Chinese Virus statistics (revised format) week number 36 (252 days) as at 23rd. April 2021 (plus political comment and our personal news) since 21/08/20.

Hola a todos nuestros amigos y familiares, 

Esperamos que estes todos en el rosa. 

This is our first week of the revised and simplified format, which now that over 250 days have passed since we began recording these statistics, we feel is more appropriate. Any feedback would be appreciated. The figures in parenthesis relate to the previous week, and countries, except for the World, are presented in alphabetical order with comments about individual countries' figures immediately following.

Courtesy of a very old and dear friend of Jean's, we have attached a file from a German doctor, Reiner Fuellmich, who presents a very well researched treatise on the whole Chinese Virus and, following from its establishment world-wide, the vexed question of Chinese Virus vaccinations. Our position is that the virus exists, but that the reaction to it has been completely over-blown, largely as a heaven-sent opportunity for governments to exert further control of  their populations by the instillation of fear - mask wearing etc. 

The situation in India right now is a result of chronic over-crowding and extreme housing poverty in some of the worst slum conditions in the world, which anyone who has not been to India cannot really appreciate. Any virus, and not just the Chinese Virus, will run rampant in such conditions, and many of those people will succumb because they have poor health and suffer from mal-nutrition or other co-morbidities. 

We believe that much the same situation exists in Colombia in poor areas, mainly in cities, but also in poorer country areas - albeit on a far smaller scale than in India. And the health and standard of living generally of people here, while not without problems with perhaps poor diet and crowded living conditions, is nowhere near that of countries like India. But the majority of cases here will be from such health-compromised areas. And of course the Venezuelan refugees fleeing across the border from a vicious Communist regime. They would not be helping the spread of the Virus in Colombia. As a matter of interest, there are 20,000 active cases in Antioquia Province of which Medellin is the capital. This represents 17% of all active cases in Colombia at the moment. This fact needs to be borne in mind to get a proper perspective. Undoubtedly the saturation of Medellin's hospital emergency capacity is largely being caused by an influx of infected people from outside the city.

All we can say is for goodness sake read the Fuellmich report before even considering getting one of these vaccines. Your eyes will be opened - HOPEFULLY IN TIME. 

MUNDO - World 

Active cases - 18,889,123 - (17,936,968) - up 952,155 or 5.3%. 

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,403 - (2,283) - up 120 or 5.3%.

Still a concern with continually rising figures, although events in India certainly won't be helping the average.

ARGENTINA - 

Active cases - 286,355 - (269,990) - up 16,365 or 6.1%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 6,289 - (5,931) - up 358 or 6.0%

Another increase, but the rate of increase has slowed considerably

AUSTRALIA - 

Active cases - 2,188 - (2,188) - no change

Active cases per 1 million of total population  - 85 - (85) - again no change

BOLIVIA - 

Active cases - 38,569 - (38,016) - up 553 or 1.5%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 3,268 - (3,222) - up 46 or 1.4%

Still going up but only by a small amount. Hopefully there will be a decline soon. 

BRAZIL - 

Active cases - 1,114,597 - (1,155,844) - down 41,247 or 3.6%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 5,213 - (5,408) - down 195 or 3.6%

At last a series of declines; not as much as last week but still going in the right direction

CHILE - 

Active cases - 41,671 - (43,743) - down 2,072 or 4.7%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,165 - (2,273) - down 108 or 4.8%

At last a reversal from previous increases

COLOMBIA - 

Active cases - 112,573 - (103,459) - up 9,114 or 8.8%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,194 - (2,016) - up 178 or 8.8%

Another very disturbing rise but nowhere near last week's increase of 45.1%. The hope is that maybe the tide is turning - again!

COSTA RICA - 

Active cases - 32,370 - (27,716) - up 4,654 or 16.8%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 6,308 - (5,402) - up 906 or 16.8%

A slightly lesser rise than last week but still substantially up. We said last week that there is no end to it and it looks as though we were right.

ECUADOR - 

Active cases - 37,887 - (39,338) - down 1,451 or 3.7%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,122 - (2,203) - down 81 or 3.7%

A reversal of previous upwards trends

JAPAN - 

Active cases - 47,216 - (33,051) - up 14,165 or 42.9%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 374 - (262) - up 112 or 42.7%

An increase in the rate of increase since last week. A disturbing trend.

MALAYSIA - 

Active cases - 22,512 - (18,600) - up 3,912 or 21.0%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 688 - (569) - 119 or 20.9%

A slightly lesser rate of increase from last week, but still going the wrong way.

