THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong”

— Walter E. Williams

BIRTHDAYS:

1776 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German Romantic writer, judge and composer (Undine), born in Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia. Serapionswalzer

1848 Vasily Surikov, Russian history painter.

MISCELLANEOUS:

INTERESTING. Microbes living in our mouths could hold the key to obesity prevention

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