RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR
NOT December 1, 2021
CV World
Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis
with cases now over 263 million at 263,704,691 cases, 20. 20,485,505
of which are active, 243,219,186 closed with 237,977,853 recoveries
(97.85%), and cracking the 5,000,000 barrier 5,241,333 deaths (2.15% ))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 49 million at 49,560,906 with 9,485,305 active cases of
which 13,331 are serious or critical,
(8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases with upticks despite the
Delta variable to .141% of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the
29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 15,9407,023, 40,078,599 closures with 804,862
deaths (2.01%) and with 39,273,739 recoveries (97.99%). 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 2412 the U.S.
ranks behind Peru (5979) 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; Bulgaria the new number 2 (4152), Hungary
(3606), Romania (2971), Brazil (2875) which has been hit with a rapid rise
in deaths now slowing down passed by Romania, Argentina (2547), and newly added
to the list Columbia (2490), and slightly better than
Belgium (2317), Mexico (2249), Italy (2220), Poland (2207), UK (2122), Chile (1982), Spain (1883),
Ecuador newly added to list (1845), France (1823), Portugal (1818), Bolivia
(1613), Sweden (1485) that never closed its economy down like we
did, and Switzerland (1323).
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 2249/M with 348,048 active cases and a fatality rate of 8.31%
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: 1384 Deaths/M 868
Honduras: Active
Cases: 246,931 Deaths/M 102
El
Salvador: Active cases: 13,185 Deaths/M 576
US
Vaccinations: As of 12/01/21 460.8 million doses, 1.12 million per day (2
months left for 75% of population to be vaccinated) and in California 136,823
per day (which means at least 79% of the population of California has
received at least one shot which many believe is necessary to develop herd
immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is
required). In California 59,507,598 total doses have been given (84.4%
of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.5%), California has moved
from 6th to 8th of the 50 states in terms of
the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states and at 63.2% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S.
average of 59.4% and has moved from 14th
to 12th tied with Colorado in
terms of the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other
states.
Non CV
News: Ethan Crumbley, the 15 year old
student charged with bringing a gun his father had purchased 4 days ago and
shooting and killing 4 students and wounding 6 other students and a teacher,
had his parents coming to school meeting with officials over their son’s
behavior a couple of hours prior to the shooting (what sort of background
checks would have prevent Ethan from getting a lawfully purchased firearm?);
support for “Chuckles Harris” is full of buckles as Symone Sanders, another top
staffer it what is becoming a very dysfunctional staff for a besieged VP has
announced her retirement; Dawn Woods, the mother of Darrell Brooks who bailed
him out prior to his replicated driving over and into people and the Waukesha
Christmas parade, killing 6 and wounding over 40, is now blaming the system for
not providing her son with mental health services over his 50 page long rap
sheet career since 1999 (sadly she may be right as mental health services for
the criminally inclined seem to be found far and few between in inadequate
amounts); MLB managed to survive the COVID-19 restrictions that threatened to
kill the sport and the fans but came out alive looking forward to 2022 only to
have MLB contract expire and the players be locked out starting today (MLB
needs a work stoppage or strike like a hole in the head); the bodies have not
yet been buried and already idiots like disgraced Keith Olbermann is linking
the shooting by Ethan Crumbley to his
mother’s 2016 support of Trump; abortion remains the most divisive and partisan
issue that can rip this country apart that even members of SCOTUS lose their
decorum restraint as Soto Mayor in responding to oral arguments was making the
comparison to a fetus who reacts to pain of the abortion procedure to a brain
dead person who has a reflex action to a strike on the knee or the sole of a
foot (missed the point that the fetus has a whole life in front of him or her
if able to exit the womb and the person brain will accomplish nothing in that
state which will not change; after watching the nationwide push by teachers’
unions to cram CRT down kids throats, if parents were foolish enough that teachers
unions cared about the best interests of their students, those thoughts should
be purged as the Portland Teacher’s Unions is demanding Friday is a learn
virally at home to ease teachers’ stress; Biden’s nominee for a position on the
FCC has drawn outrage from Senate Reds over her positions that Fox News is the
most serious threat to our democracy and the “Fair and Balanced” network never
presents views conflicting with its conservative outlook (this idiot probably
watches Fox at all and spends all her time glued to the MSM likes of CNN or MSNBC
where conservative opinions are never heard; in the fight against COVID-19
fight the U.S. seems to be alone by not recognizing the effectiveness of
natural immunity for those who have recovered and leave it to the political
cartoonist to reveal why we seem to be putting all our eggs in the vaccine
basket and ignoring natural immunity:
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that
through November 26, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color
shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 4249 persons
shot of whom 743 have died.
