Ridley’s Believe It Or Not August 25, 2021
CV World Cases:
The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis
with cases now over 212 million at 214,670,628 cases (213,665,862
yesterday); 18,179,992 of which are active, 196,490,736 closed with 192,015,737 recoveries (97.72% and
97.72% yesterday, and 4,474,999 deaths (2.28% and 2.28% yesterday) to continue
the slow trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and
decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
CV USA Cases: Total
cases now over 39 million at 39,145,788 (38,818,980 yesterday) with 7,821,577
active cases of which 24,579 are serious or critical, (23,663 yesterday and
8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now on a serious upswing due to Delta virus to .314 % of
active cases and to decrease the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020
to 4,692, 31,324,211 closed, with 649,625 deaths (2.07% and 2.07% yesterday)
and with 30,674,586 recoveries (97.93% and 97.93% yesterday). Our death rate
percentage is no longer stuck at 2.08% since July 12, 2021 and now .21% lower
than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a
deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow
climb to 1950 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5909 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 9.26% 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 3.77% of its closed cases have died (3120), aping
Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2702), Brazil
(2691) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us
and Italy, Argentina (2430), Columbia
newly added to the list (2417), Belgium (2176), Italy
(2136), Poland (1993), and Mexico (1950)
and slightly better than the UK which we just passed on the 18th (1933), Chile (1902), Romania (1805), Ecuador newly
added to list (1789), Spain (1789), Portugal (1739), France (1738),
Bolivia (1546), Sweden (1439) that never closed its economy down
like we did, and Switzerland (1256).
Tests:
We have now conducted 573,510,688 tests (1,721,089/M) just passed by France at
1,856,179 who is now 1st 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 3,876,207/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 has been
passed by Argentina and newly added Columbia but passed the UK to move up to 10th on my list
of deaths from the pandemic tied with the U.S. at 1950/M with a
fatality rate of 8.94% 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: 51,158 Deaths/M 635
Honduras: Active
Cases: 216,871 Deaths/M 863
El
Salvador: Active cases: 11,457 Deaths/M 439
US Vaccinations: As of 8/24/2021
363.9 million doses, up from .854 million per day to .860 million per day (down to 4 months to go for
75% of population vaccinated) and in California 95,556 per day (99,029 yesterday) which means if the
rate does not increase it will take us still some 3 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 47,304,100 total doses have been given (88.1%
of doses received to exceed the U.S.
average of 85.1%), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this
fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has moved from 10th
tied with Virginia to 13th tied with Minnesota and Virginia of the
50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of
doses delivered to the states and at 55.1% of its population fully vaccinated
compared to the U.S. average of 51.6% has not moved from 16th Place. 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: Blinken
admitted that the State Department does not have an exact number of Americans
still in Afghanistan but believes it to be around 1000 and is warning Americans
they must leave immediately while in a Catch 22 situation is advising Americans
not to be outside the gates because of security threats (because the State
Department closed the Embassy assembling there for chopper evacuation to the
airport is probably not feasible); when asked by Peter Alexander of NBC what he
would do if Americans were still in
Afghanistan after the 31st , Biden partially aped Harris not with
her characteristic idiotic laugh but a smirk and a “You’ll be the first person I call” answer which the embarrassed
WH staff cut the audio so the American
public would not hear (when will this failure realize his handling of the
crisis is no laughing matter; Psaki is faced with an impossible job on the
questions pertaining to the evacuation but on the issue of Americans being
stranded she seems total ignorant of the fact and continues to deny it; adding
to the misery of the spiking COVID-19 cases due to the Delta Variant, we now
have a salmonella outbreak in 17 states linked to Italia meat (hold the salami
on the pizzas and replace with anchovies); the world thinking of buying into
the new spin that the Taliban is different needs to take a deep breath as a
Taliban mouthpiece inanely ala Baghdad Bob that this is no proof that Osama Bin
Laden was behind the 911 attacks; in an example of one bad apple contaminating
the lot, the idiots who awarded Cuomo his Emmy must be sighing in relief that
they rescinded it before the replacement governor added 12,000 new CV deaths as
Fox report Janice Dean who lost her mother and father in-laws in a New York
nursing home due to COVID are demanding the DOJ investigate the scandal of
deaths Cuomo caused; a desperate Newsom is rolling the dice to have Chuckles
Harris campaign with him in the Bay Area in a rally in which attendees have to
remain in their cars but must be vaccinated or have negative test to attend (does
the term overkill apply here?); mess Biden got us into in Afghanistan keeps
getting worse but a political cartoonist graphically portrays the stench of his
failure: 
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey
Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through August 24,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 2977 persons shot of whom 515
have died. As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for
this day in history, a music video link to “This Boy Is Mine”
by Monica and Brandy, that your semantemes are well chosen and quote by members of and beneficiaries of the Cajun Navy, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send
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1. Lamington
Day—created
by created by the National Trust of Queensland to celebrate a pastry to
celebrate a pastry created by the chef of Lord Lamington, the governor of
Queensland, Australia from 1896-1901 which consists of a sponge cake dipped in
chocolate and coated with diced coconut.
