Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not July 26, 2021
CV World Cases:
The CV pandemic across the planet continues on a slowing down basis the
new year with cases now over 195 million at 194,794,226
cases (194,809,754 cases yesterday); 14,020,704 of which are
active, 181, 274,022 closed with 177,092,122 recoveries (97.69% and 97.69%
yesterday, and 4,181,900 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 35,257,596 (35,195,465
yesterday) with 5,093,913 active cases
of which 8323 are serious or critical, (8236 yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021)
(now on a serious upswing due to Delta virus up to .016% 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 20,948, 30,163,683 closed,
with 626,921 deaths (2.08% and 2.08% yesterday) and with 29,536,762 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 1882 the U.S. ranks behind
Peru (5855) 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 9.32% 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 3.87% of its
closed cases have died (3116), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths
Bulgaria (2640), Brazil (2570) which has been hit with a rapid
rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Columbia newly added to the
list (2316); Argentina (2281), Belgium
(2166), (Italy (2120), Poland (1990), and the UK (1892) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing and now has new deaths barely
increasing), and slightly better than Mexico (1829), Chile (1821),
Romania (1794), Spain (1737), France
(1706), Portugal (1702, Bolivia (14919), Sweden (1438) that never
closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1250).
Tests:
We have now conducted 525,059,020 (now at 1,576,438/M) compared to number 2 now
France at 1,550,953 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 3,522,153/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 4182/M
with a fatality rate of 10.09% 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: 34,846 Deaths/M 553
Honduras: Active
Cases: 181,611 Deaths/M 754
El Salvador: Active
cases: 6,400 Deaths/M 394
US
Vaccinations: As of 7/26/21 342.2 million doses at .591 million per day (8 months
to go for 75% of population vaccinated) and in California 75,621 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 44,724,529 total
doses have been given (88.5% 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 moved down from 19th to 20th of
the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage
of doses delivered to the states and at 52.4% of its population fully
vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 49.1% has moved down from 20th
to 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: As
Blue run cities are jumping on the bandwagon of “Defund the police” their
spending millions to their elected mayors and elected officials to their safety
with cops increase in what should be a total outrage among black and brown
residents that are dying from gunshots like flies; once again we see a testy
senile president lashing out a reported who asked a question about VA required
vaccinations for personnel that was not in his Iraq subject script (hand it to
him he and his staff are doing their best hide his mental failings but they are
failing; former Senator Barbara Boxer joined the real world in Oakland as she
was assaulted and had her cell phone robbed (if the elite become crime become
victims as opposed to black and brown mere mortals the crime was would stop
overnight); looks like Ben and Jerry’s anti-Israel boycott may be melting as
the authority that grants kosher status for products is reviewing their
classification while Cuomo is having state agencies review the question of
whether Ben and Jerry’s boycott violates New York’s law banning boycotts of Israel;
at a time when shootings and killings are going off the charts AOC is ranting
that we must do away with prisons and jails for blacks and browns (wonder how
much of her massive campaign war chest she spends on private security guards?);
Newsom (who can’t be bothered as he is so busy misgoverning California), Jenner
(because she has a prior commitment in Hawaii) and Elder (because he has a fund
raising commitment in Bakersfield and does not want Reds attacking each other
when they should have Newsom present to attack); some of our social injustice athlete
warriors at the Olympics might consider aping aping Hidilyn Diaz as she stood on the platform as the Philippines was awarded its first ever Gold Medal for her weight lifting performance:
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 “In the Year 2525” by Zager and Evans, the fact that you find it not necessary to falsely sawder someone, and a quote by Collin Powell on Truman’s desegregation of the U.S. military, 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 unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. Please contact me for details on pricing.
1. Holistic Therapy Day—clueless to who created this or when only to imagine by a group displeased the methods and protocols of typical Western Medicine which is so quick to medicate with drugs and has little to listen to or confer with the patient.
2. One Voice Day—created by the International Students of Metaphysics to celebrate the creation of the 577 word Universal Peace Covenant in 1996 and 97 and signed on October 8, 1997 as a document to “serve as an instrument defining how to think peacefully and live peacefully in a world that is constantly changing” which is read on this day at 6:00 p.m. UT around the world.
3. 1969 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1969 on this day was “In the Year 2525” Zager and Evans on a run of 6 weeks in that position to join 16 other songs that achieved number 1 status and join 7 other acts, who achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a video recording by Zager and Evans of “In the Year 2525”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic Zager and Evans was the prodigal one hit wonder and as of 2019 was the only group to have a number one song in the U.S. and Britain and never have another single that charted.
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “sawder” which means to flatter when used sparingly is a useful trait.
5. Eyes Shut Not Wide--celebrating the birth on this day in 1928 of noted director Stanley Kubrick who gave us such classics as Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, The Shining; 2001: a Space Odyssey and Eyes Wide Shut completed and subjected to a final screening nine days before he died in his sleep from a heart attack on March 7, 1999.
On this day in:
a. 1948
in a what took us way too long moment President Truman signed Executive Order
9981 desegregating the U.S. military with some urging from A. Phillip Randolph
who told him in no uncertain terms that blacks would refuse the draft if the U.S.
military was not segregated.
b. 1956 Egypt’s
President Nassar angered over the refusal of the World Bank to finance the
Aswan Dam, nationalized the Suez Canal which lead to the Tripartite War in October
of that year.
c. 1990 the Americans With Disabilities Act
was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
d. 2005 the Space Shuttle Discovery was successfully launched with
fingers probably crossed in first mission after the Columbia in a, to
the great relief of NASA, flawless mission.
e. 2016 Solar Impulse 2 carrying only the
pilot became the first solar powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth after
a trip that started on March 9, 2015 but was subject to a lengthy delay in
Japan and a grounding in Hawaii to repair the batteries to finally take off
from Hawaii in April of 2016 and after added stops to the itinerary landed on
this day in 2016 in Abu Dubai to complete the circumnavigation.
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