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a recording link “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby with the
Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra, the fact that your
sipes have many more miles to go before needing replacement; and a quote by John
Noulton on the attitude of the British people to the Channel Tunnel, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events
like Thanksgiving or Veterans Day, college graduations, birthdays,
weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you
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1. Rosa
Parks Day—commemorating the refusal of Rosa Parks on this day in 1955 to
move from her “colored section” bus seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus after the
bus driver in order to allow standing white passengers to sit down relabeled in
“white only” which prompted her arrest which led quickly to the Montgomery Bus
Boycott which lasted for 381 days until SCOTUS ruled that segregation on buses
was a breach off the 14th Amendment and celebrated in the states of
Ohio, Oregon and Texas and other jurisdictions the date of her birthday
December 4.
2. World AIDS Day—created by the World Health Organization on this day
in 1988 to created awareness of the AIDS pandemic and to mourn for the millions
who have died from it.
3. 1942 Number 1 Song
USA—the number 1 song in 1942 on this day was the biggest Christmas
music hit of all time “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby
Singers and John Scott Trotter and His
Orchestra on a run of 9 weeks in that position to join 8 other songs that
achieved number 1 status. Here’s a recording of Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby
Singer and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWJ1djmqJ3A
4. Word of
the Day—the word of the day is “sipe” which a grove or channel on the
tread of a tire to improve its grip on the road and which is most needed as
winter brings snow, sleet and rain to challenge our driving.
5. Drugs and Martial Arts Don’t Mix—celebrating the birth on
this day in 1951 of noted American jazz electric bassist Jaco Pastorius who was a member of the band Weather Report in
1981 but who struggled with addiction and bipolar issues and after leaving
Weather Report had difficulty holding down gigs and was often homeless and developed
a bad habit of getting into bar fights
and coming out on the losing end of such self-induced encounters. After sneaking
on stage at a Santana concert he was ejected on September 11, 1987 and after
breaking a glass door at the Midnight Bottle Club for being refused entrance he
got into a fight with an employee who was well versed in martial arts who broke
several bones to his face and injured his right eye and left leg causing him to
be taken to a hospital where he went into a coma, suffering a brain hemorrhage which
left him brain dead to die on September 21 when taken off life support.
On
this day in:
a. 1862
President Lincoln in his State of the Union Address reaffirmed the necessity of
abolishing slavery as set forth in his Emancipation Proclamation 10 weeks ago.
b. 1952 as
a result of a New York Post article, Christine Jorgenson became the
first person to have had sexual reassignment surgery which she had performed in
Europe.
c. 1969 as the U.S. continued its draw
down of U.S. forces in South Vietnam, the first draft lottery since World War
II began.
d. 1990 after
starting to tunnel on both sides of the English Channel the tunnelers under the
seabed of the English Channel.
e. 1991
as Russian troops are massing on the Ukraine border 20 years ago on this date
Ukraine voters in a referendum approved by 92.3% of the voters approved the separation
from the rapidly dissolving Soviet Union.
Reflections
on the attitudes of the British people to the Channel Tunnel: John Noulton, director of public affairs for
Eurotunnel, was asked to explain the British attitude and he replied with a
quote from Andre Maurois's "L'Histoire d'Angleterre": "When I
tell you that Britain is an island, I have told you everything about the
British that you need to know."
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