Ridley’s Believe It Or Not September 9, 2021
CV World Cases:
The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis
with cases now over 224 million at 224,053,858 cases, 18,779,219 of which are active, 205,274,639 closed with 200,653,349 recoveries (97.75%
and 97.75% yesterday, and 4,621,694 deaths (2.25% and 2.26% yesterday) 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 41 million at 41,561,156 with 9,141,650 active cases of
which 25,778 are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to slight
increases due to Delta variant to .282 %
of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the 29,271 peak on
12/31/2020 to 3,493, 32,419,506 closed,
with 674,547 deaths (2.08%) and with 31,744,949 recoveries (97.92%). Our death
rate percentage is now .17% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2024
the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5926) 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 (3124), aping Hungary in terms of increase in
deaths Bulgaria (2815), Brazil (2730) which has been hit with
a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2475), Columbia newly added to the
list (2435), Belgium (2184), Italy (2150), Mexico (2039),
Poland (1995), and slightly better than the UK which we just passed on the 18th (1959),
Chile (1924), Romania (1827), Spain (1822), Ecuador newly added to list (1803), France
(1763), Portugal (1755), Bolivia 1564), Sweden (1441) that
never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1261).
Tests: We
have now conducted 600,893, 690 tests (1,802,806/M) just passed by France at 2,000,788
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 4,109,786/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 9th on
my list of deaths from the pandemic at 2039/M with a fatality rate
of 8.62% 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: 46,950 Deaths/M 685
Honduras: Active
Cases: 232,988 Deaths/M 918
El
Salvador: Active cases: 12,632 Deaths/M 461
stopped here
US Vaccinations: As of 9/8/2021
377.0 million doses, .811 million per day (down to 4 months to go for 75%
of population vaccinated) and in California 83,496 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 48,694,320 total
doses have been given (86.7% of doses
received to exceed the U.S. average of 83.8%), but even with the pressure of a
recall to be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California
has not mover from 10th
tied with Minnesota of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses
administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 56.7% of
its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 53.3% and has
not moved from 15th 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: After
months of Biden and his lackeys assuring us that there would be no mandatory
vaccine requirements Biden flipped gears and will not be requiring all federal
employees and any employer of more than 100 employees to require vaccination or
weekly COVID-19 testing as a condition of employment but excepting the one
federal agency that has daily contact with most Americans—the U.S. Post Office who
will await OSHA’s mandate (needless to say the people who have had COVID-19 and
have natural immunity are not pleased nor are many governors and business
associations vowing to file legal action to halt Biden’s unconstitutional
acts); Walmart, Amazon and Kroger have agreed to sell in home Corona Virus test
kits at cost to those not wanting to vaccinate; while Biden is going to force
Americans to be vaccinated against their will not a peep from this feckless
president that illegal aliens be vaccinated of which at least 30% evidently
refuse (anyone caught or who surrenders so he or she can try to claim amnesty
should be required to be vaccinated or be deported immediately); in another
example of the Woke cancer that is destroying this nature a poll of students at
the University of Florida indicated that in teaching about 9/11 assessing blame
should be avoided along with any concepts of American exceptionalism (the 2977
who were killed other than the 19 scumbag terrorists must be rolling in their
graves over these students’ thoughts); the 2021 NFL season kicked off tonight
with Tom Brady putting the Bucs in position with a field goal in the closing
minutes to defeat the Dallas Cowboys 31-29 in a game which started not with the
playing of the National Anthem but “Lift Every Voice and Sing” which has been
called the Black national anthem (wonder what outcry if any we will see to this
caving by Goodell if any players kneeling while the Black national anthem is
sung); in an example of how worried Blues are that the voters will dump Newsom,
retired Senator Barbara Boxer evidently is urging Sen. Feinstein to resign (may
be a little too late for her to that before the recall but if she does retire
and the recall wins, a Red would be appointed and the Reds would have a
majority to block Biden’s leftist agenda big time; Biden’s chief of staff Klain
who is an unprincipled hack may have shot Biden’s OSHA vaccine requirement rule
in the foot by tweeting it was a way to work around the unconstitutionality of
requiring a vaccines; as outrage grows over
Biden’s botched withdrawal with hundreds Americans left behind along with over
$80 billion of arms and munitions in the Taliban’s hands and revelations that Fauci may have perjured himself on funding of change of function research at Wuhan Lab watch for the Blues to
move the news cycle to try to escape the condemnation the Biden Administration and Fauci has earned and admire the ability of the political cartoonist to portray that
news cycle shift:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive
and well to collect data to show that through September 8, 2021, gun
violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in
Chicago is alive and well with 3188 persons shot of whom 541 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 “Shake Ya Tail Feathers” by Nelly, Puff Daddy and Murphy Lee, that you
have seposited sufficient assets to supplement Social Security and a quote on
Attica Prison by Diane Quinn Miller, the daughter of a correctional officer
killed by Attica Prison retaking officers, secure in the knowledge
that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Halloween or
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1. Tester’s
Day—commemorating
the day in 1947 that the first bug not a software programming one but a real
one was found in a computer by Harvard scientists working on a Mark II Aiken Relay
Calculator discovered that a moth had lodged itself between 2 solenoids and
short circuited the device. It was removed placed in a computer notebook and soon
the word “bug” and “debug” became part of a computer programmers necessary vocabulary.
