Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not August 6, 2021
CV World Cases:
The CV pandemic across the planet continues on a slowing down basis the
new year with cases now over 202 million at 202,228,427 cases (201,412,529 yesterday); 16,150,212
of which are active, 186,078,215 closed with 181,790,595 recoveries (97.70%
and 97.70% yesterday, and 4,287,620 deaths (2.30% and 2.30% 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 until the drop to 2.30% from
2.31% on the 5th.
CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 36 million at 36,447,123 (36,190,896
yesterday) with 5,980,010 active cases
of which 13,081 are serious or critical, (12,709 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 16,190, 30,467,113 closed,
with 632,641 deaths (2.08% and 2.08% yesterday) and with 29,834,472 recoveries
(97.92% and 97.92% yesterday). Our death rate percentage has been stuck at
2.08% since July 12, 2021 and now .22% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing:
On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 1899 the U.S. ranks behind
Peru (5878) 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 (3118), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths
Bulgaria (2649), Brazil (2623) which has been hit with a rapid
rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Columbia newly added to the
list (2372), Argentina (2349), Belgium (2170), Italy (2124),
Poland (1992), and the UK (1907) which had passed us despite leading world in
testing and now has new deaths barely increasing), and slightly better
than Mexico (1869), Chile (1859), Romania (1796), Ecuador newly added to list
(1772), Spain (1753), Portugal (1716), France (1714), Bolivia (1514), Sweden
(1438) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1251).
Tests:
We have now conducted 542,891,847 tests (1,629,669/M) just passed by France at
1,651,4950 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 3,658,575/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 1869/M with a
fatality rate of 9.63% 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: 38,424 Deaths/M 5829
Honduras: Active
Cases: 193,263 Deaths/M 799
El Salvador: Active
cases: 8,728 Deaths/M 413
US
Vaccinations: As of 8/6/2021 349.8 million doses at up from .699 million per
day to .694 million per day (down to 6 months to go for 75% of population vaccinated)
and in California 90,321 per day (91,034 yesterday) which means if the rate
does not increase it will take us still 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 45,677,059 total
doses have been given (88.8% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 86.5%),
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 tied now
with Illinois to 16th of the
50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of
doses delivered to the states and at 53.4% of its population fully vaccinated
compared to the U.S. average of 50.0% has moved up from 17th 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: Chilling reminder
video of the rampant deadly crime surge as a surveillance camera captured a
dark skinned woman pulling out a pistol in broad daylight and executing 42 year
old Delia Johnson while she was conversing with a group of people in New York
City after Ms. Johnson had attended a funeral; maligned Chris Cuomo is going on
a supposedly long planned vacation and a one hour special on AOC, that icon of
objectivity and tolerance (real question should be whether the vacation will
morph into a termination or demotion off his anchor status); if any of the 11
sexual harassment victims sue Cuomo the state of New York will be liable for
any judgment as his harassment occurred in the course of his employment and on
state property (the gift that keeps on giving Andrew); New York has a law
requiring all state employees to undergo an annual training session on sexual
harassment but attestation form that indicates the person has had such training
in Cuomo’s case was signed by his aide not him which raises the logical
question did he obtain such training (safe bet most likely given the fact he
seems clueless as to what is or is not sexual harassment is not a chance the
training was received); 2 off duty Seattle police officers who were in Washington
during the January 6, 2021 demonstration have been fired although they claimed
they had left before the storming of the Capitol occurred; lobbyists for the
real estate industry spent some $100 million to unsuccessfully prevent the
termination of the eviction ban which has been replaced with a ban that will
expire on October 31 (with the jobless rate now down to 5.1% and employers
begging for workers it would be a rare person not able to find a job to start
paying rent so the non-corporate landlords who provide a really large
proportion of the rental property in this nation can start receiving rent so
they are not being bled to death financially with mortgage costs); the snit fit
between Biden and De Santis continues but with De Santis getting the last laugh
and goring Biding big time with his retort—What else has he forgotten? (since
the answer is almost everything due to dementia has been forgotten, the better
retort would have been what if anything can he still remember?); as the government considers a vaccine mandate and more
and more private companies are considering vaccination as a condition of
employment, leave it do the political cartoonist to graphically portray the
loss of our liberties:
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a video musical link to “Magic” by Olivia Newton John, the fact that you do not have sciapodous; and a quote by Albert J. Beveridge on the beliefs of the Bull Moose Party, 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 unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. Please contact me for details on pricing.
1. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony—commemorating the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on this day in 1945 and held every year since 1947 and a grim reminder of the total folly a nuclear war would entail in terms of death and destruction and adverse climatic changes caused by a nuclear winter arising from such exchange. 2. International Beer Day—created by Jesse Avshalomov in 2007 and celebrated on the first Friday in August since 2013 to celebrate the beers made in all nations and cultures as a link to a beverage what was first brewed in Sumeria some 6000 years ago.
3. 1980 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1980 on this day was “Magic” by Olivia Newton John on a run of 4 weeks in that position to join 16 other songs one of which was by John Lennon which was achieved by him posthumously as the 4th artist to achieve that distinction, that achieved number 1 status as 6 acts achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a recording of “Magic” by Olivia Newton John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDmjEN-6ekE This talented singer has been waging a long fight against breast cancer but is still with us.
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “sciapodous” which means having large feet which with a size 17 shoe describes Shaq O’Neill to a tee.
5. I5 Minutes of Fame Trumped by Art That Lives a Lifetime--celebrating the birth on this day in 1928 of noted pop artist
Andy Warhol who achieved fame and fortune with paintings like a Campbell’s Soup
Can but his 15 minutes of fame ran out on February 22, 1987 when he died in his
sleep of an irregular heart beat while recovering from gall bladder surgery.
On this day in:
a. 1912
The Bull Moose Party met in the Chicago Coliseum to nominate Teddy Roosevelt to
run for president of the United States to receive more votes that the
Republican nominee Taft but to lose to Woodrow Wilson.
b. 1926 in a
closing the curtain on silent films, Warner Brothers released the movie Don
Juan starring John Barrymore in the Vitaphone format.
c. 1960 Fidel Castro nationalized all U.S.
and foreign owned property in Cuba following his overthrow of Cuba Dictator
Batista.
d. 1991 Tim Berners-Lee published his
ideas for a World Wide Web and WWW made its appearance on the internet and the
internet age is on.
e. 2011 a
U.S. Army Chinook helicopter with 38 Seals and other soldiers and one war dog
was shot down by a RPG in combat operations in Afghanistan, killing all aboard
for the largest single day fatalities during our long war in Afghanistan.
Reflections on the platform of the Bull Moose
Party: “We stand for a nobler America; we stand for a broader liberty, a fuller
justice; we stand for intelligent co-operation instead of reckless competition;
we stand for mutual helpfulness instead of mutual hatred; we stand for equal
rights as a fact of life instead of a catch-word of politics; we stand for the
rule of the people as a practical truth instead of a meaningless pretense.”
Albert J. Beveridge
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