Ridley’s Believe It Or Not June 9, 2021
CV World
Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on a slowing down basis
the new year with cases now over 174 million at 174,929,866 cases (174,593,253
yesterday), 12,722,447 of which are active, 162,207,429 closed with 158,436,474
recoveries (97.68% and 97.68% yesterday, and 3,770,945 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 34,243,640 (34,234,857 yesterday) with 5,409,252 active cases of
which 5,124 (5,162) yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now down to .095% 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
24,147, 28,834,388 closed, with 613,116 deaths (2.13% and 2.13% yesterday) and
with 28,221,272 recoveries (97.87% and 97.87% yesterday). Our death rate
percentage continues to slowly improve and after many months is
now .19% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a
steady but slowing climb to 1842 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5603 the new
number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which may
be a change in the method of reporting; Hungary the new number 2 has had a huge
continuing surge in deaths with the increase now slowing down and improving
slightly to 3.99% of its closed cases have died (3101), aping
Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria 2589), Brazil
(2231) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us
and Italy, Belgium (2153), (Italy (2100), Poland (1967) and the UK (1874) which
had passed us despite leading world in testing and now has new deaths barely
increasing), and slightly better than Argentina (1814), Mexico (1760),
Spain (1717), France (1684), Portugal (1675), Romania (1642),
Chile (1564), Sweden (1428) that never closed its economy down like
we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in deaths, Bolivia
(1276) and Switzerland (1245).
Tests: We have now conducted 490,343,647 tests (now at
1,473,309/M) compared to number 2 now France at 1,338,871/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 2,788,480/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 down to 11th on my list of deaths from the pandemic
having been passed by Argentina at 1758/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: Active
Cases: 14,544 Deaths/M 457
Honduras: Active
Cases: 149,846 Deaths/M 647
El Salvador:
Active cases: 2,837 Deaths/M 350
US Vaccinations: As of 6/8/21
303.9 million doses finally after decreasing for several days falling to below
1 million to increase to 1.07 million per day which means if the rate does not
increase it will take us now down to some 5 months to have 75% of the
population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity.
In California 39,633,257 total doses have been given (82.5% of doses received
to exceed the U.S. average of 81.7%), but even with the pressure of a recall to
be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California
has not moved down from 25th to 26th out of the 50
states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of
doses delivered to the states and at 45.1% of its population fully vaccinated
compared to the U.S. average of 42.3% has moved down from 18th to 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: Our MIA immigration czar Harris has admitted that she did not raise the
issue of a major root cause for surge with Mexico’s President—the country’s
refusal to allow families with young children back into the country from the
U.S. (was she not briefed on this obvious root cause or forgot?); with all the
Fauci flip flops and revealed emails on Wuhan Lab, his attack on the Reds as an
attack on science looks like his expiration date as an objective CV scientist
has expired; Chuck Todd instead acting like a journalist and probing for the
truth apes an ostrich and jumps to Fauci’s defense despite facts coming clearer
every day that COVID-19 may have been leaked from the Wuhan Lab; ProPublica the
recipient of criminally leaked IRS documents has published an article on how
the wealthiest taxpayers pay little or no taxes which supports the left’s idea
for a wealth tax (Twitter after Dorsey hypocritically proclaimed that access to
social media is a human right while banning conservatives published tweets by
ProPublica while banning New York Post articles damning Hunter Biden’s
nefarious dealings with Chinese and Ukraine); Biden must know what he is
talking about concerning systematic racism as newly discover emails from him
show a proclivity of using the N word to describe blacks; in the midst of a
massive coverup by WHO and China on the origin of COVID-19, not surprising that
the Acting Director of the Budget will not disclosed whether it includes
funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology; the closed border in the minds of
the Blues is revealed to be wide open as 180,000 illegals crossed in May
(probably much more given the number given the overworked CBP was not able to
catch and the handcuffed ICE are not able to deport; latest victim in the war
on climate change is GM which because of the chip shortage has had to
discontinue the stop/start feature on some of its trucks to save fuel when the
truck is stopped to shut off engine and to restart when the driver’s foot on
the brake pedal; as CRT moves us further and further of Martin
Luther King, Jr.’s goal of having us judge people by the content of our
character rather that the color of their skin, leave it to the political
cartoonist to portray the damage to his legacy by the embracing of CRT:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is back to show
that through June 8, 2,021, gun violence involving
mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive
and well with 1575 persons shot of whom 271 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 “Bad Blood” by Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick, the fact that you have barely
started to rivel in height, and a quote from Madsen Pirie on the impact of the
USS George Washington, secure
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1. Writers
Rights Day—created some 30 organizations including the
Authors Guild and the National Writers Union to add more copyright protection
and higher pay for writers and was first celebrated on this day in 1992.
2. World Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
Day—created
by the APS Foundation in 2005 to promote this condition that affects 1 in 2,000
Americans as is the leading cause of recurrent miscarriages, thrombosis and
strokes and heart attacks affecting the young.
3. 2015 Number
1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 2015 on this day was “Bad
Blood” by Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar on a run of 1 week in that position
to join 8 other songs reaching number 1 and 5 other acts that achieved their
first number 1 song either as the lead artist or featured guest. Here
is a video recording by Tylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar of “Bad Blood”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo
Kendrick Lamar is an American rapper born on June 17, 1987, and has been performing
since 2004.
4. Word of the Day—-the word
for today is “rivel” which means to shrink, which is a fate that old
age with the never ending help of gravity brings us all.
5. Golden Rule--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1929 of John Marshal Alexander noted rhythm
and blues singer better known to his fans as Johnny Ace who had 8 hit singles
between 1952 and 1954 several hit singles in the 50’s but ran afoul of the
Golden Rule of Firearms—Never point a gun at yourself assuming it is unloaded
as while during sets at his performance at the City Auditorium on December 25,
1954 he after a few drinks was playing with a .32 waving it around. His last
words after being warned to be careful were “It’s Okay—It’s unloaded. See” as
it went off shooting him In the head and killing him at the age of 25.
On this day in:
b. 1967 in the Six Day War, Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria.
c. 1968 President Johnson following the assassination of Robert Kennedy declared a national day of mourning.
d. 1973 Secretariat won the Triple Crown.
e. 1978 in a what took you so long moment, The Church of the Latter-Day Saints opened up its priesthood to “all worthy men” ending its 148 year old policy of excluding African Americans from becoming priests.
Reflectioons on the launching of the USS Polaris armed with Polaris Nuclear Warhead ICBM’s: “Rather than wait until new submarines designed to carry it could be built, the US Navy basically inserted a new 130ft missile section into the hull of an attack submarine under construction. Admiral Hyman Rickover played a key part in this move, which saw the Polaris system combat ready at least two years before it would otherwise have been. The submarine was renamed the George Washington, and seven months later lest-fired two Polaris missiles while submerged. Despite all their effort and financial sacrifice, the Soviet advantage was nullified because no first strike by them could now eliminate the West’s retaliatory response.” Madsen Pirie, cofounder of the Adam Smith Institute.
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