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eugyppius: a plague chronicle
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eugyppius: a plague chronicle is a personal blog at eugyppius.com about politics and health. Since 2022, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for its coverage of German politics, COVID-era lockdowns and vaccines, and Nord Stream investigation updates. Comments cite the posts as sources; none judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We are witnessing an unprecedented, comprehensive failure of policy, medicine and science. The world will never be the same.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/germany-announces-wide-ranging-plans2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-26
What Hacker News says?
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/chancellor-friedrich-merz-has-fi...
Comment linking /p/chancellor-friedrich-merz-has-filed
on “UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16”Submitted German Intel Chief Defends Efforts to Police Citizens' "Thought, Speech Patterns as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGermany, writeup of a leaked draft 'expert' report: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/bundestag-expert-committee-draft Lockdowns. A study of stringency index vs all US states outcomes: https://dailysceptic.org/2021/07/05/stringency-index-is-not-... Another, but for Europe: https://academic.oup.com/cesifo/article/67/3/318/6199605?log... It's old but not much changed: https://thefatemperor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1.-…
Comment linking /p/bundestag-expert-committee-draft
on “U.S. public health agencies aren't ‘following the science,’ officials say”Submitted Switzerland Contemplates a Partial Ban on the Use of Electric Vehicles as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm not saying fixes will never happen - that's a strawman - just pointing out the immense scale of the challenges if you try and do it via moral suasion. It originates (IMO) in the corruption created when funders of work don't actually care about the results, just being seen to fund it i.e. governments, foundations. As such there are very few pressure points that can work because the system is so well insulated. Co…
Comment linking /p/we-must-find-a-way-to-prevent-bill?s=r
on “Many researchers were not compliant with their published data sharing statement”Submitted German political spies mistook a random Berlin woman and got her fired as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's nothing Anglo-Saxon about it. Similar things are appearing all over the western world. And they are absolutely being brought up forwardly. For example, German ministers can't stop talking about banning one of their most popular political parties outright and they have the powers to do so. They also have announced plans to introduce laws that criminalize "mocking the state", including the weaponization of eve…
Comment linking /p/germany-announces-wide-ranging-plans
on “Minister defends arrest power for people feared to commit a hate crime in future”Submitted The Managerial Menace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's what I would consider a boring example of such anti-vaxx heresy: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/maximum-vaccination According to this Guardian article, the "Center for Countering Digital Hate" (also mentioned in your article) would be happy if Substack hadn't given it the platform: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/27/anti-vaxx... The idea that Yet Another Generic NGO needs to "counter hate" becaus…
Comment linking /p/maximum-vaccination
on “Ask HN: Why is Substack so popular?”Submitted Horstine the Whale: An Obituary as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs long as you don’t have anal sex with them you can meet up with whoever you like https://www.eugyppius.com/p/urgent-monkeypox-alert-some-new-...
Comment linking /p/urgent-monkeypox-alert-some-new-york
on “Monkeypox declared global health emergency by WHO as cases surge”Submitted German constitutional police spy on their own former chief as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI’m somewhat in disbelief that there’s actually a state within the German federation that hasn‘t forgotten the terror of the RAF, which the „Letzte Generation“ ticks all the boxes of becoming too, for they are already of the same vein pampered upper class kids in an astroturfed cult. https://www.eugyppius.com/p/activism-agency-and-the-escape-f... ?
Comment linking /p/activism-agency-and-the-escape-from
on “In Germany, 27 are in 'preventive detention' b/c they might do climate protests”They are considering banning the largest opposition party, are using wiretaps and informants against it [1], have banned (ban since lifted) a magazine [2], and opened a criminal investigation into someone calling a fat politician fat online [3]. They are openly planning even worse [4] (if you dislike the author, keep in mind every claim is sourced, so take it up with the sources). [1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/…
Comment linking /p/germany-announces-wide-ranging-plans
on “List of domains censored by German ISPs”Story is not finished. Thousands, maybe even milions are already dead because of them, millions have serious damage health because of them. Trials are not finished yet so we don't even know what will happen in long term. Also... Excess mortality in various countries is above average. Neil M., Fenton N.E.: Latest statistics on England mortality data suggest systematic mis-categorisation of vaccine status and uncertai…
Comment linking /p/exhaustive-study-of-german-mortality
on “Pfizer Penalties Since 2000: $10B”Yes, and this is why: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-rate-of-respiratory-infectio...
Comment linking /p/the-rate-of-respiratory-infection
on “Is anyone else getting cold/sick much more often these days?”There are repeated rumours that failed explosives were found at the site. https://www.eugyppius.com/p/nord-stream-update-the-recovered Holger Stark, the German investigative journalist who broke this story for Die Zeit. Stark has apparently told Hersh that “Officials in Germany, Sweden, and Denmark … decided shortly after the pipeline bombings to send teams to the site to recover the one mine that has not gone off”.…
Comment linking /p/nord-stream-update-the-recovered
on “The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever”Some details in Hershs story were weird and made be cautious, but here is some more info that put some of that into new light: "It looks for all the world like somebody organised two totally separate operations, involving two separately triggered pipeline attacks, and that Hersh’s source only knows about one of them." https://www.eugyppius.com/p/nord-stream-update-in-lengthy-in...
Comment linking /p/nord-stream-update-in-lengthy-interview
on “Debunking Seymour Hersh's Alta-Class Claims”
