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Hector Drummond

Personal blog · hectordrummond.comhealthpolitics

Hector Drummond's personal blog at hectordrummond.com covers health and politics. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its posts on mask-wearing and COVID-19 measures. One commenter cites its posts, alongside other sites, as a source of facts on the subject.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Author of The Face Mask Cult, and Days of Wine and Cheese

What Hacker News says?

  1. Jeez, give me a break. I'm not "visceral" or "impulsive", that's just insulting. Scroll through my comment history. I've been posting links to facts on this for months. And they're publicly available and widely covered in some forums. Try these sites for a flavour: http://inproportion2.talkigy.com/ https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/ https://hectordrummond.com/2020/06/29/this-is-what-we-shot-o... These lin…

    Comment linking /2020/06/29/this-is-what-we-shot-ourselves-in-the-foot-for/

    on “The science of mask-wearing hasn’t changed, so why have our expectations?”
  2. Submitted Thaddeus Michaels: Why did the whole world lose its nerve? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The Virus That Turned Up Late as a story · 2 points

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