EDITORIAL by Dhiren Shah
Hello Readers,
The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is showing its course. In the United States, the new cases were down to 10,000 cases per day. Now all of a sudden it is above 50,000 cases per day in the past week. Also, COVID-19 deaths have gone from as low as 41 deaths in July to about 2,252 deaths a day in September. As of Nov. 16, it was 1,414 deaths. What is the reason? California leads the US with 5.2 million cases so far, with 73,487 deaths. They are followed by Texas, Florida, New York and Illinois.
Maine leads the nation in vaccination. In Maine, 99% of people over age 65 have been fully vaccinated. They are followed by Minnesota, Vermont, and Wisconsin. New Jersey has about 96.2% of those above age 65 vaccinated, while New York has about 90.4% above 65 vaccinated.
The United States is leading in new daily COVID cases and deaths with 87,133 cases and 1,282 deaths on Nov. 16. If you look around, many people have stopped using masks when visiting stores or restaurants. In the U.S., Minnesota is leading the nation with 10,656 daily cases and Arizona with 83 daily deaths as of Nov. 16. I hope that people follow the strict regulations of covering their faces with masks. The craze of eating outside must be stopped and whenever you go, cover yourself and make sure you are fully vaccinated.
The Biden administration will spend billions to increase the production of vaccines for poor nations. Some people who do not believe in vaccination and think that vaccination is a way to control people did not like Biden’s administration spending money on vaccination. There is anger as to why the Biden administration is spending too much tax dollars on pet projects, which are outside of America, like climate control, vaccinations and the list goes on and on.
Biden is failing on border control and as soon as he got pressure, he announced the opening the borders for legal and asylum purposes only. Still, more and more people are trying to cross the border. Our economy is in trouble, as the inflation rate is climbing up. The annual inflation rate in the U.S. likely increased to 5.8% in October of 2021 which would be the highest rate since December of 1990. October’s inflation rate is 6.2%.
In other big news, after a long time, two men accused of killing Malcolm X have been exonerated. According to the New York Times; “Two of the three men convicted of killing the civil rights activist Malcolm X are expected to have their convictions thrown out Thursday. The men – Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam – always maintained their innocence in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, who rose to become one of the most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement.
“Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance and lawyers representing the two men first told The New York Times that they expected the names of Aziz and Islam to be cleared Thursday. Vance and the Innocence Project, which represents the two men, confirmed to NBC News that they would ‘move to vacate the wrongful convictions of two individuals for the murder of Malcolm X’ on Thursday afternoon. Islam died in 2009, but Aziz, who is in his 80s, continued to fight to clear his record.
“The development follows a 22-month investigation and decades of speculation that the case was mishandled from the start. Malcolm X was assassinated Feb. 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, where hundreds had gathered to hear him speak. Inside the ballroom, several men opened fire, striking him onstage.”
On Nov. 17, President Biden got the chance to drive the first electric vehicle Hummer in an upscale GM Plant. In the near future, the Hummer EV (about $110,000) will compete with Tesla Cybertruck.
Have a wonderful week.
I’ll talk to you next week.
