There has been a long ding-dong about "fighting for Bakhmut is stupid of the Russians!", "the Ukrainians should withdraw from Bakhmut", "Bakhmut is only of symbolic value", "Bakhmut is unimportant" and "Bakhmut may be decisive". In today's video we say "YES, BAKHMUT IS IMPORTANT! IT IS THE BASTOGNE OBJECTIVE OF AN ATTACKING ARMY THAT CAN WIN THEIR ARDENNES OFFENSIVE!" (unlike the Germans, who were toasted anyway from the start) BTW: go watch the HistoryLegends channel. It is very cool!

Fun with Vaccines: almost a conspiracy video! Recently, Russell Brand posted on the other place a short video showing how over the period 2020 to 2022 the declared efficiency of the COVID-19 dropped from 100 percent to 30 percent and then, and then, what vaccine? We rescue and edited a bit an old video in which Amelia hits hard at two things: propaganda by the University of Oxford about an amazing vaccine which improved from 60% to 90% because of somebody's error (which would be alright if in the end 90% efficiencies in flu vaccines have never ever happened) and the need by governments to pretend they found a miracle cure which sorted out the problem not to admit there was no problem at all, ever. Enjoy. Old video's description! Amelia is besides her with joy! A miracle vaccine has been found! Soon everybody will be a be to leave their homes. All those people chained to their living rooms will be able to come out! Erm... a vaccine for flu, because COVID-19 is a flu, with an efficiency of NINETY PERCENT!? And then, Amelia became suspicious.... How very convenient! You have messed up by making an economic catastrophe out of a nothing burger and now you need to get back of the hook without telling the people this was a shite flu and it was the mishandling of the health services what caused the increased mortality. So, Amelia does what she does, look at hard data. Which show that, indeedy, indeedy, flu vaccines have a life saving efficacy of about 50%. Almost like hydroxychloroquine, by the way. Not happy with that, she recruits Cassie-Fooky to plot some data. Interestingly, in a study in the USA over the period 1990 to 2000, flu vaccine effectiveness peaked and then began to drop. Possibly anti-vaxxers have something to do. Or simply the strains of flu had changed and the vaccines lost power to fight them. But the point is clear: vaccines do not go beyond 60% effectiveness. Also, tests subjects are chosen by genetic screening so that they are more susceptible to the vaccine to be tested. So it is not a real life result. So, you find a miracle vaccine and THAT is what allows people to go back to their normal lives, not the fact that normality should have never stopped. Thgat is what it looks like, if you think about it. A way out for politicians. Clever, huh? https://uk.yahoo.com/news/dosing-error-trials-led-oxford-200918583.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/past-seasons-estimates.html https://www.who.int/influenza_vaccines_plan/resources/Session4_VEfficacy_VEffectiveness.PDF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave Biomarker adaptive designs in clinical trials - Chen - Translational Cancer Research (amegroups.com)