THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.”

― Sun Tzu

BIRTHDAYS:

1657 Manuel de Egues, Spanish composer. ¡Cupidillo, niño travieso!

1660 Johannes Schenck, Dutch born composer. Chaconne – Duo in RE, and Sonata II – Adagio

1726 James Hutton, Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician.

1738 Johann Christoph Oley, German composer. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

1773 Michael Gottard Fischer, German composer and organist. Jesus meine Zuversicht, and Andante Mosso, and Larghetto.

1780 William Hone, English author and bookseller.

1819 Johan Jongkind, Dutch-French painter and printer.

1819 Thomas Ball, American sculptor, painter and musician.

1821 Edward L. Youmans, American scientific writer and founder of “Popular Science” magazine.

1904 Charles R. Drew, American surgeon and medical researcher.

MISCELLANY:

THE GOOD OLD DAYS. ‘Did I miss the memo?’: Hospital workers in full PPE applaud George Floyd protesters as they march past

YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT IT BUT FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE DON’T PUBLISH IT. Grief and COVID-19: Mourning our bygone lives

I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS. The Russian Anti-War Committee

SOME THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code.