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éminence grise
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éminence grise is a personal blog at softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com about programming, science and health. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for analysis of COVID-19 mortality, especially Swedish 2020 deaths, arguing lockdowns had little measurable effect once population growth and age structure are controlled for.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
"There exists at least one erroneous statement on this blog."
Most-linked posts?
- /2021/01/15/final-report-on-swedish-mortality-2020-anno-covid/3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-01-30
What Hacker News says?
There is some deep analysis of Swedish mortality for 2020 here: https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2021/01... The summary is that when controlling for population growth there was a very small amount of excess death, that made 2020 comparable to 2012 or 2013 (depending on if you also control for age structure). NB: due to an unusually non-deadly 2019, which will naturally increase 2020 mortality eve…
Comment linking /2021/01/15/final-report-on-swedish-mortality-2020-anno-covid/
on “Europe's Vaccine Disaster”No, mitigation measures have had no effect: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.6043... https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5... etc. And there are many more. I know it doesn't seem to make sense, but lockdowns have had no impact on mortality. This is seen when examining all the data. Consider Sweden - very little government suppression, and it's got a basically average out…
Comment linking /2021/01/15/final-report-on-swedish-mortality-2020-anno-covid/
on “Europe's Vaccine Disaster”Sweden isn't cherry picked because there are only a handful of regions that chose not to lock down and the relevant argument is about the impact of locking down or not. Therefore looking at it specifically follows naturally from the question being investigated. The converse, attempting to argue that Sweden suffered harshly by looking only at physical neighbours, doesn't follow naturally from any scientific question…
Comment linking /2021/01/15/final-report-on-swedish-mortality-2020-anno-covid/
on “The Gaslighting of Science”Take a look at the Swiss hospital stats. Many countries don't provide hospitalization stats regularly, keep them secret, or corrupt them in various ways, for example in the UK there was a blowup just a few days ago because it turned out over half of all COVID hospitalizations appeared to be catching COVID in the hospital itself meaning those stats were giving an inflated impression of hospital load. These numbers we…
Comment linking /2021/01/15/final-report-on-swedish-mortality-2020-anno-covid/
on “Vaccines and our return to office plans”None of that is true. The modelling that predicted "death on a societal scale" has all been disproven long ago. If lockdowns ended tomorrow nothing would happen; they correlated with nothing at all. See most post here for links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224981 Or this post on what happened in Sweden (answer: normal levels of death, COVID not visible when correcting for the impact of 2019): https://soft…
Comment linking /2021/01/15/final-report-on-swedish-mortality-2020-anno-covid/
on “Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine”https://cornucopia.cornubot.se/2020/10/september-2020-least-... https://medium.com/@FrankfurtZack/unprecedented-overall-mort... https://twitter.com/FrankfurtZack/status/1317001636779347968 https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2020/10... https://twitter.com/HaraldofW/status/1318260177955684352
Comment linking /2020/10/12/sweden-covid-status-after-q3/
on “The false promise of herd immunity for Covid-19”
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