Xpansive Thinker

The placebo effect - How much damage has fear mongering by the media done? Here we are going to ask if   the way the media has portrayed Covid-19 could be having larger negative effect on those whom tested positive for Covid and subsequently made the illness through fear mindset worse resulting in higher hospital admissions and possibly even deaths.  before we get into my theory, lets do a quick review of from Dec 2019 - Jan 2021: Dec 2019 - Reports started filtering out of China of a new virus that had managed to jump from a bat to humans, similar to the SARs virus of 2002.   Jan 2020 - Reports leaked out of China, WHO declared Covid-19  a worldwide pandemic and could be another and the Chinese government's actions as far as we were shown was hide what was going on and eventually locked down Wuhan on 23/1/2020, they set about building hospitals in days and put all its citizens under house arrest.  Feb 2020 - The world watched on, whilst governments (i...

Dear   @Spotify, @Google, @Amazonmusic, @Applemusic & co , as of today I have cancelled any and all of my premium membership any and all of your services after learning from a musician friend of mine that for 25,000 streams @spotify paid them a measly £4 for the streams....£4/3 band members = £1.33 for each band member! That is just ludicrous! It won't even buy a coffee in most places! You lot sitting at the top do realize that these musicians and artists also have overheads to pay both in their personal everyday lives (rent, food, council tax, clothes etc.) and as professionals (studio rent, equipment, travel, merch manufacturing, graphics, etc.), most of whom had a fighting chance before all the covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions came into force, which is not their or anyone else's fault. Using these platforms to gain views and build a fan base before Covid-19 restrictions may have been okay, whilst artists could still tour and sell merch, but now they can't, the ...