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:

1675 Johann Georg Christian Störl, composer, born in Kirchberg an der Jagst, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire. Sonata 26, Ars Perpetuum

1714 Claude-Joseph Vernet, French painter.

1777 Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields.

1950 Gary Larson, American cartoonist who created The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION COLONISTS. Shotwell Assures NASA SpaceX HLS is On Track for Moon Landing in 2027

ATTENTION WHITE BLOOD CELLS. New Vaccine For Two Deadly Cancers Shows Promise in Clinical Trial

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

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)