Chinese Virus statistics week number 32 (224 days) as at 26/03/21 (plus political comment and our personal news) since August 21st. 2020

Hi to all,

Once again we hope this finds you in the pink. We have the usual disclaimer as to the accuracy of these figures which have been derived from the Worldometres website for the last 224 days. 

MUNDO - World

Total cases - 126,222,302 - (21,168,111) - up 105,054,191 or 496.3%

Deaths - 2,769,801 - 2.2% - (759,328 - 3.6%) - up 2,010,473 or 264.8%

Recoveries - 101,830,885 - 80.7% - (13,984,843 - 66.1%) - up 87,846,042 or 628.2%

Therefore active cases - 21,621,616 - 17.1% - (6,425,939 - 30.3%) - up 15,195,677 or 236.5%. Of the total population (which is estimated to be increasing by 1,557,692 per week) of 7,853,207,371 (7,804,380,455), the percentage of active cases is 0.275% (0.082%) of the total world population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total world population - 2,753 - (1,437)

Last week's "good trends" not so good this week. Active cases are up by 580,900 or 2.8%. And active cases per 1 million of population are up 74 or 2.8%. We have sent everyone some very disturbing information re the vaccinations. We hope that these are read with open minds (an endangered item these days!!) and that you make your own correct decisions for your own health.

We have just listened to an interview of Dr. Naomi Wolf, She is a prolific author and holder of some controversial views. A read of her Bio is fascinating. She said that in her opinion It seems that there is SOME likelihood that in the near future requirements for vaccination passports will be introduced. The obvious area will be air travel, but will be extended to visas - whether for permanent residency or just cruising the seas on a yacht. They could in fact be extended to all areas of your lives, such as driving cars and visiting supermarkets to buy food. Think about that - and resist all these continuing attempts against our hard-won liberties.

ESTADOS UNIDOS - United States

Total cases - 30,755,921 - (5, 429,115) - up 25,326,806 or 466.5%

Deaths - 559,839 - 1.8% - (170,781 - 3.2%) - up 389,058 or 227.8%

Recoveries - 23,196,217 - 75.4% - (2,844,535 - 52.4%) - up 20,351,682 or 715.5%

Therefore active cases - 7,019,865 - 22.8% - (2,413,829 - 44.6%) - up 4,606,036 or 190.8%. Of the total population of 332,420,890 (331,236,184), the percentage of active cases is 2.11% (0.729%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 21,115 - (9,043) - up 12,072 or 133.5%. Last week the figures were up 12,872 or 142.3%.

Compared to last week, the comparative figures are (last week's figures in parenthesis):

Total cases up 395,520 or 1.3% (up 434,499 or 1.5%)

Deaths up 7,365 or 1.3% (up 8,750 or 1.6%)

Recoveries up 672,418 or 3.0% (up 1,733,245 or 8.3%)

Active cases down 264,263 or 3.6% (down 1,307,499 or 15.2%)

A surprising mixed bag, considering the vaccines are rolling out. Total cases and deaths are up less than the previous week, but recoveries are less than half of the previous week's figure and therefore active cases are down by only 20.2% of the previous week's figure. There seems to be a stalling of progress, but maybe we need to take a longer-term view!

There are a number of situations in the US which are not only getting much worse - but one wonders just how much things have to deteriorate for there to be some overt signs of rebellion. For example, there was the declaration from Senator Lyndsey Graham (R-S. Carolina) that if the Biden crooks denied him and 18 other Senators plus their press coterie full access to every aspect of the disgraceful situation at the US-Mexico border on their recent visit, then he would "shut down the US Senate". That is an unprecedented statement from a senior US Senator and just shows the depth of feeling now running, not only in the general population, but in the highest law creation body in the land.

The border is a total train-wreck. The Dims' agenda is to allow as many undocumented individuals into the US as possible to maximise their voting base. And right now there are more than 16,000 children in US Border Patrol custody in the Obama/Biden cages (which they then vilified when Trump was president). These children are rented to male adults who use them on repeated occasions to give credence to false claims that they are their parent and thus gain entry to the US. And young girls from 10-13 years old are in possession of contraceptives because the chances that they will be raped, are high indeed.

The Dims have deliberately and systematically unraveled and destroyed all of President Trump's work in controlling the border in a humane way. They are directly responsible for this unconscionable situation which they have directly encouraged. Biden doesn't have a clue as to what he has unleashed and just a few days ago delegated the whole can of worms to VP Harris, but she just gave one of her braying laughs and declined all responsibility. WHO THE HELL IS RUNNING THE UNITED STATES? AND WHOSE FINGER IS ON THE NUCLEAR BUTTON?   

The US Navy is not only outgunned by the CCP Navy, but the top military brass is conducting a purge of everyone who voted for Donald Trump!! Firstly, without even violating the 1st Amendment, how on earth do they know who voted for who? But there is no doubt that "wokeness" has now fully infiltrated the armed services, as it has every other aspect of society. Apparently they are even encouraging members who have inclinations to change their sex, to have discussions on the subject. We don't care about anyone's sexual inclinations, but this is madness indeed. We cannot imagine what all of this is doing to morale and therefore the ability to be an effective fighting force. They need to be concerned about the very real military threats facing the US, instead of all this nonsense. 

Most worryingly, according to retired 4 star US Army General Jack Keane, the US would lose a conventional war with the CCP right now, were it to break out over Taiwan for example. If this does not concern every NZ'er for instance, we don't know what would. 

There are encouraging moves where Australia, India and Japan together with countries directly affected by the theft of the South China Sea are getting together to combat the CCP's aggressiveness. America may be there and it may not. Where is New Zealand? Hiding in its Socialist wokeness.

Then we have new revelations of Hunter Biden - the President's son. When will this disgusting crook/traitor be brought to justice? It now appears that he was illegally in possession of a hand-gun which his girl friend (who was the wife of his brother who died) dumped into a dumpster outside a Delaware grocery store. The gun has since disappeared and there are multiple violations of gun laws involved. The Secret Service got in on the act at one stage and tried to obtain the documentation authorising the gun's purchase, but quite correctly the gun shop refused to supply the documentation. This was just a blatant attempt by the US Government to seize and suppress criminal evidence. Maybe something will become of this because the other criminal activities of H Biden (traitorous collusion with elements of hostile foreign governments for money and paedophilia, evidence of which was all discovered on his laptop) have not so far been prosecuted, although we are assured that investigations are on-going. But when will all this amount to anything?  At the moment the DOJ at its highest levels has also been hijacked by the Dim crooks, so it's all anyone's guess.

The other issue we want to mention is the hijacking of the US public education system by the teachers' unions. There is absolutely no justification for keeping public schools shut down while private schools are fully functioning 5 days a week. Children do not respond well to on-line learning and indeed a whole year or more of education has now been lost. Just how this can be reinstated is a difficult question because any attempt to recreate the lost time in schools will just result in a log-jam with younger students coming through. This closure of the public school system has no medical or epidemiological  basis and has just been the expression of Socialist dogma in one of its worst forms. It amounts to child abuse on a massive scale as proportionally only a small number of parents have the ability and/or time for home schooling, although unsurprisingly this is a growing movement. One mother who was a guest on Laura Ingraham's recent Town Hall, has 10 children, 4 of whom she was home schooling! Talk about busy, but no doubt the older children could help to some extent, but they are all fully involved with their own tertiary studies.   

The revelations coming from the US are just getting unbelievably worse by the day. Sooner or later there has to be some sort of opposition which will be impossible for the Dim crooks to ignore. Whether this is military in nature or just many forms of legal disobedience, remains to be seen. The main question is just how much will the 75 million who voted for Trump tolerate. Already there is a multitude of lawsuits from 21 states against the administration, so who knows what will happen with these, given the sickening corruption of the entire legal system.

And last but not least, there is the financial situation facing the US at the most critical time with threats to national security abounding. And amid all this the Dims just passed a 1.9 Trillion dollar "Covid relief package", but in reality only 9% will be used for its deceptive title. On top of that they want to spend 3 Trillion dollars more on "infrastructure", which is long overdue, but simply unaffordable right now. All this, together with massive and far-reaching tax hikes will give further credence to believable predictions of an equity market melt-down together with predictions of inflation and interest rate rises. These economic conditions won't just stay within the US either. The world has already changed, but will in the near future change very much more.   

And what about the 200,000 ton container ship rammed into the side of the Suez Canal? Being conspiracy theorists, we feel sure it was deliberate in order to cause the utmost commercial damage when the world is already badly affected by the deliberate release of the Chinese Virus.

