Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not July 27, 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 195,664,774
cases (194,794,226 yesterday); 14,052,623 of which are active, 181,
612,151 closed with 177,423,568 recoveries (97.69% and 97.69% yesterday, and 4,188,583
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 35,288,273 (35,257,596
yesterday) with 5,112,761 active cases
of which 8447 are serious or critical, (8323 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 20,824, 30,175,512 closed,
with 627,044 deaths (2.08% and 2.08% yesterday) and with 29,548,468 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 1883 the U.S. ranks behind
Peru (5857) 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 (2571) 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
(2167), (Italy (2120), Poland (1991), and the UK (1894) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing and now has new deaths barely
increasing), and slightly better than Mexico (1830), Chile (1820),
Romania (1794), Spain (1737), France
(1707), Portugal (1703, Bolivia (1492), Sweden (1438) that never
closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1250).
Tests:
We have now conducted 525,983,886 (now at 1,579,190/M) compared to number 2 now
France at 1,561,917 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 3,534,981/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 1830/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: 33,564 Deaths/M 554
Honduras: Active
Cases: 185,086 Deaths/M 760
El Salvador: Active
cases: 7,245 Deaths/M 395
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: MSM
must recognize that crime surge is one of the Achilles Heels in 2022 so even
when one of the Blues is assaulted and robbed, Barbara Boxer, from them
reporting the event only the sounds of silence; the CDC has just revised its
mask wearing guidelines for fully vaccinated people, now recommending that
masks be worn indoors in crowded conditions like public transportation,
prisons, hospitals and homeless shelters (another flip flop that will not add
to the credibility of Fauci or the CDC); Atlanta has defied Governor’s refusal
to require masks in schools and will require that masks be worn by students,
faculty and staff; Newsom must be sweating blood as support among voters likely
to vote favor recall 47% to 51% opposing
which is clearly in the margin of error and Larry Elder has moved to the top
spot of candidates favored if the recall passes; Russia took the Gold Medal in
team gymnastics and the U.S. had to settle for the Silver as their super star
Simon Biles bowed out due to a “medical issue”; as states have been ending the
additional unemployment compensation from the feds due to the number of jobs
open and needing to be filled almost top the number of people looking for work
and the extra benefits are a great disincentive to people returning to the
workforce but a court in Maryland and one in Indiana has ruled in favor of
unemployed who sued when the extra benefits in that state were stopped; the
partisan House Committee to investigate the events at the Capitol on January 6
is holding its first hearing receiving testimony from four police officers on
the scene (wonder if we will hear anything about the killing of one unarmed
female demonstrator?); unlike Harris who viewed being at the actual border not
miles away, Governor Noem visited the 50 National Guardsmen she sent there and
watched the steady stream of illegals who she claimed were paying traffickers
$5,000 a head; the DOJ has just ruled that state and private employers can
required mandatory vaccinations even though their use was allowed under FDA
emergency authorization (CA, NYC and the VA are mandating employees be
vaccinated or submit to weekly CV tests so don not be surprised if vaccination
will soon become a condition of employment or continued employment); CNN Brian
Stelter’s ratings are still in the tank even the week Branson went into space
(but no wonder as this woke pseudo “journalist” was raising questions given the
pandemic and climate change whether it was ethical for the short sub-orbital
flight to occur); as Reds are raising the issue of the inflationary impact of
the massive federal COVID aid and Biden is bemoaning the Congress has not
passed his physical infrastructure bill packed with a massive amount of social
infrastructure leftist wish list items, the GAO informs us that $1 trillion of
appropriated funds have not even been spent yet (easy come easy go in fed
land!); in the age of “fake news” from the MSM, leave it to the political
cartoonist to graphically portray what the Cack News Network is spreading over
the airways:
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show
that through July 26, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of
color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 2478 persons
shot of whom 425 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 “(They Long to
Be) Close to You” by The Carpenters, the
fact that you often find time to scamander on your walks, and a quote by Ashley
Jensen on bagpipes, secure in the knowledge that
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1. National Korean War Armistice Day—celebrated since 1994 to honor those who served and died in
the Korean War which started on June 25,1950 with the unprovoked invasion of
South Korea by North Korea and the signing of the Korean War Armistice
Agreement on this day in 1953 after 158
meetings spread over two years and 17 days, the longest time and the most meetings
in history to reach an armistice.
2. Bagpipe Appreciation Day—celebrating
that unique musical instrument that keeps playing its eerie music as long as the bag is full and has been around since Mesopotamian times and thoroughly enjoyed today by this Alaskanpoet who with a Scot for a mother and an Irish for a father and a Scot for a stepfather was doomed to enjoy the pipes. Please enjoy one of my favorites “Scotland the Brave" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBKBI7DOLHA 3. 1970
Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1970 on this day was “(They
Long to Be) Close to You” by the Carpenters on a run of 4 weeks in that
position to join 24 other songs that achieved number 1 status and join 13 other
acts, who achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here
is a video recording by The Carpenters of “(They Long to Be) Close to You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6inwzOooXRU
Karen and Richard Carpenter were a soft rock duo of siblings who were active
from 1969-1983 with a one year hiatus of Richard due to quaalude addiction.
Sadly Karen suffered from anorexia and she ended the duo by dying from a heart
attack from it on February 4, 1983.
4. Word of the Day—the word
of the day is “scamander” which means to meander as opposed to a direct course
to get from point A to point B.
5. Going Out in Style But Still Going Out--celebrating the birth on this day in 1981 of Dash Snow, a
controversial photographer and artist whose work depicted scenes of sex, drug-taking, violence
and art-world pretense with candor, documenting the decadent lifestyle of a
group of young New York City artists and their social circle. He lived what he photographed, and the snow melted forever on July 13,
2009 in a $325 a night hotel room from a drug overdose at the age of 27.
On this day in:
a. 1948
in a great step in the fight to combat diabetes researchers at the University
of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting proved that the hormone insulin
regulated the level of blood sugar in the body.
b. 1929 the Geneva
Convention of 1929 dealing with the treatment of prisoners of war was signed by
53 nations and became effective of June 19, 1931.
c. 1990 the Americans With Disabilities Act
was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
d. 1995 the Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington,
D.C.
e. 1996 a pipe bomb planted at Centennial Olympic
Park in Atlanta during the Olympics by Eric Rudolph exploded killing 1 and
injuring 111 people. Rudolph was arrested, pled guilty to avoid the death
sentence and is now rotting away in prison for life without possibility of
parole.
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