THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ”speak with the accent of natives” they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.”

— Ivan Illich

BIRTHDAYS:

1788 Simon Sechter, Austrian composer and music theorist. Präludium

1821 George Williams, English philanthropist, businessman and founder of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).

MISCELLANEOUS:

HOPEFULLY IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. National Guard helicopter crew grounded for flying low over hurricane relief depot and scattering supplies

MY TRUST IN POLITICIANS IS ALMOST ZERO. Debt Doom is Coming

HERE’S SOME RECREATIONAL READING FOR THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

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.