Ridley’s Believe It Or Not July
8, 2021
CV World Cases:
The CV pandemic across the planet continues on a slowing down basis the
new year with cases now over 186 million at 186,107,529 cases ( 185,386,774
cases yesterday); 11,832,746 of which are active, 174,481,218 closed with
170,455,453 recoveries (97.69% and 97.69% yesterday, and 4,025,765 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 34 million at 34,676,896 (34,622,690
yesterday) with 4,851,375 active cases
of which 3,850 are serious or critical (3801 yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021)
(now up to .079% of active cases and now a significant reduction to increase
the number of serious or critical cases to decrease the reduction from the
29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 25,421, 29,825,521 closed, with 622,213 deaths (2.09%
and 2.09% yesterday) and with 29,203,308 recoveries (97.91% and 97.91%
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 1869 the U.S. ranks behind
Peru (5794) 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 (3114), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria 2630), Brazil
(2477) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us
and Italy, Belgium (2164), Argentina (2146), (Italy (2116), Poland (1987), and
the UK (1880) which had passed us despite leading world in testing and now has
new deaths barely increasing), and slightly better than Mexico (1797),
Romania (1788), Chile (1738), Spain (1732), France (1701), Portugal
(1685), Sweden (1437) that never closed its economy down like we
did, Bolivia (1442) and Switzerland (1250).
Tests:
We have now conducted 510,480,341 tests (now at 1,533,081/M) compared to number
2 now France at 1,458,677/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, 243,849/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
1797/M with a fatality rate of 10.36% 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: 27,036 Deaths/M 526
Honduras: Active
Cases: 169,671 Deaths/M 713
El Salvador: Active
cases: 4,543 Deaths/M 372
US Vaccinations: As of 7/8/21 332.3 million
doses at .599 million per day down from .866 million per day which means if the
rate does not increase it will take us now some an increase to 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 43,307,094
total doses have been given (87.4% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average
of 86.2), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall
which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has finally 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 50.7% of
its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 47.7% has not moved from 18th 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 64 deaths confirmed and 76 believed
to still be missing have ended their search for survivors and are now searching
to recover bodies believed to be in the rubble; the chickens of Woke in Georgia
may be coming home to roost for Sen. Warnock who did not protest the
ill-advised move of the MLM Allstar to Denver which will cost Atlanta some $100
million in tourist revenue (even leftist Stacey Abrams protested the move;
Biden in a speech today at the White House confirmed that all U.S. troops will
be out of the country by August 31 but also confirmed efforts to speed up
immigration visas for Afghan interpreters who served with the U.S. military and
their families to relocate to the U.S. (watching him answer shouted questions
from the press was like watching a downloaded video stream with not enough
transmission speed so it kept pausing and seems to provide further evidence of
his failing mental faculties); Chicago is still in a state of shock over the number
of shootings during the 4th of July weekend and true to form not a
single peep from BLM over the carnage of blacks shooting blacks as they keep
their protest and riot powder dry for the next rare case of police shooting an
unarmed black; once again a functioning body cam is proving to be a police
officer’s best friend as Tampa police officer
Bryan Velazquez’s body cam shows black John
Reuben Turbe, Jr. ignoring commands to drop his gun, then while coming toward
the officer, pointing it at him and then being shot fatally https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-man-points-gun-police-officer-shooting-bodycam-video; the Biden Administration defended its plan to send out an
army of “volunteers” door to door to determine who has been vaccinated as
Becerra intones “it is the government’s right to know” and Psaki expresses
Biden’s frustrations over backlash and assures us that no database will be
generate and kept; Michael Avenatti
convicted of trying to extort $25 million from Nike has been sentenced to 2
½ years in prison (not out of the woods
yet as this disgraced lawyer still faces a fraud trial in L.A. next week, a
second criminal trial in California later in the year and a trial in NYC next
year for defrauding Stormy Daniels out of thousands of dollars; Steve Schmidt
who should be focused on how to prevent perverts like co-founder Rick Weaver of
the Lincoln Project from molesting young men that 21 have alleged instead is
parroting Matthew Dowd’s inanity that 1/6 was worse than 9/11 and will kill
more Americans; as Trump has announced plans to sue the leftist troika of
censorship—Google, Facebook and Twitter for censorship after banning him from
their platforms after the 1/6 demonstration at the Capitol, leave it to the
political cartoonist to graphically portray the event (since Trump is not on a
horse like Don Quixote with a lance does it mean that the cartoonist believes
there is a chance Trump might win?):
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show
that through July 7, 2,021, gun violence involving mostly persons of
color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 2118
persons shot of whom 361 have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a recording musical link to “The Wayward Wind” by Gogi Grant, the fact that you would never turn down a well-seasoned
salmagundi and a quote by Francis Gary
Powers of the shooting down of his U-2 over the Soviet Union, 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
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1. Math 2.0 Day—created by the Math 2.0
Interest Group on this day in 2009 to explore the intersection of math and
technology in our lives and to promote the furtherance of math education and
literacy.
2. SCUD Day—not a day to observe the deadly Scud missile fired at Israel
to provoke them from attacking Iraq and upsetting the coalition to attack Iraq
in Desert Storm but a day created by Stephanie Allen West, a former practicing
lawyer who has been a mediator for over 2 ½ decades but rather a day to Savor
the Comedy, Unplug the Drama which is what most of us watching the chaos and
division in the Swamp would like to do.
3. 1956
Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1956 on this day was “The
Wayward Wind” by Gogi Grant on a run of 6 weeks in that position to share with 14
other songs that achieved number 1 status. Here is a recording of “The Wayward
Wind” by Gogi Grant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cQUVtbztEs
Gogi Grant got her stage name from the
name of a restaurant and retired from recording in 1967 and the wind blew her
off the planet at the age of 91 on March 10, 2016.
4. Word of the Day—the word
of the day is “salmagundi” which means a stew of many ingredients which sounds
like a great way to get rid of leftovers in a tasty manner.
5. Rolling The Dice--celebrating the birth on this day in 1997 of noted running back
at Stanford, Bryce Love, who backed up Christian McCaffrey his freshman and
sophomore year but as a junior really came into his own his junior year and was
the runner up in the Heisman Trophy like McCaffrey but unlike McCaffrey who
went pro after his junior year, played his senior year only to suffer an ACL
tear in his last game and although drafted by Washington never played a game
and has been released.
On this day in:
a. 1889 the first issue
of the Wall Street Journal was published.
b. 1947 it
was reported by the Roswell Army Airfield and quickly retracted, that a UFO had
crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico. To this day ufologists have not accepted
the idea that a weather balloon was the object that crashed.
c. 1960 Francis Gary Powers whose U-2 was shot down over the Soviet
Union was put on trial for espionage (he was as expected convicted and sentenced
to 10 years but on February 10, 1962 he was released in exchange for a senior
Soviet spy, Colonel Rudolf Abel.
d. 1972 Ghassan Kanafani, an author and member of the Palestinian
Front for the Liberation of Palestine who supported the Lod Airport Massacre,
was assassinated by Mossad when he turned on the ignition of his car which set
off a bomb.
e. 2011 in an end to an era moment, the Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched.
Reflections on the consequences of being shot down in his U-2 on a spy
mission over the Soviet Union: “I was completely unprepared. I presumed that
once it was known I was missing a cover story would be issued. Unfortunately,
no one had ever bothered to inform us pilots what it would be. ” Francis Gary Powers
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