“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”

— Michael Crichton

BIRTHDAYS:

1568 Adriano Banchieri, Italian organist, composer, poet, and Benedictine monk, born in Bologna, Papal States. Contrapunto bestiale, and Dialogo, and La pazzia senile: Act II

1695 Pietro Locatelli, Italian violinist and composer, born in Bergamo, Republic of Venice. Flöte Sonate in g Moll, Op.2 Nr.6, I.Largo, and Concerto Grosso in C Minor, Op 1 No 2

1719 Ferdinand Zellbell the younger, Swedish composer and co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Cello Concerto in D Major

1810 Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter.

1856 Louis Sullivan, American architect, and has been called a “father of skyscrapers”^, and “father of modernism.”

1923 Mort Walker, American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois)

MISCELLANEOUS:

I CAUGHT IT. The 1968-69 “Hong Kong Flu” Pandemic Revisited

HERE’S SOME RECREATIONAL READING FOR 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.