Il Fatto Quotidiano: “Da situazioni di mer*a può nascere qualcosa di buono, è scioccante quanto gli esseri umani possano essere stupidi. Pensione? Una condanna a morte”: così Ridley Scott

“Odio la parola pensionamento, suona come una condanna a morte. Disprezzo l’idea di smettere, rimarrò attivo finché sarò in salute”. Dietro la macchina da presa, Ridley Scott vuole restarci il più a lungo possibile. Alle soglie degli 89 anni, dopo quattro nomination ma nessun Oscar in mezzo secolo di regie, riceverà a novembre quello alla carriera. “Era ora, cavolo”, ha dichiarato in un’intervista a Il Venerdì di Repubblica. Ma per lui, “il successo commerciale, la longevità culturale e il fatto di garantire un posto di lavoro a centinaia di membri della mia squadra contano molto di più di un trofeo”.
Dal 26 agosto sarà al cinema con “The Dog Stars. Le stelle dopo la fine”, tratto dal romanzo di Peter Heller e con un cast in cui compaiono Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley e Josh Brolin. Il nuovo film è ambientato nove anni dopo che una pandemia di influenza ha decimato parte dell’umanità. “È una storia sulla perdita, la solitudine, la bellezza fragile di un mondo che sta per svanire”.
Una pellicola distopica, girata in Italia perché “mi hanno concesso un ottimo sgravio fiscale e meglio le Dolomiti che le montagne del Colorado”. E senza zombie né creature fantastiche. “Questa vicenda parla di qualcosa che ha superato il punto di non ritorno, lo stesso che stiamo vivendo per quanto riguarda il riscaldamento globale – ha spiegato il regista -. Abbiamo vissuto un’esperienza disastrosa con il Covid, con crolli finanziari, con così tante discussioni politiche su chi ha ragione e chi ha torto… è scioccante quanto gli esseri umani possano essere stupidi“.
Con altri elementi catastrofici, ha aggiunto Scott, “perdiamo il controllo e all’improvviso ci si ritrova davanti alla fine del mondo. Penso che la cosa più pericolosa sia che nessuno presti attenzione alla disperazione e alle difficoltà delle persone. Senza voler essere pessimista, spero che non sia troppo tardi“.
L'articolo “Da situazioni di mer*a può nascere qualcosa di buono, è scioccante quanto gli esseri umani possano essere stupidi. Pensione? Una condanna a morte”: così Ridley Scott proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

“From shit situations can come something good, it’s shocking how stupid humans can be. Pension? A death sentence”: so said Ridley Scott.

I hate the word “retirement,” it sounds like a death sentence. I despise the idea of stopping, I’ll remain active as long as I’m healthy. Behind the camera, Ridley Scott wants to stay there for as long as possible. At the threshold of 89 years old, after four nominations but no Oscar in half a century of directing, he will receive one for his career in November. “It was about time, damn it,” he said in an interview with Il Venerdì di Repubblica. But for him, “commercial success, cultural longevity, and the fact that I’m guaranteeing a job for hundreds of members of my team matter much more than a trophy.”

From August 26th, he will be in cinemas with “The Dog Stars. Le stelle dopo la fine,” based on the novel by Peter Heller and with a cast including Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley and Josh Brolin. The new film is set nine years after a flu pandemic decimated part of humanity. “It’s a story about loss, loneliness, the fragile beauty of a world about to disappear.”

A dystopian film shot in Italy because “they gave me an excellent tax break and the Dolomites are better than the mountains of Colorado”. And without zombies or fantastic creatures. “This story is about something that has passed a point of no return, the same as what we’re experiencing regarding global warming – he explained the director -. We’ve had a disastrous experience with Covid, with financial crashes, with so many political arguments about who is right and who is wrong… it’s shocking how stupid humans can be.”

With other catastrophic elements, Scott added, “we lose control and suddenly we find ourselves facing the end of the world. I think the most dangerous thing is that no one pays attention to people's despair and difficulties. Without wanting to be pessimistic, I hope it's not too late."

