Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not August 4, 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 200,857,375 cases (199,957,754 yesterday); 15,733,664
of which are active, 185,123,711 closed with 180,856,023 recoveries (97.69%
and 97.69% yesterday, and 4,267,688 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 an unforeseen spike in
deaths should resulted in the rate remaining at 2.31%.
CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 38 million at 36,140,136 (35,907,196
yesterday) with 5,731,451 active cases
of which 12,577 are serious or critical, (11,890 yesterday and 8,599 on
3/25/2021) (now on a serious upswing due to Delta virus up to .022% 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 16,694, 30,408,685 closed,
with 631,148 deaths (2.08% and 2.08% yesterday) and with 29,777,537 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 1895 the U.S. ranks behind
Peru (5874) 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 (2645), Brazil (2613) which has been hit with a rapid
rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Columbia newly added to the
list (2360); Argentina (2332), Belgium (2168), (Italy (2123),
Poland (1991), and the UK (1904) which had passed us despite leading world in
testing and now has new deaths barely increasing), and slightly better
than Mexico (1855), Chile (1849), Romania (1796), Ecuador newly added to list
(1764), (Spain (1750), France (1712), Portugal (1713), Bolivia (1510), Sweden
(1438) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1250).
Tests:
We have now conducted 540,149,577 tests (1,621,514/M) just passed by France at
1,632,870 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 3,632,748/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 1855/M with a
fatality rate of 9.68% 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: 35,548 Deaths/M 576
Honduras: Active
Cases: 191,829 Deaths/M 790
El Salvador: Active
cases: 8,156 Deaths/M 410
US
Vaccinations: As of 8/4/2021 348.1 million doses at up from .673 million per
day to .677 per day (down to 6 months to go for 75% of population vaccinated)
and in California 90,681 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 45,467,015 total doses have been
given (88.8% 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 down from 16th to 17th 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 53.2%
of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 49.8% has
moved up from 18 to 16th 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: After the
governor of Missouri pardoned the McCloskeys for their gun display to protect
themselves, that noted rent evader and unpaid
rent judgment defendant Cori Bush was prompted to threaten Mark McCloskey that “his
day will come” (what many believe is a death threat seems to have prompted not
a peep from Pelosi or any of her puppets terrified by the Squad ); Biden proved
once again his is all words and no action conflict avoidance as although he
says Cuomo should resign he will not call him to do so nor weigh in on
impeachment; on the CRT front Russ Voight a former Director of the Office of
Management and Budget under Trump has filed FOIA requests seeking documents
between the pro CRT group Abolitionist Teaching Network and the Department of
Education (perhaps better named the CRT and Systematic Racism Brainwashers);
Cuomo is not yet running for reelection but already aping Biden’s Bunker Strategy
by hiding from the public in true Where’s Waldo style (
https://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2021/08/wheres-waldo-andrew-cuomo-hiding-in.html);
not only does it appear that Cuomo will fight efforts to have him resign or be
impeached it looks like this bully will allow no quarter as Dani Lever who was
on his communications staff until leaving for Facebook in August 2020 has been
revealed as a key player while working
at Facebook in disseminating Lyndsey Boylan’s confidential personnel files to
journalists trying to discredit her; the stench from CNN keeps getting more and
more overpowering as in addition to anchor Chris Cuomo airing not one word on
his brother’s sexual abuse scandal, CNN’s Director of Communications was Cuomo’s
former Communications Director which may explain CNN’s MIA on any reporting of
the scandal; Bill and Melinda are officially divorced and on an interview with
Anderson Cooper, Bill expressed regret that he had had any meetings with Epstein which he
claimed were for the sole purpose of encouraging his philanthropy (give him the
benefit of the doubt as a marriage of 27 years is a terrible thing to toss into
the trash); CNN shedding viewers like someone with a bad case of dandruff has
gone a week without having any program be watched by at least a million viewers
(when does the red ink from sponsors leaving or ad prices cratering cause pink
slips or at least salary cuts?); the “Biden Recovery” on the backs of the Warp
Speed vaccines may be running out of gas as the ADP jobs report showed only
330,000 new jobs in July after 680,000 in June; 80 year old drummer Charlie Watts
who is recuperating from an unspecified surgical procedure will recuperating at
home and will miss the Rolling Stones tour in the U.S. this fall; as Chris Cuomo
is ridiculed for not covering his brother’s sex scandal leave it to the political
cartoonist to portray his focus instead of journalism: 
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show
that through August 3, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of
color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 2616 persons
shot of whom 451 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 “Shadow Dancing” by Andy Gibb, the fact that you have never had
to endure being the target of a schwerpunkt; and a quote by Robert McNamara on
the August 4 Gulf of Tonkin “attack”, secure
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1. Coast Guard Day—celebrating
the formation of the Coast Guard, originally called the Revenue Service, on
this day in 1790 that with a fleet of 10 revenue cutters would enforce the
nation’s first tariff laws and received its present name when a law enacted by
President Wilson on January 28, 1915 merged the Life Saving Service with the
Revenue Cutter Service. In addition to maritime search and rescue and boating
safety the Coast Guard is on our maritime front line against the importation of
drugs, counterfeit goods and illegal aliens.
