THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one’s property and therefore no one’s loss.”

— George Reisman

BIRTHDAYS:

1620 Johann Weichmann, German organist, and sacred and secular music composer (Sorgen-Lägerin), born in Wolgast, Pomerania. Rede eines verstorbenen Jünglings aus dem Grabe

1658 Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor.

1674 Reinhard Keiser, German opera conductor and composer, chiefly of operas and oratorios (Almira; Lukas-Passion), born in Teuchern, Electorate of Saxony. Sinfonia from the Opera “Der lächerliche Printz Jodelet”, and Besiege diese Nacht.

1875 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and art patron (founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art NYC)

1931 Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American sci-fi author.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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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