THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.”

― Roald Amundsen

BIRTHDAYS:

1704 John Kay, English inventor (developed the flying shuttle)

1722 Joseph Wilton, English sculptor

1723 Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter

1725 Georg Simon Löhlein, German pianist and composer, born in Neustadt bei Coburg, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Presto scherzante

1796 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter

1822 Luigi Arditi, Italian violinist and composer, born in Crescentino, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia. Il Bacio

1872 Roald Amundsen, first to reach the South Pole.

1882 Felix Locher, Swiss insurance salesman, mapping system inventor, and late in life, actor (Frankenstein’s Daughter)

1943 Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet and novelist

MISCELLANY:

READ THESE 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.