THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Life is a planetary level phenomonon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable – the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal a sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves.”

— Lynn Margulis

BIRTHDAYS:

1688 Willem ‘s-Gravesande, Dutch mathematician and physicist, born in s-Hertogenbosch, Duchy of Brabant.

1767 Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer. Sinfonia in g minore

1791 Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer.

1888 T. S. Eliot, American poet, essayist and playwright.

1898, George Gershwin, American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Cuban Overture

1927 Robert Cade, American physician and inventor of Gatorade.

1932 Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident.

MISCELLANEOUS:

OKAY, MY MIND IS OFFICIALLY BLOWN. CDC’s Redfield Could Be Most Powerful Trump Endorsement Yet.

Mr. Kennedy, for his part, responded as follows:

“This was breathtaking to me because this is the guy who’s the head of the CDC that I’ve been criticizing for years, and then this afternoon he came over and had lunch with me.”

“And the first thing he said to me is: ‘You got everything right.’”

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.