The absurdity of “cases”:

Today’s headlines announced Donald and Melania Trump “tested positive” for covid-19. Another claims nineteen thousand Amazon workers “got” covid-19 on the job. Both of these pseudostories are sure to ignite another absurd media frenzy.

As always, the story keeps changing: Remember ventilators, flatten the curve, the next two weeks are crucial, etc.? Remember Nancy Pelosi in Chinatown back in February, urging everyone to visit? Remember Fauci dismissing masks as useless? Why should we believe anything the political/media complex tells us now?

So what do these headlines really mean? What exactly is a covid “case”?

It’s what we’ve been hearing, yes. Got this newspaper reader to cancel his Sun-Times subscription: Constant bad news touching on absurdity, with NO contrary viewpoints. Ditto Chi Trib. You know there’s something wrong. I got tired of it — sneakily keeping on-line access, you know, for now-and-then catching up on the latest.

. . . from Fr. Dennis Kolinski S.J.C. , a member of the Clerks of St. John Cantius in Chicago, found in his Manual for Conquering Deadly Sin, published by TAN Books:

Today’s world is permeated, probably more so than at any other time in history, with temptations and the attractions of sin. It could be said that in the past you had to go out of your way to be bad, whereas now it seems you must go out of your way to be good. Therefore, in order to cultivate the life of virtue that will enable us to resist the inclination to sin, we must order our lives in such a manner that we live in the presence of God, directing our actions accordingly and trying to always see everything through the eyes of God.

Without a life of prayer and sacrifice, this is almost impossible. We…

In the news here, among many other outlets:

While America’s political kingmakers inject their millions into high-profile presidential and congressional contests, Democratic mega-donor George Soros has directed his wealth into an under-the-radar 2016 campaign to advance one of the progressive movement’s core goals — reshaping the American justice system.

The billionaire financier has channeled more than $3 million into seven local district-attorney campaigns in six states over the past year — a sum that exceeds the total spent on the 2016 presidential campaign by all but a handful of rival super-donors.

His money has supported African-American and Hispanic candidates for these powerful local roles, all of whom ran on platforms sharing major goals of Soros’, like reducing racial disparities in sentencing and directing some drug offenders to diversion programs instead of to trial. It is by far the most tangible action in a progressive push to find, prepare and finance…