THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”

— Baruch Spinoza

BIRTHDAYS:

1448 Domenico Ghirlandaio [Bigordi], Italian Renaissance painter, and mentor of Michelangelo, born in Florence.

1857 Edward Elgar, Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op.20, and Pomp and Circumstance

1903 Robert Morris Page, American physicist who helped develop and refine radar technology.

1915 Lester del Rey, American sci-fi author.

1929 Norton Juster, American architect and children’s author (The Phantom Tollbooth; The Dot and The Line).

MISCELLANEOUS:

CHECK YOUR BARN DOOR. INE Security Alert: $16.6 Billion in Cyber Losses Underscore Critical Need for Advanced Security Training

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)