Chinese Virus statistics week number 35 (245 days) as at 16th. April 2021 (plus political comment and our personal news) since August 21st. 2020

Hola to all,

Once again, we have no doubt and hope that you are all in the pink! 

The following figures have always been subject to fraud and considerable doubt, but they are the best we have. For example, influenza which is a recurring disease, has almost disappeared in recent times!!

In view of that, we have decided in future to present a very slimmed down version. As we have been doing for some weeks now for mainly other South American countries, we will in future only be showing active cases and active cases per 1 million of total population. At this stage of the Chinese Virus, we feel that those are the key demographics to show and compare week to week.

MUNDO - World

Total cases - 139,828,469 - (21,168,111) - up 118,660,358 or 560.6%

Deaths - 3,002,476 - 2.2% - (759,328 - 3.6%) - up 2,233,148 or 294.1%

Recoveries -118,889,035 - 85.0% - (13,984,843 - 66.1%) - up 104,904,192 or 750.1%

Therefore active cases - 17,936,958 - 12.8% - (6,425,939 - 30.3%) - up 11,511,019 or 179.1%. Of the total population (which is estimated to be increasing at the rate of 1,557,692 per week) of 7,857,880,447 (7,804,380,455), the percentage of active cases is 0.228% (0.082%) of the total world population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total world population since previous week - 2,283 - (3,026) Since previous week the figure is down by 743 or 24.6%

The total world number of deaths now appears to have reached another grim milestone - over three million world-wide. BUT, it is also noted that "normal" influenza almost vanished from the world in 2020. There is no doubt that these figures are manipulated for political purposes - to what extent is anyone's guess. 

However, these figures show a substantial improvement over the previous week's figures. Total cases are up 5,088,408 or 3.8%, whereas active cases are down by 5,434,219 or 23.3%. So, the situation is more than holding its own. Let's hope these trends continue.  .

ESTADOS UNIDOS - United States

Total cases - 32,226,766 - (5,429,115) - up 26,797,651 or 493.6%.

Deaths - 579,008 - 1.8% - (170,781 - 3.2%) - up 408,227 or 239.0%

Recoveries - 24,771,394 - 76.9% - (2,844,535 - 52.4%) - up 21,926,859 or 770.8%.

Therefore active cases - 6,876,364 - 21.3% - (2,413,829 - 44.6%) - up 4,462,535 or 184.9%. Of the total population of 332,532,060 (331,236,184), the percentage of active cases is 2.068% (0.729%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 20,679 - (9,043) - up 11,636 or 128.7%. Last week the figures were up 11,634 or 128.7%.

Compared to last week, the comparative figures are (movements compared to last week in parenthesis):

Total cases up 505,078 or 1.6% (up 965,767 or 3.1%)

Deaths up 5,114 or 0.9% (up 14,055 or 2.5%)

Recoveries up 498,521 or 2.1% (up 1,076,656 or 4.6%)

Active cases up 1,443 or 0.02% (down 144,944 or 2.1%)

These are surprising figures, given the reported extent of the vaccination roll-out. Active cases, which is the key figure, have gone from being down 145,000 to being up by 1,443 this week. A major cause is that recoveries are well down by over half a million. Let's see what happens next week.

It is felt that the following article "On the Holmes Front" with Frank Holmes says all that needs to be said about the state of America today:
"During the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden promised to "unify" Americans.

But a new poll shows that in just 87 days, President Biden has divided Americans more than any time in modern history.

A new Gallup poll finds the biggest ever gap between members of the two political parties - a whopping 86 percent gulf between Republicans and Democrats.

While 96 percent of Democrats see Biden as a good leader, only 10 percent of Republicans agree.

America's common ground is even more fractured than it was four years ago, when the vast majority of Democrats thought Russia colluded with President Donald Trump to "steal" the 2016 election from them.

Still, the division has ticked up nine more points under Biden than under Trump.

Gallup compared the same numbers for every president in the last 20 years, going back to George W. Bush in 2001 - and Biden is the worst of the lot.

