5G coronavirus conspiracy theory is dangerous fake nonsense, UK says

By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton

 

Pedestrians walk past an advertisement promoting the 5G data network at a mobile phone store in London, Britain, January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

LONDON (Reuters) - A conspiracy theory that links 5G mobile telecommunications masts to the spread of the novel coronavirus is dangerous fake news and completely false, Britain said on Saturday after masts in several parts of the country were torched.

 

When asked by a reporter about the so called "theory" that 5G telecommunications masts could play a role in the spread of the disease, British Cabinet Officer Minister Michael Gove said: "That is just nonsense, dangerous nonsense as well."

 

Mobile phone masts have in recent days been vandalised and telecoms staff abused in Birmingham in central England and Merseyside in northern England, damaging connectivity at a time when people are relying on it more than ever.

 

An arson attack at a tower in Birmingham owned by BT <BT.L>, Britain's biggest telecoms company, caused significant damage. It provided 2G, 3G and 4G services to thousands of people, but did not have 5G capability, the company said.

 

NHS England's national medical director, Stephen Powis, said the 5G conspiracy idea was fake news with no scientific backing that risked damaging the emergency response to the outbreak.

 

"The 5G story is complete and utter rubbish, it's nonsense, it's the worst kind of fake news," Powis said. "The reality is that the mobile phone networks are absolutely critical to all of us."

 

"Those are also the phone networks that are used by our emergency services and our health workers and I'm absolutely outraged, absolutely disgusted that people would be taking action against the very infrastructure that we need to respond to this health emergency," Powis said.

 

A lobby group for the United Kingdom's mobile operators - including EE, O2, Vodafone and Three - said it was aware of the false rumours linking 5G to the outbreak, and that telecoms staff had been threatened.

 

Vodafone, the world's second largest mobile operator, said the attacks were now a matter of national security.

 

"It beggars belief that some people should want to harm the very networks that are providing essential connectivity to the emergency services, the NHS, and rest of the country during this difficult lockdown period," UK boss Nick Jeffery said.

 

He described his engineers as heroes and urged people not to spread the "utterly baseless" stories online.

 

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton, Editing by Christina Fincher)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-04-05

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Yeh pretty crazy but i have been watching this 5g stuff for a few years and im under the impression its not safe from a health perspective but also a danger to privacy from big brother/military but whatever.. I can stream netflix on multi tvs hotspotted from a 4g phone without buffering so maybe i could get some more screens then....

Can't believe people think the towers are responsible for the spread of Virus the attacks are more likely in retaliation against the Chinese company huawei and Chinese Government for the spread of fake news regarding USA's military starting the virus.
P.s. why no thread about that it's all over the Thai media or did I miss it.

If people believe this garbage conspiracy theory, then it only goes to give credence to the idea that the smarter our devices become, the stupider people become. 

Edited April 5, 20206 yr by Bluespunk

Those conspirators now got water on their mill - since the gubmint debunked the theory then it must be true.

 

A major crack-pot tin-foil hatters initiative is presently on-going to halt innovation and progress!

Stop these loonies that are hindering the roll-out of this great technology.

> See link - More than 180 scientists and doctors from 36 countries warn about the danger of 5G

https://www.jrseco.com/european-union-5g-appeal-scientists-warn-of-potential-serious-health-effects-of-5g/

Going back to a middle ages way of thinking,what next burn old ladies with cats!!!

20 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

A major crack-pot tin-foil hatters initiative is presently on-going to halt innovation and progress!

Stop these loonies that are hindering the roll-out of this great technology.

> See link - More than 180 scientists and doctors from 36 countries warn about the danger of 5G

https://www.jrseco.com/european-union-5g-appeal-scientists-warn-of-potential-serious-health-effects-of-5g/

Who said that reality can be stranger than fiction..

7 minutes ago, marko kok prong said:

Going back to a middle ages way of thinking,what next burn old ladies with cats!!!

Fully agree, also Galileo was condemned by the Teleological Indusquisition of his time.

People should not confuse 5g with other previous roll outs, unfortunately  this upgrade has had zero testing but being rolled out anyway on a scale unseen or comparable to all previous gens combined, we are about to have literally billions of receivers and boosters beaming it non stop everywhere... Effectively 5g are literally microwaves and can be tuned to many frequencies, theoretically any item which is receiver is also simultaneously a transmitter... Not that I think its a carrier for this virus but its still a massive electrical interference on a mass scale and we are like all life sensitive to electrical fields and dependent on electrical fields to operate properly and even survive, right down to every single cell in your body .. It could easily be an amplifier or affect the cellular immune system or interfere with workings of cells. No one has a clue what years of constant exposure to massive amounts albeit in tiny individual doses artificial electrical fields such as 5g might do... Nor do they have a clue as to the effect on  other living things.. I repeat NO studies on health implications has been done anywhere....That should concern people if nothing else...  We are also blanketing the earth with over 40,000 satellites which are already interfering with astrologers and  thier equipment. Whatever happened to concerns over spacejunk and the dangers of that ? its convenient thats suddenly become a non issue ... 

 

Stupid is as stupid does... having the biggest upgrade globally with zero testing or study  whilst living in an electrical field life based universe is i think a pretty dumb and even insane thing to do, just as I believe attempting to create AI and a self aware superior system is probably suicidal. Ive had a great time before all this <deleted> came along that imo no one really needed so im content to watch the show unravel or beam me up Scotty.

