THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”

— Plato

BIRTHDAYS:

1590 Johann Schop, German composer and violinist, born in Niedersachsen, Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg. Lachrimae, and Nasce la pena mia

1684 Johann Jacob de Neufville, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Ciacona

1712 Francesco Guardi, Italian painter.

MISCELLANEOUS:

MORE THAN JUST PRETTY LIGHTS. Northern lights may get stronger within the next 2 years as the sun enters a turbulent decline with a ‘last gasp’ finale

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