"Party gaps in approval ratings were about 30 points lower for Obama, Bush and Clinton than they have been for Biden," Gallup reports.

Pollsters also found historic levels of division between American citizens based on education and sex - and near records for race and age.

That's a huge failure for Biden, who has promised to bring "unity" to America ever since being named President-elect.

"With the campaign over, it's time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation", Biden said the day the media named him the winner of the 2020 election.

But during the election, an Associated Press poll found that 85 percent of Americans said the country was deeply divided over its values...and 37 percent believed Joe Biden would make matters worse.

It turns out they were right.

Biden promised again to make "unity" his focus as president during his inauguration in January.

"Today, on the January day, my whole soul is in this: bringing America together, uniting our people, and uniting the nation," Biden said...but then he went on to say America was riddled with "systemic racism," and the division began.

Biden's administration has begun with a hard-left position on every issue...and just keeps moving left.

The only real "unity" Biden has pursued is the "Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force," where socialist Bernie Sanders sketched out a far-left agenda for Biden to follow the second that his hand came off the bible.

Biden has shut down the KeystoneXL Pipeline, created a border crisis by ending President trump's border security measures, forced girls to compete against biological boys for sports scholarships, and made American taxpayers fund abortions around the world.

He pushed through a $2 trillion "COVID-19 relief plan" that had nothing to do with COVID -19, now he's selling a $2 trillion "infrastructure" plan that has little to do with infrastructure.

"We should ignore the unity talk because everything he has done leans far left," wrote New York Post columnist, Michael Goodwin.

Some of Biden's actions have been thin-skinned and mean. He may have illegally fired administrators - including a woman taking scheduled maternity leave.

Meanwhile, the media churn out endless stories presenting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as charming, trying their best to get Americans to fall in love with the Bidens and Harris-Emhoffs as much as "journalists" have.

"The corrupt sycophantic press corp will go along dutifully with this unity fiction, and express astonishment as the culture war it attempts to disguise continues to tear the country apart", predicted Ben Domenech of the Federalist.

But more and more the American people aren't buying it.

Public opinion of Biden has been nosediving.

Less than half - 48 percent - of Americans approve of the job Joe Biden is doing in office, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

As early as the beginning of this month, Biden's approval rating stood at 61 percent, according to the HarrisX poll.

What explains a 13 point drop in just days? After all, Democrats still support Biden by near 10 percent levels.

Biden's failures must be making a dent on all registered independents.

Independents aren't partisan. They don't care about which party is winning or losing. They just care whether their lives are better.

Under Biden-Harris, their lives - and our country - are worse off. No amount of media spin can cover that up for ever.

Goodwin hoped that at some point "the smoke will clear and voters will judge Biden on the merits of his own presidency". It looks like that time has come".

We have talked many times about the destruction that is being wrought on the United States by the Biden cabal, who were "elected" by deceit, and fraudulent  and treacherous means which are now starting to be exposed by proper scientific forensic audits of the vote counting systems in key counties of the "battleground" states. In the meantime, because they know their time is limited, the Dims are wasting no time in their destructive and inhumane Mexico border policy, the beginning of the destruction of the US energy industry, and the insidious "Cancellation Culture" where anyone or any organisation that dares to question their criminal, unconstitutional and woke policies in education and commerce is sidelined and either sacked from their jobs, or prevented from ever getting another. In addition they are giving China increasing confidence that the US would be ineffective against any aggressive moves they may make. Not to mention re-joining the Paris Climate Accords which are nothing more than another tool to seriously disadvantage western countries against mainly China which, while a signatory, is not bound by any of its provisions for some years. And they are abasing themselves before the criminal regime of Iran in order to give back all the advantage that Donald Trump extracted from that rogue state. In short anything that Donald Trump achieved, they are determined to tear down and destroy.

Most American cities are now experiencing the same vicious BLM and Antifa riots nightly that occurred last summer. The exceptions are the "red" states which have solidly supportive legislation protecting the police, whereas the woke incompetent leadership in the "blue" states simply want to strip the police of resources and normal police powers. Even to the extent of removing their police altogether. That would be great in cities like Chicago where homicides are advancing to all-time highs.

