This is a wordy, b.s. statement, boding no good for the city.

He has three priorities, the first of which is to make cops feel good about him.

. . . conveying to the men and women of the Chicago Police Department that I care about them. I have this saying that, ‘People don’t care what you know. They know that you care. Sincerely care about, right now, the virus’s impact on them and their lives and their families’ lives.”

The second is a plan:

. . . Mayor Lori Lightfoot and interim Supt. Charlie Beck have worked to craft [worked hard too, I bet. did they do
it?] since January to keep Chicago safe this summer . . . and prevent the number of homicides and shootings from spiking along with the temperatures.

. . . We have to have strong plans . . . We have to expand on those plans. . .

The third:

to comply with the consent decree outlining the terms of federal court oversight over the Chicago Police Department. In preparing himself to take the reins in Chicago, Brown said he read all 800 pages of that decree.

New police chief does not have one priority, to promote public safety? Put away or otherwise thwart the bad guys? Supporting cops? And what the hell is this about people not caring what you know but knowing that you care?

Hope he does everything well. He already knows how to shoot it in a public statement.

Glad to hear of rapid response by finest brains (as below), but main thing is what it or they found: Not just sneezes and coughs, as if you didn’t have enough to worry about. Read it:

White House-backed panel uses AI to distill data needed to battle coronavirus

When scientific advisers informed the White House that the novel coronavirus might be spread not just in sneezes and coughs but by talking or even breathing, it was the result of a new, rapid response effort that matches the country’s finest brains with a daunting array of evidence.

Keep out of breathing distance.

Which is like saying there will be no tackling in this football game.

Biden pledges Trump phone call not an ‘I told you so’ trap

A phone call between 2020 rivals Joe Biden and President Trump on the coronavirus crisis is in the works and will not be a political trap, the former vice president said Thursday.

Miracles happen, but this won’t be one of them.

NC Reporter people are rarin’ to go.

Catholic parishes across the world are closed. Millions of Catholics have been unable to physically take part in the celebration of the Mass for weeks, and may not be able to again for months.

Simply put, the coronavirus pandemic is fundamentally changing how we do and be church.

Vas ist der “fundamentally”?

But Reporter folks have been eager for that for a long time, have they not?

Now consider this:

[T]he present crisis is being triggered by the conclusions of experts, conclusions that have enormous consequences for everyday life.

And this:

[Philosopher Alasdair] MacIntyre singles out managerial, bureaucratic “expertise” as hindering human flourishing in our time. Managerial experts claim to possess technical skills that enable them to achieve (or to advise others how to achieve) whatever outcomes are worth achieving.

“Expertise” is a claim to efficiency in achieving those ends. It is the basis for a manager’s authority to manipulate human beings into compliant patterns of behavior. The authority of expertise legitimates many of the institutions that dominate modern social life—government bureaucracies, psychological counseling, progressive education, and more. The claim of expertise purports to justify all kinds of social control.

more more more here.

Blinded by the fashionable.

Fellow argues well, tells a lot about viruses.

Can’t tell you how bad this is. Can hardly read it all. (I didn’t.)

It’s about how Peter’s Pence moneys go as investment in sordid movies and the like in direct and blatant contradiction of some of Pope Francis’ severest censures of market practices. His Secretary of State, one Cardinal Parolin, is in charge of it. This is long and detailed and sickening.

Really? That marvelous network? Hard to believe, right?