THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.”

— John Stuart Mill

BIRTHDAYS:

1483 Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

1672 Andre Cardinal Destouches, French composer. Les Éléments, and pastorale héroïque

1849 John William Waterhouse, English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s style and subject matter.

1892 Donald Wills Douglas, American aircraft industrialist and engineer.

1928 James Watson, American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

A VERY BIG DEAL. This Private Spaceflight Is a Very Big Deal.

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. IT WAS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER. GUARANTEED. I RECOMMEND ANYONE CONSIDERING IMPLEMENTING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE FIRST READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)