 

COLOMBIA

Total cases - 2,359,842 - (433,805) - up 1,926,037 or 444.0%

Deaths - 62,519 - 2.7% - (14,145 - 3.3%) - up 48,374 or 342.0%

Recoveries - 2,250,063 - 95.3% - (250,494 - 57.7%) - up 1,999,569 or 798.3%

Therefore active cases - 47,360 - 2.0% - (169,196 - 39.0%) - down 121,836 or 72.0%. Of the total population of 51,278,360 (50,948,628), the percentage of active cases is 0.092% (0.332%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 923 - (1,367)

Active cases compared to last week are up 6,648 or 16.3%

There are some disturbing aspects to these figures as they are overturning a previous encouraging trend. As a result we have some new restrictions being imposed until April 5th. We have Pico y Cedula which means that one can only visit a supermarket on odd or even days, depending on the last digit of one's Cedula de Extranjeria. But visits to other shops are ok - where's the logic in that? In addition there are restrictions on the sale of alcohol and there is a nightly curfew. The only one of those that makes any sense to us is the curfew as it is obviously intended to curb partying over Easter. But this is Colombian logic, and we just have to go with the flow!!  

Following are this week's headlines from the English language www.colombiareports.com:

Mar.21st. Can Colombia keep up with COVID-19 vaccine deliveries?

Mar. 21st. China embarks on charm offensive in Colombia amid tensions with US

Mar. 22nd. Colombia illegally jails key witness in Uribe family investigation

Mar. 22nd. Colombia to counter independent press with state news

Mar. 22nd. Colombia's electoral barons join forces ahead of 2022 elections

Mar. 22nd. Colombia's government promised peace funds to "grease palms" for "coup"

Mar. 24th. Colombia announces new COVID-19 lockdowns

Mar. 24th. Colombia's prosecution fails to inquire about allegedly fake testimony in Uribe trial

Mar. 24th. Colombia seeks $US10 billion tax revenue hike to finance COVID-19 recovery programs

Mar. 26th. Colombia's former Supreme Court president sentenced to 19 years

Mar. 26th. Gustavo Petro: from rebel to Colombia's next president?

Mar. 26th. COVID-19 pandemic aggravated impact of armed conflict in Colombia

Mar. 26th. Colombia increases troops on border with Venezuela amid guerilla violence 

Jean had an appointment with an eye specialist last Wednesday at the San Diego Mall and on our way there we ran into the worst hail storm we have ever experienced in Medellin. Close thunder and lightning but at least we weren't at sea with a 16 metre mast sticking up in the air!! There doesn't seem to be any damage to the car, but it was LOUD!! The appointment was a success as Jean had a sty-like infection on one of her lower eyelids, but the doctor dealt very effectively with it by extracting some horrible material from the site. It had been likely like this for some years. Also some antibiotic liquid and the trick was done. And all for a cost of 190,000 Pesos - NZD75. The specialist was a very competent 29 yr old who did a great job. 

We are indebted to our lawyer, Astrid Melendez, who organised the appointment.  

Apart from that, Jean is preparing for her soon to be departure for Fort Lauderdale (Miami), Florida on April 4th. Tickets, ESTA, travel insurance - essential for travel to the US, and packing. She is getting excited about seeing los nietos!! We just hope that the C Virus statistics don't deteriorate further in Colombia which could mean a border closure, although she would be a resident returning. Watch this space!!

MEXICO, COSTA RICA, PANAMA, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, PERU, BOLIVIA, PARAGUAY, BRAZIL, CHILE, ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, plus UNITED KINGDOM, THAILAND and MALAYSIA

Following are the "active cases per 1 million of total population" for each country nominated above. Figures in parenthesis are for the previous week.

Mexico - 2,018 - (2,008) - up 10 or 0.50%. A reversal of previous trends - albeit a very modest reversal

Costa Rica - 3,818 - (3,487) - up 331 or 9.5%. The rate of increase is worsening. This is an increasing trend.

Panama - 1,153 - (1,215) - down 62 or 5.1%. Continuing the downward trend, albeit slowing 

Colombia - 923 - (794) - up 129 or 16.3%. Not good. Last week's increase is continuing.

Ecuador - 1,695 - (1,563) - up 132 or 8.5%. The rate of increase is increasing! A continuation of last week's trend

Peru - 1,067 - (1,142) - down 75 or 6.6%. Still continuing down - albeit at a slowing rate.

Bolivia - 3,363 - (3,485) - down 122 or 3.5%. Another week of improvement.

Paraguay - 4,556 - (4,118) - up 438 or 10.6%. Wrong way again by a considerable margin. Not good in Paraguay.

Brazil - 5,844 - (5,432) - up 412 or 7.6%. The rate of increase is a little less than previous weeks, but still going the wrong way.

Chile - 2,041 - (1,802) - up 239 or 13.3%. Still substantially increasing. What on earth is going on with Chile?

Argentina - 3,663 - (3,572) - up 91 or 2.6%. A lesser rate of increase, but still going up.

Uruguay - 4,503 - (3,324) - up 1,179 or 35.5%. Last week was up 25% and this week 35.5%. This is just appalling - what is happening with Uruguay?

United Kingdom - 6,525 - (8,245) - down 1,720 or 20.9%. Further substantial moves in the right direction. Long may it continue. But the UK Government is becoming more and more authoritarian as time goes on. It has even been suggested that at some time in the not so distant future, one will require a vaccination "passport" just to visit a pub!!

Thailand - 21 - (15) - up 6 or 40%. Sounds much worse than it is!! But it would be good to see a reversal downwards again.

Malaysia - 437 - (440) - down 3 or 0.7%. Still going down, but the rate has slowed very considerably. Let's hope things pick up again.

AUSTRALIA

Total cases - 29,238 - (23,035) - up 6,146 or 26.7%

Deaths - 909 - 3.1% - (370 - 1.7%) - up 539 or 145.7%

Recoveries - 26,263 - 89.8% - (13,634 - 59.2%) - up 12,629 or 92.6%

Therefore active cases - 2,066 - 7.1% - (9,022 - 39.2%) - down 6,956 or 77.1%. Of the total population of 25,715,536 (25,538,969), the percentage of active cases is 0.008% (0.035%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 80 - (56). Up 1 since last week or 1.3%

Compared to last week, active cases are up 30 or 1.5%

Australia seems to be holding its own - probably quarantining the government on bread and water has helped. People can just get on with their lives with no interference!! 

NUEVA ZELANDA - New Zealand

Total cases - 2,479 - (1,714) - up 765 or 44.6%

Deaths - 26 - 1.0% - (25 - 1.4%) - up 1 or 4.0%

Recoveries - 2,379 - 96.0% - (1,531 - 95.5%) - up 848 or 55.4%

Therefore active cases - 74 - 3.0% - (49 - 3.0%) - up 25 or 45.5%. Of the total population of 5,002,100 (5,002,100) - still no increase in the population! What are they doing down there?, - the percentage of active cases is 0.002% (0.001%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 15 - (14). An increase of 1 or 7.1%.

Compared to last week, active cases are up 19 or 34.6% 

Don't allow any escape from Managed Isolation Quarantine (MIQ). Shoot to kill!! Better to die of lead poisoning rather than the dreaded lurgi, but of course if any lurgi was detected, the demise could always be attributed to the lurgi. There's a bit of convoluted reasoning for you to unravel! 

We were saddened, but not surprised, to read of a  Belgian doctor, Dr. Geert Van den Bossche, who was born in 1947 and qualified as a veterinary virologist, and who has subsequently worked with many medical research companies during which, among other things, he worked on developing a vaccine for Ebola. He has had years of experience in human virology, including his Ebola research. He has since developed well researched views on the dangers of some vaccines - particularly anti C Virus vaccines. As a result, he has become relentlessly vilified by governments and other self-interested entities who will not tolerate any alternative view to their own narrative under the guise of public health. 

His ideas were to have been screened in a public video at a venue owned by the Nelson City Council in NZ, but as soon as the Mayor was alerted to the nature of the material to have been presented, she directed that the booking for the venue was to be cancelled. This is an egregious example of the  use of the cancellation policies so prevalent these days where alternative views against the prevailing orthodoxy simply cannot be tolerated. In a democratic society, such as we have been used to all our lives, alternative views have always been allowed, but not any more it seems. This will provoke an immense public backlash, not just in NZ, but in all former democracies once people realise the extent to which liberties hitherto taken for granted have been eroded. His website, which is well worth reading as a self-education exercise is www.geertvandenbossche.org

We must all try to stay alert for these attacks on our liberty to think for ourselves and to hold our own opinions.

Well, that's all for another week. We hope everyone is getting on with their lives in the best way possible.

Cheers and lotsaluv from us in the City of Eternal Spring..............

Jim and Jean

Chinese Virus statistics week number 31 as at 19/03/2021 (plus political comment and our personal news) since August 21st. 2020 (217 days).

