”The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.”

— Aristotle

BIRTHDAYS:

1574 Francesco Rasi, Italian composer, singer, poet, and theorbo player, born in Arezzo, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Vulnerasti cor meum

1652 Johann Philipp Förtsch, German Baroque composer, statesman, and physician, born in Wertheim am Main, Wertheim County, Holy Roman Empire. Saget der Tochter Zion, and Selig sind die Toten

1727 Thomas Gainsborough, English leading portrait painter (Blue Boy)

1967 Sebastian Thrun, German-American entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

R.I.P. TED CONFERENCES (1984 – 2024). When ideas become too dangerous to platform

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)