THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

BIRTHDAYS:

1451 Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music composer, born in Lodi, Duchy of Milan. Stabat Mater.

1566 Angelo Notari, Italian composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Canzona passeggiata

1684 Jean-Baptiste Vanloo, French painter.

1836 Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter.

1841 Berthe Morisot, French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

1857 Alice Pike Barney, American painter.

1875 Albert Schweitzer, German and French polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician.

1882 Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American historian and writer (Story of America)

1886 Hugh Lofting, English writer and illustrator (Dr. Doolittle).

1919 Nathaniel Rochester, chief architect of the IBM 701, the first mass produced scientific computer, and of the prototype of its first commercial version, the IBM 702. He wrote the first assembler and participated in the founding of the field of artificial intelligence.

1927 John Mallard, English medical physicist (developed MRI and PET scans)

MISCELLANEOUS:

COVID 19 LOCKDOWNS – REQUIRED READING.

PUBLISHED 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

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