[0] The only issue after wasting my time reading most of the post is that it was, according to the author, spam (UCE). Otherwise it's no more remarkable than any other affiliate marketed ebook trash that aren't worthy of blog posts.
To fill the article the author complains that the book simply gives "trivial" tips; but if the tips are good advice ("proper handwashing techniques") or at least not harmful, so what? Maybe there are people who don't trust the Federal Government or UN or WHO or CNN but take advice from the kind of thing you might find advertised on alexjones.com.
The rest of the article is just about the ways companies hide who they are and use fake office addresses. Again, so what? It's not something I particularly support or agree with but it's commonplace, not a secret and seemingly not illegal.
I was struggling to see why this was written, other than it's related to the topic of the century, until I noticed it was a fake site with only one post and that is the only reason it was written.
Baseless paranoid accusations are easy, and completely missing the point of a post - annoyance at low-effort junk posted to HN by site owners for the purpose of leeching page rank - isn't an excuse for resorting to them.
In the medieval times this was done by shouting in the public markets, today using affiliate marketing networks targeting millions of emails. Surely they don’t target people that can reason and ignore/ delete their messages but the ones that click and follow the dodgy trail.
Here is an interesting podcast about Scams - You Are Not So Smart Podcast 097 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8mbW18RcO8Y
"Coronavirus spam selling the 'Pandemic Survival' ebook"
Malta has some weird tax advantage apparently because a lot of ecommerce goes out of there. Also Cyprus.
Yomali's owned by an Israel guy who says his name is Mike Peters. ( https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/326673 )
It's likely he and his company have little to do with these ebooks other than handling payment processing for them along with many other small companies.