We doubt whether the situation is retrievable, and so the only outcome from that is Secession. Time will tell.

      

COLOMBIA

Total cases - 2,602,719 -  (433,805) - up 2,168,914 or 500.0%

Deaths - 67,199 - 2.6% - (14,145 - 3.3%) - up 53,054 or 375.1%

Recoveries - 2,432,061 - 93.4% - (250,494 - 57.7%) - up 2,181,567 or 870.9%.

Therefore active cases - 103,459 - 4.0% - (169,196 - 39.0%) - down 65,737 or 38.9%. Of the total population of 51,309,459 (50,948,628), the percentage of active cases is 0.202 % (0.332%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,016 - (1,367)

Active cases compared to last week are up 32,224 or 45.2%

After showing promising trends for some weeks, the figures are suddenly deteriorating by substantial weekly movements. Let's hope we've peaked again and that the trend will reverse.  

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

April 11th. Reported COVID-19 infections in Colombia skyrocket

April 12th. Colombia's military starts meddling with Uribe investigation

April 12th. Colombia's prosecution asked to revise investigation against presidential candidate

April 13th. Colombia's war crimes tribunal calls top army generals to trial

April 13th. Colombia's prosecution misinforms court over Uribe's alleged death squad 

April 14th. The search for missing persons in Colombia's biggest port

April 14th. Is Colombia trying to silence key witness against Uribe?

April 14th. Colombia's capital declares red alert over new COVID-19 wave

April 14th. Duque's "chemical warfare" against Coca "fuel for more war" in Colombia

April 15th. The struggle to combat Coronavirus in Colombia's remote regions

April 15th. Medellin's landlords and gangs skyrocket forced displacement

April 16th. Colombia's Ecopetrol joined by paramilitaries after guerilla attacks on oil fields

Jean is enjoying her time in Miami with the Nietos. She is helping with their morning school work (home schooling) and being with them whenever they are out doing their thing. She's ridden a pushbike down the road with them and picked them up when they have come off their skateboards.

She rings twice a day to check on the old geezer left behind in Medellin and glean all the news. So far he's managed to do 2 lots of washing and kept himself fed more or less. Jean returns to Medellin on the 22nd. Better make sure the floor is mopped and the bed made!!!

On the 14th. met our American friend, Chuck, and had a preview of the 2 new pups that their Shih Tzu, Sophie, has proudly produced. They are a month and a half old now and they already have homes promised to go to. Then, after dropping off the dogs at their apartment, yours truly and Chuck wandered off to the restaurant quarter of Envigado and had a very pleasant lunch. Spent much of the time reminiscing about previous lives  - his experiences as a medic in Vietnam which no-one would want to repeat. And him travelling with his family to Philadelphia in their '56 Chev Bel Air - same car we had in NZ, except the steering wheel was on the other side! First car yours truly drove from Paihia to Kaikohe at the tender age of 14 to put Dad on the National Airways Corporation DC3 to Auckland. Seems, and is, like another time.

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

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 - 2,025 - (1,992) - up 33 or 1.7%. Now a miniscule rise; concerning after recent weeks' drops 

Costa Rica - 5,402 - (4,481) - up 921 or 20.6%. Another substantial weekly increase. There seems no end to it. 

Panama - 900 - (1,029) - down 129 or 12.5%. Another satisfactory move downwards. Continuing recent trends. 

Colombia - 2,016 - (1,389) - up 627 or 45.1%. A bigger rise in weekly percentage terms than last week, and very concerning. Let's hope the current wave is at last diminishing. 

Ecuador - 2,203 - (1,916) - up 287 or 15.0%. Rate of increase is up; another concerning trend. 

Peru - 686 - (804) - down 118 or 14.7%. Another very satisfactory reduction. What are they doing right in Peru?  

Bolivia - 3,222 - (3,201) - up 21 or 0.7%. Reversing previous declines but only by a very small amount. Let's hope they can start reducing the numbers again. 

