BELIEVE IT OR NOT December 2, 2021
CV World
Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis
with cases now over 265 million at 265,161,612 cases, 20,987,355
of which are active, 244,174,257 closed with 238,916,284 recoveries
(97.85%), and cracking the 5,000,000 barrier 5,257,973 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 49,878,049 with 9,606,688 active cases of
which 13,714 are serious or critical,
(8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases with upticks despite the
Delta variable to .143% of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the
29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 15,557, 40,271,361 closures with 808,116 deaths
(2.01%) and with 39,463,245 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 2421 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 (4185), Hungary
(3649), Romania (2986), Brazil (2866) which has been hit with a rapid rise
in deaths now slowing down passed by Romania, Argentina (2548), and newly added
to the list Columbia (2491), and slightly better than
Belgium (2326), Poland (2253), Mexico (2252), Italy (2222), UK (2126), Chile (1987), Spain (1885),
Ecuador newly added to list (1845), France (1824), Portugal (1821), Bolivia
(1614), Sweden (1486) 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 11th on my list of deaths from the
pandemic at 2252/M with 349,171 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: 1244 Deaths/M
869
Honduras: Active
Cases: 245,978 Deaths/M 1028
El
Salvador: Active cases: 13,040 Deaths/M 579
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: The first confirmed case of the
Omicron Variant of COVID-19 has been confirmed in SFO where a fully vaccinated
and booster shot man has been infected and quarantined with mild symptoms; in
the highly watched Mississippi abortion case, oral questions by conservative
members of SCOTUS although not necessarily predictive on how they might rule
seem to point to their upholding the law; President Trump’s former Chief of
Staff Mark Meadows in a soon to be released book has claimed that Trump had
tested positive for COVID-19 before his debate with Biden, a charge Trump has
labeled false; Republicans who were up in arms and threatening to shut down the
federal government over Biden’s plan to require all companies with over 100
employees have those employees vaccinated as a condition to continue employment
caved and agreed to fund the government until February 18, 2022 (the sound too
often heard in the halls of Congress is that of a can being kicked down the
hallways); in a it’s never too early to begin suing entities to advance your
beliefs, Sofia and André Oliveira,
Portuguese sister and brother teenagers have sued 33 egregious polluting
countries including their own to force them to reduce pollution levels (aping
young Swede Greta Thunberg as climate activists); the killer of Jacqueline
Avant, 81, philanthropist and the wife of music legend Clarence Avant and
mother-in-law to Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandosti, Aerial Maynor, has been arrested thanks to
neighborhood surveillance cameras and the fact he had shot himself in the foot
following a burglary in Hollywood after the killing of Avant; Fauci continues to draw ire for his flip flops, his arrogance
and super ego, involvement in painful experiments on canines, at best deceiving
Congress over financing gain of function research at the Wuhan Lab, and
ignoring natural immunity’s apparent superiority to that obtained by vaccines,
leave it to the political cartoonist to cut through to the quick and reveal the
real Fauci:
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that
through December 1, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color
shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 4261 persons
shot of whom 747 have died.
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a recording link to “Paper Doll” by The Mills Brothers, the
fact that your cuisine choices have great sipidity, and a quote by Herbert
Hoover on his response to The Great Depression, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events
like Thanksgiving or Veterans Day, college graduations, birthdays,
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1. Special
Education Day—celebrated on this day since 2005 on the 30th
anniversary of the execution by President Ford of the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act which was passed to insure those children with
disabilities could still have access to a public school education which they
would need more than ever due to their disability.
2. International Day for the
Abolition of Slavery—created by the UN General Assembly and
first celebrated on this day in 1986 to promote modern forms of slavery like
human trafficking, forced child marriage and child labor and forcing children
to join terrorist groups as child soldiers.
3. 1943 Number 1 Song
USA—the number 1 song in 1943 on this day was “Paper Doll” by the Mills Brothers on a run
of 8 weeks in that position to join 11 other songs that achieved number 1
status. Here’s a recording of “Paper
Doll” by the Mills Brothers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaMeSrynug0
4. Word of
the Day—the word of the day is “sipidity” which means having a pleasing
taste or flavor which certainly describes most Haagen-Dazs ice
cream flavors.
5. Break a Leg on Tour Not a Great Thing—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1960 of noted drummer Nicholas Charles Dingley better
known to his fans as “Razzle” who was the drummer for the Finnish rock band
Hanoi Rocks whose front man broke his ankle during the band’s second tour in
the U.S. which caused the band to postpone several gigs freeing them to party
on December 8, 1984 with members of the band Mötley Crüe at the
house of Vincent Neil, the lead vocalist of the Mötley Crüe but
after the alcohol had been exhausted Neil and Razzle headed to a liquor store
with Neil driving with a blood alcohol of .17% and running into another car
severely injuring the passengers in the car he hit and killing Razzle at the
scene of the accident.
On
this day in:
a. 1930
in a too little too late movement in his State of the Union Address as The
Great Depression was increasing in its economic devastation, President Hoover
proposed a $150 million public works project to create jobs and stimulate the
economy.
b. 1954 the U.S. Sino
Defense Treaty was signed by the U.S. and the Republic of China relating to the
defense of Taiwan which China increasingly emboldened by a perception of a weak
and frail President Biden seems to be
inching toward an invasion of Taiwan.
c. 1993 Pablo Escobar, infamous
Columbian drug cartel leader, after escaping from a luxury prison in 1991 and
had escaped detection was finally cornered and shot to death in a shootout with
Columbian police and military forces.
d. 2001 Enron
filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy which at that time was the largest in American
history until later surpassed by the World-Com Bankruptcy and destroyed the
life savings of many employees who invested their 401 plans in Enron stock as
encouraged by company officers.
e. 2020
the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs removed cannabis from the list
of dangerous drugs of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
Reflections
on the Great Depression by a president who joked he was the only person to have
an economic depression named after him: “Two courses were open to us. We might have done nothing. That would
have been utter ruin. Instead, we met the situation with proposals to private
business and to the Congress of the most gigantic program of economic defense
and counterattack ever evolved in the history of the Republic. We put that
program in action. Our measures have repelled these attacks of fear and panic.
. . . We have used the credit of the Government to aid and protect our
institutions, both public and private. We have provided methods and assurances
that none suffer from hunger or cold amongst our people. We have instituted
measures to assist our farmers and our homeowners. We have created vast
agencies for employment.”― Herbert Hoover, Messages and Papers of
Herbert Hoover." Please enjoy the poems on events
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