2. National
Second Hand Wardrobe Day—celebrating the efforts of charities
to raise money for their causes by the sale of donated second hand clothing
often designer quality which usually is in great shape and sold at a fraction
of its cost in department stores.
3. 1998 Number
1 Song USA—the
number 1 song in 1998 on this day was “This Boy Is Mine” by Brandy and Monica
for
13 weeks in that position to join 15 other songs that achieved number 1 status and
8 other acts who achieved their first
number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a music video of “This Boy
Is Mine by Monica and Brandy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSIOp_K5GMw
Monica is nearing her 41st
birthday and had to overcome the suicide of a boyfriend while the two of the
were visiting his brother’s gravesite. Brandy like Monica comes from a musical
family and has had a successful solo career and going strong releasing albums
at age 42.
4. Word of
the Day—the
word of the day is “semanteme” which means a word expressing an idea like a
noun, which too often in today’s politically charged neighborhood are not
carefully chosen.
5. Man With a Golden Baton—celebrating the birth
on this day in 1918 of Leonard Bernstein, the first American born conductor to
head a major symphony and the first to bring classical music to the masses via
television but a heavy smoker who suffered from emphysema in his 50’s and died
from a heart attack on October 14, 1990, 5 days after putting down his baton for good and retiring from conducting.
On this day in:
a. 1916 the
U.S. National Park Service was founded.
b. 1950 in order to
preempt a threatened strike on the nation’s railroads when the nation had just
entered the Korean War, President Truman ordered the Secretary of the Army,
Frank Pace, to seize control of the nation’s railroads.
c. 1967 George Lincoln
Rockwell, the head of the American Nazi Party, was assassinated by a former
member of this right wing fringe group.
d.
1997 Ergon Krenz, the last communist leader of East Germany, was convicted for
his “shoot to kill” order to prevent East Germans from trying to escape from
East Berlin and sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison.
e. 2017
Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas as a CAT 4 Hurricane and causes massive
flooding, kills 116 people, causes some $125 billion in damages and highlighted
the rescue efforts of an ad hoc group of Louisiana boaters called the Cajun
Navy.
Reflections on the work by
the Cajun Navy in times of hurricane disasters: “And as
it turned out, we couldn’t have done without those guys. They were a tremendous
asset.” Livingston Parish President Layton on earlier concerns of having
the Cajun Navy volunteering: “And as it turned out, we couldn’t have done
without those guys. They were a tremendous asset.” Among the rescuers was Jere
Delaune, an auto-body shop owner who helped ferry an estimated 200 people and
their pets to higher ground. When a woman plucked into his boat asked if he had
taken to the flood waters to help family, his reply was succinct: “All these
people here, they’re humans. They’re all my family.” Jere Delaune, Cajun Navy volunteer
who moved 200 some people and their pets to higher ground when asked if he was
saving family. “God put us where we needed to be,” Cajun Navy volunteer Joey
Bernard who rescued an injured sheriff’s deputy thrown from his boat and
hanging on a tree limb for dear life.
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