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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy TF am I suddenly seeing 5g radio waves are killing us?
Some video keeps getting spread that claims to be CBS news report. Old friends are getting mad at me for dismissing it and madder for not disproving it.
How are grown adults falling for this conspiracy dope?
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)And the 5g causes Corona lol.
IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)this woman in England stops to film workmen laying 5G cable and tells them it causes coronavirus. The workman she is speaking to seems to be in disbelief.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckYouKaren/comments/fuf6yk/karen_has_a_go_at_workers_installing_5g_because/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)Twitler is doing a good job. Bet theres a lot of cross over in those two groups.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)This one is stunning in its breathtaking stupidity.
Bev54
(10,072 posts)XRubicon
(2,212 posts)jmbar2
(4,906 posts)grifters gonna grift
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-profit
If it weren't so sad it'd be hilarious. I'm all for right wingers wasting money but that means hucksters get money.
Rstrstx
(1,399 posts)Act now, they have less than 10 remaining
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,650 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)just shows we are surrounded by REALLY STUPID PEOPLE
Iggo
(47,565 posts)Calculating
(2,957 posts)"like OMG I read online somewhere that vaccines cause the autism"
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)They're the same frequencies that were used by middle of the band UHF TV stations for several decades. Except at FAR higher power.
Where was CV when the exact same radio band was used since the early 60s?
Initech
(100,102 posts)That is all.
Voltaire2
(13,154 posts)Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)There will always be a portion of the public that believes these type of conspiracy theories and thinks everyone who doesn't isn't "awake".
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Sogo
(4,992 posts)I live in a hotbed of people who think it will cause the "end of the world." Will you please explain some of the technical details, or point me in the direction of what to read, so that I can counter all the community activism that I'm exposed to about this?
Quixote1818
(28,968 posts)And ask them why cell companies would want to kill their own customers?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/01/the-science-of-why-5g-is-almost-certainly-safe-for-humans/#1ce95cdd70e3
Sogo
(4,992 posts)....and good question....
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Doesn't take many questions till they are over their heads and floundering, and it's a fun way to pass the time.
Alex4Martinez
(2,198 posts)Or contrails mebbe!
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)our power company started putting in smart meters in the area and the local area FB group and Nextdoor neighborhood app people are losing their minds. Worried about extra cancer and all that lol.
People are threatening to move to get out from under the thumb of oppression and I can only think "Byeeee".
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I remember in the mid 70s our fundie baptist church was very worried about bar codes. Glad I escaped that cult!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I first noticed it while playing ELO albums backwards.
Of course, they got rid of vinyl albums so you cant play them backwards anymore.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)They were worried about all that.
We once had a record burning party and both John Denver and Barry Manilow were sacrificed to the cleansing flames.
I forget what John Denver's main issue was but Barry supposedly had some lyric in I Write the Songs that was something Satan said in the bible. lol, it's been almost 40 years since I had anything to do with religion so my memory may be fuzzy on it.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Ill give them credit on that one.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Good point.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)Or was that supposed to be "BRAN"?
Nope, definitely "brane". Morans don't have branes capable of barcode infiltration, though. That's why they can warn the rest of us.
I cheat -- I have a Sharpie and have been scrambling the secret messages for decades.
You're welcome.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Quixote1818
(28,968 posts)Makes perfect sense to me.
Quixote1818
(28,968 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)When you hold your phone up to your head you get dandruff cooties.
DBoon
(22,397 posts)The Russian network RT America aired the segment, titled A Dangerous Experiment on Humanity, in covering what its guest experts call 5Gs dire health threats. U.S. intelligence agencies identified the network as a principal meddler in the 2016 presidential election. Now, it is linking 5G signals to brain cancer, infertility, autism, heart tumors and Alzheimers disease claims that lack scientific support.
Yet even as RT America, the cats paw of Russias president, Vladimir Putin, has been doing its best to stoke the fears of American viewers, Mr. Putin, on Feb. 20, ordered the launch of Russian 5G networks in a tone evoking optimism rather than doom.
This was from about a year ago before coronavirus, but it is a very good investigation of Russian influence on social medi opposing 5G
Sogo
(4,992 posts)The area where I live is a hotbed of activists against smart meters and 5G. It also happens to be a strong center of Bernie supporters. If you recall, Mueller reported that Russia had infiltrated the Bernie campaign in 2016. I swear they are as distrustful of anything mainstream as Trumpsters are.
My apologies to anyone who is a Bernie supporter who has not gone totally off the grid, but this has been my experience where I live. Many former friends of mind have gone this route....
You should have seen the look on one friend's face when I told her that 5G is a main component of autonomous vehicles.....She had been beaming about the Tesla that she and her husband had just bought. "Well, I'm against 5G," is all she could say.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,194 posts)I use only the finest non-stick material:
Endorsed by Donald Trump!
relayerbob
(6,555 posts)Now, there is a much higher population, almost 8x, so at least 8 suckers born every minute. Add the GOP war on brains, and that number rises exponentially
Aristus
(66,462 posts)The more you try to talk the misbelievers out of their delusion, the more deluded they will become...
mainer
(12,029 posts)They're vandalizing cell towers because of this nonsense. I read that the conspiracy is spread through Russian trolls. Wouldn't Putin be happy if the west destroyed its own infrastructure?
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Maybe that's what Limbaugh has been hanging around
Celerity
(43,497 posts)These fuckers are crazier than a rat in a tin shithouse.
A Conspiracy Theory That 5G Is Causing The Coronavirus Is Spreading Alongside The Pandemic
Even actor Woody Harrelson has succumbed to the baseless hoax that cellphone infrastructure is spreading the coronavirus.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/conspiracy-theory-5g-coronavirus-qanon
A screenshot from the second most-shared anti-5G video on YouTube.
New Agers, right-wingers, and QAnon conspiracy theorists think global elites are using 5G to spread the coronavirus pandemic.
The paranoia about 5G the industry term for the fifth generation of wireless communications infrastructure has risen for the last few years, but as the world battles the pandemic, a baseless hoax has spread that the technology that runs cellphones could secretly be causing the outbreak.
On Wednesday, actor Woody Harrelson posted about the conspiracy theory on his Instagram, writing, a lot of my friends have been talking about the negative effects of 5G. On Thursday, a 5G tower in Birmingham, England, went up in flames after a local Facebook group was flooded with anti-5G comments. (Local authorities said that it could have possibly been an electrical issue, but are awaiting further information before investigating.)
its in the 2nd part of thsi OP
Link to tweet
5G has so far rolled out in about 40 countries worldwide, most notably South Korea and China, but also in dozens of US cities, including Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. Before the coronavirus, fears about 5G tended to focus on cancer, the risk of which people feared could be increased from cellphone radiation. The evidence to support such a fear is weak to nonexistent, although meteorologists have worried that the technology could disrupt weather satellite forecasts.
Misinformation falsely claiming the coronavirus is a bioweapon has circulated since English-language reports of the outbreak began circulating in January. Depending on which internet rabbit hole you fall down, the coronavirus was created by the Chinese government, is part of a human depopulation scheme by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, or stemmed from a tainted batch of childrens blood that the worlds celebrities drink to stay young. So perhaps it was somewhat inevitable that these two separate conspiracy theories that 5G had some evil purpose and that the coronavirus was a bioweapon would graft themselves onto each other.
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