Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not July 21, 2021
CV World Cases:
The CV pandemic across the planet continues on a slowing down basis the
new year with cases now over 192 million at 192,720,943 cases (192,062,863
cases yesterday); 13,392,197 of
which are active, 179,328,746 closed with 175,188,219 recoveries (97.69%
and 97.70% yesterday, and 4,140,527 deaths (2.31% 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 35 million at 35,123,237 (35,019,526
yesterday) with 5,047,877 active cases
of which 6421 are serious or critical, (6073 yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021)
(now on a serious upswing due to Delta virus up to .013% 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 22,850, 30,075,360 closed,
with 625,715 deaths (2.08% and 2.08% yesterday) and with 29,449,645 recoveries
(97.92% and 97.92% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly
improve and after many months is now .23% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing:
On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 1879 the U.S. ranks behind
Peru (5839) 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 (3116), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths
Bulgaria (2638), Brazil (2548) which has been hit with a rapid
rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2244), Belgium
(2166), (Italy (2119), Poland (1990), and the UK (1888) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing and now has new deaths barely
increasing), and slightly better than Mexico (1817), Chile (1794), Romania
(1793), Spain (1735), France
(1705), Portugal (1695), Bolivia (1478), Sweden (1438) that never
closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1250).
Tests:
We have now conducted 519,288,507 (now at 1,559,237/M) compared to number 2 now
France at 1,522,417 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 3,451,273/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 1814/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: 31,240 Deaths/M 544
Honduras: Active
Cases: 178,727 Deaths/M 746
El Salvador: Active
cases: 5,197 Deaths/M 386
US
Vaccinations: As of 7/21/21 339.1 million doses at .519 million per day and in
California 74,790 per day which means if the rate does not increase it will
take us now some 6 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many
believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who
may believe that 90% is required). In
California 44,290,270 total doses have been given (88.4% of doses received to
exceed the U.S. average of 86.8%), 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 51.9% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S.
average of 48.8% has not moved from 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: The
pushback by parents and state AG’s against the teaching of CRT in our schools
is gaining momentum and securing victories as the Biden DOE has walked back its
support of the Abolitionist Network’s roadmap on how to reopen schools which includes
guidance on how to remove “whiteness”; Rand Paul is requesting a criminal
referral for Fauci’s potential perjury and breaking our laws concerning the
banning of gain of function research that he claims was done at the Wuhan Lab
and paid for with funds controlled by Fauci but admits given the politization
of the DOJ it will be doubtful they will pursue it; the “bipartisan” House
committee to investigate ad nauseum just got a lot less nonpartisan after Pelosi
in an unprecedented move, refused to allow the Red Minority Leader’s picks
Jordan and Banks to be on the committee which prompted McCarthy to indicate the
Reds will not participate (Pelosi may be many things but when it comes to dictatorial
rule she is consistent); James Craig, the black ex police chief of Detroit, has
announced that he is joining 7 other Reds in running to replace Witless Whitmer
as the state’s governor; in a typical rush to judgment, the Blues put up for
vote a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that is nowhere complete in its drafting
which garnered only 49 votes in favor; Newsom’s cronies tried to block Larry
Elder’s name from being placed on the recall ballot which prompted a legal
challenge by Elder which a court has just ruled in his favor (wonder if Newsom
is quaking in his boots as if not he should be); one of the scofflaws from
Texas, Donna Harwood, who was one of the 6 who tested positive for CV, is now
on the warpath now demanding that all Texans be vaccinated; in France some demonstrations against have to
show a health pass showing vaccination or negative COVID test; as more and more
Americans are now attacking Fauci’s performance leave it to the political
cartoonist to portray was many believe is fear mongering: 
Chicago Gun
Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show
that through July 20, 2,021, gun violence involving mostly persons of
color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 2342
persons shot of whom 405 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 “(I Can’t Get
No) Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones, the fact that you have avoided significant
saprostomous and a quote by Atlantis Astronaut Doug Harley on the end of
the Space Shuttle Program, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events
like Labor Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings,
or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a
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1. Take Your Poet to Work Day—created by
Tweetspeak Poetry and celebrated on the third Wednesday in July to enable
someone to take a cut out of a head and torso of a favorite poet and place it
in a book of poems or in one’s pockets.
2. National Hot Dog Day—created by the North American Meat Institute to promote the
consumption of hot dogs and celebrated in Washington, D.C. of and annual Hot
Dog Day Lunch with government, industry and elected officials which may be truncated
due to the pandemic.
3. 1965
Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1965 on this day was “(I
Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones on a run of 4 weeks in that
position to join 26 other songs that achieved number 1 status and 13 other acts
achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a
recording by The Rolling Stones of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrIPxlFzDi0
The Rolling Stones who started in 1962 are still performing today and going
strong.
4. Word of the Day—the word
of the day is “saprostomous” which means having bad breath which is not
conducive to winning friends and influencing people.
5. Alien Among Us to Make Us Laugh--celebrating the birth on this day in 1951 of noted comedian
Robin Williams, best known for his TV role as Mork and a stream successful
films like Dead Poets’ Society, Mrs. Doubtfire, Hook and Good Morning Vietnam.
Sadly, he suffered from depression and the onset of a form of dementia Lewy
body disease and took his own life by hanging on August 11, 2014 at age 63.
On this day in:
a. 1949
the U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.
b. 1961 Mercury
Astronaut Gus Grissom became the 2nd American into space in a suborbital
flight aboard the Liberty 7 which had the misfortune of its escape hatch
being blown on landing and sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
c. 1970 after 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam was
completed.
d. 1979 Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor best known for his portrayal of
Tonto on the Lone Ranger TV series became the first Native American to
have a star inserted on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
e. 2011
the U.S. Shuttle Space Program and its ability to place astronauts into space
ended with the final mission of Atlantis.
Reflections
on the end of the Space Shuttle Program: “Congratulations, Space X, you got the
flag.” Doug Harley Space Shuttle Astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis
after mounting it in the International Space Station to be recovered by the
Space X Astronauts after they docked on
November 16, 2020.
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