Ridley’s Believe It Or Not September 21, 2021
CV World Cases:
The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis
with cases now over 229 million at 229,563,517 cases, 18,589,902 of which are active, 210,973,615 closed with 206,264,188 recoveries (97.77%),
and 4,709,427 deaths (2.23% )to continue the low 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 42 million at 42,912,833 with 9,709,614 active cases of
which 24,330 are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to slight
decrease despite the Delta variant to .251
% of active cases and to increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on
12/31/2020 to 4,941, 33,203,219 closures with 692,012 deaths (2.08%) and with 32,511,207
recoveries (97.92%). Our death rate percentage is still .15% lower than the
world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2076
the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5935) 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 (3129), aping Hungary in terms of increase in
deaths Bulgaria (2909), Brazil (2756) which has been hit with
a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2504), Columbia newly added to the
list (2443), Belgium (2188), Italy (2160), and Mexico
(2079) and slightly better than Poland (1997), UK (19806), Chile (1935), Romania (1865), Spain (1836), Ecuador newly added to list (1818), France
(1773), Portugal (1763), Bolivia (15720), Sweden (1448) that
never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1261). As
vaccine mandate hysteria grows in the U.S., if you are infected you have a
1.614% chance of dying and if you are over 65 the percentages of deaths for that
group is 78%.
Tests: We
have now conducted 619,923,111 tests (1,859,603/M) just passed by France at 2,096,319
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 4,285,246/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 drop to 10th on
my list of deaths from the pandemic at 2079/M with a fatality rate of 8.49%
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: 37,771 Deaths/M 712
Honduras: Active
Cases: 239,901 Deaths/M 940
El
Salvador: Active cases: 13,929 Deaths/M 477
US Vaccinations: As of 9/16/
2021 383.0 million doses, .782 million per day (down to 4 months for 75%
of population vaccinated) and in California 88,524 per day
(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 49,388,384 total
doses have been given (86.5% of doses
received to exceed the U.S. average of 83.0%), but due to the pressure of a
recall vote for which ends today, California has moved from 9th to 10th of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of
doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 57.5%
of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 54.2% and
has moved down from 15th
place to 16th place as a percentage of the population fully
vaccinated.
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
autopsy of Gabby Petito has confirmed her death was a homicide and now the FBI
and Florida police have shifted to the probable killer, her fiancée Brian
Laundrie who has been missing for several days; Boris Johnson and Biden met at
the White House with British and American members of the press present; Johnson
took several questions from the British press but Biden trying to conceal his
growing cognitive failings refused to take questions from our press (wave
goodbye to any claim of transparency); once again the Biden Administration is
lying through their teeth with a couple of planes loaded with Haitians flown
out to create the false narrative illegals are being deported while bus load after
bus load of illegals are being transported into the interior with notices to
appear in immigration court (good luck with compliance on that); the House
clearing the deck for the trillions Biden wants to spend that we cannot afford
have raised the debt ceiling on a straight party line vote 220-211; the
progressives flexed their power and funding for Israel’s Iron Dome was scrapped
from an emergency funding bill but Majority Leader Hoyer in a go pound sand
move announced he will announce a separate bill which one would think all he
had to do is walk across the aisle to get more that the votes needed; our
dementia afflicted president is looking more and more like a puppet with his
aides pulling the strings as we now learn that his aides hustled the press out
of the room as his meeting with Boris Johnson ended but also shouted down the
questions the press tried to ask; SEC Chairman Gary Gensler opined that he does
not see a long term future for crypto currency;
with the CBP overwhelmed by a growing tidal wave of illegals leave it to
the political cartoonist to point out graphically the failures of Biden’s
immigration policy:
Chicago Gun Violence:
Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through September
20, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 3409 persons shot of whom 582
have died.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for
this day in history, a music recording link to “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry, a Sunday sermuncle and a quote by Pat Summit on Alzheimer’s, secure
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1. International
Day of Peace—created
by the UN in 1981 to promote peace and celebrate the absence of war and
violence even if such absence if temporary in the form of a cease fire for
humanitarian aid.
2. World
Alzheimer’s Day—clueless of who created this or when but this is a disease
the that is the 6th leading killer of Americans, 1 of whom is
stricken every 65 seconds and of the top 10 diseases in terms of mortality it
is the only one that cannot be treated or prevented and with our population
aging is going to place a tremendous strain on our health care system and the
family members of the patients.
3. 2010 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 2010
on this day was “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry on a run in that position of 2 weeks to join 16
other songs that achieved number 1 status as 9 acts
achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here
is a music video of “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WtmW-lfeE
Katy
has been performing since 2001 and rose to fame with her second album in 2008
and has gone on to sell 143 million records and going strong at age 36.
4. Word of
the Day—the
word of the day is “sermuncle” which means a short sermon which is often music to
churchgoers ears.
5. Torpedoed by the Feds and the Big C-- celebrating
the birth on this day in 1903 of Preston Tucker, noted automotive entrepreneur
who founded Tucker Motors to design and produce a revolutionary car many of
whose features were later incorporated later on by automobile manufacturers
called the “Tucker Torpedo.” He ran afoul of the SEC due to his fundraising
methods and was prosecuted for securities fraud and acquitted but company was
forced into bankruptcy and the car never entered into production. Tucker was a
heavy smoker and like so many heavy smokers contracted lung cancer and died way
too soon from it on December 26, 1956, at the age of 53.
On this day in:
a. 1780 Benedict Arnold’s
name became synonymous with traitor as he delivered the plans of West Point to
the British.
b. 1972 Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law
in the Philippines which remained in place until he lost a snap election in
1986 and under strong pressure from President Reagan, fled the country after
stealing a reputed $5-10 billion from the Philippine treasury.
c. 1981 Sandra Day O’Connor was
unanimously confirmed by the Senate as an Associate Justice of SCOTUS.
d. 1996 the Defense of
Marriage Act was enacted only to be overturned by SCOTUS less than 10 years
later.
e. 2001 in a chilling reminder
that whites do not have a monopoly on racism, white Ross Parker was attacked
and killed in an unprovoked attack by 10 British Pakistani youths, 3 of which
were convicted and sentenced to life in prison with minimum sentences of 16-18
years.
Reflections
on Alzheimer’s Disease: “Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have
your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase
the marks we leave behind, all the sandcastles. Some days are better than
others.” Pat Summit, noted woman’s basketball player and coach of the Lady Vols
of the University of Tennessee who 8 NCAA finals and held the record when she
retired early in 2012 after 38 years due
to early onset Alzheimer’s for most wins at 1098 which was surpassed by
Stanford coach Tara van der Vere (1125) and UConn coach Geno Auriemma (1019).
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