THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”

— Ayn Rand

BIRTHDAYS:

1583 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian keyboard virtuoso (organist at St. Peter’s Basilica, 1608-28 and 1634-43), and late Renaissance/early Baroque composer, born in Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara. toccata seconda

1618 Joan Cererols, Catalan musician, composer and monk, born in Martorell. Serafín, Que Con Dulce Harmonía

1664 Johann Christoph Pez, German Baroque composer. Passacaglia

1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.

1890 Colonel Sanders, American businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (also known as KFC).

1941 Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (created C programming language, helped developed Unix)

MISCELLANEOUS:

OK, ON THE COUNT OF THREE, BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE. Trust in Doctors and Hospitals Plummets

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.