”No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.”

— H. G. Wells

BIRTHDAYS:

1655 Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker – considered the inventor of the piano, born in Padua, Republic of Venice.

1904 Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title Kawkab el-Sharq (Arabic: كوكب الشرق, lit. ’Star of the Orient’). Enta Omri

1940 Robin Cook, American physician and novelist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION CALIFORNIANS. Tesla Robotaxi is Approved for All of Texas.

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. TO ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)