THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”

— Epicurus

BIRTHDAYS:

1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and Baroque music theorist, baptized in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. “Gott hat unter uns aufgerichtet”

1597 Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch architectural painter.

1781 George Stephenson, English civil engineer and mechanical engineer during the Industrial Revolution. Renowned as the “Father of Railways”,[2] Stephenson was considered by the Victorians as a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement.

1791 Thomas L. Jennings, American tailor and inventor (dry-cleaning), abolitionist, and desegregationist.

1810 Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, German composer, one of the founders of the Vienna Philharmonic, born in Königsberg, Prussia. Overture of The Merry Wives of Windsor

1849 Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter.

MISCELLANEOUS:

GOOD. Tesla Stock Recovery As Elon Musk and Trump Feud Blows Over

SENSIBLE ADVICE. SpaceX Must Go Global and Spinoff IPOs to Avoid Nationalization.

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)