Ridley’s Believe It Or Not June 28, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues on a slowing down basis the new year with cases now
over 182 million at 182,043,330 cases (181,756,397 yesterday), 11,561,523 of
which are active, 170,481,807 closed with 166,539,528 recoveries (97.69%
and 97.69% yesterday), and 3,942,279 deaths (2.31% and 2.31% yesterday) to
continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages
and decreased death percentage with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 34 million
at 34,495,211 (34,490,328 yesterday) with 4,948,219 active cases of which 3,838
(3,833) yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now down to .077% of active cases
and now back to a 5 serious or critical cases increase to decrease the
reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 25,433), 29,546,992 closed,
with 619,438 deaths (2.10% and 2.10% yesterday) and with 28,927,554 recoveries
(97.90% and 97.90% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly
improve and after many months is still .21% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing:
On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 1861 the U.S. ranks behind
Peru (5741) 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 9.37% 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 3.90% of its closed cases
have died (3112), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2614), Brazil
(2399) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us
and Italy, Belgium (2162), Italy (2112), Argentina (2030), Poland (1983), and
the UK (1877) which had passed us despite leading world in testing and now has
new deaths barely increasing), and slightly better than Mexico (1785),
Romania (1743), Spain (1727), France (1697), Portugal (1680), Chile
(1675), Sweden (1435) that never closed its economy down like we did,
Bolivia (1402) and Switzerland (1248).
Tests:
We have now conducted 503,818,434 tests (now at 1,513,339/M) compared to number
2 now France at 1,419,669/M) as we are conducting more tests in number and
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 3,077,388/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 been passed by Argentina to move down to 11th on my
list of deaths from the pandemic at 1785/M
with a fatality rate of 10.46% 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:
20,374 Deaths/M 496
Honduras: Active Cases: 161,100 Deaths/M
688
El Salvador: Active Cases: 3,767
Deaths/M 363
US Vaccinations: As of 6/28/21
324.4 million doses with after 4 days of decreasing doses finally increasing
for 2 days from .803 million per day to .875 million per day which means if the rate does
not increase it will take now take us
some 6 months to miss Biden’s goal of having 75% of the population
vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than
Flip Flop Fauci who is suggesting 90%). In California 42,436,028 total doses
have been given (86.6% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 85.1%),
but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which
hopefully end Newsom’s term, California moved from n 21st to 19th of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of
doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 49.6%
of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 46.3% has moved up from 23rd to 20th
among the 50 states. 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: In Miami the 11th
body has been recovered with over 150 still missing with one of the missing
Cassie Stratton calling her husband to tell him the building was shaking and
the pool just disappeared before the line went dead; it is easy to disagree
with Ilhan Omar but at least she is consistent once again ranting that every
illegal here deserves a pathway to citizenship (fails to realize you can’t have
a nation without have a secure border to determine who is allowed to enter and stay);
SCOTUS failed to grant cert. on a case in which an appellate court ruled
against a school district that had barred a biological female transgender who
identified as a male from using the men’s restroom at school; grudges against
perceived racism evident take a long time to disappear as Scottie Pippen is still
calling Bulls coach Phil Jackson a racist for drawing up a play that had a
white player Toni Kukoc shoot the last second winning shot in a 1994 playoff
game against the Knicks instead of Pippen; the West is suffering from a massive
heatwave which has cancelled track and field turnouts in Oregon causing soaring
temperatures in Seattle where only 41% of the homes have air conditioning;
while de Blasio inanely touts that is time to visit the Big Apple, another
shooting in broad daylight in Times Square is caught on surveillance camera
fortunately by a black shooter not wearing a mask; with the CDC ruling that
fully vaccinated people do not have to wear masks, Ted Cruz is blasting the
Biden Administration for still requiring the wearing of masks by vaccinated
people 2 years and older while on trains and planes; Jake Tapper the highly
biased “journalist” for CNN has lost 75% of his January viewers and is clueless
that bias no longer sells (when does the Cack News Network come to its senses
and fire him or at least renegotiate his contract with a significant reduction
in salary given his ratings; Florence Fang has not been defanged over her “Flintstone”
additions to her home and yard in Hillsborough and has settled her law suit
against the city for a $125,000 payment to her; the Spanish goaltender Unai
Simon tried to freeze a pass from a teammate only to have in bounce over his
leg to give Croatia a 1-0 lead but fortunately his teammates scored enough times
to bail him out from his error to give Spain a 5-3 victory in the quarter
finals; as Biden continues to get fawning praise from the press, leave it to
the political cartoonist to portray CNN’s CEO as the shoe licker he is: 
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data
to show that through June 26, 2,021, gun violence involving
mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive
and well with 1872 persons shot of whom 320 have died. As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a recording musical link to “Peg o' My Heart” by The Harmonicas, the
fact that your neighborhood is free of runagates and a quote by Donald Wileman on the the Treaty of Versailles, secure in the knowledge that if you want to
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1. Insurance
Awareness Day—clueless as to who created this observance but
suspect it is probably an insurance company or agency to promote awareness of
the benefits of having one’s insurance in place and current and with limits and
coverage appropriate for the risks need to be insured against.
2. International Body Piercing Day—commemorating the art of body pierce that has been with us
for a very long time in many societies and celebrated on this day since in is
the birthday of Jim Ward who opened the first commercial body piercing shop The
Gauntlet in Hollywood on November 17, 1978.
3. 1947 Number 1 Song USA—the
number 1 song in 1947 on this day on a run of 1 week in the position was “Peg o’
My Heart” by the Harmonicats to join 10 other songs in the number 1 position.
Here is a recording of “Peg o’ My Heart” by the group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BIuX7IsdE8
4. Word of
the Day—the word of the day is “runagate” which means a
fugitive which illegals here who commit crimes find it so easy to become one by
crossing the border into Mexico.
5. Father
of Brazilian Rock--celebrating the birth on this day in 1945 of
noted Brazilian rock composer, singer, songwriter and producer Raul Seixas who
struggled with alcohol and addiction and later developed diabetes and
pancreatitis that resulted in a heart attack caused by not taking his insulin
that killed him on August 21, 1989 2 days after the release of his last album.
b. 1969 the Stonewall Riots began marking the beginning of the Gay Rights Movement.
c. 1978 SCOTUS in the case of The Regents of the University of California v. Bakke barred racial quotas in university admissions.
d. 1987 for the first time in military history civilians were targeted in a chemical attack as Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
e. 1997 in the “Bite Fite” Mike Tyson was disqualified in the 3rd Round in his fight with Evander Holyfield for biting off a piece of Holyfield’s ear.
Reflections on the Treaty of Versailles: The
Germans denounced it as a fraud and a cheat which barely had a nodding
acquaintance with the 14 Points.
The French cursed the treaty because they had been
led to exchange solid advantages — particularly German territory — for British
and US security guarantees — guaranties which then fell through when the US did
not ratify the treaty.
By the 1920s most Britons deplored the Treaty as
well, both for being unfair to Germany and for being so harsh economically that
it kept the economy of Europe from fully recovering from the War.
The US, of course, rejected the Treaty fairly
massively. US citizens saw it as a document which — particularly through
the League of Nations, whose Charter was written right into the Treaty — tried
to embroil them in the corrupt politics and quarrels of old Europe — which the
USA had supposedly been designed as an escape from!
Once another Great War broke out, only 20 years
later, the discredit of the Treaty of Versailles was complete. There are
scholars who speak of the time between the wars as a 20 years armistice and
nothing more.” Donald G. Wileman, Ph.D, lecturer
at York University, Ontario, Canada
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