Hi to all,

MUNDO - World

Total cases - 122,490,928 - (21,168,111) - up 101,322,817 or 478.7%

Deaths - 2,705,371 - 2.2% - (759,328 - 3.6%) - up 1,946,043 or 256.3%

Recoveries - 98,744,841 - 80.6% - (13,984,843 - 66.1%) - up 84,759,998 or 606.1%

Therefore active cases - 21,040,716 - 17.2% -  (6,425,939 - 30.3%) - up 14,614,777 or 227.4%. Of the total population (which is estimated to be increasing by 1,557,692 per week) of 7,853,207,371 (7,804,380,455), the percentage of active cases is 0.268% (0.082%) of the total world population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,679 - (1,437)

Compared to last week, active cases are down 731,260 or 3.4%. Last week's movements were down 9,140 or 0.04%.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population are down 94 or 3.4%.

Some good trends here. Active cases and active cases per 1 million of total population are both down 3.4%. Slow but sure improvement.

On a related subject - possible immediate side effects of the Astra-Seneca vaccine are blood clots, stroke and even death! Probably won't have to worry if one suffered the 3rd. side effect!! All joking aside however, the long-term effects remain unknown, but in some cases it weakens the immune system to such an extent and can completely destroy blood platelets, that by a perverse turn of events one's system cannot cope with the virus that is then introduced by the vaccine in a misguided effort to establish "immunity". These effects can in some cases be more long-term than short-term and the deterioration in blood platelet counts can eventually result in a very severe adverse reaction if a person caught the common 'flu for example. These outcomes are theoretical at this point, but are of sufficient concern that we will NOT be taking the Chinese Virus Chinese Sinovac (or any other) vaccine - especially since the one available here in Colombia is the Chinese one. Anyway, we don't have to worry - the rollout of the vaccination programme here in Colombia is as expected so chaotic that who would know who had what and when?. 

ESTADOS UNIDOS - United States

Total cases - 30,360,401 - (5,429,115) - up 24,931,286 or 459.2%

Deaths - 552,474 - 1.8% - (170,781 - 3.2%) - up 381,693 or 223.5%

Recoveries - 22,523,799 - 74.2% - (2,844,535 - 52.4%) - up 19,679,264 or 691.8%

Therefore active cases - 7,284,128 - 24.0% - (2,413,829 - 44.6%) - up 4,870,299 or 201.8%. Of the total population of 332,383,837 (331,236,184), the percentage of active cases is 2.191% (0.729%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 21,915 - (9,043)

Compared to last week, the comparative figures are:

Total cases up 434,499 or 1.5%

Deaths up 8,750 or 1.6%

Recoveries up 1,733,245 or 8.3%

Active cases down 1,307,499 or 15.2%

Total active cases per 1 million of total population are down 3,936 or 15.2%

Total cases since these reports began are below the total world figure by 19.5%. All improved figures but still a long way to go and it remains to be seen just what effect the vaccinations will have. Our concerns with reported serious side effects of vaccines and lack of long-term testing remain.

The latest example of Dim lies and hypocrisy is that concerning TAX. The Dims said that they would raise taxes "on anyone earning over $400,000 p.a."  Now in some sort of sleight of hand, they have dropped the latest twist that the $400,000 does NOT apply to individuals - but rather to families. With husbands and wives both earning, there would be many households with combined income over $400,000, whereas not so many individuals. However, with the net widened considerably to catch "households", a vastly increased  number of taxpayers will be caught. Sure hope they're glad they voted Dim now!! This is fraudulent misrepresentation on a massive scale, but the Dims are good at that - it started with the election itself. America is a consumer society and with the spending power of consumers hit by increased taxes - and not just income tax - the stage is set for a massive recession. Inflation and interest rates are set to rise also with the crazy monetary policies of the Feds. It is more and more evident that the Socialists are hellbent on destroying the USA.

The Maricopa County in Phoenix, Arizona is proceeding SLOWLY with getting to the forensic examination of voting results. The County Board who must be as crooked as a cartload of snakes, are twisting and turning to block the start of the examination every way that they can. But fortunately the Arizona State Senate is well aware of just what they are attempting to hide and are pursuing the legalities with as much vigour as they can muster. The eyes of the country are on this battle and, when as expected fraud is uncovered, the other "battleground" states will probably muster the courage to follow. As we've said, God knows what will happen when President Trump is proved to be THE legitimate president and that the Dims are just illegitimate crooks and fraudsters.

As regards the cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline project, there are now 21 states all suing the Biden outfit over jurisdiction of the project. Particularly given the disastrous economic consequences for those states. There is some concern that, because the pipeline originates in Canada, only Congress has jurisdiction, but the states have a powerful argument under the 10th. Amendment. All of these legal arguments plus the pursuing of election fraud in the battleground states, and it should be obvious to even those of the meanest intelligence that there is massive opposition to this illegitimate administration. There is a lot more water to flow under the bridge - no-one at this stage knows the outcome, but what is absolutely clear is the damage that is being done to US sovereignty - both at the border and in regard to energy self-sufficiency. Opec is now flexing its muscles on the world energy stage once again - just like the bad old days.   

Meanwhile the Dim (Biden) induced crisis on the southern border just gets worse by the hour. THERE ARE NOW MORE THAN 13,000 UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN WHO HAVE CROSSED THE BORDER ILLEGALLY. And the authorities are being overwhelmed. It is estimated that at least 50% of the illegals of all ages are infected with the Chinese Virus. These kids whose ages range from younger than 5 to 18 are from impoverished families in Honduras, Guatemala, etc. Our theory is that the child traffickers persuade the parents that they can get them across the border to the USA - the land of milk and honey. There they will be looked after and maybe adopted by rich Americans who will give them everything they want. Instead of course what happens is that, having persuaded these poor parents with their pernicious lies, they get them across the border all right with God knows what abuse going on before that happens. Then they either pick them up again or arrange for contacts to do that and the process of selling these kids carries on. 

This is horrible and is bad enough world-wide without Biden and his vicious cronies aiding and abetting the process with the cartels. Most people living in so-called civilised countries have no idea about all this, but they need to know because it's only by vigilance and the willingness of governments through their law-enforcement agencies to counter this "trade" that there will ever be any hope of stamping it out, or even reducing it. The deliberate flouting of the US's immigration laws by the Biden cartel somehow has to be stopped and it is heartening to see the border states at last getting serious about policing their own borders. They owe this duty to their own people, let alone the rest of the USA and the world. The border towns and cities do not have unlimited resources and they haven't even been informed of the numbers coming their way. So what chance do they have of accommodating or feeding these people? 

Now we've just had the spectacle of the US/China Summit in Alaska where China absolutely wiped the floor with the inept US Secretary of State (Blinken - wot a name!!) and the whole US delegation. China now has their perception of the US correctly confirmed as a weak, ineffective "power" and their compromise of the President of the USA is complete. If this doesn't immediately embolden China with regard to Taiwan, the South China Sea and various other islands and territories that they are illegally claiming, we don't know what will. In less than 60 days the Biden cabal has put America into disaster and extreme danger territory. They've emasculated the US military with ridiculous gender based policies - maternity flight suits for pregnant combat flight crew (!), ruined the security on the southern border, attacked and damaged democracy in the oldest democracy in the world, and seriously damaged the security of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. NZ, Australia, and SE Asia will be next.

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COLOMBIA

Total cases - 2,319,293 - (433,805) - up 1,885,488 or 434.6%

Deaths - 61,636 - 2.6% - (14,145 - 3.3%) - up 47,491 or 335.7%

Recoveries - 2,216,945 - 95.6% - (250,494 - 57.7%) - up 1,966,451 or 785.0%

Therefore active cases - 40,712 - 1.8% - (169,196 - 39.0%). Of the total population of 51,267,993 (50,948,628), the percentage of active cases is 0.0794% (0.332%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 794 - (1,367). Since last week these figures are up 43 or 5.7%

Active cases compared to last week are up 2,202 or 5.7%

A worrying turnaround from the progress being made over the past few weeks. Let's hope it's only a temporary blip, but many other countries in S America are also showing the same trends. However, on the figures, Colombia continues to stand out as the country in S America with the least active cases per 1 million of population.

