THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

— Robert Heinlein

BIRTHDAYS:

1616 Kaspar Förster, German composer. Congregantes Philistei Dialogi Davidis.

1663 Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor of the atmospheric engine.

MISCELLANEOUS:

THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS. The Moon’s next robotic visitor is lining up for landing this weekend

BUT I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: MARX SAID CAPITALISM WAS TO BLAME. Scientists match Earth’s ice age cycles with orbital shifts

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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