The article “From shit situations something good can come out of it, it’s shocking how stupid humans can be. Retirement? A death sentence”: so Ridley Scott comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.

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Have you ever had covid?

#covid

Analysis of competing hypotheses (ACH) style chart comparing evidence for origin of COVID-19. https://bsky.app/profile/dutchtreat.bsky.social/post/3mt4y4lvrms2a #COVID #virology #epidemiology Go to the link and then open the image in a new tab to zoom in.

Biologist David Relman is not a crank or a MAGA water-carrier. He's a respected researcher with a decorated career.

"Six years later, despite much mudslinging, each of these possibilities [spillover or research accident] remains viable, supported by circumstantial, but not dispositive, evidence. The virus has not been found in nature, nor in a lab."

I understand why he is calling for more work to find the origin of the covid-19 pandemic but I'm pretty sure it's going to be a dead end. There were many reports that China destroyed evidence related to the early cases.

#covid #covid19 #biology

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/15/covid-19-origins

COVID-19 reactivates dormant herpesviruses in the body — potentially worsening symptoms in new ways
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/covid-19-can-reawaken-dormant-viruses-in-the-body-which-might-worsen-symptoms-of-the-respiratory-illness-study-suggests-180989322/
Most people carry a sleeping virus in their bodies, such as the herpesvirus that causes mononucleosis, or the “kissing disease.” A new study hints that Covid-19 triggers their reactivation, which…
#science #covid #virology

The heat of summer and the cold of winter are always difficult regarding good #ventilation of the house I live in.

Honestly I prefer winter, because I don't mind the cold. Running a window fan to bring in fresh air to circulate is easier for me in the winter than it is in the summer.

It is difficult in summer because it seems nonsensical and a waste of energy to open windows to ventilate when it's over 100°F outside every day.

But today, I really kept an eye on the CO2, and I did ventilate the room that I spend the most time in for about 20 minutes each time. That dropped the CO2 into the 700s from the 1200s, albeit briefly.

Normally I have my ventilation fans scheduled to run overnight when the temperature drops below 70°, but the temperature has not been dropping below 70° at night this entire week.

Tonight, our lowest temperature is going to be 80°F, and only briefly.

#CO2 can get up over 1200 PPM even in a room where I'm not sitting, sleeping, or working -- especially in the summer.

Put me and another human, or me and two dogs, in a room, and it'll shoot up past 1500 PPM in about 20-30 minutes. God forbid I use the stove for anything! Which is why I have an induction hot plate and an air fryer, not to mention the microwave.

Running the whole house fan constantly does not seem to positively affect CO2 levels unless I have opened a window and put a fan in it to ventilate fresh air into the house near the intake grate.

Thus the need to think about an air exchanger/heat exchanger (I don't remember the exact name!) when I eventually replace the AC unit.

I have not yet been able to secure the funds to replace the AC and to add on a heat exchange/ventilation unit, though, which, last time I checked, would cost me close to an extra $3000 on top of the AC replacement.

I think it is a worthwhile investment for the future, so it's on the list of things to do. Right now I'm just crossing my fingers that my 20-plus-year-old AC unit will survive another hot summer!

The only way I've been able to work around on this problem is to put one or two ventilation fans in windows and have them on timers. I'll set them to run periodically throughout the evening and overnight. Then, I take the fans out of the windows during the heat of the day and close and cover the windows.

That does mean bringing hot air into the house periodically, but I think the CO2 buildup this past week has been contributing to poor sleep and possibly even my stomach upset issues.

During spring and fall, I can usually leave the fans in the windows and running for much longer -- if not all day and all night.

The only other complicating factor is air quality. So, every day, I have to make choices on how I'm going to ventilate the house based on temperature, CO2 levels, as well as outdoor air quality.

I know for a fact that I sleep better when the air is fresh. It's quite the dance, the ventilation dance, that now happens almost every single day.

