Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not August 3, 2021
CV World Cases:
The CV pandemic across the planet continues on a slowing down basis the
new year with cases now nearing 200 million at 199,957,754 cases (199,558,118 yesterday); 14,348,889
of which are active, 184,608,865 closed with 180,353,614 recoveries (97.69%
and 97.69% yesterday, and 4,255,251 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 but which has
been stuck on the same death rate for many weeks but barring an unforeseen
spike in deaths should fall to 2.30% tomorrow.
CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 35 million at 35,907,196 (35,894,261
yesterday) with 5,555,178 active cases
of which 11,890 are serious or critical, (11,826 yesterday and 8,599 on
3/25/2021) (now on a serious upswing due to Delta virus up to .021% 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 17,381, 30,352,018 closed,
with 629,951 deaths (2.08% and 2.08% yesterday) and with 29,722,067 recoveries
(97.92% and 97.92% yesterday). Our death rate percentage has been stuck at
2.08% since July 12, 2021 and still and .23% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing:
On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 1891 the U.S. ranks behind
Peru (587269) 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 9.31% 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 3.86% of its
closed cases have died (3117), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths
Bulgaria (2644), Brazil (2602) which has been hit with a rapid
rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Columbia newly added to the
list (2355); Argentina (2323), Belgium (2168), (Italy (2122),
Poland (1991), and the UK (1902) which had passed us despite leading world in
testing and now has new deaths barely increasing), and slightly better
than Mexico (1850), Chile (1847), Romania (1796), Ecuador newly added to list
(1765), (Spain (1748), France (1711), Portugal (1712), Bolivia (1508), Sweden
(1438) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1250).
Tests:
We have now conducted 532,272,314 tests ( 1,597,895/M) just passed by France at
1,620,903 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 3,620,710/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 to move down to 12th on my list of deaths
from the pandemic at 1850/M with a
fatality rate of 9.72% 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: 33,799 Deaths/M 574
Honduras: Active
Cases: 191,026 Deaths/M 784
El Salvador: Active
cases: 8,177 Deaths/M 406
US
Vaccinations: As of 8/2/2021 346.9 million doses at up from .663 million per
day to .673 per day (down to 7 months to go for 75% of population vaccinated)
and in California 88,024 per day which means if the rate does not increase it
will take us now some 4 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 45,340,695 total doses have been
given (88.9% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 86.7%), but even
with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which hopefully end
Newsom’s term, California has moved
up from 17th to 16th
tied with Utah of the 50 states in terms
of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to
the states and at 53.1% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S.
average of 49.7% has moved up from 19th
to 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: The NY AG has
just released a detailed report on Andrew Cuomo’s alleged sexual harassment of
multiple corroborating claimants sparking renewed calls for his resignation or
impeachment while he defiantly denies all allegations and for now has no
intention of resigning (White House has so far been silent on its view); the
Andrew Cuomo sexual misconduct scandal has on this issue lit the flame of
needed bipartisanship in that every member, Blue and Red, from New York in the
House and Senate are calling for Cuomo to resign which may be the least of his problems
as the Albany DA is investigating criminal culpability (as a 3 term governor
Cuomo has appointed a slew of judges in the Empire State and with his arrogance
is probably feeling that there is no way his appointees will turn their back on
him and perform their sworn duties as a judge); Biden is scrambling to try to
find a way to extend the ban on evictions through executive order as Mad Maxine
throws the Constitution into the toilet and urges Biden to ignore SCOTUS and
issue an extension; Alexander Vindman trying to sell his book was on Morning
Joe making the unchallenged claim
that not removing Trump cost us 600,000 lives (total insane rant but a
anti-Trumper always a big welcome on the show); the NIH Director is playing
with his COVID-19 Yo-Yo first urging vaccinated parents to wear masks at home
to protect their unvaccinated children then reversing himself; as mask mandates
are becoming the norm, from the government it looks more and more like the
Keystone Kops as a former Biden COVID-19 adviser proclaims that cloth and paper
masks are not that effective and should be replaced with N-95 masks (only in
government can you mandate the wearing of a mask that is great for fogging up
your glasses and concealing your identity but useless in fighting the virus; Missouri’s governor was quick to act after the
McCloskeys entered their guilty pleas by pardoning them; finally voters are
seeing shallowness self promoting side of AOC as Nina Turner, the candidate she backed in the Blue primary
for Ohio’s 11th District lost; as masks continue to face attacks for not
being effective, leave it to the political cartoonist showing a disgraced Fauci
trying to become relevant with his “Bubble Boy” CV resistant protection:
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show
that through August 2, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of
color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 2592 persons
shot of whom 445 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 “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” by Andy Gibb, the fact that
you totally removed from being a schmegeggy; and a quote by Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Landis on the Black Sox 1919 Scandal, 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. National Night Out—created
by the National Association of Town Watch in 1984 and celebrated on the first Tuesday
of August to allow neighborhoods to take back their streets and parks from
criminal elements with the cooperation of the police—given the surge in
shootings in broad daylight across the nation and the exodus of police from urban
police forces, the observance might be a much more a more dangerous one to
observe.
2. National Watermelon Day—celebrating
that melon that has been enjoyed since early Egyptian times, loaded with
vitamins and close to 95% water a totally refreshing summer treat and its rind
when pickled is a great addition to any meal.
3. 1977
Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1977 on this day was “I
Just Want to Be Your Everything” by Andy Gibb on a run of 3 weeks in that
position to join 28 other songs that achieved number 1 status and join 17 other
acts who achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here
is a recording of “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” by Andy Gibb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA6L8-lxaA8 Gibb enjoyed great success in the 70’s but
struggled with depression and drugs and his career started to fade; he tried to
make a comeback going into Betty Ford for rehab in 1985 and another rehab
attempt in 1987 after which he thought he had overcome his drug addiction and
started recording songs again but 2 days after his 30th birthday on
March 7, 1988 he checked into a hospital complaining of chest pains and on the
10th he lapsed into unconsciousness and died from myocarditis, an inflammation
of the heart caused by his years of cocaine use.
4. Word of the Day—the word
of the day is “schmegeggy” which means an idiot which describes too many of the
people wandering the halls of Congress.
5. Unlucky Day—celebrating the birth on this
day in 1964 of Lucky Lube, South Africa’s most successful reggae musician with
20 albums but whose luck ran out on October 18, 2007 when after dropping 2 of
his children off at school he was confronted by carjackers who did not probably
recognize him and who fatally shot him.
On this day in:
a. 1921
MLB 1st Commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis affirmed the
lifetime ban from baseball of 8 baseball players of the Chicago White Sox known
as Chicago Black Sox one day after the jury deliberating for 3 hours on the
trial for the alleged fixing of the 1919
World Series found all 8 not guilty.
b. 1946 Santa
Claus Land, the world’s first themed park, opened in, appropriately named, Santa
Claus, Indiana.
c. 1977 Tandy announced the TRS-80, one of
the world’s first mass produced personal computers.
d. 2004 the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopened to the public after
being closed following the 9/11 attacks.
e. 2019 Patrick Crusius entered a Walmart
in El Paso, Texas and started shooting and when the shooting stopped, he had
killed 23 and wounded 23 and fled the scene to shortly thereafter surrender to
authorities. His trial has not yet started due to the delays in the judicial system
due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Reflections on the Chicago Black Sox Scandal: Regardless of the verdict of juries, no
player who throws a ball game, no player who undertakes or promises to throw a
ball game, no player who sits in confidence with a bunch of crooked ballplayers
and gamblers, where the ways and means of throwing a game are discussed and
does not promptly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball.” Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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