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bad cattitude
Personal blog · boriquagato.substack.comhealthscience
bad cattitude is a personal blog at boriquagato.substack.com about health and science. Since 2021, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “US Covid test positivity rates by vaccination status”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (26) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for COVID-era data analysis on vaccines, masks, lockdowns and birth rates, usually as a source or support for their own points. Some commenters treat it as a trusted data source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 26 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
come for the cat. stay for the toxoplasmosis.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-14
- /p/theres-something-antigenic-in-denmark2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-27
- /p/more-natality-data-from-other-countries2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-13
- /p/bangladesh-mask-study-do-not-believe2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-14
- US Covid test positivity rates by vaccination status2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-15
- Swedish birth rate data: what does it show us?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-02
- Bayesian datacrime: defining vaccine efficacy into existence2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-18
- The Vaccinated Superspread Hypothesis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-22
What Hacker News says?
Other ideas https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-vaccinated-supersprea... It is all much more opaque than the "get your vacc and your old live comes back" evangelists want you too believe. Corona will stay.
Comment linking /p/the-vaccinated-superspread-hypothesis
on “YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content”Submitted Winter is coming, and the vaccine narrative is about to shift as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThis parallels an article that someone I follow wrote a couple of weeks ago. His way of describing this is the "second world effect". The article is better than I could write (link below). But basically, the "third world" is a low-trust society and everyone understands that and behaves in a defensive way. The "first world" is a high-trust society where things work. There is a discontinuous jump from third to first w…
Comment linking /p/the-second-world
on “The Who Cares Era”Submitted Technocratic domination: when government funds science, it controls science as a story · 17 points
HN discussionIt's a knock-on effect from lockdowns. Governments got it in their heads that they could partition the economy into "essential" and "non-essential" and could make massive interventions without any side effects. So everyone has to work from home, not go to restaurants anymore, port rules are constantly changing in ways that screw over shipping firms, the economy tanks, everything including logistics is thrown into ch…
Comment linking /p/cave-man-capitalism
on “Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations”Submitted Covid is becoming increasingly vaccine enabled as a story · 15 points
HN discussionhttps://boriquagato.substack.com/p/bangladesh-mask-study-do-... https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article "At present there is only limited and inconsistent scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of masking of healthy people in the community to prevent infection with respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 (75). A large randomized community-based trial in which 4862 healthy participants were…
Comment linking /p/bangladesh-mask-study-do-not-believe
on “Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study”Submitted CDC reports of historical Covid deaths drop by 70k to correct “coding error” as a story · 13 points
HN discussionFine, here are sources. The devil is in the details. That's a graph of deaths that are COVID positive at or shortly before death. I said "fatality rates" without that qualification. Hopefully we both agree that vaccines are useless if they just change cause of death without reducing actual mortality rates. It's usually better to use UK data than US. US/CDC data is rather useless and corrupted (e.g. they like to clas…
Comment linking /p/us-covid-test-positivity-rates-by
on “Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis”Submitted How to Perpetuate an Energy Crisis as a story · 8 points
HN discussionFor viral diseases, especially coronavirises. Source for the explanation of the myth/urban legend? Immune system escape can occur, usually in adults, but generally not in children because their immune systems are young and not 'trained' so do a great general response effort. Vaccines force a targeting of the immune system (e.g. particular spike proteins) that specifically leads to escape, as we're seeing with the va…
Comment linking /p/new-data-on-vaccine-efficacy-from
on “What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity”Submitted Conspiracies about Conspiracy Theories as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHere's one example: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/new-data-on-vaccine-effic...
Comment linking /p/new-data-on-vaccine-efficacy-from
on “What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity”Submitted The Vaccinated Superspread Hypothesis as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhttps://igorchudov.substack.com/p/dramatic-decrease-in-birth... https://igorchudov.substack.com/archive?sort=search&search=f... https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/swedish-birth-rate-data-w... https://alexberenson.substack.com/?sort=search&search=fertil...
Comment linking /p/swedish-birth-rate-data-what-does
on “Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNP inhibits adaptive immune responses in mice”Submitted Properly measuring vaccine efficacy and risk reward as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere may be newer data, but I'm aware of this analysis https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/addendumcorrection-to-dan... My only criticism of that analysis is that the original study reported all the counts based on the population of over the age of 12. And when he back calculated the expected values he used the full population. The bias I see there is that it's highly likely that all of the under 12s would be unvacc…
Comment linking /p/addendumcorrection-to-danish-ve-data
on “Stanford requires booster shots for all students”Submitted Vaccine Adverse Events Data as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"There are ton of garbage science around. That makes me even less confident about things that are not even science." Your argument, or world view, is that you can determine what's true by looking at who scientists trust and the peer reviews of these scientists. I've just named a man who is by universal academic consensus a scientist, but who - as you're aware - produces garbage science without any pushback. In fact,…
Comment linking /
on “Facts don’t change our minds (2018)”Submitted US Covid test positivity rates by vaccination status as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWell, I'm not a doctor, just someone doing stats for doctors...but I think we're going to start seeing it as we're reaching the 9-month mark from the big push for child-bearing-age vaccination. It's starting to show up in Sweden and (I think) Taiwan, but it's not something I'm really studying. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/sweden-birthrate-update-m...
Comment linking /p/sweden-birthrate-update-may-data
on “Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination”Submitted The ponzi bomb under the city walls as a story · 3 points
HN discussionUnfortunately it turns out that the way vaccination effectiveness is measured could create this apparent effect even in the case that the vaccination was saline. This sounds absurd and wrong, but, as is sometimes the case with statistics, it's possible. Prof Norman Fenton has described the issue and also demonstrated it visually in Excel: https://twitter.com/profnfenton/status/1460339552397275149 https://probability…
Comment linking /p/bayesian-datacrime-defining-vaccine
on “Israel Finds Fourth Covid Booster Is Ineffective”Submitted Swedish birth rate data: what does it show us? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEl Gato Malo, was banned from twitter for what was an innocuous post, probably for being 2 years ahead on the COVID narrative and used public data sources to refute the consensus on lockdowns. https://boriquagato.substack.com/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Why is Substack so popular?”Submitted The Receipts on Vaccine Efficacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's some data that shows the strongest predictor of long covid is whether or not your parents are claiming long covid: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/social-contagion-is-long-... It's especially interesting because that predictor is stronger than whether or not anyone involved has ever tested positive for covid.
Comment linking /p/social-contagion-is-long-covid-often
on “Long Covid, Cognitive Impairment, and the Stalled Decline in Disability Rates”Submitted Predictions: Data adulteration is the coming thing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOriginal Antigenic Sin. See here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28479213/ Here's also some analysis about this effect with Omicron, which seems honest about the limitations: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/theres-something-antigeni...
Comment linking /p/theres-something-antigenic-in-denmark
on “Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer vaccine neutralization”Submitted Real James bond villains wear cardigans - aka technocratic implementation as a story · 2 points
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