2. National White Wine Day—created
by the “Queen of Holidays” noted wine enthusiast and free lance writer Jace Shoemaker Galloway which is a holiday easy
to observe by enjoying a glass of your favorite white wine.
3. 1978
Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1978 on this day was “Shadow
Dancing” by Andy Gibb on a run of 7 weeks in that position to join 19 other
songs that achieved number 1 status as 11 acts achieved their first number 1
song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a video recording of “Shadow Dancing” by Andy Gibb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZxA3FVUwvk
He looked so full of life performing the song at 20 years old but to be dead
from addiction on March 10, 1985 5 days after his 30th birthday.
4. Word of the Day—the word
of the day is “schwerpunkt” which means in a military attack the main point of
attack which cannot be used in our effort against the flood of illegal aliens
across our border as there is not main point of effort.
5. Someone Special to Report Special—celebrating the birth on this day in 1970 of noted Fox
journalist William Brett Baier who is the anchor for Special Report well
known for Jen Psaki’s ire toward him
during another birthday boy on this day Barack Obama who during his
administration was on an anti-Fox witch hunt (a FOIA request unsurfaced her
email of October 23, 2009 where she referred to Baier as a “lunatic” and vowed
to place “some dead fish in the fox cubby”—great training for Biden’s Press
Secretary).
On this day in:
a. 1989
after earlier in the year great fires had occurred in Seattle and Ellensburg, in
Spokane, Washington, the Great Spokane Fire broke out and when it finally burnt
out 1 person had been killed and 32 blocks, virtually the entire business of
the city had burnt to the ground or dynamited to stop the fire’s spread.
b. 1964 2 whites
Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman and 1 black James Chaney, all of whom were
Freedom Riders protesting Jim Crow Laws in the South, were found dead from
gunshots near Philadelphia, Mississippi after disappearing on June 21,1964.
c. 1964 after the US Maddox had been
attacked by 3 North Vietnamese PT boats, the Maddox and the Turner
Joy, which is now moored in Bremerton, Washington as a floating museum,
claimed they were attacked North Vietnamese PT boats again which prompted LBJ
to go on TV denouncing the attack and go to Congress for passage of the Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution to get drawn into the national nightmare of the Vietnam War; unfortunately,
the attack never existed but the march
to disaster had started and would not end for the U.S. until the Paris Peace Accords
were signed on January 27, 1973.
d. 1987 the FCC rescinded the “Fairness Doctrine” requiring broadcasters
to present opposing views on issues such that issues were presented fairly.
e. 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon 2750 tons of ammonium
nitrate stored in warehouse without safety precautions for six years after being
seized from the MV Rhosus exploded with a force of 1.1 kilotons of
dynamite (5% of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima) to kill 218 people, injure some
7,500, cause $15 billion in damages and
render 300,000 residents homeless.
Reflections on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of
August 4, 1964: “ "...And ultimately it was concluded that
almost certainly the [August 4] attack had occurred. But even at the time there
was some recognition of a margin of error, so we thought it highly probable but
not entirely certain. And because it was highly probable—and because even if it
hadn't occurred, there was strong feeling we should have responded to the first
attack, which we were positive had occurred—President Johnson decided to
respond to the second [attack]. I think it is now clear [the second attack] did
not occur..." –Defense Secretary Robert McNamara What a waste caused by a radar
readings of waves and sonar readings of the American ships own propellers.
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