If I believed everything written on social media / internet forums by anonymous posters then yes, I truly would have lost my mind.
But the Association of British Insurers (ABI) is a respected body who I recognise, and whose statements can be held to account.
So when they state that that Business Interruption insurance does not cover Coronavirus, except in a small minority of cases of large firms, then yes, I believe them.
Sorry if that offends you.
It does offend me, yes, when I’m one of many people in the exact industry this is currently affecting, and who is one of many more currently working around the clock to try to fix a problem that is very real, and somebody who has NO idea of any of it essentially comes along and goes, “It’s all leftist media lies, somebody from the people being accused of being naughty said so and it must be true”. Because nobody - no business, no government or governing body, nobody at all - has ever lied or misled anybody. Nobody ever accused of anything has ever denied it. Especially in times of crisis. You’re right - it’s one great big conspiracy. None of it is real.
People can disagree about certain things all they like, but I’m not going to sit and just watch while somebody outright tells me that the industry I’ve worked in for literally half of my life, and all the people working in it with years of experience and who run companies that make up an industry worth
billions, don’t have a clue what they’re on about because the very people getting away with shafting us have gone “Nah, doesn’t matter anyway, honest guv.” You started throwing around words like ‘leftist’ in reference to
who was saying something, not based at all on
what was being said, which means you’ve come into this entire thing already steeped in prejudice - you’ve made your mind up already and have decided that even in times like this you’re more concerned about political divides than matters at hand. The people who have essentially been accused of burgling somebody have gone “We didn’t do it, we hate burgling, yuck!” and you’ve responded with an attitude of “See? They said they didn’t do it. I think that’s all the evidence we’ll be needing here!”
You just carry on deciding what you think is real and what isn’t based on your own pre-determined prejudices, which will ultimately lead to you helping to make decisions that create enormous issues for the rest of us, and people like me will carry on trying to clean up after you because you’ve reduced the world to something as binary as left vs right, and the result is that everything is completely covered in s**t.
Sorry if that offends you.
EDIT: Oh, and in terms of my being ‘anonymous’, most people on here know who I am, mainly because my username is essentially my real name. You don’t have to be Columbo to work it out. Here is a little piece I did with Music Week a couple of years back for their Tastemaker section, so as to prove my identity regardless:
https://www.musicweek.com/tastemake...und-s-ryan-bird-listening-to-this-week/069778
I started my career in the music industry in early 2003 working at Roadrunner Records, part of the Warner Music Group. I then moved on to a publicity and promotions company called Division in late 2004, where we became the first promotions company in the world to employ a dedicated online publicity team in a world that revolved solely around print, radio and television, helping to break multi-million selling global artists such as Fall Out Boy in the process. I then went to Kerrang! magazine, the world’s largest selling rock music title, where I spent nearly four years travelling the world and writing cover features on everybody from Metallica, Green Day, Foo Fighters, AC/DC and basically any other rock band you could possibly name.
In 2009 I went to work for our very own Oxford United in the media department for around 18 months (heart ruling the head doesn’t even begin to explain that period of my life), before returning to music in December 2011 to work for a media company called Rock Sound, where I became editor and then subsequently editorial director and creative director, overseeing all print and digital output, global e-commerce platforms and strategies and - uh oh -
live events. My duties at RS ranged from booking and promoting branded, nationwide tours alongside global leading companies such as Live Nation and SJM, as well as working with mainstream festivals on branded stages and multi-platform media partnerships. I’ve only gone and bloody worked in the very thing I’m making claims about, haven’t I?
I also A&R’d and produced a number of CD releases including Rock Sound Presents: The Black Parade, which spawned the smash hit cover of My Chemical Romance’s ‘Cancer’ by twenty one pilots, which was certified gold in the USA for sales of more than half a million copies and is currently on more than 50million views on YouTube alone. Which can be seen here:
I now run my own music media company partnering directly with artists and major labels to produce their own content in both the digital and print spheres, as well as providing marketing and A&R consultancy for the biggest record companies on Earth. I’ve got a rather healthy collection of gold and platinum records with my name on them, which I’ve included a couple of photos of at the bottom, just to satisfy you that I’m not one of those anonymous lefty types you despise so much, and in fact can prove both who I am and that I have some semblance of a clue as to what the hell I’m talking about when it comes to this particular subject.
Now remind me again... who the f**k are you?
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