THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: ‘But what would you replace it with?’ When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?”

— Thomas Sowell

BIRTHDAYS:

1474 Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter

1652 Johann Heinrich Kittel, German composer. Großes Präludium e-moll für Orgel, and Präludium I in C

1713 Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter.

1927 Margaret Thatcher, British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position.

MISCELLANEOUS:

PROBABLY DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT STOWAWAYS JUST YET. SpaceX Will Have Regular Commercial Cargo Missions to Moon 2028 and Mars 2030

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