Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not July 14, 2021
CV World Cases:
The CV pandemic across the planet continues on a slowing down basis the
new year with cases now over 189 million at 189,139,373 cases ( 188,579,875
cases yesterday); 12,288,467 of which are active, 176,850,906 closed with
172,776,823 recoveries (97.70% and 97.70% yesterday, and 4,074,083 deaths (2.30%
and 2.30% 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 34,848,068 (34,807,813
yesterday) with 4,899,930 active cases
of which 4,702 are serious or critical (4,640 yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021)
(now on a serious upswing due to Delta virus up to .096% 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 24,569, 29,948,138 closed,
with 623,838 deaths (2.08% and 2.08% yesterday) and with 29,324,300 recoveries
(97.92% and 97.92% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly
improve and after many months is still .22% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing:
On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 1873 the U.S. ranks behind
Peru (5823) 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 9.36% 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 3.89% of its
closed cases have died (3115), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths
Bulgaria 2634), Brazil (2510) which has been hit with a rapid
rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2197), Belgium
(2165), (Italy (2117), Poland (1989), and the UK (1883) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing and now has new deaths barely
increasing), and slightly better than Mexico (1805), Romania (1792),
Chile (1766), Spain (1733), France (1703), Portugal (1690), Sweden
(1437) that never closed its economy down like we did, Bolivia (1460) and
Switzerland (1250).
Tests:
We have now conducted 515,562,806 tests (now at 1,545,194/M) compared to number
2 now France at 1,487,118/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, 338,879/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 1805/M
with a fatality rate of 10.32% 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: 30,613 Deaths/M 537
Honduras: Active
Cases: 173,620 Deaths/M 728
El Salvador: Active
cases: 5,048 Deaths/M 378
US
Vaccinations: As of 7/14/21 335.5 million doses at .548 million per day finally
up from .533 million per day which means if the rate does not increase it will
take us now some 8 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many
believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who
now believes that 90% is required). In
California 43,767,439 total doses have been given (88.0% 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 finally has not moved from 18th of the 50 states in terms
of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to
the states and at 51.3% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S.
average of 48.2% has moved up from 18th to
17th tied with Delaware 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: Searchers
at the collapsed Champlain South Tower with 97 deaths now confirmed but now
only 8 believed to still be missing are still searching to recover bodies or parts
thereof believed to be in the rubble a
they have removed over 18 million pounds of concrete; the left is going
ballistic over DeSantis selling anti Fauci beer koozies with the message “Don’t
Fauci My Florida” as Randi Weingarten, the hostage in chief taker of school
children, rants that DeSantis is going to ”kill millions”; former all pro bowler and Stanford alum Richard
Sherman has been arrested for domestic violence and is now in jail without bail
pending a hearing; Brittany Spears who has been subject to a conservatorship
for 13 years won the right to appoint her own lawyer which she has and was soon
seen online celebrating doing cartwheels; Blue Minnesota Governor Walsh is
going to ban Gay Conversion Therapy by executive order to bypass objections by
the Republican controlled Senate opposing the ban; Biden is now calling on the
UN to investigate racism in this country to the howls of protest of Reds that
if the UN is going to investigate anything it should investigate human rights
abuses in China and Cuba; here is a chilling thought given the collapse of the
Champlain Tower South—two-thirds of the condominium buildings in Miami are over
30 years old; in a glaring example of the failure of public schools strangled
by the teachers unions, in Baltimore before the onset of the pandemic 24% of
the public high school students had a 1.0 GPA which number increased to 41%
during the pandemic (total tragedy despite the millions of dollars spent with
no apparent return); with world economies devasted during the pandemic which
more and more came from the Wuhan Lab, China’s growth has slowed to a robust
7.9% growth (how the Chinese can achieve benefits by being a “developing”
nation should boggle the mind); Mayorkas
who is a refugee from Cuba in 1960 seems to have no problems with the tidal
wave of illegals but he has laid his foot down that refugees coming from Cuba
or Haiti by boat will be turned back (wonder if the fact Cuban-Americans tend
to vote Red influenced his stance? https://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2021/07/mayorkas-refugee-from-cuba-wants-to-bar.html;
as the opposition of CRT continues to grow leave it to the political cartoonist
to compare the protests in Cuba to the flag burning CRT advocates here in the
U.S.:
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a recording musical link to “Tossin’ and Turnin’” by Bobby Lewis, the fact that you are normally a sanguine person and a quote by Lord Acton on the Bastille, 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. Bastille Day—celebrated in France and
French speaking nations to commemorate the storming of the Bastille on this day
in 1789 which was a major event in the French Revolution that claimed the heads
of many aristocrats including the King and Queen of France.
2. National Mac and Cheese Day—celebrating a dish popularized by Thomas Jefferson after his
return from Europe and to top off a mac and cheese meal however enhanced by
various meats, seafood or vegetable a dish of mac and cheese ice cream (I kid
you not).
3. 1961
Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1961 on this day was “Tossin’
and Turnin’” by Bobby Lewis on a run of 7 weeks in that position to join 21
other songs that achieved number 1 status and 15 other acts with their first
number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a recording by Bobby Lewis of “Tossin’ and Turnin’”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uEPDEJbJu0
Lewis proved that tossin’ and turnin’
was good for longevity as he recently tossed no more on April 28, 2020 after
coming down with pneumonia at age 95.
4. Word of the Day—the word
of the day is “sanguine” which means optimistic which is great state of mind to
have when facing problems or issues.
5. Gentle Giant--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1932 of Rosey Grier a member of the Rams Fearsome
Foursome that brought fear to quarterbacks and running backs and perhaps best
remembered as the man who wrested the gun away from Sirhan Sirhan after he had
shot Bobby Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles celebrating his
California Presidential Primary Victory and also although not as well-known as
an excellent participant in the art of needlepoint and macramé. Still going
strong today at 89.
On this day in:
a. 1874
a massive fire burnt 47 acres in Chicago, destroyed 812 buildings and killed 20
people prompting the insurance companies to demand and obtain reforms in the
city council’s procedures for the building code and the permitting process.
b. 1957 Rawya Ateya was seated
in the National Assembly of Egypt to become the first female parliamentarian in
the Arab World.
c. 1960 Jane Goodall arrived at the Gombe
Wildlife Preserve in Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.
d. 2003 a statue of noted environmentalist and author of Silent Spring
was dedicated at Woods Hole, Massachusetts
e. 2016
a radicalized Tunisian, Mohamed Salmene
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, drove his 19 ton truck into crowds of people celebrating
Bastille Day along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, killing 86
and injuring 458 before being shot and killed by police.
Reflections
on the Bastille: “The Bastille not only
overshadowed the capital, but it darkened the hearts of men, for it had been
notorious for centuries as the instrument and the emblem of tyranny. The
captives behind its bars were few and uninteresting; but the wide world knew
the horror of its history, the blighted lives, the ruined families, the three
thousand dishonoured graves within the precincts, and the common voice called
for its destruction as the sign of deliverance. At the elections both nobles
and commons demanded that it should be levelled with the ground.” Lord Acton
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