Ridley’s Believe It Or Not June 27, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues on a slowing down basis the new year with cases now
over 181 million at 181,756,397 cases (181,524,727 yesterday), 11,563,527 of
which are active, 170,192,870 closed with 166,256,238 recoveries (97.69%
and 97.69% yesterday), and 3,936,632 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 34,490,328 (34,488,248 yesterday) with 4,957,926 active cases of which 3,833
(3,856) yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now down to .077% of active cases
and now back to 23 serious or critical cases decrease to increase the reduction
from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 25,438), 29,532,402 closed, with 619,358
deaths (2.10% and 2.10% yesterday) and with 28,913,044 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 1860 the U.S. ranks behind
Peru (5732) 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 (3111), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2614), Brazil
(2396) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us
and Italy, Belgium (2162), Italy (2111), Argentina (2024), Poland (1983), and
the UK (1877) which had passed us despite leading world in testing and now has
new deaths barely increasing), and slightly better than Mexico (1785),
Romania (1740), Spain (1727), France (1696), Portugal (1680), Chile
(1675), Sweden (1435) that never closed its economy down like we did,
Bolivia (1399) and Switzerland (1248).
Tests:
We have now conducted 503,469,781 tests (now at 1,512,316/M) compared to number
2 now France at 1,414,448/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 3,035,948/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 1785/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:
20,374 Deaths/M 496
Honduras: Active Cases: 160,403 Deaths/M
688
El Salvador: Active Cases: 3,514
Deaths/M 363
US Vaccinations: As of
6/27/21 323.3 million doses with after 4 days of decreasing doses finally
increasing from .748 million per day to .803 million per day which means if the
rate does not increase it will take now take us
some 6 months to miss Biden’s goal of having 75% of the population
vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity ( other
than Flip Flop Fauci who is suggesting 90%). In California 42,312,077 total
doses have been given (86.3% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 84.8%),
but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which
hopefully end Newsom’s term, California remains alone in 21st of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of
doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 49.4%
of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 46.1% has moved down 18th to 23rd 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 Miami the 9th
body has been recovered with 156 still missing and if in the ruble rapidly
running out of survival time as concerns rising the e North Tower may be in
danger of aping the South Tower (as a precautionary move Miami has ordered a
safety audit of all resident structures higher that 5 stories and the Army
Corps of Engineers is examining the North Tower); not as bad as the Black Power
Salute in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics but close as Gwen Berry, a black female
athlete who won the Bronze Medal in the hammer throw at the Olympic Trials
turned her back on the flag while on the podium and covered her head with a “Activist
Athlete” T-shirt; 30 miles out from the finish line of Stage 1 of the Tours de
France, a female spectator holding a large cardboard sign caused a massive
crash of riders, seriously injuring several riders, and fled from the scene as
French police are now looking for her ( the event has to be one of the few
where spectators are not kept back and pose a safety hazard to themselves and
the riders); Biden must not remember what he believes in as after turning
thumbs down to the dismay of senators who were working tirelessly to craft an
infrastructure bill the compromise if it did not include his massive social
spending, he reversed and said he would sign it (another sign of growing
dementia?); never underestimate the ability of the Cancel Culture Wokes to find
systematic racism in every nook and cranny of our society with the National
Archives Commission reporting that the Rotunda in the Capitol which displays our
founding documents is structurally racist as the Founding Fathers are portrayed
too positively (when will “racism” be so commonly found in the left’s warped
minds that no one pays any attention to their racist rants); the Texas Supreme
Court dismissed law suits filed by the estates of the survivors of those gunned
down in 2017 at the Sutherland Church because the gun shop followed the law and
conducted a background check which did not reveal that the shooter while in the
Air Force had been court martialed for assault on his wife and child (law suits
against the Air Force for its negligence in failing to report are still ongoing);
as murders and shootings in our large cities are skyrocketing a news item that
will shake your faith in the criminal justice system as Ira Grayson after being
released on “supervised probation” awaiting a hearing on whether he should be
returned to prison, shot and killed a father in front of his kids on Father’s
Day and is now in jail without bail for murder, illegal drugs and illegal
firearm possession:
After De Blasio was seen promoting tourism in
NYC, a tourist walking with his family in broad daylight in Times Square was
shot by 2 Hispanic males that remain at large; the developers that built the
Champlain Towers are being accused of shady practices in its construction and
operation but the principals involve are long since dead; in addition to the
expanding controversy over teaching CRT schools, in Minneapolis a controversy
has arisen over the Lakewood School District reversing its ban of political signs
in classrooms and was excoriated by Novalee, a 9 year old, for not removing a
Black Lives Matter sign from her classroom which supposedly members of the
School Board Created; leave it to the political cartoonist to portray the heavy
hand of the government in quashing dissent on this issue: 
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data
to show that through June 26, 2,021, gun violence involving
mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive
and well with 1872 persons shot of whom 320 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 Gypsy” by The Ink Spots, the
fact that you are rarely rumbustious in your behavior and a quote by Danielle
Bernock on PTSD, secure in the knowledge that if you want to
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1. National PTSD Day--created
by the U.S. Senate in 2010 to promote awareness of post traumatic stress
disorder which is not confined only to those experiencing combat in the military
but affects a large percentage of the general public with women twice as likely
as men to be affected.
2. Helen Keller Day—created
by the mayor of Newark, New Jersey Leo P. Carlin on March 23, 1960 and
celebrated on her birthday to honor the accomplishments of Helen Keller to
overcome her challenges of being deaf and blind and becoming the first deafblind
person to achieve a bachelor of arts degree enroute to becoming an author,
lecturer and activist.
3. 1946 Number
1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1946 on this day on a run
of 10 weeks not continuous in the position was “The Gypsy” by the Ink Spots to
join 14 other songs in the number 1 position. Here is a recording of “The Gypsy”
by The Ink Spots:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG6g5CkyWAo
4. Word of the Day—the word
of the day is “rumbustious” which means boisterous which describes behavior
often found in bars and taverns after too many libations. 5. All Ears--celebrating the birth on this day in 1930 of Ross Perot, a Texas businessman who founded Electronic Data Systems and made millions from its
sale and as a 3rd Party candidate received almost 20% of the vote in
the election where he ran against George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and
probably resulted in Clinton becoming president. After saying in the campaign
he would be here for a long time he passed at age 89 on July 9, 2019.
b. 1950 the United States decided to send troops to Korea to stop the invasion by North Korea of South Korea.
c. 1974 President Richard Nixon visited the Soviet Union.
d. 1994 members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult in a warmup to the sarin nerve gas attack in the Tokyo Subway 9 months later released Sarin nerve gas in Matsumoto, Japan, killing 8 and injuring over 500.
e. 2007 Tony Blair after serving as the British Prime Minister for 10 years resigned. Reflections on the PTSD: “Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.”―Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain,And the LOVE that Heals
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