2. International
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Day—created
by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in 1999 to promote
awareness of the dangers of pregnant women using alcohol during their pregnancy
which will increase the risk of babes being born physical and mental
deformities with the message that there is no really safe level of alcohol
consumption during pregnancy.
3. 2003
Number 1 Song USA—the
number 1 song in 2003 on this day was “Shake Ya Tailfeather” by Nelly, Puff Daddy
and Murphy Lee on a run in that position of 4 weeks to join 10 other songs that
achieved number 1 status and join 9 other acts who achieved their first number
1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a recording of song from the
soundtrack of Bad Boys II “Shake
Ya Tailfeathers” by Nelly, Puff Daddy and Murphy Lee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=334guOlYwBs
Murphy Lee is a rapper who has been
performing since 1993 and a co-founder of the since discontinued rap group St.
Lunatics.
4. Word of
the Day—the
word of the day is “seposit” which means to set aside which is something given
the impending bankruptcy of Social Security is not something Americans are not
doing enough of for their retirement years.
5. To Dance On Ice—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1949 of noted British figure skater John Curry who
wanted to become a dancer but his father was opposed so he started taking ice
skating lessons at age 8 and went on to in 1976 to win the Gold Medal in the
Olympics, the World Championships and the European Championships and then
retire after publicly coming out as being gay. Sadly he was diagnosed with HIV
in 1987 which progressed to AIDS in 1991 and his death on April 15, 1994. On this day in a. 1940 at McNutt
Hall at Dartmouth University, George Stibitz demonstrated the first remote
operation of a computer when members at McNutt Hall transmitted questions to a
computer located at Bell Labs in New York City and seconds later received answers
at a teletypewriter.
b. 1966 in response to
the steadily increase in deaths from traffic accidents, Lyndon B. Johnson signed
into law the National Traffic and Motor
Vehicle Safety Act granting the Federal Government the right to set safety
standards for motor vehicles and
highways.
c. 1971 in New York, the
Attica Prison Revolt/Attica Prison Massacre began with 42 correctional officers
and civilian workers being taken hostage and one correctional officer and 3
inmates killed and when it ended 4 days later with a storming of the prison by
New York State police and other law enforcement agencies, 29 prisoners and 10
hostages had been killed and 89
prisoners wounded, many of whom were not
resisting and had tried to surrender while the retaking forces suffered 6 wounded
officers.
d. 1993
in a really what took you so long moment, the Palestine Liberation Organization
recognized Israel as a legitimate state.
e. 2015
Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom
and is still going strong although probably in great anguish over her grandson’s
and his wife’s antics.
Reflections
on the Attica Prison Revolt or as many have called it the Attica Prison
Massacre: “I do think that many of the issues surrounding Attica and why Attica
happened are still issues potentially within our prison systems not only in New
York, but all around the country.”- Deanne Quinn Miller, daughter of a corrections
officer killed at Attica by the retaking officers.
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