THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.”

— Milton Friedman

BIRTHDAYS:

1710 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [Draghi], Italian Baroque organist, composerborn in Jesi, Papal States. Tre giorni son che Nina, and Stabat Mater Dolorosa

1717 Antonio Maria Mazzoni, Italian opera composer, born in Milan, Lombardy, Austrian Empire. Largo e Allegro – Solfegès d’Italie n. 107 – 108, and Tu m’involasti un regno (Antigono)

1785 Jacob Grimm, also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist.

1809 Louis Braille, French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people.

1813 Isaac Pitman, English publisher and teacher of the English language who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand.

1878 Augustus John, Welsh painter

1881 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter, poet and sculptor

MISCELLANEOUS:

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE OF NAVIES. The Russian Threat and the Apparently Endless Words Vs. Deeds Problem

COVID 19 LOCKDOWNS – REQUIRED READING.

PUBLISHED 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

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