RIDLEY’S
BELIEVE IT OR NOT October 29, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an
increasing basis with cases now over 246 million at 246,592,349
cases, 18,192,948 of which are active, 228,399,401 closed with
223,398,263 recoveries (97.81%), and cracking the 5,000,000 barrier 5,001,138
deaths (2.19% )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 46 million at 46,693,879 with 9,362,900 active cases of
which 12,966 are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady
decreases despite the Delta variable to .138 % of active cases and to
increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 16,305, 37,330,979
closures with 763,894 deaths (2.05%) and with 36,567,085 recoveries (97.95%).
Our death rate percentage is .14% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to
2290 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5961) 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; Bulgaria the new number 2 (3488), Hungary (3192) just passed
by Bulgaria, Brazil (2830) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths
and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2534), Columbia newly added
to the list (2465), and Romania (2240), and slightly better than Belgium (2228),
Mexico (2200), Italy (2188), UK (2054),
Poland (2034), Chile (1960),
Spain (1868), Ecuador newly added to list (1831), France
(1797), Portugal (1787), Bolivia (1591), Sweden (1472) that
never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1287).
Tests: No
need to tally tests as testing programs are functioning well.
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 is 10th on my
list of deaths from the pandemic at 2200/M with 385,347 active cases and
a fatality rate of 8.34% 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: 6,588 Deaths/M 813
Honduras: Active
Cases: 249,161 Deaths/M 1012
El
Salvador: Active cases: 14,829 Deaths/M 553
US Vaccinations: As of 10/29/2021 417.8 million doses, 1.09
million per day (down to 2 months for 75% of population vaccinated) and in
California 135,122 per day (which means if the rate does not
increase it will take us now only 4
weeks 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 53,719,846 total doses
have been given (86.1% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 81.9%),
California has moved from 19th to 4th tied with New York of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of
doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 61.1%
of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 57.6% and
has moved from 1st to 15th in terms of getting vaccines received into
arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other
states.
Non CV
News: On the vaccine mandate front, the FDA has just approved on an emergency basis
the Pfizer vaccine for children 5 to 11 (look to more outrage among parents
with young kids now facing vaccine mandates to be able to attend public
schools); GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa enroute to a radio interview was
hit by a cab but still able to appear and complete the interview (déjà vu of
Teddy Roosevelt on the Bull Moose being shot and still delivering a campaign
address); the McAuliffe Youngkin campaign appears to be infected by “dirty
tricks” of McAuliffe as Younkin charged him of colluding with the Lincoln
Project to have 5 false Youngkin supporters appear at his rally dressed like “Unite
the Right” supporters (McAuliffe’s campaign denied the allegation declaring “there
is only one white supremacist in the race—Glenn Youngkin” before the Lincoln
Project admitted to the deceptive stunt); the Wokes and PC warriors ranting
against the tomahawk chop of Atlanta Brave fans have been scalped by Baseball
Commissioner Rob Mansfeld who supported its use pointing out that the Eastern Band
of the Cherokee Indians are supportive of it (wonder if Pocahontas is too busy
with her billionaire’s wealth tax to weigh in on the issue); Scott Ziegler, the
embattled superintendent of the Loudin County School District, evidently has
never read How to Win Friends and Influence People as he compares the
parents in Loudin County protesting CRT to the protestors on July 6 and those
drinking on a public beach; Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Red who voted to impeach
Trump has announced he will not seek reelection; AG Merrick Garland who refused
to answer a simple question of whether he had contacted the Office of
Government Ethics given his son-in-law’s company Panorama who has business dealings
with the Loudin County School District that may involve the CRT that the
parents were so outraged about is now facing a demand for investigation by the
Office of Government Ethics filed by America First Legal (Garland is coming
across as a man bent on revenge due to his failure to even get a vote on his
nomination); WHO’s leader Tedros disgraced over his handling of China’s
involvement in the COVID-19 pandemic is running for another term unopposed; in
the hardware versus software market cap battle Microsoft at $2.47 trillion has
edged Apple’s $2.46 trillion; as Biden jets off
to Rome for an audience with the Pope and the G20 Summit in Rome and then to
Switzerland for a climate conference while the nation is beset with major
issues where he and his Immigration Czar are MIA, leave it to the political
cartoonist to reveal the molehill he is focused on while ignoring the chaos of
the mountains:
Chicago Gun
Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through
October 28, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 3895 persons shot of
whom 668 have died.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for
this day in history, a music video link to “Look What You
Made Me Do” by Taylor Smith, the fact that you rarely express ideas that
are shuck; and a quote by Christina Romer on the 1929 Stock Market Crash, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift
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1. International Internet Day—created by the
Association of Internet Users and celebrated since 2005 on this day which is
the anniversary of the first computer to computer transmission on this day in
1969.
2. World
Stroke Day—created by the World Stroke Organization in 2006 to create
awareness of a condition that is the leading cause of disability and the second
leading cause of death and means to prevent a stroke and methods to recover
from one.
3. 2017 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in
2017 on this day was “Look What You Made Me Do” by Taylor Swift on a run in that position of 3 weeks to
join 11 other songs that achieved number 1 status as 12 acts
achieved their first number 1 song on
the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a music video of “Look What You Made Me Do”
by Taylor Swift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tmd-ClpJxA
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “shuck” which
means nonsense which describes typically what comes out of the mouths of any
member of the Squad.
5. Rx For Death—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1943 of noted screen writer, actor and producer Don Simpson who
produced such memorable films as Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun and
The Rock that grossed over $3 billion worldwide was heavily addicted to
drugs both prescription and illegal and before he died of heart failure due to
combined drug intoxication of cocaine and prescription drugs from a habit that
was running $60,000 a month on prescription drugs on January 19, 1996.
On this day in:
a. 1929 in what became known as “Black Tuesday” the New York Stock
Exchange crashed marking the end of the great Bull Run of the 20’s to be
replaced with the Great Depression.
b. 1960 a plane carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed shortly
after takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, killing 22, including 16 members of the football
team and injuring 24.
c. 1994 53 year old Francisco Duran
fired over 2 dozen rounds at the White House trying to kill President Clinton before being
subdued by onlookers. Arrested and convicted after he asserted a not guilty
plea by reason of insanity and was sentenced to 40 years. Currently rotting in
a Super Max federal penitentiary with a parole date in 2029.
d. 1998 the Space Shuttle Discovery, carrying 77-year-old
John Glenn aboard, was launched into space with the distinction of carrying the
oldest person into space until l surpassed by 82 year old Wally Funk and later
by 90 year old William Shatner thanks to Jeff Bezos whose trips unlike Glenn’s were
very brief and suborbital.
e. 2008 Delta Airlines merged with Northwest Airlines reducing the
number of major carriers in the U.S. to 5.
Reflections on the Stock Market Crash known as Black Tuesday:
“ The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large
amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies
and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending
as they waited for more information.” Christina Romer noted Professor of
Economics at the University of California Berkeley and former chair of the
Council of Economic Advisers for President Obama
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