Ridley’s Believe It Or Not June 23, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues on a slowing down basis the new year with cases now
over 180 million at 180,370,780 cases (179,932,696 yesterday), 11,367,893 of
which are active, 169,002,887 closed with 165,095,295 recoveries (97.69%
and 97.69% yesterday, and 3,907,592 deaths (2.31% and 2.31% 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 34,449,004 (34,434,803
yesterday) with 4,984,406 active cases of which 3,925 (3,916) yesterday and
8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now down to .079% of active cases and now a 9 cases blip
to increase the number of serious or critical cases to decrease the reduction
from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 25,346 29,464,598 closed, with 618,294
deaths (2.10% and 2.11% yesterday) and with 28,846,304 recoveries (97.90% and
97.90% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly improve and
after many months is still .21% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing:
On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 1857 the U.S. ranks behind
Peru (5717) 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 9.38% 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 3.91% of its closed cases
have died (3110), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2612), Brazil
(2370 which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us
and Italy, Belgium (2161), (Italy (2109), Argentina (1995), Poland (1981), and
the UK (1876) which had passed us despite leading world in testing and now has
new deaths barely increasing), and slightly better than Mexico (1780),
Spain (1726), Romania (1707), France (1695), Portugal (1680), Chile
(1647), Sweden (1435) that never closed its economy down like we did,
Bolivia (1381) and Switzerland (1248).
Tests:
We have now conducted 501,368,953 tests (now at 1,506,077/M) compared to number
2 now France at 1,397,701/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 3,000,821/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
1780/M with a fatality rate of 10.48% 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: 18,499 Deaths/M 485
Honduras: Active
Cases: 156,805 Deaths/M 680
El Salvador: Active
cases: 3,535 Deaths/M 360
US Vaccinations: As of 6/22/21 319.2
million doses finally after a decrease from 1.29 million per day to 1.04
million followed by a blip up to 1.05 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 41,639,567 total doses
have been given (85.5% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 84.1%),
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 22nd to
20th tied with Ohio of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of
doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 48.4%
of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 45.3% has moved down from 18th to 22nd 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: In a wheels of
justice move slowly but at least they move, Brian Andrews who had two prior DUI
convictions was arrested on June 30, 2007 for a DUI in which he killed a
husband and wife, was jailed for 2 days, posted bail in the amount of $10,000
and fled to Mexico where he hid out for 14 years before being arrested there
and extradited to Florida where hopefully he will not have bail allowed to
remain in jail until trial; our inept Immigration Czar after 90 days of
avoiding the border like the plague that will interfere with her 25th
goal has finally had the light bulb turned on that the border crisis is no laughing
matter and she cannot chuckle her way out of it and will be visiting the border
at El Paso this week (El Paso is light years away from the crisis in the Del
Rio section and was chosen to do a Acosta like photo op of the Wall showing no
illegals trying to come across); Biden and his politicized side kick Garland
have announced a war on “rogue gun dealers” to complement his war on guns,
seeking to ban “assault rifles” aka any semiautomatic rifle with a magazine and
high capacity magazines, increasing background checks and expanding community
policing (the two evidently are completely dismissing the defund the police
movement, the blatant city councils’ war on police and liberal D.A.’s and
judges who are too quick to put criminals back out on the streets); 39 year old
Brittany Spears is in court trying to prove the her father, her appointed conservatorship
does not know best and wants her life back free of a conservatorship and if the
court does not agree that she be allowed to chose (sad state if affairs); Whitehouse
caught with his hands in the lack of diversity jar over membership in Bailey’s
Beach Club has another jar with his hand caught it, a sailing club also in
Rhode Island (his hypocrisy of lecturing mere mortals is outrageous-- more so
than his membership in a non-diverse club); John McAfee, the founder of cyber
security software McAfee, has been found dead in his Barcelona jail cell, hours
after his extradition to the U.S. was approved by a Spanish court (too early
for cause of death yet); 1.7 million signatures for Newsom’s recall have been
verified so the recall election is now a sure thing; 2 term Blue Rochester
Mayor Lovely Warren has lost in the Blue primary which should come as no
surprise as she had been indicted for campaign finance law violations and married
to a jailed drug trafficker to Blue councilman Malik Evans (sadly this city in
heavily Blue so Rochester will face most likely more or the same Blue ineptness
with a different face; with crime going through the roof in Blue run cities,
leave it to the political cartoonist to reveal the effects of their ideas on how the Blues intend to fight
the rise in crime:
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a recording musical link to “Sleepy Lagoon” by Harry James and His Orchestra, the fact that you live in a neighborhood not subjection to ruction and a quote by Donna Lopiano on male transgenders competing in women’s sports, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Fourth of July, 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. International Widows Day—created by the Loomba Foundation in 2005 to call attention to the poverty and discrimination some 115 million widows of the over 250 million widows today face each and every day, with the additional struggle of supporting children.
2. UN Public Service Day--created by the General Assembly in 2003 to honor the contribution of public servants to society and its economy.
3. 1942 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1942 on this day was “Sleepy Lagoon” by Harry James and his Orchestra to join 8 other songs in the number 1 position. Here is a recording of “Sleepy Lagoon” by Harry James and his Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtSawvkJFzU
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “ruction” which means a disturbance or uproar which we have had to witness all too often in the protests over deaths that turned into riots.
5. Impossible to Body Check Drugs and Alcohol or the Big E--celebrating the birth on this day in 1982 of professional hockey player for the New York Rangers who was known as the “Boogeyman” and “The Mountie” as one of the most feared enforcers in the game and who died from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol from recovering from a concussion on May 13, 2011 at the age of 28. An autopsy showed stages of traumatic encephalopathy from prior brain concussion like collisions.
b. 1969 IBM announced that it would effective January 1970 price its hardware separately from its software giving a great push to the creation of the software industry.
c. 1972 Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended to prevent sexual discrimination by any institution receiving federal funds which resulting in
an explosion of women and girls entering sports, whose progress has been put in peril over the idiocy of biologic males competing in sporting competition for biologic females. d. 2016 the United Kingdom in a referendum voted 52% to 48% to leave the European Union.
e. 2018 12 young male soccer players and their coach were trapped in an underground cave which flooded due to tropical storms that flooded the area that spawned an 18 day rescue attempt that attracted worldwide attention and prayers and cost the life of one diver engaged in the rescue attempt before all 12 players and coach were rescued. Reflections on Title IX and the danger from Transgender males competing as females: I’m not saying transgender girls are going to take over women’s sports. I’m saying that the law protects girls and women, and they shouldn’t have to compete against someone who has an immutable testosterone-based advantage.” Donna Lopiano, Title IX advocate
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