eugyppius is an anonymous writer on Substack covering German politics, state surveillance, pandemic policy, and the Nord Stream pipeline attacks.
HN links it in threads on German politics, vaccine dissent on Substack, and Nord Stream; commenters cite it as a source for those stories.
Germany, writeup of a leaked draft 'expert' report: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/bundestag-expert-committee-draft
Lockdowns. A study of stringency index vs all US states outcomes:
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/07/05/stringency-index-is-not-associated-with-covid-19-death-rate-across-us-states-but-is-associated-with-higher-unemployment/
Another, but for Europe:
https://academic.oup.com/cesifo/article/67/3/318/6199605?login=true
It's old but not much changed:
https://thefatemperor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1.-LANCET-LOCKDOWN-NO-MORTALITY-BENEFIT-A-country-level-analysis-measuring-the-impact-of-government-actions.pdf
Examples of obvious failures (note that any example is enough to invalidate lockdown as a working theory of disease control, because it doesn't have any complications that could explain exceptions where it doesn't work):
1. Netherlands, end of 2021. https://dailysceptic.org/archive/the-netherlands-omicron-lockdown-was-a-complete-failure/
2. Sweden. Has some of the best results in Europe despite lockdown/COVID theory saying it should have had by far the worst. https://dailysceptic.org/archive/sweden-ranked-third-in-pandemic-league-table-of-23-rich-countries/
3. Shanghai. No study needed for this one, just look at the reported case numbers and how the world's most nightmarish lockdown had no visible effect whatsoever.
But really, please, just start reading and researching stuff yourself. This stuff is all like lockdowns 101. People on HN aggressively…
There's nothing Anglo-Saxon about it. Similar things are appearing all over the western world. And they are absolutely being brought up forwardly.
For example, German ministers can't stop talking about banning one of their most popular political parties outright and they have the powers to do so. They also have announced plans to introduce laws that criminalize "mocking the state", including the weaponization of every aspect of the government against citizens that disagree with them, for example by revoking their local business licenses, implementing exit visa (banning people from leaving) and "depriving them of their income". This also in cases where people haven't actually done anything but are merely influential [1]:
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD): "We are coming up against legal limits. At present, financial investigations are limited to incitement to hatred and violence. That is not enough. I therefore want to amend the law to ensure that the potential threat is taken into account. This involves other factors such as potential for action and social influence."
Germany is hardly alone. Ireland is also introducing a draconian hate speech law. [2] The EU is investigating one of its own MEPs for hate speech after he said he thought EU policy on asylum seekers was intended to attract more migration [3] (i.e. they disagree that it's OK for politicians to express opinions on government policy). In Finland the former minister of the interior was prosecuted for her…
Story is not finished. Thousands, maybe even milions are already dead because of them, millions have serious damage health because of them. Trials are not finished yet so we don't even know what will happen in long term. Also... Excess mortality in various countries is above average.
Neil M., Fenton N.E.: Latest statistics on England mortality data suggest systematic mis-categorisation of vaccine status and uncertain effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination, December 2021, preprint
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356756711_Latest_statistics_on_England_mortality_data_suggest_systematic_mis-categorisation_of_vaccine_status_and_uncertain_effectiveness_of_Covid-19_vaccination
Beattie K.A.: Worldwide Bayesian Causal Impact Analysis of Vaccine Administration on Deaths and Cases Associated with Covid-19: A Big Data Analysis of 145 Countries, 15 Nov 2021
https://vector-news.github.io/editorials/CausalAnalysisReport_html.html
Britt TJ. et al: Group Life Covid-19 Mortality Survey Report, August 2022
https://www.soa.org/4a368a/globalassets/assets/files/resources/research-report/2022/group-life-covid-19-mortality-03-2022-report.pdf
Kuhbandner Ch., Reitzner M.: Excess mortality in Germany 2020-2022, August 2022, preprint
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/exhaustive-study-of-german-mortality
Mörz M.: A Case Reporti: MUltifocal Necrotizing Encephalitis and Myocarditis after BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccination against COVID-19, Vaccines 2022, 10(10), 1651, Oct 01,…
They are considering banning the largest opposition party, are using wiretaps and informants against it [1], have banned (ban since lifted) a magazine [2], and opened a criminal investigation into someone calling a fat politician fat online [3]. They are openly planning even worse [4] (if you dislike the author, keep in mind every claim is sourced, so take it up with the sources).
[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/13/court-confirms-german-intelligence-surveillance-of-extremist-afd
[2] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-compact-press-freedom-right-wing-extremism-leipzig/a-72860076
[3] https://www.foxnews.com/media/germany-started-criminal-investigation-social-media-user-calling-female-politician-fat
[4] Germany announces wide-ranging plans to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of political dissidents, in order to better control the "thought and speech patterns" of its own people - https://www.eugyppius.com/p/germany-announces-wide-ranging-plans
Here's what I would consider a boring example of such anti-vaxx heresy:
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/maximum-vaccination
According to this Guardian article, the "Center for Countering Digital Hate" (also mentioned in your article) would be happy if Substack hadn't given it the platform:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/27/anti-vaxxers-making-at-least-25m-a-year-from-publishing-on-substack
The idea that Yet Another Generic NGO needs to "counter hate" because someone on the internet thinks the vaccine is not going to stop the pandemic is completely bonkers.
What I want to say is, a lot of the controversy around Substack seems to be that it is not aligned with the Right Side in the Culture War. I think they have some great writers, but they're not the next WikiLeaks or anything.
There are repeated rumours that failed explosives were found at the site.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/nord-stream-update-the-recovered
Holger Stark, the German investigative journalist who broke this story for Die Zeit. Stark has apparently told Hersh that “Officials in Germany, Sweden, and Denmark … decided shortly after the pipeline bombings to send teams to the site to recover the one mine that has not gone off”. He said they were too late; an American ship had sped to the site within a day or two and recovered the mine and other materials
They did however recover a smoke buoy
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/nord-stream-update-the-recovered