THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

— Agatha Christie

BIRTHDAYS:

1737 Michael Haydn, Austrian composer. Requiem c-Moll (35:33)

1930 Allan Bloom, American philosopher and author (Closing of the American Mind).

MISCELLANEOUS:

I’M STILL NOT TIRED OF IT. SpaceX launches 300th Starlink satellite-internet mission (video)

IN THE FUTURE BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE) THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT ALSO WANT TO READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration