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Jeremy Chrysler

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Jeremy Chrysler writes The Air Letter, a personal blog at theair.substack.com about science and health. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Why admitting Covid is Airborne is so hard”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this Substack for posts on COVID-19 airborne transmission and government pressure on social media over pandemic claims. The one comment quotes it as support for its own point.

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.

A newsletter about the air quality. What is in air, how it can harm us, and how we can make it better.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why admitting Covid is Airborne is so hard
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. > This isn't a case where people thought the wrong things and it made them vote wrong. It caused them to spread diseases to other people and kill them. The government was pushing an entirely incorrect assessment of how Covid spread. They shut down domain experts who correctly asserted that Covid was fully airborne. > The evidence that Covid-19 spreads through the air has been there since early in the pandemic - in a…

    Comment linking /p/why-covid-is-airborne-history

    on “Appeals Court Rules White House Overstepped First Amendment on Social Media”
  2. Submitted Why admitting Covid is Airborne is so hard as a story · 115 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted What if the Flu isn't "just the Flu?" (2021) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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