THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.”

― Henry Grady Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress

BIRTHDAYS:

1797 Heinrich Heine, German poet and lyricist (Schubert, Liszt)

1816 Werner von Siemens, German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. He founded the electrical and telecommunications conglomerate Siemens and invented the electric tram, trolley bus, electric locomotive and electric elevator.

1836 Franz von Lenbach, German painter

1877 Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer (Carol of the Bells). Shchedryk, shchedryk (original ukrainian version of Carol of the Bells)

1887 George Pólya, Hungarian mathematician

MISCELLANY:

I’VE ALWAYS AVOIDED OLD (AND YOUNG) PEOPLE WHO ARE FEARFUL AND SET IN THEIR WAYS. The Grateful Dead Succumbed to Coronamania, but We Didn’t Conform

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

Yes, the following is on the website for the Bulgarian Association for Pathology (BPAP). As near as I can tell, the Canadian website was taken down.

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code