THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

― Thomas Sowell

BIRTHDAYS:

1619 Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. Che si può fare op. 8, and Lagrime Mie, and Begl’occhi

1809 Alfred Tennyson, English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign.

1881 Alexander Fleming, Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world’s first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.

1926 Janet Asimov (née Janet Opal Jeppson), American science fiction writer (The Second Experiment; The Norby Chronicles), and psychoanalyst

1934 Piers Anthony, English sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor)

1943 Jon Postel, American computer scientist known as “the god of the internet”.

MISCELLANY:

AFTER THE AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWEL, I DOUBT IF IRAN IS QUIVERING IN ITS BOOTS. US warships, fighter squadron deployed to Middle East as Iran threatens to attack

HOW MANY WERE ARRESTED IN BRITAIN? In Russia last year 400 people were arrested for things that they said on social media. (0:26)

RECOMMENDED READING BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN IS DECLARED:

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.