THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

― Thomas Sowell

1586 Claudio Saracini, Italian composer, born in Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. le Seste musiche

1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who invented calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics and statistics.

1725 Comte de Rochambeau, French nobleman and general whose army played a critical role in helping the United States defeat the British Army at Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War.

1869 William Strunk Jr., American grammarian and author (The Elements of Style).

1906 Estée Lauder, American businesswoman.

MISCELLANY:

UNLESS IT’S COPYWRIGHTED WHAT IS THE ACUAL PROBLEM? Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers

“‘Judges said they did not know how to think about “a situation where the publishers just haven’t come forward with any data showing that this has an impact.’”

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

SOMETIMES IT REALLY IS WHAT YOU THINK IT IS. A Special Message To Patients: STOP Your Ideological BS (5:59)

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.