Following are this week's headlines from the English language www.colombiareports.com

Mar. 14th. Colombia confirms ongoing recruitment of child soldiers

Mar. 14th. Colombia reports first COVID-19 vaccinations

Mar. 15th. Colombia's peace process "essential" to fight drug trafficking: US

Mar. 15th. Colombia's Congress returns from Christmas recess for tense election year

Mar. 15th. Colombia's countercultures: the Beat Generation's bad trip

Mar. 15th. Colombia's prosecution under fire for absolving CEO of corrupt banking giant

Mar. 16th. One of Colombia's most famous comedians reports death threats to children

Mar. 16th. Colombia walks out of journalist rape trial claiming court is "prejudiced"

Mar. 17th. Victims want Colombia to strip military war criminals of medals

Mar. 17th. "Macaco" joins other former warlords to testify before Colombia's Truth Commission

Mar. 17th. Colombia's COVID-19 vaccination drive descending into chaos

Mar. 17th. Opposition leader favorite as countdown to Colombia's 2022 elections begins  

Mar. 18th. Colombia's opposition calls for protests against attempted "coup"

Mar. 19th. Rookie lawmaker triggers social media revolt in Colombia to squash "coup" attempt

We've bought some more Hydroxychloroquine from the friendly pharmacy in Poblado, so Jean will have some to take with her to the US and there will be some for yours truly, in the unlikely event that the need should arise. Had Clara and Memo around for a revenge match of Parques, but Memo won again!! We'll have to keep trying. 

And our latest packages arrived from Miami via our friendly shipper - Caribbean Shippers. This included some Berberine for Jim's type 2 Diabetes, which combined with a new prescription of Metformin, should do the trick. The endgame in all this is to go off the Metformin altogether and we feel the end may be in sight, as the blood sugar readings are often now within the "normal" range. In all other respects the definition of "normal" hardly applies to you know who!! Swimming now regularly 3 times per week. The pool is 9.2 metres long. So, the regime is 24 lengths walking in chest deep water and the same swimming. That's a total of 441.6 metres of exercise. Nearly half a kilometre. Takes between 30 and 45 minutes. Can't be all bad.   

On the subject of fluoride, we saw that there is legislation coming in NZ to compulsorily fluoridate ALL municipal reticulated water supplies. Here in Medellin, we think that there is some fluoridation of the water supply, but we have a very efficient water filter which takes all that and other chemicals out.

We had sent a wedding present to Jean's nephew, Kagan and his new wife Anna comprising some Colombian designed and made serving dishes. We had to courier them as postage from here is absolutely unreliable. They arrived safely however and the wedding was on the 20th. So, all is well that ended well. Congratulations to Kagan and Anna and all best wishes for their future together.   

MEXICO, COSTA RICA, PANAMA, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, PERU, BOLIVIA, PARAGUAY, BRAZIL, CHILE, ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, plus UNITED KINGDOM, THAILAND and MALAYSIA.

Following are the "active cases per 1 million of total population" for each country nominated above. Figures in parenthesis are for the previous week.

Mexico - 2,008 - (2,054) - down 46 or 2.3%. Continuation of a modest downward movement. Hopefully it will continue

Costa Rica - 3,487 - (3,284) - up 203 or 6.2%. A worrying reversal of last week's downward trend

Panama - 1,215 - (1,501) - down 286 or 19.1%. Continuing downward trend - good to see.

Colombia - 794 - (751) - up 43 or 5.7%. A slight reversal upwards of previous substantial downward trends. Let's hope it's just temporary.

Ecuador - 1,563 - (1,448) - up 115 or 7.9%. Another reversal upwards of previous downward trends.

Peru - 1,142 - (1,341) - down 199 or 14.8%. Continuing down - good to see

Bolivia - 3,485 - (3,660) - down 175 or 4.8%. Continuing last week's movement - long may it continue

Paraguay - 4,118 - (3,746) - up 372 or 9.9%. Consistently going the wrong way. As Elvis Pressley apparently said to Pat Boone - as recently told by Pat Boone!

Brazil - 5,432 - (4,928) - up 504 or 10.2%. Upward trend continuing, albeit at a slightly slower rate than last week.

Chile - 1,802 - (1,605) - up 197 or 12.3%. Not at all good. A continuing and substantial upward trend.

Argentina - 3,572 - (3,429) - up 143 or 4.2%. Back on the upward path which was started last week. 

Uruguay - 3,324 - (2,660) - up 664 or 25.0%. Inexplicable and VERY substantial rises started some time ago. 

United Kingdom - 8,245 - (10,712) - down 2,467 or 23.0%. Still heading down at a substantial rate. About time after the disastrous and incompetent start to dealing with the Virus. But they still seem to believe that lockdowns are the answer, whereas in the US it has been shown that infection outcomes have been more or less the same in states which locked down or left things totally open. Lockdowns, and fear inducing mask wearing are nothing more than Socialist ploys to frighten and force their populations into obedience to the state and its various apparatuses.  

Thailand - 15 - (8) - up 7 or 87.5%. Just shows when the figures are small, even a small increase shows as a large percentage!

Malaysia - 440 - (523) - down 83 or 15.9%. More substantial reductions. Good to see.

 

AUSTRALIA

Total cases - 29,181 - (23,035) - up 6,146 or 26.7%

Deaths - 909 - 3.1% - (370 - 1.7%) - up 539 or 145.7%

Recoveries - 26,236 - 89.9% - (13,634 - 59.2%) - up 12,602 or 92.4%

Therefore active cases - 2,036 - 7.0% - (9,022 - 39.2%) - down 6,986 or 77.4%. Of the total population of 25,709,879 (25,538,969), the percentage of active cases is 0.008% (0.035%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population  - 79 - (56). Up 2 since last week or 2.6%

Compared to last week, active cases are up 65 or 3.3%

Definitely the whole of Canberra will have to be quarantined. For 100 days!!

NUEVA ZELANDA - New Zealand

Total cases - 2,444 - (1,714) - up 730 or 42.6%

Deaths - 26 - 1.1% - (25 - 1.4%) - up 1 or 4.0%

Recoveries - 2,363 - 96.7% - (1,531 - 95.5%) - up 832 or 54.3%

Therefore active cases - 55 - 2.3% - (49 - 3.0%) - up 6 or 12.3%. Of the total population of 5,002,100 (5,002,100), the percentage of active cases is 0.001%  (0.001%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 11 - (14). Down 3 or 21.4%. Since last week down 6 or 35.3%.

Compared to last week, active cases are down 31 or 36.1%. 

All active cases are in managed quarantine, so suppose that's ok.

There have been increasing calls for NZ to finally realise that their misguided attempts at a policy of elimination will NOT result in permanently banning the dreaded Chinese Virus from NZ. In fact they should be far more worried about the Communist Party of China and in light of the expected US weakness just how China will react to and treat NZ and Australia.

So, we'll say goodbye for another week and hope that all is well with everyone.

De nuevo Lotsaluv de nosotros en la Ciudad de la Primavera Eterna.

Jim and Jean

Chinese Virus statistics week number 30 as at 12/03/2021 (plus political comment and our personal news) since August 21st. 2020 (210 days). THE HUMBUG OF WOKE.

Hi to all,

We trust that everyone is still in the pink.

MUNDO - World

Total cases - 119,225,069 - (21,168,111) - up 98,056,958 or 463.2%

Deaths - 2,643,918 - 2.2% - (759,328 - 3.6%) - up 1,884,590 or 248.2%

Recoveries - 94,809,175 - 79.5% - (13,984,843 - 66.1%) - up 80,824,332 or 577.9%

Therefore active cases - 21,771,976 - 18.3% - (6,425,939 - 30.3%) - up 15,345,037 or 238.8%. Of the total population (which is estimated to be increasing by 1,557,692 per week) of 7,851,649,679 (7,804,380,455), the percentage of active cases is 0.277% (0.082%) of the total world population. 

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,773 - (1,437)

Compared to last week, active cases are down by 9,140 or 0.04%. Last week the reductions were 109,291 or 0.5%

Total active cases per 1 million of total population are down 2, which is only 0.072%.

So, the weekly rates of reductions continue to slow substantially. Not a good trend. 

Vaccines - Norway, Iceland and Denmark have all suspended all dispensation of the Astra-Seneca vaccine because it is implicated in causing blood clots. People have died. It is far too early for anyone to commit to accepting any of these vaccines in our opinion. And now the Republic of Ireland has temporarily suspended use of the AS vaccine as well. Blood clots are actually one of the symptoms of the Chinese Virus and they can kill - and have. So why on earth would anyone in their right minds take that risk??

If you go to the Highwire website (www.highwire.com), and look for Del Bigtree, you will get up to date information re the vaccinations world-wide. There are regular weekly updates every Wednesday or Thursday (depending on where you are), and much of the information which is scientifically backed up and normally presented by qualified people, is extremely disturbing. We won't go into details, except to say that we will NOT be having any Chinese Virus vaccine anytime soon - if ever. We realise that people can be pressured in their jobs with threats of dismissal even, but it's probably a matter of just how much you value your health. Anyway. NZ is desperately short of midwives!!! 

