THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

― H.L. Mencken

BIRTHDAYS:

1819 Gustave Courbet, French realist painter.

1831 W. A. Remy [Wilhelm Mayer], Austro-Bohemian composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia. Leuchtende Sterne, Op.22 No.1

1832 Nicolaus Otto, German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion engine.

1925 Nat Hentoff, American columnist and novelist.

MISCELLANY:

A FEW THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN DECREE:

IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code.