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Julius Ruechel
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Julius Ruechel's personal blog at juliusruechel.com covers politics, history and economics. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Snake-Oil Salesmen and the Covid-Zero Con”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One comment in a thread on YouTube banning anti-vaccine content discusses vaccine policy and herd immunity and cites a link. It does not judge the writing.
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.
Essays about our human journey from the trees to the stars. Topics: archaeology, geopolitics, climate, economics, psychology, geology, civilizations.
Most-linked posts?
- The Snake-Oil Salesmen and the Covid-Zero Con2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-21
What Hacker News says?
I agree the vaccine does decrease the incidence of severe illness, even in the new variants. Based on this fact it should be given to the vulnerable. A policy of mass vaccination to protect the vulnerable is a different thing and is more related to the concept of herd immunity. It can be very bad policy depending on the nature of the virus. Its really good policy for something like measles. Here's a link that takes…
Comment linking /2021/09/the-snake-oil-salesmen-and-covid-zero.html?m=1
on “YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content”Submitted The Snake-Oil Salesmen and the Covid-Zero Con as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Snake-Oil Salesmen and the Covid-Zero Con: Immunity as a Service as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Julius Ruechel: Bystander at the Switch: The Moral Case Against Covid Lockdowns as a story · 3 points
HN discussion