MEXICO - 

Active cases - 263,460 - (263,263) - up 197 or 0.1%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,026 - (2,025) - up 1 or 0.1%

Almost holding their own. Let's hope that previous reductions can recommence next week

NUEVA ZELANDA - New Zealand - 

Active cases - 32 - (101) - down 69 or 68.3%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 6 - (20) - down 14 or 70.0%

When numbers are low you can get big percentage swings!!

PANAMA - 

Active cases - 3,845 - (3,929) - down 84 or 2.1%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 880 - (900) - down 20 or 2.2%

Still trending down albeit at lesser rate than last week

PARAGUAY - 

Active cases - 41,039 - (39,159) - up 1,880 or 4.8%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 5,697 - (5,438) - up 259 or 4.8%

Still increasing but at a lower rate than last week

PERU - 

Active cases - 14,210 - (22,880) - down 8,670 or 37.9%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 426 - (686) - down 260 or 37.9%

A massive decrease - much larger than last week. Long may it continue. What are they doing right?

TAIWAN - 

Active cases - 35 - (27) - up 8 or 29.6%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2 - (1) - up 1 or 100.0%

Another distortion with low numbers. Taiwan is still showing the world how to do it

THAILAND - 

Active cases - 19,873 - (10,461) - up 9,412 or 90.0%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 284 - (150) - up 134 or 89.3%

Cases almost doubled from last week. Not a good trend.

UNITED KINGDOM - 

Active cases - 99,288 - (140,447) - down 41,159 or 29.3%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 1,456 - (2,060) - down 604 or 29.3%

Another satisfactory week's reduction. Not as much as last week, but still satisfactory

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Estados Unidos) - 

Active cases - 6,848,237 - (6,876,364) - down 28,127 or 0.4%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 20,592 - (20,679) - down 87 or 0.4%

A miniscule reduction, although slightly better than last week's rise of 0.02%. One would have thought we'd be seeing better figures than this by now. Maybe this is a result of continuing deliberate false reporting?

URUGUAY - 

Active cases - 28,267 - (32,136) - down 3,869 or 12.0%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 8,115 - (9,226) - down 1,111 or 12.0%

At last heading down. Still a long way to go but let's hope it continues.

Personal and political news and views:

UNITED STATES - 

We thought at this stage of our weekly newsletter that it would be appropriate that we would give a precis as we see it of the rise of draconian government rules world-wide using the excuse of the Chinese Virus "pandemic". 

It started in mid to late 2019 when the CCP in its murderous quest for world domination, released the COVID-19 virus from the infamous CCP controlled Wuhan lab. It has proved to be a spectacularly successful campaign for the CCP. They have instilled fear and panic throughout the world, destroyed businesses large and small and in the process the dreams and aspirations of millions of hard-working people. To date they have also killed over 3 million people. This process has been.aided and abetted by the rise of extreme left-wing movements and infiltration of tertiary educational institutions to the point that now, after fraudulently destroying President Trump's November election campaign, there is the most left-wing Socialist administration in Washington that has ever been known. The means by which the radical left are operating to destroy the USA and its 240 year old Constitution are:

1) Attempting with success to destroy America's economy through the dishonestly named "Covid relief" and "Infrastructure" bills together totalling well over 5 TRILLION US dollars. And another in the pipeline, at a time when taking into account unfunded federal and state government liabilities, the total US government debt is over 120 TRILLION US dollars. This can never be repaid except possibly by massive inflation which by itself would destroy the US and turn it into another Venezuela. we believe that this is the ultimate endgame.

2) Cozying up to 2 of the US's arch enemies - the CCP of China and the terrorist Islamist regime of Iran. We've also just recently become aware of the unedifying revelation that the former Secretary of State under Barack Obama, John Kerry, has been allegedly passing secrets concerning Israeli military operations against Iranian military assets in Syria and elsewhere. This, if proved, is nothing less than treason and should be punished as such. A retired 4 star general stated the other day the horrifying news that the US would not win a conventional war against the CCP and that the likelihood of the CCP invading Taiwan has increased from about 0.5% six months ago to 25% now. 

3) Seditiously opening up the southern border and in the process defunding and denigrating the people manning border control.  There are now in excess of 25,000 unaccompanied minors in the US living in overcrowded and squalid conditions, subject to out of control sexual assault and infected with the Chinese Virus. In addition the way is once again cleared for wholesale drug smuggling including large amounts of Fentanyl.   

