THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.”

— Eric Hoffer

BIRTHDAYS:

1579 Valerius Otto, German composer, born in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony. Pražské tance (Couranta)

1654 Agostino Steffani, Italian-German diplomat and composer, born in Castelfranco Veneto, Republic of Venice. Orlando: “Se t’ecclissi / Vive stelle”

1657 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer, born in Esens, Electorate of Hanover. Sonata Prima in D-Dur

1675 James Thornhill, English painter (St. Paul’s Cathedral dome).

1870 Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator.

1902 Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman and author (The True Believer).

MISCELLANEOUS:

IN CALIFORNIA TOO? I’LL BELIEVE THAT WHEN I SEE IT. Tesla Robotaxi Available for Half of US Population by End of 2025

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)