THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?”

— Garet Garrett

BIRTHDAYS:

1672 Francesco Mancini, Neapolitan composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire. Quanto dolce è quell´ ardore

1728 Niccolò Piccinni, Italian classical, opera, and sacred music composer (Roland; Buona Figliuola), born in Bari, Kingdom of Naples. Ouverture da “Il Regno della Luna”.

1853 André Michelin, French industrialist who, with his brother Édouard (1859–1940), founded the Michelin Tyre Company (Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin) in 1888 in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand.

In 1900, André Michelin, published the first Michelin Guide, the purpose of which was to promote tourism by car, thereby supporting his tyre manufacturing operation.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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MAYBE DENMARK CAN OFFER LEASES? Denmark and USA Have Working Group on Some Kind of Greenland Deal

REMINDER:

In the future, before locking things down again (including free speech and the freedom to assemble), the authorities might want to reacquaint themselves with the following:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration