THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.”

— Booker T. Washington

BIRTHDAYS:

1613 Gerard Dou, Dutch painter.

1740 Haym Salomon, Polish-born American merchant best known for his actions during the American Revolution, where he was the prime financier to the Continental Congress.

1745 Georg Druschetzky [Jiří Družecký], Czech composer, oboist, and timpanist, born in Jemníky, Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Concerto for Oboe and Timpani

1770 William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

1946 Bob Metcalfe, American electrical engineer (co-inventor of Ethernet, 3Com).

MISCELLANEOUS:

IT’S PROBABLY BECAUSE PEOPLE AREN’T WEARING MASKS, AND THEY’RE NOT CONFINED TO THEIR HOMES. Why we can’t squash the common cold, even after 100 years of studying it

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY PREDICTABLE. I RECOMMEND ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE PLEASE FIRST READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)