the origins of the virus (if President Xi is shaking it is not from fear but
laughter); the 2024 Presidential Race is a long way off but a straw vote at the
Western Conservative Conference showed Ron DeSantis leading Trump as a favored
candidate for the Red nomination with a 74% approval rate compared to Trump’s
71%; even though Justice Barret voted in the 7-2 majority that 18 states trying
to repeal Obamacare lacked standing to sue, Sanders is still ranting against
her that she wants to take away healthcare from millions of Americans; gay
Mayor Dean Trantalis of Fort Lauderdale is being rightfully trashed for
attacking the truck driver who drove into a Pride Day Parade as a terrorist
attack against the LBGT community before it was revealed that the driver is a
member of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Choir; BLM which seems Marxist and
seems to believe that only blacks shot by police matter is now facing a new
counter organization Every Black Life Matters to promote the obvious that all black
lives matter and to focus on issues other than police shootings like school choice and charter schools to save
black children from the failing public school system; Adam Schiff who pushed the
false Russian collusion delusion 24/7 against Trump and was infiltrated by a
Chinese female spy Fang Fang, is now finding hawk feathers to demand that the U.S.
go on the cyber offensive to deter cyberhacking; Don Lemon is on another full
time rant claiming whites cannot see blacks as fully human (if a human trait is
that we have the ability to move beyond instinct and be objective which he
lacks maybe as to him he has something); the looters arrested in NYC in 2020
protesting Floyd’s death should be on their knees thanking Trump as NYC D.A.’s
are dropping charges and not prosecution to focus on investigating the Trump
Organization; WAPO once again shows its leftist rag colors in promoting to
Karen Attiah, a black, to opinion columnist despite her tweet that blacks were
only calling white women Karens and not seeking revenge (such unmitigated
divisive hate!); Glenn Loury, the first black tenured professor at Harvard University
has blasted the idea of reparations for blacks being disastrous to America; on
the NYC Mayoral Election front, refreshing to see the likes of Al Sharpton blast
Maya Wiley for her lack of diversity efforts and others expose her hypocrisy of
sending her kids to private school and living in a neighborhood with private
security force while supporting “Defund the Police” (she’s making a six figure salary as an activist
soaking “white guilt” for all its worth); as Biden was slammed for his list of
hacking targets to get sanctions, leave it to the political cartoonist to portray
the danger of hacking of items that didn’t make the list and making Obama like
redlines in the sand the crossing of which Putin probably cannot resist:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to
collect data to show that through June 19, 2,021, gun
violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in
Chicago is alive and well with 1772 persons shot of whom 303 have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a recording musical link to “Wishing (Will Make It Easy)” by Glenn
Miller and His Orchestra with vocals by Roy Eberle, the fact that when you look rubedinous and a poem by Langston Hughes on the Detroit Race
Riot on 1943, secure in the knowledge that if you want to
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1. Summer Solstice—started
at 8:32 p.m. PDT today as the official beginning of summer and the beginning of
the longest day in the year.
2. Father’s Day—celebrated on the third
Sunday in June and created by Sonora Smart Dodd at the YMCA in Spokane,
Washington in June 19, 1910 to honor her father William Smart, a Civil War
Veteran who raised 6 children as a single parent.
3. 1939 Number
1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1939 on this day was “Wishing (Will Make It Easy)” by Glenn
Miller and His Orchestra on a run of 4 weeks in that position. Here is a
recording by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra with vocals by Roy Eberle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXTYhRjMbaU
4. Word of the Day—the word
of the day is “rubedinous” which means ruddy or healthy red complexion.
5. Keeping It in the House--celebrating the birth on this day in 1942 of Brian Wilson,
founder of the Beach Boys and the first pop artist to write, arrange, produce
and perform his own material and best known for his creation of the “California
Sound”. At 79 he still “Gets Around” and is performing.
b. 1963 following the successful end of the Cuban Missile Crisis that brought the world closer to a nuclear war than ever, the Soviet Union and the United States reached an agreement to install the red hotline between Moscow and Washington, D.C. to defuse future potential armed conflicts.
c. 1975 to the terror of those who like to swim after the Sun when down in the ocean, the movie Jaws was released, starting the tradition of movie studios releasing the summer blockbusters.
d. 1982 the International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide opened in Tel Aviv despite Turkey’s attempt to prevent it since it included discussion of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey.
e. 2003 the Wikimedia Foundation was founded in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales.
Reflections on the Detroit Race of 1943 raised by a poet: ““Looky here, America / What you done done / Let things drift / Until the riots come […] You tell me that hitler / Is a mighty bad man / I guess he took lessons from the ku klux klan […] I ask you this question / Cause I want to know / How long I got to fight / BOTH HITLER — AND JIM CROW.” Langston Hughes “Beaumont to Detroit 1943"
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