COVID-19 is not the flu and it's deaths are unique to this virus.

THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL ARTICLE.

The death rate of the flu this year so far is 0.038 percent. The death rate of COVID-19 virus is 3.5 percent. The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling COVID-19 a pandemic.

This is very serious. 

In the article below there is a reporting of 120,000 people infected and 4300 deaths. That is a death rate of 3.5%, actually it is closer to 3.6%. That death rate is 94 percent more deadly than the annual flu.

March 11, 2020

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...“Pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly,” (click here) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, chief of the W.H.O., said at a news conference in Geneva.

“We cannot say this loudly enough or clearly enough or often enough,” he added. “All countries can still change the course of this pandemic.”

But now there is evidence on six continents of sustained transmission of the virus, which has infected more than 120,000 people and killed more than 4,300, and by most scientific measures the spread qualifies as a pandemic. The designation itself is largely symbolic, but public health officials know that the public will hear in the word elements of danger and risk.

According to the W.H.O., an epidemic is defined as a regional outbreak of an illness that spreads unexpectedly. In 2010, it defined a pandemic as “the worldwide spread of a new disease” that affects large numbers of people.

The C.D.C. says it is “an epidemic that has spread over several countries or continents, usually affecting a large number of people.”

The W.H.O. had not declared a pandemic since 2009, when it gave that designation to a new strain of H1N1 influenza....

Even with higher numbers infected with the flu causing larger number of deaths, the COVID-19 virus is causing a higher percentage of deaths in people. If one wants to only contain COVID-19 to the USA against the statistics of flu below, the percentage of deaths per infected is much higher than the global statistic.

February 11, 2020
by Claire Gillespie

...Flu season (click here) is hitting its stride right now in the US. So far, the CDC has estimated (based on weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000. 

The CDC also estimates that up to 31 million Americans have caught the flu this season, with 210,000 to 370,000 flu sufferers hospitalized because of the virus....

The seriousness of COVID-19 is a fact and not a matter of hysteria. This virus is very deadly and should not be taken lightly. People that normally would stay in work and recover from the flu are having a very difficult time surviving through this infection of COVID-19. They are hospitalized. There are not 31 million Americans hospitalized for the flu.

Saying COVID-19 is not that serious and less serious than the flu is highly inaccurate.

It is called justice.

No one wishes Harvey Weinstein ill health even though he wished Jennifer Anniston (click here) death. I am sure there will be appeals. The sentence will be challenged. But, the facts are plain, over a very lengthy and lucrative career Harvey Weinstein assaulted many women. He expected compliance with his wishes over a far longer period of time than the initial sexual assault.

Women in the USA clearly understand they have a right to their bodies which means, "No means, no." Hollywood has no exemption and the industry needs to clean up it's act. Every talent agent needs to clearly make it known that any sexual harassment and/or abuse of a client (female or male) will receive quick notice to the person followed by legal action and civil lawsuits for damages. There also needs to be clear understanding that there will be no false reporting to take hostage of producers or directors. While the arts tend to yield passion as a quality of it's work, that does not include taking hostage the free will of any person.

Harvey Weinstein's crimes were a surprise to this culture in the USA. Some within the industry knew of Weinstein's bad habits and nothing was done. That is called being complicit. That is a crime as well and could mean enablers will also find themselves having to answer questions and facing charges.

The culture of silence regarding crime against human beings will stop. There will be no secret understanding that success lies in living outside the law and being paid for silence. While these crimes are about Harvey Weinstein there is a culture of silence in the USA that even enabled the deaths of people in Flint, Michigan. No more. Jeffery Epstein is another unbelievable code of silence that went on for decades. This is the end of it.

Women will be respected and empowered during their careers to live a wholesome life within the arts. Nudity on the screen is not illegal. In every High School and College, people are to be taught the value of their lives and the right to demand respect for their bodies. People are never to be a commodity that power can use to a wicked and illegal end.

I wish the women involved in the Weinstein crimes healing and I sincerely wish they can now put this behind them and have a happy life and successful career.

March 11, 2020
By Colin Dwyer

Harvey Weinstein (click here) has been sentenced to 23 years in prison. Judge James Burke handed down the decision in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday as the disgraced movie mogul watched, flanked by his legal team.

His 20-year sentence for a criminal sexual act, the more serious of the two counts he was convicted of last month, is on the higher end of New York state's guidelines. For the other count, rape in the third degree, Weinstein was sentenced to three years in prison.

"We thank the survivors for their remarkable statements today and indescribable courage over the last two years," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement released Wednesday.

"Harvey Weinstein deployed nothing less than an army of spies to keep them silent," he added. "But they refused to be silent, and they were heard. Their words took down a predator and put him behind bars and gave hope to survivors of sexual violence all across the world."

The sentencing Wednesday caps Weinstein's precipitous fall from the heights of Hollywood, where, for decades, he brandished his power and influence like a blunt instrument — and allegedly sexually assaulted dozens of young women, intimidating them and others into silence.

Ronan Farrow describes how his Harvey Weinstein reporting unfolded | Nig...(click here for Ronan Farrow's credentials - thank you)