And what's the problem with people who refuse on valid health grounds to have the vaccine? All the rabid pro-vaxxers will be ok from the virus spreading anti-vaxxers - BECAUSE THEY WILL HAVE BEEN VACCINATED!!!!!!!

ESTADOS UNIDOS - United States

Total cases - 29,925,902 - (5,429,115) - up 24,496,787 or 451.2%

Deaths - 543,721 - 1.8% - (170,781 - 3.2%) - up 372,940 or 218.4%

Recoveries - 20,790,554 - 69.5% - (2,844,535 - 52.4%) - up 17,946,019 or 630.9%

Therefore active cases - 8,591,627 - 28.7% - (2,413,829 - 44.6%) - up 6,177,798 or 255.9%. Of the total population of 332,346,783 (331,236,184), the percentage of active cases is 2.585% (0.729%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 25,851 - (9,043)

Compared to last week, the comparative figures are:

Total cases up 398,657 or 1.4%

Deaths up 10,080 or 1.9%

Recoveries up 696,809 or 3.5%

Active cases down 308,232 or 3.5%

Total active cases per 1 million of total population are down by 931 or 3.5%.

The numbers, as far as you can believe them, are all moving in the desired direction. Let's hope that they continue and that the weekly increase in total cases turns the corner and also starts reducing.

We have just had the disgusting spectacle of the illegitimate crook masquerading as president, making a self congratulatory speech on how well they are doing with the vaccines. No acknowledgement of the Trump administration's involvement, without which there would have been NO vaccine - perhaps for several years. Notwithstanding very serious concerns that we are seeing more and more from reputable organisations around the world concerning various vaccines' safety record and efficacy.

And no mention of the overwhelming crisis that has erupted quite predictably on the southern border - all of which is a direct result of Biden & Co.'s concerted efforts to destroy America.  

More than 10 states have now sued the Biden crooks on a variety of constitutional issues - most notably that they have already caused and are causing massive and irreparable harm to those states. One can only imagine what is likely to happen if the states get nowhere with those lawsuits. We've said all there is to say on that subject!  Suffice it to say that already this year in two and a half months 800 criminal aliens have been arrested in Texas. How many more in addition to that figure have evaded arrest? There have also already been 108,000 illegals detected in Texas in the Rio Grande sector alone so far this year and for the whole of 2020 there were 90,000. Doesn't that tell you anything? We witnessed a very impassioned speech down on the border by the Texas Governor, Greg Abbott. He is a lawyer as well as having been a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and has been in a wheelchair since the age of 26 as a result of a tree falling on him while he was jogging. He spoke very forcefully and absolutely laid it on the line to the Biden crooks and announced that he had ordered the immediate deployment of 500 Texas National Guard troops to the border to maintain border integrity. This is another state move in direct defiance of Biden & Co. 

In an interview with Mark Levin, a constitutional law scholar, by the Fox News presenter, Sean Hannity on March 11th., Levin absolutely destroyed Biden. It was wonderful and uplifting to watch.

And more disturbingly than ever, Biden's errant son, Hunter is being brought into play over Taiwan by the Communist Party of China in order to blackmail the crook in the Oval Office. 

We could go on and on, but all we can say, apart from the above, is please read the attachment to last week's blog - "an article which appeared in the Epoch Times March 4th." - if you haven't already done so. This is written by a New Zealander who has lived in the US for 30 years and sets out the political  issues plaguing the US better than anything else that we have read. It is refreshing to see a NZ'er actually taking such a detailed interest in matters outside their own country!! We'll attach it again to this blog - to make it easy for you.

Although again outside the date parameters of this blog, we have to refer to Mark Levin's show on Fox tonight. His closing statement was to the effect that "we must resist (legally) the illegal and unconstitutional moves that the Federal Government is making with trashing electoral and immigration laws, etc." However, the word "legally" was inserted almost as a last minute afterthought, as in order to fight the Socialists who are walking all over the Constitution with hob-nailed boots, "we the people" have to fight them in any way possible or expedient - not necessarily "legal".  

COLOMBIA

Total cases - 2,290,539 - (433,805) - up 1,867,734 or 430.6%

Deaths - 60,858 - 2.7% - (14,145 - 3.3%) - up 46,713 or 330.2%

Recoveries - 2,191,171 - 95.6% - (250,494 - 57.7%) - up 1,940,677 or 774.7%

Therefore active cases - 38,510 - 1.7% - (169.196 - 39.0%). Of the total population of 51,257,626 (50,948,628), the percentage of active cases is 0.075% (0.332%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 751 - (1,367)

Active cases compared to last week are down 3,074 or 7.4%

For the week ending January 29th., the active case figure was 120,278. This means that in 6 weeks the active case figure has dropped by 81,768 - an average per week of 13,628 and a total drop over that 6 weeks of 68%. These figures seem highly problematic to us - either the late January figures were wildly overstated, as around that time the weekly figures were up and down like the proverbial. Or the latest figures are wrong. No-one would know. We can only hope that the latest figures are somewhere near correct.

Following are this week's headlines from the English language www.colombiareports.com:

Mar. 7th. Colombia's prosecution facing criminal charges over Uribe probe

Mar. 8th. Colombia's VP disputes war crimes threatening presidential ambitions

Mar. 8th. 5 killed, 5 injured in northwest Colombia massacre

Mar. 8th. How to evade investigating Colombia's richest man and "Sarmiento's Guy"

Mar. 9th. Are corrupt politicians plotting against Colombia's ex-president?

Mar. 9th. Colombia announces aerial spraying of Coca for 7th. time

Mar. 10th. Colombia's former Supreme Court president convicted over mammoth corruption scandal

Mar. 10th. Paramilitary co-operation with truth commission threatens Colombia's political superpowers 

Mar. 11th. Colombia's defense chief under fire over bombing minors

Mar. 11th. Colombia struggling to ramp up COVID-19 vaccination ahead of mass campaign

Mar. 11th. Duque rejects Colombia's former paramilitaries spilling beans over allies

Very little has been happening in our private lives. We are continuing to organise Jean's travel to Miami on April 4th. and hoping that nothing too difficult occurs in Florida before she has been and returned. But the way things are going in the US, anything could happen. There are the air tickets themselves, the testing before leaving Colombia, the ESTA visa waiver, and last but not least the travel insurance. It is so far problematic getting Chinese Virus cover unless we can access a Colombian Government Foreign Affairs travel advisory stating that there is no problem from a health point of view with travelling to the US. So far, we haven't quite been able to confirm that information. Without it the insurance policy will not cover for the Chinese Virus and, as most symptoms of a number of ailments could theoretically be tied to the C Virus, it is a situation that needs resolution - otherwise the potential risks could be ruinous.

The weather is generally colder by 2 degrees C these days. Hard to understand with the approach of summer. The sun is already almost halfway on its journey north - or is that the earth slowly tilting on its axis? We'll all have to be careful we don't fall off. Some people we could help exit this world with a very large kick!! No prizes for guessing who. 

Maybe daylight saving is the glue that keeps us firmly in our places - thank God there is no daylight saving in Colombia, but it has just started in the US. We read an article the other day to the effect that suddenly having to do everything an hour earlier is actually very injurious to health. Statistically heart attacks and vehicle accidents (because people are constantly in a permanent state of fatigue) are always up when DS starts. The driving's bad enough in Colombia without adding daylight saving to the mix. 

MEXICO, COSTA RICA, PANAMA, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, PERU, BOLIVIA, PARAGUAY, BRAZIL, CHILE, ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, plus UNITED KINGDOM, THAILAND and MALAYSIA

Following are the "active cases per 1 million of total population" for each country nominated above. Figures in parenthesis are for the previous week.

Mexico - 2,054 - (2,065) - down 11 or 0.5%. Hopefully the start of a consistent downward movement again. 

Costa Rica - 3,284 - (3,389) - down 105 or 3.1%. Nowhere near as big a reduction as last week, but still in the right direction. 

Panama - 1,501 - (1,761) - down 260 or 14.8%. Slightly less reduction than last week but still very much in the right direction. 

Colombia - 751 - (811) - down a further 60 or 7.4%. Still the best in S America!! 

Ecuador - 1,448 - (1,452) - down slightly by 4 or 0.3%. Nowhere near last week's reduction, but still going the right way. 

Peru - 1,341 - (1,577) - down 236 or 15.0%. A re-assuring reversal of last week's trend. 

Bolivia - 3,660 - (3,811) - down 151 or 4.0%. A reversal of last week - let's hope that this trend continues consistently. 

Paraguay - 3,746 - (3,294) - up 452 or 13.7%. A worsening of the trend of last week. This is not good. 