Six years ago I didn't even know that CO2 buildup indoors was even a problem. Then, I picked up a couple of CO2 monitors and was shocked at how bad the air quality was in my bedroom.

The first reading I got was over 3000 PPM! I ended up bringing in two different monitors to make sure the one that gave me that reading wasn't wrong. It wasn't! No wonder I felt like a truck had hit me every single morning when I woke up!

The #Covid pandemic has really helped educate me about keeping indoor clean. And no, HEPA air filters do not do anything to reduce CO2 levels. The type of air filter that does that is more industrial grade, and is also way out of my price range. A single unit that might actually do that for a whole house would cost as much as putting an ventilation/air exchanger on the system when I do replace it. For now, it's the fan dance.

#TheMoreYouKnow

https://defector.com/were-just-going-to-keep-doing-2020-again-until-all-the-wrong-stuff-is-true

This strange and vibrant misinformation economy exists not counter to some establishment narrative but parallel to it, and its relationship to the reality of the pandemic as it actually happened is similarly abstracted. That story is knowable and known, but it is finally and fundamentally the story of a terrible loss, and of a thing that happened to all of us more or less together; the people held up as its heroes when it was happening were heroic precisely because of how vulnerable they made themselves, and because of the sacrifices inherent in that choice.

The social movement that arose from this moment reflected that, too, in its insistence that, contra all the institutional brutality and neglect and incapacity, the most vulnerable and least valued lives mattered as much as every other. That, it seems to me, was the hardest lesson to learn, and ultimately the one that the culture resisted most strongly and ultimately rejected most vigorously—that how you looked or what you believed or how much stuff you had really didn't have much bearing on whether you got sick or not, and that medicines worked the same on every human body.

#covid19 #covid #UsPol #MAGA #maha #fascism #disinformation #misinformation #disinfo #propaganda #elonmusk #bariweiss #markZuckerberg #larryEllison #peterThiel #oligarchy #classwar

Paper cited by #Republicans seeking to blame #vaccination for #COVID deaths is retracted. https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/122571?

Maskless #Defcon attendees are destroying their own and everyone else's health. #Covid

https://lnkd.in/p/gZAVP4eD

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4A, ark Ungrin @ - 2nd . ES Professor at the University of Calgary v 21h - 21h Turns out that letting COVID rip and stopping data collection to hide the consequences does not, in fact, work to end the pandemic. Who knew? Certainly not public health leaders. "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine - 3rd+ ! Professional body for public health medicine, New Zealand 1d. ® We have issued a press release on why we believe that record-breaking demand for ambulances over the past week should spur a greater focus on prevention. Key public health measures such as expanding vaccination, strengthening surveillance, and improving outdoor and indoor air quality are important measures to reduce the winter burden of disease, and reduce demand on ambulance and acute services. Greater focus on prevention - 2 pages New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine Media Release Record demand for ambulance service should spur greater focus on prevention 10 August 2026 The New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine believes that record-breaking demand for ambulances over the past week should spur a greater focus on prevention and public health measures

Il Sole 24 ORE - Italia: Rifiuti, il fardello da 84 milioni (in due anni) lasciato dal Covid

Nel decreto approvato martedì 4 agosto in Cdm la nomina di un Commissario straordinario per smaltire oltre 22mila tonnellate di rifiuti ereditati dalla pandemia

Waste, the burden of 84 million (over two years) left by COVID.

In Tuesday’s decree approved by the Council of Ministers, the appointment of a special commissioner to deal with over 22,000 tons of waste inherited from the pandemic is announced.

#COVID #over22,000tons

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/rifiuti-fardello-84-milioni-in-due-anni-lasciato-covid-AJ88Qoh

Ich bin etwas aus dem Impfegame von #corona #covid draussen, was ist gerade aktuell in Dtl und wie bekommt man das? Hab was von einer neuen Impfe, die gerade erprobt wird, gelesen. https://zirk.us/@ShaulaEvans/117062640576051924