THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.”

— Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943)

BIRTHDAYS:

1732 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter.

1784 Louis Spohr, German violin virtuoso and composer (Faust). Nonet for strings & winds (29:50)

1827 Joseph Lister, British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare.

1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet.

1856 Booker T. Washington, American educator, author, and orator.

1951 Dean Kamen, American engineer and inventor (Segway)

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, April 4 – 12

ONWARD. SpaceX Fram2 Private Mission Successfully Concludes Historic Orbit around Earth’s Poles

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. IT WAS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER. GUARANTEED. I RECOMMEND ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)