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You showed as greyed out, which can only mean people downvoted you which I simply cannot understand: you said valid things, which I cannot believe were downvoted. What happened?

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I think there are a substantial number of people who think COVID-19 is a beat up and who are down voting anything that appears on this topic.

I'm only guessing, but I don't think this is likely. To the contrary, I think you are being downvoted by people who think you aren't taking the virus seriously enough. They fear that your approach will be used by people who want open up the economy before it's safe, feel you are being presumptuous in thinking you as an individual can change the outcome of the disease, and believe the best we can do is to trust the official experts. I think it's political. I think you are essentially being hit by "friendly fire" by people who think you are aiding the enemy. But this is only a guess, assuming the downvotes correspond to the negative comments. It would be nice to know what people are actually thinking.

a "beat up" ?

they think it's fake, basically

How do people like that have down voting ability on hn? I thought that was the point of having to earn it.

The ability to downvote isn't correlated with anything besides the frequency of your posts/comments.

hn down-voted the author for voicing and clarifying his positions on the article shared on hn.

There are almost certainly significant "Reopen All The Things" brigades running active on social media and nuking anything that might go against their agenda. HN is no exception.

You can see this in early and Layer 1/2 posts that go negative while later and Layer 3/4 thread posts that get high amounts of positive upvotes after the initial wave has moved on.

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