THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

BIRTHDAYS:

1660 Johann Sigismund Kusser, Hungarian German composer, born in Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary. Ouverture C Dur

1682 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian Rococo painter

1713 Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, Spanish composer. Sarò de cenni tuoi, from La Merope

1859 William Strang, Scottish painter and engraver.

1891 Grant Wood, American painter (American Gothic)

1922 Gordon Tullock, American economist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I THINK HE’S ONTO SOMETHING. Aubrey de Grey’s Large Mouse Antiaging Study

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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