RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR
NOT November 26, 2021
CV World
Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis
with cases now over 260 million at 260,661,997 cases, 19,923,313
of which are active, 240,738,684 closed with 235,534,879 recoveries
(97.84%), and cracking the 5,000,000 barrier 5,203,809 deaths (2.16% )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 48 million at 48,978,500 with 9,392,415 active cases of
which 12,248 are serious or critical,
(8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases with upticks despite the
Delta variable to .130% of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the
29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 17,023, 39,586,085 closures with 798,391 deaths
(2.02%) and with 38,787,694 recoveries (97.98%). 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
2392 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 (4040),
Hungary (3501), Romania (2929), Brazil (2858) which has been hit with a
rapid rise in deaths now slowing down passed by Romania, Argentina (2544), and
newly added to the list Columbia (2483), and slightly
better than Belgium (2294), Mexico (2241), Italy (2212), Poland (2175), UK
(2112), Chile (1976), Spain
(1879), Ecuador newly added to list (1839), France (1813), Portugal
(1810), Bolivia (1605), Sweden (1483) that never closed its
economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1311).
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 2241/M with 344,876 active cases and a fatality rate of 8.32%
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: 1965 Deaths/M 865
Honduras: Active
Cases: 247,175 Deaths/M 1027
El
Salvador: Active cases: 13,185 Deaths/M 576
US
Vaccinations: As of 11/25/2021 454.4 million doses, 1.76 million per day
(4 weeks left for 75% of population to be vaccinated) and in California 230,653
per day (which means at least 78% 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 58,715,000 total doses have been given (83.4%
of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 79.5%), California has not
moved from 6th of the 50
states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of
doses delivered to the states and at 62.8% of its population fully vaccinated
compared to the U.S. average of 59.1% and has
moved from 11th to 14th in terms of the percentage of the population
fully vaccinated compared to other states.
Non CV
News: The news out of South Africa is
not good with a new COVID-19 variant known as B.1.1.529 which has the WHO calling an emergency session to
discuss its impact on the pandemic (look for it to be called the South Africa
variant from a country that unlike China has been fully cooperating in terms
revealing and releasing data); BLM needs to change its acronym to ILM (Indian
Lands Matter) as it tweeted rants about solen Indian land on Thanksgiving
(already marginalized by its refusal to protest the thousands of blacks shot
and killed not by the rare few by police but by fellow blacks in urban areas); the
FBI which has been more like the Federal Bungling Investigation may be shifting
from its inane focus on focusing on parents protesting CRT teaching in the
schools to that of the “Havana Syndrome” the causes of which have as of yet not
been determined; Pete Buttigieg whose mayoral experience as a former South Bend Mayor hardly makes him presidential
timber appears to becoming the MSM’s new new target of its sycophantic praise
as he is getting warm praise as Biden’s popularity and ability to handle issues
continues to be flushed down the toilet; Biden is touting on Thanksgiving that
“America is back” when the only back we see if his as he dotters slowly away
for a podium without taking questions (his handlers’ strategy of minimizing the chances of his
displaying his cognitive deterioration to the American public); in what
hopefully be the first of many steps returning to Trump policies that worked,
Biden is going to ban travel to and from South Africa and other South African
countries, an action when Trump applied it to China he ravaged him for being
xenophobic; from the left our political system is under massive assault by dark
money groups to the tune of $1.6 billion in 2020 (while money is pouring in a
few on the left are railing against the process); as more and more revelations
on the extent of the MSM promoting the false narrative of the non existent
Trump Russian collusion, a noted liberal writer Aaron Maté has
blasted the false journalism which after the cows have left the barn and we are
stuck with Biden has been forced to rewrite numerous false article which have
devastated journalistic integrity; Black Friday used to be celebrated as the
day retail merchants finally ended the cumulative days of red ink to land on
being in the black for the rest of the year but now sadly means massive
shoplifting by gangs of shoplifters many of whom are most likely black; while
the people in Venezuela are starving leave it to the political cartoonist to
show who is not suffering in the slightest in the same way our Blue elites are
impervious to the inflation that Biden has caused:
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that
through November 25, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color
shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 4198 persons
shot of whom 734 have died.
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, recording links “Do They Know Its Christmas” by Band Aid
and “Piano Concerto in B Flat” by Fred Martin and His Orchestra, the fact that
you far removed from being a Sinophile and opposing quotes on HUAC’s
investigation of the Hollywood 10 by J. Parnell Thomas and the Hollywood 10, 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. Black
Friday—celebrating the flock of shoppers that descended on retailers
the day after Thanksgiving and designated by the police in Philadelphia first
in 1961 to describe the increase in traffic and shoppers clogging the sidewalks
going into retail outlets and now heralded as the day that most retailers are
no longer in the red ink but have become profitable for the rest of the year.
2. Turkeyless Thanksgiving—clueless who or when created this observance which is
not to promote a vegetarian or vegan Thanksgiving but to promote a different
meat as the main course such as duck, geese, prime rib, or seafood to more
closely ape the first Thanksgiving by the Pilgrims in 1621 which consisted of
deer, geese, duck, pigeons, bass and cod and flint (a variety of corn grown by
the local Indians); if you want to keep the turkey but adhere to some seafood,
stuff the turkey with wild rice oyster stuffing.
3. 1941 Number 1 Song
USA—the number 1 song in 1941 on this day was “Piano Concerto in B
Flat” by Freddy Martin and His Orchestra on a run of 8 weeks in that position
to join 10 other songs that achieved number 1 status . Here’s a recording of
Freddy Martin and His Orchestra
performing “Piano Concerto in B Flat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckgH8UlIu1k
4. Word of
the Day—the word of the day is “Sinophile” which means someone of
admires China which after its involvement with COVID-19, its abuse of human
rights and its desire to supplant the U.S. as a leading power whose numbers
given China’s behavior are shrinking dramatically.
5. Doing What You Love To Do When the Time Comes—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1951 of noted singer/songwriter Bill Morrisey who was
a heavy smoker and drinker and who while on a musical tour of the South died of
heart disease on July 23, 2011 at age 59.
On
this day in:
a. 1947
the members of the Hollywood Ten were blacklisted by the movie studios.
b. 1984 36
top musicians gathered at a Notting Hill studio to record Band Aid’s “Do They
Know It’s Christmas” to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia which in the
first 12 months following its release raised £ 8 million: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fSknbR7Y4
c. 1986 Attorney Edwin Meese admitted
the proceeds of covert arms sales to Iran were funneled to the Contra Rebels
fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
d. 1992 the
Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia voted to split the country in 2 to the Czech
Republic and Slovakia effective January 1, 1993.
e. 1999
a 5 year old boy Elian Gonzales, floating in an inner tube off the coast of
Florida after the boat that he, his mother and Cubans fleeing Cuba sank, was
rescued by 2 fisherman which prompted competing lawsuits by his great uncle in
the U.S. and his Cuban father in Cuba for custody which was determined in the
father’s favor prompting a predawn raid to remove him when his relatives in the
U.S. refused to turn him over:
Reflections
on HUAC and its contempt of Congress leading to the Blacklist: “The Constitution
was never intended to cloak or shield those who would destroy it.” J. Parnell
Thomas, Chairman of HUAC “The United
States can keep its constitutional liberties or it can keep the Thomas
committee. It can’t keep both.” The Hollywood Ten. Sadly today conservatives
have become the Hollywood 10 and the Social Media Giants like Facebook and
Twitter have become HUAC
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