THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”

― Alfred Korzybski

BIRTHDAYS:

1550 Jakob Handl [Petelin], German-Austrian composer (Opus musicum), and Cistercian monk, born in Reifnitz, Carniola. Canite tuba in Sion, and Ecce quomodo moritur iustus

1643 Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States. “Ah, chi spera aita, o cieli?”, and Exultate in Deo fideles, and Sinfonia n. 9

1854 Leoš Janáček, Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. Sinfonietta

1879 Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American scientist and philosopher.

1883 Franz Kafka, German-language novelist and writer from Prague.

1947 Dave Barry, American humorist and author.

1971 Julian Assange, Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006.

MISCELLANY:

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

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.