Brazil - 4,928 - (4,206) - up 722 or 17.2%. The upward trend is accelerating. Also not good. 

Chile - 1,605 - (1,324) - up 281 or 21.2%. What is happening in Chile? This is a continuing and accelerating trend which is worrying.

Argentina - 3,429 - (3,363) - up 66 or 2.0%. Last week down 1.4%. Now heading up again. 

Uruguay - 2,660 - (2,212) - up 448 or 20.3%. Big increases week on week. What is happening? 

United Kingdom - 10,712 - (14,396) - down 3,684 or 26.0%. A very satisfactory decrease after last week's 22.3%. Long may it continue. 

Thailand - 8 - (7) - up 1 or 14.3%. Good heavens - an increase of 1!! But way better than NZ - and all with a population of 70 million! 

Malaysia - 523 - (675) - down 152 or 22.5%. An excellent reduction again after last week's 21.3%. 

AUSTRALIA

Total cases -29,102 - (23,035) - up 6,067 or 26.3%

Deaths - 909 - 3.1% - (370 - 1.7%) - up 739 or 199.7%

Recoveries - 26,222 - 90.1% - (13,634 - 59.2%) - up 12,588 or 92.3%

Therefore active cases - 1,971 - 6.8% - (9,022 - 39.2%) - down 7,051 or 78.2%. Of the total population of 25,704,223 (25,538,969), the percentage of active cases is 0.008% (0.035%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 77 - (56). Up 2 since last week or 2.7%

Compared to last week, active cases are up 48 or 2.5%

Any more of this, and they'll probably have to lock the entire country down. The only good thing about that is that the politicians would all be locked up in a concentration camp with armed guards in Canberra!! And on bread and water.

NUEVA ZELANDA - New Zealand

Total cases - 2,417 - (1,714) - up 703 or 41.0%

Deaths - 26 - 1.1% - (25 - 1.4%) - up 1 or 4.0%

Recoveries - 2,305 - 95.4% - (1,531 - 95.5%) - up 774 or 50.6%

Therefore active cases - 86 - 3.6% - (49 - 3.0%) - up 37 or 75.5%. Of the total population of 5,002,100 (%,002,100), the percentage of active cases is 0.002% (0.001%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 17 - (14). Since last week up 3 or 21.4%.

Compared to last week, active cases are up 18 or 26.5%

Good God - percentage increases even worse than Oz. Parliament will be banished to the Chatham Islands for the rest of the year. Notice a common theme here? The Director of Health can run the country instead and lock up every village, town and city. Food deliveries will not be an essential service so everyone will starve. But no-one will die of the dreaded lurgi. The banished parliamentarians, including the Maori Party, can all make obeisance to the murdered Moriori of 190 years ago. But they will be ok, as long as they prostrate themselves on the beach where the Moriori were crucified, because there's plenty of lobster in the Chathams.

With that pithy comment we will once again love you and leave you..................and trust that you are all staying well...............

Lotsaluv from us in the City of Eternal Spring - La Cuidad de la Primavera Eterna en Colombia

Jim and Jean

P.S. Wanna hear a good joke - 

A woman is riding on a bus while trying to breastfeed her baby. The baby, however, isn't interested.

After several tries, the mother is quite angry. "Drink the milk or I'll give it all to the man sitting at the back!" she says.

The baby is still playing around.

A few minutes later she tries again, "drink the milk or I'll really give it all to the man at the back, and you'll go hungry".

The baby continues rejecting her.

She tries again, very angry this time. "I'm definitely going to give it all to the man at the back if you don't behave".

This goes on a few more times.

Suddenly she hears a voice from the back of the bus - "Lady, will you please make up your mind? I was supposed to get off 5 stops ago". 

Fwd: Biden delivers a sucker punch

Hi,

This article is one of the best Bonner ones that we have read. Our only beef is the inclusion of Donald Trump in the same list as that nincompoop, G W Bush and the crook, Bill Clinton.and the undercover Socialist, Barack Obama. 

Donald Trump was fooled into allowing the wholesale shutdown of the US economy by all the Socialist stooges with whom he was surrounded - such as that a---hole, Fauci, who had been funneling money to the Wuhan lab. to enable the Chinese Virus to propagate like wildfire.

Now of course, as you will read, Biden is revving up the Socialist money printing machine to ruin America and the free world some more.

Let's hope that they can't do too much damage in 19 months - but it will be a long 19 months until the 2022 mid-terms.

Enjoy the read..........................

Cheers,

J & J

Medellin, Colombia.   

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From: Bill Bonner <feedback@exct.bonnerandpartners.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 12:32
Subject: Biden delivers a sucker punch
To: <tiare.taporo3@gmail.com>

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Chinese Virus statistics week number 29 as at 05/03/2021 (plus political comment and our personal news) since August 21st. 2020 (203 days). Thought for the week - there's a new word in the English language these days - "WOKE". It simply means - "ya ain't woke up yet".

Hi again to all,

As always here's hoping that everyone, despite the ravages of time, remains in the pink. Please note that figures in parenthesis relate to 21/08/20 - except where otherwise indicated. The usual disclaimer applies with regard to the reliability of these figures, but, as we've said before, at least we are comparing apples with apples from week to week.

MUNDO - World

Total cases - 116,354,535 - (21,168,111) - up 95,186,424 or 449.7%

Deaths - 2,583,824 - 2.2% - (759,328 - 3.6%) - up 1,824,496 or 240.3%

Recoveries - 91,989,595 - 79.1% - (13,984,843 - 66.1%) - up 78,004,752 or 557.8%

Therefore active cases - 21,781,116 - 18.7% - (6,425,939 - 30.3%) - up 15,355,177 or 239.0%. Of the total population (which is estimated to be increasing by 1,557,692 per week) of 7,850,091,987 (7,804,380,455), the percentage of active cases is 0.278% (0.082%) of the total world population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,775 - (1,437)

Compared to last week, active cases are down 109,291 or 0.5% 

Critical statistics are still reducing but at a slower pace. Active cases are down 109,291 - 0.5%, whereas last week's reduction was 3.3%. Active cases per 1 million of population are now 2,775 - down 0.5%. Last week's reduction was 3.3%. Hopefully coming weeks will increase the reduction rates again.

We now wish to make another comment about Hydroxychloroquine. We've mentioned it before in this forum. This drug has been around for 80 years and is mainly used to treat Malaria. It works by reducing inflammation as Malaria causes inflammation of internal organs - just as the Chinese Virus does. The inflammation is what kills people, so it's a no-brainer. People with Osteoporosis are often treated with Hydroxychloroquine as well as that disease is inflammation of the joints. We have a supply here. But when looking at C Virus websites there is no mention of Hydroxychloroquine and its anti-inflammatory properties. Instead, if it's mentioned, it is denigrated and in many countries, including the US, its sale is outright banned. All on behalf of murderous Big Pharma. Now that they've got the wonder drug, the vaccines, they will be making billions. Never mind possible side-effects and in some cases doubtful efficacy. 

 

ESTADOS UNIDOS - United States

Total cases - 29,527,245 - (5,429,115) - up 24,098,130 or 443.9%

Deaths - 533,641- 1.8% - (170,781 - 3.2%) - up 362,860 or 212.5%

Recoveries - 20,093,745 - 68.1% - (2,844,535 - 52.4%) - up 17,249,210 or %

Therefore active cases - 8,899,859 - 30.1% - (2,413,829 - 44.6%) - up 6,486,030 or 268.7%. Of the total population of 332,309,730 (331,236,184), the percentage of active cases is 2.678% (0.729%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 26,782 - (9,043)

Compared to last week, the comparative figures are:

Total cases up 454,713 or 1.6%

Deaths up 12,298 or 2.4%

Recoveries up 655,465 or 3.4%

Active cases down 213,100 or 2.3%

Reductions in active cases are being maintained at last week's level. We guess that's reasonably satisfactory.

We have attached a copy of the Epoch Times article dated March 4th. which was sent to us by a Colombian friend. It was written by Trevor Louden who is a New Zealander who has lived in the US for the past 30 years, so knows the country and its people well. It is interesting that he focuses on "the enemy within", which of course is the insidious Socialism. That was also Abraham Lincoln's theme who said that if anything destroys the Republic, it will be an attack from within. That is exactly what we are witnessing right now, and it is well advanced.

The article is in our opinion one of the best summaries of the current situation that we have read. It is a complex situation which is difficult to comment on, as it is such a dynamic, fluid and evolving set of events. The only area where we might have some issue with Mr. Louden is that of his insistence that right-wing violence will not achieve anything and will in fact be of great assistance to the left who are praying for just an event (or series of events) in order to justify further crackdowns - a la the 7 foot razor wire fence around the White House and Capitol, together with the on-going deployment of 5,000 National Guard troops in DC.

