I've been doing fully HTML linked footnotes in HTML for so long, this took me like 3 minutes; I figured I'd offer it up if you did in fact want to post it elsewhere?
<A NAME="fn-1-intext"><SMALL><SUP><A HREF="#fn-1-note">*</A></SUP></SMALL> <-- your in-text footnote link | <A NAME="fn-1-note"><SMALL><SUP><A HREF="#fn-1-intext">*</A></SUP></SMALL> <-- the bit that precedes the actual footnote
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Date: 2020-08-12 09:17 pm (UTC)<A NAME="fn-1-intext"><SMALL><SUP><A HREF="#fn-1-note">*</A></SUP></SMALL> <-- your in-text footnote link | <A NAME="fn-1-note"><SMALL><SUP><A HREF="#fn-1-intext">*</A></SUP></SMALL> <-- the bit that precedes the actual footnote
<A NAME="fn-2-intext"><SMALL><SUP><A HREF="#fn-2-note">**</A></SUP></SMALL> | <A NAME="fn-2-note"><SMALL><SUP><A HREF="#fn-2-intext">**</A></SUP></SMALL>
<A NAME="fn-3-intext"><SMALL><SUP><A HREF="#fn-3-note">***</A></SUP></SMALL> | <A NAME="fn-3-note"><SMALL><SUP><A HREF="#fn-3-intext">***</A></SUP></SMALL>
<A NAME="fn-4-intext"><SMALL><SUP><A HREF="#fn-4-note">****</A></SUP></SMALL> | <A NAME="fn-4-note"><SMALL><SUP><A HREF="#fn-4-intext">****</A></SUP></SMALL>