dufus Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Despite the fact that 5G has no credible link to cancer or any other illness, conspiracy theories still flourish on social media and certain parts of the internet. Now, amidst the global coronavirus pandemic, conspiracy theorists have ramped up the paranoia by fabricating a story connecting 5G to the spread of COVID-19. These baseless claims have now lead to cell phone towers being torched and engineers abused in the UK. Earlier this week, a 70-foot (20-meter) cell phone tower mast in Birmingham was set aflame, and a video of the event spread among several anti-5G groups on Facebook. These videos were later removed by Facebook, which encouraged other social media platforms to do the same. Police are still investigating the cause of the fire, but EE engineers who were on the scene suspect it was the work of arsonists. On Friday, yet another tower was torched, this time in Merseyside. Both the mast and control panels were damaged before fire and rescue services could extinguish the flames. This is just the latest outburst of anti-5G sentiment in the UK, where throughout the past month telecoms workers have been harassed by conspiracy-toting residents. As many in the country work from home, these workers are classified as essential to keep necessary communications online. Remote workers, hospitals, and emergency services all rely on telecoms services, and damaging crucial infrastructure only impedes these efforts. In most cases, workers being harassed were installing fiber optic cables that had nothing to do with 5G. The situation is so dire that home broadband engineers have taken to posting pleas on anti-5G Facebook groups. Still, it hasn’t stopped residents from accusing them of spreading the virus to their friends and family. Previous conspiracies have centered around cell phone radiation, but experts agree that the non-ionizing radiation from phones and other wireless connections is largely harmless, classifying it with the same cancer-causing capabilities of pickles and aloe vera extract. As for the connection between 5G and COVID-19, the spread in countries that have yet to roll out the technology like Japan and Iran should disprove any budding theories. Independent fact checking organization Full Fact has also investigated the claims, and found that there is absolutely no truth to them whatsoever. sauce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyy Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 I saw a video of a well spoken articulate guy sitting in front of a desk with 3 or more computers on it. He made the case for 5G being the cause of Coronavirus and he was very convincing....which is the danger with these guys, they don't appear like the unqualified conspiracy theorists that they are and a lot of folk swallow their nonsense. 5G might be a danger with it's high levels of radiation....but it has as much to do with Coronavirus as I have with quantum mechanics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sky19 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Modern times luddites, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 people who think earth is flat, people who think vaccines kill their children, people who think moon landing never happened, people who think Windows 10 is spying on them, now people who think 5G is causing coronavirus. the world is a meme first it was a world and then meme learned from it 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Btw is it ketchup or spicy ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.D Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Sylence said: Btw is it ketchup or spicy ? Sauce = Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 5 hours ago, J.D said: Sauce = Source Boston Accent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.D Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 1 minute ago, ghost said: Boston Accent? No, Queens English Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 1 minute ago, J.D said: No, Queens English Ran out of reaction today!!! but HAHAHAHAHAHAHa!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Bob Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 I live in the UK and have deactivated social media aka anti social as Liverpool and Birmingham are not the brightest and everyone on anti social media is a bio chemist ... Plus the dumb UK government have for 12mths give people on benefits another £80 a month for doing nothing , one social media post " WHEN DO OUR BENEFITS GET THE PAY RISE " now NHS workers do not get £1000 a year pay rise so why are lazy F**Ks getting a £1000 for this 12mth ? We used to be Great Britain , , then UK and soon OK .... Plus these idiots do not realise hitting all the masts down affects hospitals using 5G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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