4) Inciting racial division by making false selective allegations against the police, particularly when a white police officer is involved in a confrontation with a black person which results in the death of the black person. Even the outcome in the George Floyd case has been improperly influenced by intemperate and disgraceful remarks made by the US President no less. As a result the likelihood of an appeal seeking a mistrial and/or a retrial is growing by the day. 

5) Perpetrating outrageous electoral fraud by the Dims in the 2020 presidential election. We feel greatly heartened that at long last the forensic audit of election results in Maricopa County, Arizona is underway and has survived numerous determined attempts by the crooked Dims to derail the audit. They have just recently sent over 100 lawyers to Arizona to prepare injunctions to stop the audit, but a Democrat appointed judge threw their final attempt out. It seems, given the determined efforts to stop the audit over the last 5 months, that there is something to find and, if the audit shows widespread fraud as expected, then other states where fraud is also suspected will also enter into forensic audits. These states, apart from Arizona, are Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia - and there may be others. If, after these audits, it is proved that Donald Trump won those states, then he should be the legitimate president and the crook presently in the White House will be an illegitimate imposter. What happens then?

  

COLOMBIA - 

Following are this week's headlines from the English language www.colombiareports.com:
April 19th.Colombia registers one of COVID-19 pandemic's deadliest days

April 19th. At least 11 killed, hundreds displaced amid combat in southwest Colombia 

April 20th. "Terror is threatening Colombia's transitional justice system"

April 20th. Colombia tightens measures after record number of COVID-19 deaths

April 21st. Colombia's most wanted accountant Part 1: Process #34986

April 22nd. Colombia seizes assets of firm behind disastrous dam project

April 22nd. Medellin doctors urge lockdown, humanitarian aid to resuscitate healthcare

April 22nd. At least 22 injured in SW Colombia after "narcos" attack indigenous counternarcotics operation

April 23rd. Ivan Duque bridges divides as Colombia unitedly rejects "worst president ever"

April 23rd. Colombia surpasses 70,000 COVID -19 deaths after record increase

The big news is that Jean arrived back in Medellin from Fort Lauderdale/Miami on Thursday. She was in excellent health and buoyed by the great time she had had with Carter and Nash - not to mention their parents!. No-one is wearing masks in Florida, movement is unrestricted and the state is booming. Unlike the blue states which still wallow in the fear being deliberately instilled into the population.  

Jean's family lives in a gated community in North Miami and recently there has been an influx of families with children roughly the same ages as Carter and Nash. Many nationalities as well as American refugees from "blue" states. Florida is experiencing at least 1,500 new residents PER DAY. That must tell you something. For example, a French couple evidently intended to open an art gallery in New York, which some years ago would have been a natural no-brainer choice. Not any more, and they are opening a gallery in Miami.

The children all play together in the cul-de-sac where they live - skate boarding and all the things that children do. Great experience for them. A real united nations. Not a mask in sight!

Jean had a wonderful time in Miami with los nietos and that had been her intention from the outset. She achieved all of this with flying colours. These days one must make the most of these times because with all the uncertainty and deliberate attempts at control of people generally, one can never be sure when these visits can be repeated - not like once upon a time when one could say - "see you in October' - or whenever. And we are getting older all the time - like the old British TV comedy - "One Foot in the Grave"!!!

One unpleasant and thoroughly annoying episode occurred when departing Fort Lauderdale on Jetblue. The departure was delayed 20 minutes and the cause became apparent. A group of young black men who appeared to be part of a sports team, arrived on the aircraft 20 minutes after the scheduled departure time. Jean had observed them in the terminal previously so they were not genuinely late - probably in the bar! Anyway, when they slouched on board, one, whose mask was hanging off one ear, said "we're here now; the party can continue". Talk about narcissistic racist arrogance. The chief steward asked for the masks to be correctly worn. The request was arrogantly and belatedly complied with before the flight left. To us, this is an exact example of racial arrogance that is being encouraged by the woke Dims in power. They obviously think no-one can touch  them; if we behaved in the same way we'd have been kicked off the flight and probably been banned for the immediate future. We intend to lodge a complaint with Jetblue. Obviously the airline and their personnel were placed in a completely unenviable situation with the flight already late, but in our opinion the flight should have left on time without them after the usual calls for late arriving passengers. They might have learnt some sort of lesson, but such is the reverse racist arrogance that predominates these days, we doubt it. It is symptomatic of most of which is wrong in the US and elsewhere these days and must be confronted now before it is too late - if not already. It is a symptom of the racist divide that is being deliberately fostered by governments  - particularly in the US. And we include NZ in that description.