This observation is no doubt true, but as is now happening in Texas with the border crisis, it may become redundant as the "red" states must defend themselves. There are multitudes of lawsuits on constitutional grounds by various states against the federal government as under the 10th. Amendment, states have more individual power than has been hitherto supposed. These suits will either be resolved in a legally peaceful manner, or the states will coalesce and secede. There is no doubt that this would be very destructive and would open the door for America's enemies to fully exploit the situation. We certainly agree with the article on that point, but in the end if things get so bad - and there's every indication that they will - what option do the states have? To simply roll over with their feet in the air would be an absolute dereliction of duty to their own people by the state governments.  

The Dims' assault on democracy is intensifying. The southern border is now in absolute crisis and Texas is openly defying the federal government in sending all their military assets to the border to resist the influx. There are huge numbers of unaccompanied minors - just ripe for child trafficking to the paedophile rings. Not to mention the opportunity for vastly increased quantities of Chinese drugs once again flooding across. And the certainty of the Chinese Virus spreading into the US from these undocumented and certainly untested people. 

The Biden administration is still in denial as regards the border, and only this week is sending a "team" to assess the situation. No doubt this will produce a self-serving report which will simply aid them in continuing their programme to destroy America.

The news clips that rarely show the president on public display, do not inspire confidence, to say the least. He is bumbling and when he was speaking with his Defence Secretary at his side, he couldn't even remember his name. Just referred to him as "that guy in charge of that place over there" - the Pentagon. And his hand is still on the nuclear codes!! China is hammering him over Taiwan and the South China Sea and, due to his corruption by the CCP, he is increasingly unable to respond appropriately. He has secretly withdrawn some US forces from the general area which leaves Japan exposed. However, they together with India, are gearing up for a fight without the US, which they are confident of winning and which is surely coming. And God knows what North Korea will do with feeling emboldened once again.

The Dims have succeeded in passing the latest C Virus stimulus package - 1.9 Trillion dollars with 91% going to favourite Dim projects in the most shocking display of pork barrel politics in history. Only 9% for genuine C Virus relief. And all this at a time when the US has the highest government debt ever - approaching 30 trillion USD. There is only one way out of this, and that's by causing massive inflation (inflate of die), which will occur sooner rather than later, given the massive increase in the money supply. The whole world, including NZ, has been indulging in these voodoo economics, so hold on for a rough ride. Inflation and interest rate rises are coming. It'll make our rough yacht passage on "Tiare Taporo III" from NZ to New Caledonia back in 2011 seem like a millpond!!

The Dims know that they have at most only until the mid-terms in 2022 to advance their most radical policies. This is because, assuming that there is still an intact voting system, they are likely to lose both Houses of Congress in the 2022 mid-terms, which they currently hold on razor-thin margins. So they need to try to pass these destructive bills before then:

* removal of the Senate "fillibuster" which means that certain constitutional legislative proposals need a majority in favour in the Senate of 60 votes. This majority is currently unattainable - hence the moves to attack the "fillibuster".

* HR1 - a proposal to codify all the crooked electoral practices that occurred in 2020 in order to perpetuate a Dim stranglehold on all future elections for generations to come - and a Socialist America, which will impact the whole free world. HR1 would require the 60 vote majority to pass  -hence the determined attack on the "fillibuster".

* The other thing the Dims want to do is elevate DC and Puerto Rico to statehood in order to obtain 4 extra left-leaning Senators in the Senate. This would again require removal of the "fillibuster" - hence the Dims' concentration on that. 

You can see from this list and from reading Mr. Louden's article, that democracy in the USA is in the fight of its life. This fight will in short order extend to the whole world. We just hope that there are sufficient anti - "woke" people who are prepared to join the fight - otherwise the world is in for a very long, dark winter, which none of us will ever see the end of in our lifetimes.   

   

COLOMBIA

Total cases - 2,266,211 - (433,805) - up 1,832,406 or 422.4%

Deaths - 60,189 - 2.7% - (14,145 - 3.3%) - up 46,044 or 325.5%

Recoveries - 2,164,438 - 95.5% - (250,494 - 57.7%) - up 1,913,944 or 764.1%

Therefore active cases - 41,584 - 1.8% - (169,196 - 39.0%) - down 127,612 or 75.4%. Of the total population of 51,247,260 (50,948,628), the percentage of active cases is 0.081% (0.332%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 811 - (1,367)

Active cases compared to last week are down 2,052 or 4.7% 

Following are this week's headlines from the English language www.colombiareports.com:

Mar. 1st. Duque's pirate "Plan Colombia" copy latest blow to peace process

Mar. 1st. Biden increases pressure on Duque with explicit support for Colombia's peace process

Mar. 1st. The dilemma of Colombia's "Coalition of Hope"

Mar. 1st. Colombia's war crimes tribunal and the terrorist with apparent learning disabilities

Mar. 2nd. Colombia "harassing victim and witness" of former president's alleged criminal practices

Mar. 2nd. How bankers turned Colombia's mass media into mafia apologists

Mar. 3rd. Colombia's government ordered to curb mass killing of former FARC fighters

Mar. 4th. The troubled expansion of Colombia's ELN guerrillas

Mar. 4th. Governor of Colombia's largest province arrested on corruption charges

Mar. 5th. Bishop threatened after opposing violence in west Colombia

Mar. 5th. Colombia's chaotic COVID-19 vaccination "plan"

Mar. 5th. Testimony: how group on US terror list helped Uribe win Colombia's 2002 elections

Mar. 5th. Colombia's prosecution asks court to drop Uribe investigation despite evidence

Life continues apace - nothing of great moment to report. We therefore thought that another reference to the wonderful fruit available in this part of the world. The ones we refer to this week are the Tree Tomato (Tamarillo to NZer's), the Uchuva (Cape Gooseberry), and local Tangelos. In the produce area potatoes, which have been grown here for not a few thousands of years and Corn - likewise. They are both natives of the northern Andes region.

There are many varieties of potato as you might expect given their antiquity in this area. The corn is pleasant to eat except that it is not as sweet as the hybrid varieties developed in NZ and elsewhere.

Tree tomatoes (tomates arbores) are also native to the northern Andes region and, depending on the climatic conditions in which they are grown, they produce year round. Generally bigger fruit than we were used to in NZ and way more affordable.

The Uchuva which only grow in private gardens or just wild in NZ, are widely cultivated here where again they are native. They are usually available in clear plastic punnets with the shells removed. And again available all year round. Jim remembers in the Bay of Islands as a child finding some Cape Gooseberries behind a Gorse bush on the beach and gorging ourselves on them! Such a treat to now find them in Colombia and ready to purchase in a supermarket! A revival of childhood memories.

There is also a variety of black table grapes which we often buy. They are exactly the same in taste and appearance as the "Albany Surprise" variety we have become used to in Auckland. Wonderful to eat.

And we should also mention the Feijoas which are native to this region. Surprisingly though the local fruit is small and not good to eat compared to the commercially developed varieties in NZ. Quite disappointing as Feijoas were always a favourite. 

Although neither fruit nor vegetables, we should mention the flower industry. All grown under plastic and many types we are well familiar with. Colombia is the 2nd. biggest cut flower exporter in the world - almost all to the US. Let's hope for the sake of the local industry that the US maintains that market. With the state of the political and financial situation there anything could happen, but to lose even a part of the flower industry here would be a tragedy for Colombia.

The Tangelos are local and very plentiful. Previously we were also getting Peruvian ones but since the C Virus that seems to have stopped. But the Colombian variety is very acceptable and yours truly has one most mornings for breakfast along with an array of other fruits - 3 varieties of Passion Fruit, Guavas, etc etc.

We also buy organic Spinach and other green vegetables from the Mercado Campesino (Farmers' Market) on Avenida Poblado every Sunday morning. But our friend, Natalia, who sold wonderful hand-made pesto and hummus is no longer there. Hopefully she will be back at some stage. You never know with the locals!! Apparently she has family up north towards Cartagena somewhere. 

Now one side of two main roads are closed on Sunday mornings until 2pm for the Cyclovia, which means those closed lanes are available for cycling, walking, running and dog walking! Going there is no problem because the right hand side going north is still open for traffic but coming home is a bit more convoluted as the Cyclovia has been extended to Avenida Las Vegas as well. This means an extended trip south along the open lanes of Las Vegas to where we can turn and then make our way back via the back roads of Envigado. We would walk but the knees won't take several kilometres of walking and also we usually have quite a bit to carry. Another little snippet - when parking outside the market on Av. Poblado, there are self-appointed parking wardens who do a good job of directing you into sometimes tight parking spots. Then, when returning to the car it is customary to make an ex gratia payment of around 2,000 Pesos (about 80 cents NZ) for the service. This actually is a very useful service and occurs all over the city. There are also many privately owned off-road parking areas, which we have used as well. The Spanish for parking is Parqueadero!!

