We spoke about the wild rumours connecting 5G to coronavirus cases over a month ago and, well, we got some "interesting" emails after that (mainly threats).
Over the weekend, in the midst of a global pandemic and a lockdown here in the UK, some people have taken it upon themselves to not stay at home. Instead they're out setting fire to crucial mobile phone infrastructure and abusing engineers installing and repairing masts.
Now, I'm not going to embed these here – you can watch someone called "Heapy Fullsesh against 5G" bullying staff here and here. The engineers are described in these YouTube videos as "murderers" and "scumbags" who are installing "death machines" and … err.. (checks notes) "kill grids". These videos were all recorded during the lockdown.
OK, so let's just lay a few things out there. First of all – the people burning masts and abusing engineers are capturing content on smartphones and, in the not-too-distant future, those phones will be 5G phones. Also, they're probably uploading these videos over their home WiFi router – a router which will probably operating on dual-band WiFi. Let's not forget, 5GHz WiFi is a higher frequency than any of the 5G frequencies being used here in the UK.
We covered the various "theories" in our previous post, but the basic theme is that 5G somehow "causes" the coronavirus. This, of course, is all garbage. There's various mad videos floating around from people apparently "in the know", but it's all baseless. In the various "Stop 5G" Facebook groups, nobody seems to ask basic questions like..
"Despite having glorious 5G coverage, why does nobody who stays inside get coronavirus?"
It's a puzzler isn't it?
Also, we can take a look at the 5G coverage in the USA…
And then we can compare that map to the coronavirus cases in the US.
Now, you won't get many websites saying this, but this who 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory nonsense is a Flat Earth level of bonkers. It's people setting fire to masts that they "think" are 5G (heck, they might not be) and abusing key workers who are trying to ensure that we can all keep in touch with each other during a global pandemic. It's insane garbage which is allowed to propagate on Facebook and other social media outlets without a great deal of control.
Some people who do post reasoned or questioning responses to the conspiracy theories in the "Stop 5G" Facebook groups get their remarks deleted by moderators. There's a constant hype and hysteria, an admiration and glorification of criminal acts and nonsense "evidence" being wheeled out.
This has led to all UK networks joining together to publish the following letter..
The culture secretary is now to order social media companies to come down harder on these crackpot conspiracy theories.
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