I normally don't show this table on Saturdays, but had to today because that drop in new deaths for the United States for Thursday (shown yesterday) was clearly wrong:
From Worldometer (new COVID-19 deaths yesterday):
DAY USA WORLD Brazil India South Africa
- The USA had 163,707 (490/million) new cases, while the UK #2 was at 92,597 (1354/million).
- New York was #1 in new cases with 21,444 (1105/million).
- Nearby, Massachusetts was at 1040 new cases/million.
- New Jersey was at 831 new cases/million.
- Vermont was at 764 new cases/million.
- Hawaii had a scary (maybe our highest ever) 797 (569/million) new cases yesterday.
- Government officials and the administration where I live have not shown any sign of invoking new protective measures, but I suspect that some clamping down will occur if our numbers continue for a few more days. On the other hand, as bad as things are in Hawaii today, mostly in Honolulu, we remain a factor of two to three lower in new cases/million than most European countries. And most of them also don't seem to want to hurt the economy.
- A big positive is South Africa:
- Only 1.7% of identified Covid-19 cases were admitted to hospital in the second week of infections in the fourth wave, compared with 19% in the same week of the third delta-driven wave, South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla said at a press conference.
- Their new cases/million yesterday was 335, less than half that of Hawaii.
- More than 90% of COVID-19 deaths were to the unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.
- About hospitalizations:
- Their new deaths/million yesterday was 0.6/million, as compared to (in new deaths/million):
- USA 5.0
- Russia 7.4
- Poland 15.0
- Hungary 16.0
- Slovakia 20.9
- New York 3.2
- Hawaii 1.4
- South Africa 0.6
- Japan 0.02
- China had no deaths.
- It has been three weeks since the Omicron variant was detected in South Africa.
- What this means is that Omicron is much, much more transmissible than Delta (20,000 new cases/day for Omicron to 4,400 new cases/day for Delta), but much, much less virulent. The sickness seems closer to the flu than COVID. Ah, don't quote me on that...yet.
- So far, 8.7 billion vaccine doses in 184 countries. The world population is 7.8 billion
Two elections within five months paved the way for the “democratic” rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis to power. Their provocative and violent methods — including brutal street clashes with Communists — had brought them prominence in the previous decade. But it was the Great Depression of 1929 that truly fueled their popularity. In the July elections of 1932, the Nazis emerged as the single largest party, but they were far from a majority. A November rerun saw them retain the dominant position — but with fewer seats. Using a combination of street violence, political blackmail and support from big German businesses, Hitler convinced President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint him chancellor. Under Nazi rule, Germany would never again hold genuinely free and fair elections.
See that map? We are a flawed democracy.
| Full democracies 9.01–10 8.01–9 | Flawed democracies 7.01–8 6.01–7 | Hybrid regimes 5.01–6 4.01–5 | Authoritarian regimes 3.01–4 2.01–3 0–2.00 |
Interesting that in 2015 we were a full democracy with an 8.05 score. Since then we have not reached 8.0. We are now #25:
- #1 Norway 9.81
- #2 Iceland 9.37
- #3 Sweden 9.26
- #4 New Zealand 9.25
- #5 Canada 9.24
- #11 Taiwan 8.94
- #20 Mauritius 8.14
- #21 Japan 8.13
- #22 Spain 8.12
- #23 South Korea 8.01
- #24 France 7.99
- #25 U.S. 7.92
- #27 Israel 7.84
- #45 South Africa 7.05
- #74 Singapore 6.03
- #124 Russia 3.31
- #151 China 2.27
- #167 North Korea 1.08
Here is one point of view about Trump in 2024:
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Typhoon Rai now seems headed for Taiwan:
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