 

 

 

Edited April 5, 20206 yr by englishoak

2 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

If people believe this garbage conspiracy theory, then it only goes to give credence to the idea that the smarter our devices become, the stupider people become. 

Consecutive surveys over several decades have shown that kids in high school in the USA have less and less knowledge about basically everything. I wouldn’t be surprised if the same goes for high school kids in many other western countries.

Where did this conspiracy theory come from? Russia? Russia has already been flagged for propaganda intended to make the pandemic worse in the West. Thanks Vlad.

Time to put my tinfoil hat on before I am exposed to any more of these nonsensical news stories...

1 minute ago, MaiDong said:

That somewhat discredits everything that preceded it.

 

Plenty of scientists are religious people and plenty of religious people are scientists...an opinion of one subject does nothing to discredit an expertise in another. 

Just now, englishoak said:

 

Plenty of scientists are religious people and plenty of religious people are scientists...an opinion of one subject does nothing to discredit an expertise in another. 

Someone who believes in a sky fairy(without any proof) automatically discredits themselves.

2 minutes ago, MaiDong said:

Someone who believes in a sky fairy(without any proof) automatically discredits themselves.

 

You discredit yourself the moment you "believe" to know it dosnt exist. Can you prove the sky fairy dosnt exist ? no you cant. See how religious opinion works ? 

2 minutes ago, englishoak said:

 

You discredit yourself the moment you "believe" to know it dosnt exist. Can you prove the sky fairy dosnt exist ? no you cant. See how religious opinion works ? 

I base my opinions and beliefs on things that have been proven through science.

This thread is going to get closed soon, thankfully.

3 minutes ago, MaiDong said:

I base my opinions and beliefs on things that have been proven through science.

This thread is going to get closed soon, thankfully.

You seem to have garnered a fantastic 'popularity' to 'postings' ratio based on your opinions and beliefs.

Just now, MaiDong said:

I base my opinions and beliefs on things that have been proven through science.

This thread is going to get closed soon, thankfully.

 

It is still belief and your opinion matters no more than anyone elses. Science btw never "proves" anything. 

 

Why would the thread be closed, to appease you ?  

2 minutes ago, Antonymous said:

You seem to have garnered a fantastic 'popularity' to 'postings' ratio based on your opinions and beliefs.

I wasn't aware it was a popularity contest.

3 minutes ago, englishoak said:

 

It is still belief and your opinion matters no more than anyone elses. Science btw never "proves" anything. 

 

Why would the thread be closed, to appease you ?  

It might be closed for the same reason the other 5G thread was closed half an hour ago.

Just now, englishoak said:

 

You clearly have a problem with beliefs you do not subscribe to... thats all your problem not mine or anyone elses ... I prefer to let others believe what they will, it dosnt threaten me as it seems to you.

It doesn't threaten me, bit of an odd assumption you made there, I just find religion a bit pathetic.

1 minute ago, MaiDong said:

It might be closed for the same reason the other 5G thread was closed half an hour ago.

Can you prove that ? 

1 minute ago, MaiDong said:

It doesn't threaten me, bit of an odd assumption you made there, I just find religion a bit pathetic.

Yet you are the one handing out insults about religion no one else...interesting. 

2 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

If people believe this garbage conspiracy theory, then it only goes to give credence to the idea that the smarter our devices become, the stupider people become. 

Have you ever stepped outside of the mainstream news narrative and thoroughly researched any of this yourself?  Go down the rabbit hole my friend. You will see that the world is not quite like you've been led to believe. Maybe Trump's imminent takedown of the deepstate will be the trigger that many people need to see how much we have been duped by the puppetmasters of this world.

The Great Awakening

7 minutes ago, englishoak said:

Can you prove that ? 

Funnily enough, no I can't, I can however correct myself - it was a thread about China having the vaccine, I stand corrected, but it was the reason for closure that resonated the most;

 

CLOSED. 

 

We really dont need this kind of topic or speculation at this time.

 

 

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23 minutes ago, englishoak said:

 

Plenty of scientists are religious people and plenty of religious people are scientists...an opinion of one subject does nothing to discredit an expertise in another. 

 

That's so true.

 

I have no religious belief and a tendency to think that religious devotees are not all there in the head. Yet I recognise that many are very intelligent and very compassionate, decent people.

 

This is driven home to me by knowing two Christians very well. We were at university together and they were no different from any in our group of friends, partaking in all the same extra curricular activities, hard partying included. One graduated with a 1st, the other with a 2:1 and they both went on to become missionaries, to this day. We have kept in touch all these years and although I don't understand their faith, I do respect their opinions on religion and I certainly accept their opinions on all other matters.

 

In the 5G video I posted you can look at it in two parts. Part one some useful facts from an ex Vodaphone senior exec. Part two some religious opinion. You can learn from the first part and dismiss the second, if you wish (as I did). One does not negate the other.

My work is done here, back to reality for me ????

5 hours ago, unamazedloso said:

Yeh pretty crazy but i have been watching this 5g stuff for a few years and im under the impression its not safe from a health perspective but also a danger to privacy from big brother/military but whatever.. I can stream netflix on multi tvs hotspotted from a 4g phone without buffering so maybe i could get some more screens then....

It has been proven that long term exposure to microwave radiation can cause leukemia.

It was a German student that first came up with this hsit a few months ago...it's rubbish and has no standing..trying to deflect from the disaster we are in, theses theorist idiots should be hung