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