From Worldometer (new COVID-19 deaths yesterday):
DAY USA WORLD Brazil India South Africa
June 9 1093 4732 1185 246 82
July 22 1205 7128 1293 1120 572
Aug 12 1504 6556 1242 835 130
Sept 9 1208 6222 1136 1168 82
Oct 21 1225 6849 571 703 85
Nov 25 2304 12025 620 518 118
Dec 30 3880 14748 1224 299 465
Jan 14 4142 15512 1151 189 712
Feb 3 4005 14265 1209 107 398
25 2414 10578 1582 119 144
Mar 2 1989 9490 1726 110 194
31 1115 12301 3950 458 58
April 6 906 11787 4211 631 37
May 4 853 13667 3025 3786 59
26 607 12348 2399 3842 101
June 1 287 10637 2346 3205 95
30 249 8505 2127 991 383
July 7 251 8440 1595 817 411
13 307 8117 1613 623 633
14 374 8721 1574 580 453
Summary:
- While some countries like the U.S. have experienced a ten-fold lowering of deaths, others are seeing serious upticks, particularly in Asia, Africa and even parts of Europe.
- You look at the vaccination rate (per 100K people), and the low ones are where cases are increasing because the Delta strain is more infectious:
- Africa 4.13
- South Africa 7.14
- Thailand 17.86
- Russia 32.44
- Mexico 39.32
- World 43.89
- Asia 46.05
- Japan 47.18
- Europe 74.34
- China 95.47
- U.S. 99.74
- Israel 126.15
- UAE 160.92
- The USA yesterday had 35,447 new cases. If the mortality rate remains the same (0.018), the new deaths/day a week to ten days from today could well double into the 600's. Still, the January-February figure was around 4,000 new deaths/day, so vaccination has made a difference. As reported by CBS, 99.7% of all new cases are of those not vaccinated.
From the New York Times:
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Remember, 2008 was the year the stock market crashed. But I had no money invested, and when I thought the bottom had been reached, I bought a few stocks, and ultimately doubled my money. Be prepared.
You might have noticed that there are two major budget bills in the U. S. Senate:
- The $1.2 trillion bi-partisan infrastructure package, mostly to rebuild America.
- A monumental $3.5 trillion Democrat investment plan with many of their dreams included:
- Expanded medicare to cover dental, hearing and vision healthcare.
- Free community college, paid family leave, expanding child tax credit and a resolution to achieve 80% clean electricity and cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030.
- To be paid by taxing the rich (those earning more than $400,000/year).
Both are expected to pass next month. But anything could get in the way, including even one senator. The $1.2 trillion infrastructure legislation looks promising. The $3.5 trillion will eventually pass in some form because of something called reconciliation, which is everything but that. This was a compromise with Senator Bernie Sanders and his partners, who really wanted $6 trillion to $10 trillion.
Have you noticed that our Olympic basketball teams are losing exhibition matches? The U.S. men's team to Nigeria and Australia. In previous years they won 54 of 56 such games. Now they find that one of their stars, Bradley Beal, might have COVID-19, and could miss the Olympics. But he would be replaced. Yet, the NBA finals are still on, and Devin Booker, Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton are still involved. However, if the finals reach game 7, that would be on July 22, and our first game is against France on July 25. Then Iran on the 28th and Czech Republic on the 31st. We should win all those games. By then the team should be in form.
Then yesterday, the team that is most favored to win a gold medal at Tokyo, the USA women's basketball team, also lost. However, this was to the WNBA All-Star team, so there is not much concern about the Olympics. These are their uniforms for Tokyo.
I walked on the Ala Wai Golf Course yesterday. Not quite 18 holes, but a good effort nevertheless. I took a photo of a red-headed cardinal:
That statement might have some flaws. For one, I try to get on a course once/week. The average is 46 rounds/year. So not three times per week, at 6 miles/round. Then, of course, 75% of golfers ride a cart. But why nit pick.
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