THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

― Thomas Jefferson

BIRTHDAYS:

1547 Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer. Sinfonia from “La Pellegrina” & “Coppia gentil”

1577 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter.

1586 Paul Siefert, German composer and organist, born in Danzig, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Paduana

1604 Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), and poet, born in Lobenstein, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire. Jahrs Liedchen, and Rede einer verstorbenen Jungfraw auß dem Grabe

1812 Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter.

1902 Richard Rodgers, American composer who worked primarily in musical theater.

1909 Eric Ambler, English author of thrillers and spy novels (Epitaph for a Spy).

1926 Mel Brooks, American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright.

1926 Robert Ledley, American scientist (invented the CT scanner).

1940 Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.

1971 Elon Musk, billionaire entrepreneur and business magnate known for pushing the boundaries of technology and changing the world.

MISCELLANY:

A FEW THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN BEGINS:

SOMETIMES IT REALLY IS WHAT YOU THINK IT IS. A Special Message To Patients: STOP Your Ideological BS (5:59)

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.