THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”

— John Locke

BIRTHDAYS:

1609 Sassoferrato [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter

1632 John Locke, English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the “father of liberalism”.

1686 Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, German composer, born in Erfurt, Electorate of Mainz, Holy Roman Empire. Toccata

1780 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION COLONISTS. Next SpaceX Starship Flights Leading to Lunar Landing and Unmanned Mars

NO FYLFOTS ON THESE THOUGH. Giant Airships Are Slowly Returning

IN THE FUTURE BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE) THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT ALSO WANT TO READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration