THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions.”

— Elie Wiesel, Night

BIRTHDAYS:

1207 Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet, born in Khorassan, Afghanistan

1550 Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician, teacher of Johannes Kepler, born in Göppingen, Holy Roman Empire.

1685 Gunther Jacob, Bohemian organist, composer, choirmaster, and Benedictine monk, born in Krajková, Sanjak of Prizren, Ottoman Empire. Missa Adventualis

1732 Jacques Necker, Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI.

1882 Hans Geiger, German physicist (co-inventor of the Geiger counter)

1928 Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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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.