MEXICO, COSTA RICA, PANAMA, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, PERU, BOLIVIA, PARAGUAY, BRAZIL, CHILE, ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, plus UNITED KINGDOM, THAILAND and MALAYSIA.

Following are the "active cases per 1 million of total population" for each country nominated above. Figures in parenthesis are for the previous week.

Mexico - 2,065 - (2,047) - up 18 or 0.9%. Down 8 last week but up 18 this week. Certainly no improvement..

Costa Rica - 3,389 - (4,924) - down 1,535 or 31.2%. A surprisingly large reduction in one week. Hope it's true.

Panama - 1,761 - (2,160) - down 399 or 18.5%. Another fairly large reduction. 

Colombia - 811 - (852) - down 41 or 4.8%. More numbers heading in the right direction.

Ecuador - 1,452 - (1,498) - down 46 or 3.1%. A reversal of last week's trend

Peru - 1,577 - (1,565) - up 12 or 0.8%. Last week down 3.9% - this week heading up again

Bolivia - 3,811 - (3,750) - up 61 or 1.6%. Down 3.3% last week - now up 1.6%

Paraguay - 3,294 - (3,133) - up 161 or 5.1%. Last week up 4.7% - now also up another 5.1%. NOT GOOD.

Brazil - 4,206 - (3,833) - up 373 or 9.7%. Upward trend continuing in a disturbing trend - last week 3.4% and this week 9.7%.

Chile - 1,324 - (1,227) - up 97 or 7.9%. Upward trend accelerating which is disturbing.

Argentina - 3,363 - (3,412) - down 49 or 1.4%. After recent increases let's hope that the downward trend continues.

Uruguay - 2,212 - (1,897) - up 315 or 16.6%. Last week up by 26.6% - this week up 16.6%. For a little country with a population of only just under 3.5 million, this is not good. Let's hope they can get things back under control and heading in the right direction. Problem for them is that they have 2 large countries right on their border - Argentina and Brazil.

United Kingdom - 14,396 - (18,519) - down 4,123 or 22.3% from last week. Again, let's hope this trend continues. It will be about time after the UK's grossly incompetent initial response to the onset of the pandemic in early 2020. There is no country in S America anywhere near as bad as these UK figures.

We have never commented on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle before. Please note that the following views on this subject are yours truly's only!!

Anyway in the aftermath of the interview with Oprah Winfrey, it may now be appropriate to comment. It seems that the real problem is that the Palace (the Firm) has not moved with the times and needs to be reminded that we are now living in the 21st. century.

Harry, at the age of 12, will have been affected for all of his life by the horrific circumstances that led up to Princess Diana's death and then particularly the aftermath where he and William were forced to take that lonely walk behind his mother's coffin. And in talking about the unhappy circumstances that surrounded Princess Diana, one should not forget the Prince of Wales's callous treatment of his new wife when he insisted on carrying on his adulterous affair with Camilla, who was also married to another at the same time. He should NOT become King of England. He is NOT a fit and proper person. He should abdicate in favour of his eldest son, William - King William V.

These issues together with the traditional coldness and aloofness of the Royal Family, have now all come together. Does anyone think about the effect of all the foregoing on a developing young man? Doesn't seem so. And don't forget Harry's military service where he served his country with distinction in combat.

Then he met Meghan and regardless of Palace propaganda, she was always going to be an outsider. She may have naively thought that she could work on changing the Firm's long out-dated Royal strictures about who can do what and when, plus their restrictions on a dynamic entrepreneurial young woman with regard to business ventures she wished to pursue, but of course she could not. So, given all the above, it's little wonder that the present situation has arisen.

Maybe H&M lacked consideration for the Queen at 94 and also for the fact that the Duke of Edinburgh is 99 and quite ill in hospital, and that they are definitely "woke", but it is not accepted that they deserve the level of vitriolic criticism that has been heaped upon them.

Thailand - 7 -  (11) - down 4 or 36.4%.  Wow - even better than NZ!!!

Malaysia - 675 - (858) - down 183 or 21.3%. Another very good weekly reduction.

AUSTRALIA

Total cases - 29,021 - (23,035) - up 5,986 or 26.0%

Deaths - 909 - 3.1% - (370 - 1.7%) - up 539 or 145.7%

Recoveries - 26,189 - 90.2% - (13,634 - 59.2%) - up 12,555 or 92.1%

Therefore active cases - 1,923 - 6.7% - (9,022 - 39.2%) - down 7,099 or 78.7%. Of the total population of 25,698,566 (25,538,969), the percentage of active cases is 0.008% (0.035%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 75 - (56)

Compared to last week, active cases are up 38 or 2.0% 

NUEVA ZELANDA - New Zealand

Total cases - 2,389 - (1,714) - up 675 or 39.4%

Deaths - 26 - 1.1% - (25 - 1.4%) - up 1 or 4.0%

Recoveries - 2,295 - 96.1% - (1,531 - 95.5%) - up 764 or 49.9%

Therefore active cases - 68 - 2.8% - (49 - 3.0%) - up 19 or 38.8%. Of the total population of 5,002,100 (5,002,100), the percentage of active cases is 0.001% (0.001%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 14 - (14)

Compared to last week, active cases are up 1 or 1.5%  

Hopefully you were able to read the article we sent to you on Monday the 1st. which was written by the noted historian and former Labour Member of Parliament, Dr. Michael Bassett on the subject of biased attitudes in favour of Maori in many aspects of NZ society, including changing street names (the streets weren't even there before European settlement!), skewing history teaching in schools in a biased way to discredit European history and show Maori history in a favourable light, and many other issues. We feel that that tampering with school teaching is particularly dangerous because it affects young impressionable minds and they grow up with a biased view of history. Anyone who doesn't know or understand history is doomed to allow all the bad aspects of history to repeat themselves. THE ARTICLE HAS NOW BEEN PULLED BY THE NZ "toilet paper" HERALD.

Anyway, Bassett's article was published in the Northland Age - a subsidiary of the NZ "toilet paper" Herald. Today, the article which was factual and mildly critical of the wokeness as above was pulled. SO IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT ALREADY, YOU WILL NEVER READ IT NOW - BECAUSE IT IS CANCELLED. This was a direct affront to free speech. The response pulling the article did not waste time with reasonable argument - rather it utilised the "cancel culture" to prevent and severely criticise the free expression of a professional, cultured and highly educated person.

It actually accused Dr. Bassett of being racist - a common complaint these days. It even compared Dr. Bassett's approach to white supremacy and implied a connection with the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK were never in NZ!!!!

If anyone knows NZ history, it is Dr. Bassett and his comments should be treated with respect. The following historical snippets of Maori history should be of interest to the "woke brigade" -

A noted Ngapuhi chief (for all the wrong reasons), Hongi Hika actually travelled to England in 1820 with a missionary, Thomas Kendall, and met King George IV, who presented Hika with a suit of armour which he later wore in battle against his own people. He was well feted and met a Baron de Thierry who offered him many muskets and ammunition in return for land in NZ's Hokianga area. He travelled back to NZ via Sydney and there picked up the cargo of guns. Back in NZ, he proceeded to lay waste to the upper half of the North Island, slaughtering an estimated 60,000 of his own people. This is more than the entire NZ loss of life in both WW1 and WW2. 

And what about the Taranaki tribe who travelled to the Chatham Islands with encouragement and assistance from the European settlers, where they slaughtered 95% of the entire population of Moriori - a peace loving offshoot of Maori who had lived in the Chathams for over 300 years. This was one of the most vicious genocides in human history in which the Moriori were exterminated in shocking and hideous circumstances which included some of them being staked out on a beach - a form of horizontal crucifixion where they were held by spears to the beach until they died in appalling and unimaginable pain.

We'll bet that these episodes will never feature in the woke cancel culture new history of New Zealand. 

NZ has had a close brush with some very large earthquakes - all of which occurred offshore which obviated any real destruction or loss of life. However, there was the risk of tsunami which fortunately also only occurred in a very minor form. 

Here in Medellin, we also fortunately have not had a repeat of last week's 5.1 earthquake.  Let's hope that's it for a while and, if these events occur again, that the recent releases of energy mean that there isn't something much bigger brewing in the future. 

Well, that's it from us for another week. Sorry this one has been delayed but yours truly has not been well for a couple of days, but all good again now.

With lotsaluv from us in the City of Eternal Spring (La Cuidad de la Primavera Eterna) in Colombia,,

Jim and Jean