Paraguay - 5,438 - (5,085) - up 353 or 6.9%. Same rate of increase as last week. Maybe it's plateauing - maybe not. 

Brazil - 5,408 - (5,656) - down 248 or 4.4%. An increasing rate of reduction from recent weeks. Let's hope the peak has passed and they can continue this trend. 

Chile - 2,273 - (2,131) - up 142 or 6.7%. Weekly rate of increase going up. Another worrying trend. 

Argentina - 5,931 - (5,002) - up 929 or 18.6%. About the same weekly rate of increase continuing as recorded recently. Not good. 

Uruguay - 9,226 - (8,166) - up 1,058 or 13.0%. A lesser weekly rate of increase than recently but still a number way too high. Uruguay is head and shoulders above the rest of S America - FOR THE WRONG REASON!!  

United Kingdom - 2,060 - (4,371) - down 2,311 or 52.9%. WOW, what a reduction! Certainly shows up what is left of the EU. France's number for example is 16,513 and Germany's is 3,289. There's Socialism for you in all its inefficient glory!! Today watched the sad occasion of the funeral of the 99 year old Duke of Edinburgh, Consort for 73 years to Queen Elizabeth II. An end to an era - absolutely. Father of four, grandfather of eight and great grandfather of ten. Served with distinction in the Royal Navy in WW2 and since, until he was forced to give up his naval career when Elizabeth became Queen in 1952.

Thailand - 150 - (38) - up 112 or 294.7%. A substantial deterioration in percentage terms, but of course the numbers are still low in comparison to many other countries. 

Malaysia - 569 - (453) - up 116 or 25.6%. A substantial rise after some weeks of figures going the right way. 

Japan - 262 - (210) - up 52 or 24.8%. Similar comments as for Thailand really. Let's hope that they can turn things around again. 

Taiwan - 1 - (1) - no change. The poster girl of Asia. But China is probably soon to squash that. Can't have such obvious capitalist success right on their doorstep!  

AUSTRALIA

Total cases - 29,483 - (23,035) - up 6,448 or 28.0%

Deaths - 910 - 3.1% - (370 - 1.7%) - up 540 or 146.0%

Recoveries - 26,385 - 89.5% - (13,634 - 59.2%) - up 12,751 or 93.5%

Therefore active cases - 2,188 - 7.4% - (9,022 - 39.2%) - down 8,834 or 75.8%. Of the total population of 25,732,506 (25,538,969), the percentage of active cases is 0.009% (0.035%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population  - 85 - (56). Up 29 or 51.8% since last week.

Compared to last week, active cases are up 52 or 2.4%.

Some deterioration since last week, but when dealing with relatively small numbers, the movements always appear more substantial than they actually are. 

NUEVA ZELANDA - New Zealand

Total cases - 2,591 - (1,714) - up 877 or 51.2%

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

Recoveries - 2,464 - 95.1% - (1,531 - 95.5%) - up 933 or 60.9%

Therefore active cases - 101 - 3.9% - (49 - 3.0%) - up 52 or 106.1%. Of the total population of 5,002,001 (5,002,001) - still no change! Maybe the reason is that the birth rate is just holding its own against the death rate  - ah, we have stumbled on the secret!! Amanda the Midwife will have to try harder!! Anyway, the percentage of active cases is 0.002% (0.001%) of the total population.

Total active cases per 1 million of total population  - 20 - (14). An increase of 1 or 5.3% since last week..

Compared to last week, active cases are up 6 or 6.3%.

Same comments as for Australia. 

A couple of days ago we sent those of you who live in NZ a letter written by a concerned citizen to David Seymour, Leader of the ACT Party. An irony is that Seymour is part Maori himself, but if he has any integrity (in a politician???), he will see the complaint for what it is - reverse racism and destructive wokeness. We won't explain that term; if you've been reading the blogs and listening to Leighton Smith you should understand the definition by now. 

Well, cheers and lotsaluv for another week,

from Jim in Medellin and Jean in Miami.