THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours”

— Ayn Rand

BIRTHDAYS:

1554 Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer, born in Verona, Republic of Venice. “Perche fuggi”

1593 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish baroque artist.

1764 Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor (Brandenburg Gate chariot).

1799 Honoré de Balzac, French novelist.

1806 John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant.

1851 Emile Berliner, German inventor (flat phonograph record, founded Deutsche Grammophon).

1904 Margery Allingham, English detective writer

MISCELLANEOUS:

I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THE FBI USED TO PUT PARENTS ON TERRORIST WATCH LISTS FOR THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR. Mass protest by parents prompts reversal of private school closure in China

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. TO ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)