THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.”

— Murray N. Rothbard

BIRTHDAYS:

1574 Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Italian organist, maestro di cappella, and composer, born in Milan, Duchy of Milan, Habsburg Spain. Christus resurgens ex mortuis

1593 Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian baroque painter, the most famous European female painter of the 17th century, born in Rome.

1637 Johann Georg Ebeling, German composer, born in Lüneburg, Hanseatic League. Du meine Seele, singe

1838 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships.

1882 Percy Grainger, Australian-American concert pianist and composer. Molly on the Shore

MISCELLANEOUS:

GOOD NEWS. An opera magazine returns from the dead.

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 A HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)