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Julia Doubleday
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Julia Doubleday writes The Gauntlet, a personal blog at thegauntlet.news about health and politics. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “How the press manufactured consent for never-ending Covid reinfections”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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2023–2026first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Julia Doubleday's Substack for its critique of press coverage of COVID, especially a piece on how the press manufactured consent for never-ending COVID reinfections.
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.
COVID Information, Updates, and Commentary.
Most-linked posts?
- How the press manufactured consent for never-ending Covid reinfections3 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2023-12-26
What Hacker News says?
Experts are talking about it. The news is not. I know who I'm siding with. It comes to no surprise that media owned by capital interests is falling in line with said capital interests. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...
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on “Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues”Submitted How the press manufactured consent for never-ending Covid reinfections as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIt's not hard to find the science backing my claims. As for why doctors don't mask, they're humans too, and just as susceptible to propaganda and competing forces like wanting to "return to normal" or simply having kids in school and assuming getting them to mask is too tall of an order (frankly, it is imo). Here's a Canadian researcher who still masks and explains how the many 'mistakes' were made in order to convi…
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on “Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over”Submitted Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for Covid immune damage builds as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDefinitely concerning to see how many have given up on avoiding a virus whose reinfections continue to disable and kill daily. Seems like boozing takes precedence over all else at this event. Edit for the unaware: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/germany-entered-a-recession-l...
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on “FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips”The next thing you need to read is How the press manufactured consent for never-ending COVID reinfections https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... and then stop spreading harmful propaganda . That's what you are doing, not "reporting a study", faugh!
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on “Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain”This does not mention PyCon US 2024 was one of the extremely, extremely few conferences which did the right thing and had a mask mandate. > We are nice people and many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending. PyCon US is exceptional in that we have people attending from all over the world—las…
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on “PyCon US 2024 Recap”> That's almost like disbanding the CDC's pandemic response team mere months before a once in a lifetime global pandemic. Both parties of capital interests have lots of blood on their hands for the intentional mishandling of the pandemic (which has not ended) in the name of propping up our archaic consumption-first economies. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...
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on “USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida”Both Repubs & Dems have lots of blood on their hands for their intentional mishandling of COVID (continued to this day, since the pandemic is not over) in service to our archaic consumption-first economy: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... https://web.archive.org/web/20240802024326/https://docs.hous... Capital interests own and control both parties, so it's no surprise we are getting res…
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on “The Undermining of the CDC”People are getting sick more often because COVID causes lasting damage to the immune system. https://whn.global/scientific/covid19-immune-dysregulation/ There is an orchestrated push by capital to not acknowledge this basic fact. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/media-celebrated-long-covid-a...
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on “School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere”> He does, but before that happens, the legitimate medical community needs to look in the mirror, reflect on how he happened, why they lost some amount of trust, and look to remedying that. Agreed. Furthermore, the CDC under both parties of capital interests has blood on their hands from the blatant COVID mishandling under multiple administrations, among other things: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-man…
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on “RFK Jr. Must Go”Most seem to have tricked themselves into believing otherwise, but unfortunately COVID and its risks are far from over. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... https://whn.global/scientific/covid19-immune-dysregulation/ https://whn.global/scientific/covid-effects-on-the-brain-a-s... Stay safe out there.
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on “Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out”> I'm surprised there are people here who are skeptical that long covid is real I'm not surprised at all, considering there's been a consistent drive to move past COVID in the name of our poorly designed consumption-based economy and political expediency: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/media-celebrated-long-covid-a... https://web.archive.org/web/2024080…
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on “1374 Days – My Journey with Long Covid (2023)”> It's fascinating how unscientific ideas take root, because people want to believe. On the face of it, the idea of "immunity debt" is preposterous, yet it was amplified across the media -- perhaps because it was a convenient explanation that required no action from anyone. It's a symbiotic combination of that plus capital interests driving a narrative to achieve a desired outcome for our archaic consumption-based e…
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on “Scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2”> Our collective response to COVID was truly the alarm bells going off (vaccine conspiracies, anti-masking, denialism, etc), and now we’re seeing an anti-science (and anti-reality) administration celebrate the gutting of our scientific prestige in the name of nostalgia for -isms. You act like this is something specific to one party when in fact it is representative of both parties, aka the Uniparty. All agents of ca…
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on “How Scientific Empires End”We were also lied to by capitalist mass media and both political parties of capital, which helped people double down in their cognitive dissonance to their own detriment: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...
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on “CDC ditches 5-day Covid isolation, argues Covid is becoming flu-like”Both parties of capital have handled this pandemic terribly: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...
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on “CDC ditches 5-day Covid isolation, argues Covid is becoming flu-like”> If you believe, as capitalists do, that the highest goal of government is to protect the ability of people to make money, you support this. It's true, and the blatant mishandling of COVID throughout the pandemic (which hasn't functionally ended) by both political parties of capital is a great example. Step 1) Manufacture consent for COVID to be 'over,' which the CDC and both political parties were absolutely part…
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on “CDC Implosion Continues as Staff Stage Unprecedented Walk Out”If you run an in person Hackathon (or really, any event in 2024) then please read https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... first.
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on “How to Run Hackathons in 2024”There was negligible difference between 45 & 46 on issues of COVID. Capital was driving that decision framework as always. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...
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on “US Media Is Collapsing”But we already have awesome propaganda at home, orchestrated by capital. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...
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on “US Media Is Collapsing”True, and the Biden administration failed miserably from a public health perspective. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... Very disappointing.
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on “The U.S. added 216,000 jobs in December, much better than expected”> What do you mean by "manufactured consent for each other the whole time"? > I also struggle to see how it can be that different Presidents with often directly contradictory policies could both be serving the same ruling class interests. Using the polarizing topic of COVID (whose risks remain in 2026) as an example, we can answer both of your questions: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co..…
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on “Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time”The parent's point seems to be that since most voters of both corporate parties have pretty much universally internalized and accepted they're voting for the "lesser of two evils," it's safe to conclude our political system is captured and has been for decades. Furthermore, 1/3 of people refusing to vote is not solely out of laziness. Many of them have concluded the system is FUBAR. We're given two shit options whic…
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on “Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell”The entire back-to-normal narrative was and still is a total mindfuck: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... The threat from COVID (and more importantly, long COVID) never went away, but they sure convinced the average person that it did. Today you can see an N95 in the wild once in awhile, so some people are paying attention, but they are less than 1%. Many others are suffering brain damag…
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on “The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America”> this discontinuation follows a pattern we've seen with this administration knee-capping or outright dismantling many of the ways this country spreads soft power such as through humanitarian services via USAID, broadcasts from Voice of America, ending international research opportunities and divesting us from the WHO, and doing everything possible to turn the US into a pariah in the eyes of NATO, just to name a few…
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on “CIA to Sunset the World Factbook”> Lmao Yes, the denialism runs deep, and is constantly amplified by narratives set by monied interests. Sorry you were duped. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... https://web.archive.org/web/20240802024326/https://docs.hous...
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on “A no-brainer for protecting your brain”