THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”

— Booker T. Washington

BIRTHDAYS:

1598 Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter.

1706 Carlo Cecere, Italian composer, born in Grottole, Kingdom of Naples. Concerto per mandolino e archi

1867 Marie Curie, Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

1878 Lise Meitner, Austrian-Swedish physicist (discovered the nuclear fission of uranium).

MISCELLANEOUS:

TOO SOON? November 7 as Victims of Communism Day – 2025

IN THE FUTURE, BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN AGAIN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT WANT TO THEMSELVES WITH THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration