Ridley’s Believe It Or Not June 21, 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: SCOTUS ruled 9-0
that the NCAA violated anti-trust rules by limiting the amount of aid schools could pay to student athletes for musical instruments, scientific equipment, postgraduate
scholarships, tutoring, academic awards and paid internships but left in place
rules prohibiting the payment of salaries for playing or gifts of money and
property to choose a college; Chelsea Wolfe, a biologic male who identifies as
a transwoman, has won an alternate spot on the US BMX biking team in the Tokyo
Olympics and has stated her goal to win a medal so she can burn the American
flag while standing on the tri-level podium (1968 Olympics Black Power salute déjà
vu for which if she does like then she should be immediately expelled from the
Olympic Village and sent home and another example of the unfair advantage
leading to the end of women’s gains under Title IX); a waitress at Nifty
Fifties in Washington Township, New Jersey ran after 5 patrons who left without
paying a $70 check and was abducted, assaulted and then thrown out of the car
(lucky she wasn’t killed and should have taken down license plate but maybe
restaurant is allowed to dock her pay if
patrons flee without paying); in 1865 Juneteenth was a cause to celebrate the
freeing of the slaves in Texas but in 2021 it was a scene of celebrations
sullied by shootings in 7 locations across the nation with 8 killed and dozens
wounded; VP Harris who has shown herself to be totally incompetent on the
border crisis, and seems incompetent on pushing
through “voting rights”, now has a new task to reaffirm her incompetence—Biden’s
expanded child care tax credit; the idea that someone would pay $500,000 to
Hunter Biden who has no artistic talent for a painting other than for the
promise of quid pro quo with his father defies any sense of reality; with this
nation beset with more problems than it can shake a stick at leave it to the political
cartoonist to show a frail Biden being given the issue that he should inanely focus on: 
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 1781 persons shot of whom 309 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 “The Woodpecker Song” by Glenn Miller
and His Orchestra with vocals by Marion Hutton, the fact that when your house is free of
rubigo and a quote by Aadil Palkhivala on the nature of yoga, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
memorable events like Fourth of July, college graduations, birthdays, weddings,
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1. International
Day of Yoga—created by the General Assembly after a
suggestion by India’s Prime Minister Modi’s address to the UN in 2014 and first
celebrated on this day in 2015 to promote the benefits of yoga toward one’s
health and tranquility.
2.
World Hydrographic Day—created in 2005 by the International Hydrographic Organization and
adopted by the General Assembly to give proper publicity for its work and to
promote the global dissemination of hydrographic information.
3. 1940 Number
1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1940 on this day was “The
Woodpecker Song” by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra on a run of 7 weeks in that
position. Here is a recording by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra with vocals by Marion
Hutton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6GA4leN60w
Marion was Betty Hutton’s sister and sang for Glenn Miller from 1938 to 1942
and died of cancer, most likely lung as she advertised for Chesterfield, at the
age of 67 on January 10, 1987.
4. Word of the Day—the word
of the day is “rubigo” which means mildew which is something to not let go unchecked
in your house.
5. Smart But Not Smart Enough--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1921 of Judy Holliday, a noted actress who was reputed
to have an IQ of 172 but not smart enough to avoid becoming addicted to
nicotine and was a heavy smoke who died way too early in her career from throat
cancer on June 7, 1965, at age 43.
b. 1940 in what was termed a “stab in the back” Italy in a preview of its ineptness in modern warfare invaded France only to be stalled by a depleted French Army after an advance of a few kilometers.
c. 1982 John Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.
d. 1989 SCOTUS ruled in the case of Texas v. Johnson that burning of the American flag was a form of expression protected by the First Amendment.
e. 2005 Edgar Killen, whose trial in 1966 years ago for the murder of James Cheney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner ended in a hung jury with the jury voting 11-1 for conviction with the prosecution refusing to retry, was convicted of manslaughter of those 3 and sentenced to 60 years to die in prison on January 11, 2018, 6 days before his 93rd birthday.
Reflections on the art and practice of yoga: “True yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been; yoga cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied.”– Aadil Palkhivala, one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world
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