However, on a lighter note, there was a young black couple just in front of Jean who helped her when 2 obese white males pushed her and nearly knocked her over in their selfish desire to leave the aircraft ahead of anyone else. They were similarly shocked and disgusted by all this narcissistic and disgusting behaviour from black and white.

 

AUSTRALIA - Australia seems to be one of a very few countries these days with any guts to stand up to the CCP. The Federal Government has finally cancelled the B&RI Agreement that the Victorian State Government traitorously signed with the CCP. The Federal Government has kicked it all into touch where it should remain in political oblivion. The Victorian Premier should be arrested and charged with sedition at the very least. The only reason that the CCP is not taking further anti-Australian action as they have in the recent past, is that they need Aussie iron ore - badly. They cannot get a reliable supply anywhere else and so they are taking all they can get from Australia so that they can turn it into steel for manufacturing warships and aircraft to use against Australia and its allies - India, Japan and maybe the woke USA. New Zealand in its cowardly stance doesn't figure. NZ needs to learn the consequences of fence sitting -  especially when it is barbed wire.

NEW ZEALAND - the Ardern Socialist government is spinning like a top with the news that NZ will no longer associate itself with any statements on foreign policy positions from the 5 Eyes intelligence agency of which NZ is now only nominally a member. The other permanent members are the USA, the UK, Australia and Canada. That membership dates back to 1956, (when yours truly was at the tender age of 9 boarding at King's School, Remuera!), and which has now been effectively betrayed. The effect of this is that NZ will NEVER be trusted by its allies again and will suffer all the inevitable fall-out  - economic and military - that will deservedly flow from that sad situation. NZ's Socialists are betraying their country which is especially ironic on this sacred day - Anzac (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) Day. We cannot imagine what these heroes who gave so much for our freedom would be thinking. Perhaps we can, but probably best not to dwell too much on that point.

We heard the public comments of Nigel Farage (the former Leader of the British Brexit Party, who almost single-handedly and heroically led Britain out of the Socialist European Union) on the subject, and it just made us want to sink below the floor. 

Under the Ardern Socialist leadership, NZ has further cozied up to the CCP - a murderous and genocidal regime whose only aim is world domination by whatever means is necessary. It needs to be remembered, as if anyone needed reminding, that the CCP is engaged on a murderous campaign of genocide against the Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang and the religious group, Falun Gong, who just wish to freely practise their non violent Christian religion. These people are vanishing without trace on a regular basis and their organs are being harvested in a vile and barbarous trade in human body parts. Apparently a human heart is worth about USD180,000 on the open (black) market.

And NZ's moko sporting foreign minister, Nanaia Mahuta, likens NZ's relationship with the CCP as akin to the swamp dwelling Taniwha resisting the efforts of the Chinese Dragon!!! God Almighty. What lunatics are running the country?

HOW CAN NEW ZEALAND HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH SUCH CRIMINALLY VILE PEOPLE AS THE CCP? IT CAUSES US TO BE ASHAMED TO EVEN BE CONSIDERED AS NEW ZEALANDERS. Having said that, we love the country of our birth, and we have patriotically, and proudly until now, flown the NZ flag from our apartment balcony here in Medellin ever since we settled here in 2018, just as we did all the time during our voyaging on the "Tiare Taporo III" to New Caledonia, Australia, SE Asia and Turkey, as we were legally required to do as a proudly registered NZ Ship. We attach a photo of the stern of "Tiare Taporo III" at Langkawi, Malaysia showing the flag we once held in such high esteem. However, we are now seriously considering removing the flag from public view.

We also urge you to read Muriel Newman's latest article re the Ardern Government's efforts to surreptitiously block "hate speech" - which is just a well advanced effort to criminalise comments such as we continually promulgate in this newsletter. The ACT Party is beginning a nation-wide tour to wake woke New Zealanders up to the damage to NZ's democracy that this Socialist government seems hellbent on advancing.

It's time that NZer's woke themselves up and realised just what is being done to their country - but we fear that most are are just TOO WOKE to understand. God help Godszone. What is NZ going to do when the CCP invades Taiwan - an action that in our opinion is now inevitable?

We are saddened and disgusted.  

With lotsaluv from us in Medellin...................................

Jim and Jean