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Christopher Snowdon
Personal blog · velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.comhealthpolitics
Christopher Snowdon writes Velvet Glove, Iron Fist, a personal blog at velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com about health and politics. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this blog as a source of compiled studies and figures on loot boxes and gambling, Sweden's Covid strategy, and smoking and Covid. Comments cite it as support rather than praise its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Christopher Snowdon blogging about the nanny state, smoking, drinking, vaping, gambling and food policy. Established 2009.
What Hacker News says?
Not really. Alcohol related hospital admissions rose slightly and per 100k rate declined slightly. https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2021/03/fantasy-mod...
Comment linking /2021/03/fantasy-modelling-and-70p-minimum.html
on “Loot boxes linked to problem gambling in new research”Submitted Smoking and Covid-19 Again as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSweden seems to have become a Dem/Rep arguing point in the USA and unfortunately that means you can't discuss it anywhere online without loads of hot takes. But I think there is stuff worth looking at in Sweden's approach. It certainly can't be dismissed as trivially as you are trying to dismiss it. Here's a Guardian article from a few days ago https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/15/sweden-records... And here…
Comment linking /2020/09/the-thing-about-sweden-and-coronavirus.html
on “Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to have scourge controlled”Author compiled a lot of studies on his web log: https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2021/08/smoking-and... The studies do appear to show that smoking cigarettes is correlated with a lower probability of getting the Covid, for a lot of different definitions of "getting the Covid." They also appear to be, by eyeball aggregate, inconclusive as to whether the risk of dying from the Covid is higher or lower for smo…
Comment linking /2021/08/smoking-and-covid-19-new-evidence-update.html
on “The great Covid and smoking cover-up”