THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

— Socrates

BIRTHDAYS:

1036 Su Tung-p’o, Chinese poet, essayist, painter and calligrapher, born in Meishan, Sichuan.

1676 Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French organist and composer. Caprice sur les grands jeux, and Orphée, and Suite Du Deuxième Ton, and Léandre et Héro

MISCELLANEOUS:

LIMU GOES TO SPACE (AND DOUG). These 2 companies are teaming up to offer insurance for space debris strikes on satellites

REMINDER:

In the future, before locking things down again (including free speech and the freedom to assemble), the authorities might want to reacquaint themselves with the following:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration