Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not July 30, 2021
CV World Cases:
The CV pandemic across the planet continues on a slowing down basis the
new year with cases now over 197 million at 197,754,286
cases (196,985,853 yesterday); 14,770,951 of which are active, 182,983,335
closed with 178,763,566 recoveries (97.69% and 97.69% yesterday, and 4,219,769
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 35 million at 35,592,710 (35,492,860
yesterday) with 5,336,806 active cases
of which 9,205 are serious or critical, (9,051 yesterday and 8,599 on
3/25/2021) (now on a serious upswing due to Delta virus up to .017% of active
cases and now a steady increase in the number of serious or critical cases to decrease
the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 20,066, 30,255,904 closed,
with 628,549 deaths (2.08% and 2.08% yesterday) and with 29,627,355 recoveries
(97.92% and 97.92% yesterday). Our death rate percentage has been stuck at 2.08%
since July 12, 2021 and is still .23% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing:
On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 1887 the U.S. ranks behind
Peru (5863) 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 9.31% 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 3.86% of its
closed cases have died (3117), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths
Bulgaria (2642), Brazil (2590) which has been hit with a rapid
rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Columbia newly added to the
list (2334); Argentina (2303), Belgium (2167), (Italy (2121),
Poland (1991), and the UK (1898) which had passed us despite leading world in
testing and now has new deaths barely increasing), and slightly better
than Mexico (1841), Chile (1833), Romania (1795), Ecuador newly added to list
(1760), ( Spain (1742), France (1709), Portugal (1706), Bolivia (1502), Sweden
(1438) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1250). b Tests:
We have now conducted 529,101,922 (now at 1,588,476/M) just passed by France at
1,590,649 who is now 2nd 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 3,575,768/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 been passed by Argentina and newly added
Columbia to move down to 12th on my list of deaths from
the pandemic at 1841/M with a fatality
rate of 9.87% 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: 34,955 Deaths/M 561
Honduras: Active
Cases: 186,889 Deaths/M 774
El Salvador: Active
cases: 7,742 Deaths/M 401
US
Vaccinations: As of 7/30,21 344.9 million doses at .652 million per day (7
months to go for 75% of population vaccinated) and in California 82,509 per day
which means if the rate does not increase it will take us now some 5 months to
have 75% of the population of California vaccinated which many believe is necessary
to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90%
is required). In California 45,044,810 total
doses have been given (88.5% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 86.6%),
but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which
hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has moved up from 19th to 18th of the 50 states in terms of the percentage
of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 52.7%
of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 49.5% is
still 17th 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: The CDC Director
has indicated that vaccination mandates are under serious consideration as
cases from the Delta variant are surging but vaccinations are not and way below
the million plus daily achieved several weeks ago; the head of the Postal Union
is opposing Biden’s mandatory vaccine mandate for federal works but at least
encouraging workers to get vaccinated; Governor Abbot, whose state Texas is plagued
with CV infected illegals pouring across his border while the Biden Administration
is playing the fiddle tune of no crisis, has signed an executive order banning
mask and vaccination mandates in his state; the rich will get richer and the
poor get poorer is a mantra of the Blues but it may also be true in college
sports with the ability of athletes to be paid for their likeness as Texas and
Oklahoma will be joining the SEC in 2025 (wonder if antitrust rule can be
applied to college football conferences?); Mayor Garcetti has learned the hard
way that in L.A. don’t mess with the homeless as his home was vandalized soon
after signing a ordinance that limited homeless encampments in the city; on the
food front almost 300,000 pounds of raw hamburger prepared by an Omaha meat
processor have be recalled due to e-coli contamination and more Brightfood
packaged lettuce sold at Walmart has been recalled due to salmonella concerns;
the ACLU has further distanced itself from reality by inanely claiming the 2nd
Amendment is rooted and based upon racism; the DOJ may have to change its name
to Department of Hacked as 27 U.S. Attorneys around the nation were hacked; up
to $125 million of COVID-19 relief funds distributed to CCNY will be going to
forgive student debt including debt of illegal aliens (hopefully Harris chalks
that largesse as one of the root causes of illegal immigration); 6 passengers
on a Royal Caribbean Cruise have test positive—4 vaccinated adults, 3 of whom have
no symptoms and 1 of whom has mild symptoms and 2 unvaccinated children who
have no symptoms; in a refreshing note to the consternation of Blues who adhere
to the myth that racism is only prevalent among Reds, Reds are demanding another
hearing on Biden’s pick to head the ATF David Chipman was making denigrating
racist comments about black ATF agents (when will Biden come to what little
senses he has and withdraw the nomination of this rabid anti-2nd
Amendment leftist?); as Biden continues to hector Americans to get vaccinated, he
totally ignores and dismisses the fact that illegal aliens infected by COVID
are also pouring across the border released into the interior maskless and
unvaccinated to spread the disease, leave it to the political cartoonist to portray
the gravity of this super spreader event:
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show
that through July 27, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of
color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 2529 persons
shot of whom 434 have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest
for this day in history, a video recording musical link to “Bad, Bad Leroy
Brown” by Jim Croce, the fact that you have
never been exposed to scatology, and a quote by Robert Bothwell on Medicare, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any
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1. National Whistleblower Appreciation Day—created by the United States Senate on this day in 2013 to
promote the protection of whistleblowers who expose fraud, corruption, waste
and other illegal behavior on the behalf of “public servants” and to encourage public
employees to become whistleblowers when they observe such conduct.
2. World Day Against Trafficking in Persons—created by the UN General Assembly on December 18, 2013 and
celebrated on this day since 2014 to promote the end of human trafficking which
with our open border and cartel members getting rich bringing in illegals is a
problem big time in this nation which the Biden Administration seems helpless
to take any steps to curtail.
3. 1973
Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1973 on this day was “Bad,
Bad Leroy Brown” by Jim Croce on a run of 2 weeks in that position to join 26
other songs that achieved number 1 status and as third person to achieve number
1 status posthumously, join 13 other acts who achieved their first number 1
song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a video recording by Jim Croce of
“Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” by Jim Croce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvwDohEEQ1E
Croce had released 5 albums and numerous singles and had just completed a
concert at Northwestern State to board a private plane with 3 others to head to
Austin College for another concert on September 20, 1973 one day before the
scheduled release of his single “I Got a Name” which reached number 10 in the
charts. Sadly, due to pilot error the plane crashed on takeoff, killing all 5
on board.
4. Word of the Day—the word
of the day is “scatology” which means the study of excrement which also apply
to the study of the news broadcasts of the Cack News Network, CNN.
5. I’ll Be Back--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1947 of noted bodybuilder, actor and governor of
California first by recall and then a second term by election Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Schwarzenegger is best known for his action films as Conan and in the Terminator
series and sadly fell victim to the reptilian brain impregnating his housekeeper
while his wife Maria Shriver was also pregnant; 14 years after his son out of
wedlock was born the relationship was reveals resulting in his divorce from
Shriver.
On this day in:
a. 1932
Walt Disney’s animated short Flowers and Trees premiered to become the
first animated film to use Technicolor and the first animated short to win an
Academy Award.
b. 1945 the
Japanese submarine I-58 sunk the USS Indianapolis fortunately for
us after and not before it had delivered the 2 atomic bombs to Tinian Island
for dropping on Japan. Of the 1195 crew members, 300 went down with the ship 12
minutes after being torpedoed the rest went into the water without sufficient
life rafts, food or water and it took the Navy 4 days to know they had lost a
ship and find the survivors which had dwindled down to 316 due to shark
attacks, exposure and dehydration.
c. 1965 to the joy of seniors, President
Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Social Security Act of 1965 creating
Medicare and Medicaid.
d. 1975 Jimmy Hoffa disappeared at around 2:30 p.m. from the parking lot
of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, a suburb of Detroit,
never to be seen or heard from again.
e. 2006 in all-good things have to come to an end sometime, the
world’s longest running musical show, Top of the Pops, broadcast its
last episode on BBC Two after 42 continuous years.
Reflections on Medicare: “We like to say medicare is uniquely
Canadian, but Americans have Medicare too. Even the name. I can't actually
determine where the name started, except that it appeared in the two countries
at about the same time. Had the Vietnam War not occurred, the Americans would
have had a Medicare system much like ours." Robert Bothwell, noted
Canadian author
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