Craig Hullinger- City Planner, Marine Colonel Retired

1/03/2021

Amazing Phone Call Jan 3, 2020

Jan 3, 2020. In the midst of a terrible Pandemic, President Trump is focused like a lazer beam on .....

trying to get Georgia to change the election results.

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Audio: Trump’s full Jan. 2 call with Ga. secretary of state

January 3, 2021 | 3:33 PM EDT

In a one-hour phone call on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021 with Georgia election officials, President Trump insisted he won the state and threatened vague legal consequences if the officials did not act. This audio has been edited to remove the name of an individual about whom the president makes unsubstantiated allegations.

Click to listen to the call.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/audio-trumps-full-jan-2-call-with-ga-secretary-of-state/2021/01/03/3f9426f4-7937-4718-8a8e-9d6052001991_video.html

SAD

Federal Deficits

As the graphs show, we have put ourselves in a very bad position. We had to run big deficits to fight the pandemic and the great recession of 200-2009, but much of the growth in debt is simply that we spent more then we earned (taxed). We have been on a sugar high.

Click to read the article:

https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/how-worried-should-you-be-about-the-federal-deficit-and-debt/

12/26/2020

Covid-19

The graphs above show data from the world. It is clear that the Pandemic is worsening substantially. And because the number of cases in increasing very rapidly, it is very likely that the death rate will also increase very rapidly.

The table below is taken from data from countries around the world. The USA has the 7th highest number of total cases per million people among the world's nations. And the countries with a higher rate are quite small, in some cases really city states, which because they live at a higher density are also likely to have more cases.

#	Country, Other	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Population
1	Andorra	100,304	1,073	7,756	83	7,203	470	15	77,325
2	Montenegro	73,149	1,038	45,945	652	36,120	9,173	68	628,105
3	Luxembourg	72,477	737	45,724	465	37,574	7,685	35	630,879
4	San Marino	65,683	1,649	2,231	56	1,863	312	9	33,966
5	Czechia	62,281	1,022	667,569	10,950	563,454	93,165	618	10,718,650
6	French Polynesia	58,751	383	16,550	108	4,842	11,600	21	281,696
7	USA	57,892	1,019	19,216,971	338,321	11,260,932	7,617,718	28,659	331,944,490

The USA is number 14 among total deaths per 1 million population.

#	Country, Other	Deaths/ 1M pop
1	San Marino	1,649
2	Belgium	1,644
3	Slovenia	1,218
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,193
5	Italy	1,181
6	North Macedonia	1,152
7	Peru	1,126
8	Andorra	1,073
9	Spain	1,065
10	Montenegro	1,038
11	UK	1,031
12	Czechia	1,022
13	Bulgaria	1,022
14	USA	1,019

Source: The info above was extracted from

worldometers.info/coronavirus

Some of the lower death rate can be attributed to our better more sophisticated health care system. But our number of cases is are going way up and is a leading indicator for deaths, which will likely follow the increase in cases.