To ask why people are worried about 5G?

[malificent7]

Some are even linking it to covid 19! So if you are worried about 5G is it due to radiation? Do you think it will cause cancer?can you point me to research?

Anyone thinking the government is using covid 19 as any sort of experiment etc clearly has no knowledge of working in government

I worked in the civil service. We would need six months worth of tele-cons and possibly a full team meeting just to decide on the name "coronvirus".

@Justanotherlurker and some more.

theconversation.com/why-5g-conspiracy-theories-prosper-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-136019

tech.newstatesman.com/policy/5g-conspiracy-theorists-arsonists

www.vice.com/en_us/article/evmzv7/alt-right-5g-nationalized-network-google-deep-state-conspiracy (from early 2018)

www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/guide-right-wing-media-coronavirus-reactions-and-conspiracy-theories (this covers a large number of conspiracy theories, including 5G)

Exactly @TimeAintNothing !

Oh, I thought everyone died on 21 December 2012 when the Mayan prophecy came true. I've been living in a lead-lined cellar since the November, subsisting on baked beans. So you mean you're all still alive and well? Sheesh. Why didn't you tell me???

Must conspiracy theories can be debunked by the simple 'why has no one blabbed' test.

People cannot keep their mouths. Governments and other organisations are full of leaks. Yet not one person worldwide has stood up and said Im going on record, our governments are conspiring against us to control us via 5G. Just doesn't stack up does it?

It's like the people who believe the twin towers were demolished on purpose. What so no one involved in the plan got cold feet before or an attack of conscience about the death of thousands after? Pull the other one.

The moon landings. So time, money and resource went into faking it but not one person let slip or wrote a deathbed confession? Ludicrous.

It really concerns me that we don't seem to be educating people to be able to apply any logic to these kinds of conspiracy theories. I do wonder if the people that believe these things are searching for some sense of control in their lives. Something that makes them feel knowledgeable and superior. Otherwise it's hard to conclude how people are so easily led even when there is a complete dearth of evidence.

@Shazamgenie

Does anyone think that coronavirus is not real?

Yes, the hundreds of thousands of dead are just faking it.

I know they are ridiculed for questioning the status quo and accused of being a conspiracy theorist for daring to question what they are told they should believe. Or questioning the level of state control, or the loss of freedoms.
I think this is far better than doing everything you are told without question, and following rules just because they are put there. Living life like some kind of robot, or drone bereft of individual thought.

There's questioning the status quo, and there's believing whatever bullshit you read on Facebook.

Not everyone who doesn't believe in some crackpot Russian backed 5g conspiracy is a drone or a robot.

@devlesko

Most people I see who are "conspiracy theorists" aren't questioning anything. They're just regurgitating the rubbish spouted by, generally, far-right crackpots on YouTube. They take it in and share it as gospel, without ever thinking to check the numerous glaring errors and holes in whatever theory it is. Many of them happily promote a number of different and entirely contradictory theories at the same time - because they lack the skills (or the will) to critically analyse what they are seeing and reading. They assume that, if something is antiestablishment, it must be true.

They have no interest in discussing the rubbish they share - usually because it doesn't hold up to even the most basic scrutiny - and carefully curate their social media friends until they live in a conspiracy echo-chamber where any kind of rational thinking is impossible.

And then they dare to call people who don't subscribe to their nonsense as 'sheeple'!

Oh, and the ones who most frequently use "follow the money" as a mantra - usually against 'Big Pharma' - are generally also the ones trying to use their conspiracy theories to instil fear and sell more of their MLM essential oils, homeopathy or similar quack medicine (while conveniently ignoring the fact that alternative medicine is, itself, a multi-billion=dollar industry.)

Ignore Justanotherlurker. Just here to repeat whataboutCorbyn 800 times a day.

@MysteriesOfTheOrganism

7 years in a lead-lined cellar eating only baked beans?

We honestly thought you had gassed yourself years ago.

So what is the difference between 5g and 4g? I've only just been picking up 4g on my phone regularly. sorry, This is more of an actual tech question than conspiracy. I am getting to an age where new fangled tech bothers me, but only from a ffs I've only just got used to...... anyway

www.livescience.com/65959-5g-network.html

One thing for sure is NO ONE here knows if 5G is going to cause any health issues (it is a "radiation" and its oficially cofirmed by its inventors) or it will be perfectly safe and everyone will be happy to have a tower on each house and building. As if current connection is not good enough anymore. Its widely known that you should not keep your phone next to your head for more than 15mins a day as its bad for your health but yeah sure 5G will be safe as pure air. Or do you all just believe what bbc tells you? LOL 😁😁😁 good luck treating your cancers, migranes, diabetes and obesity (as majority of british already are like that, sadly very uneducated nation)

Because they are idiots

Some people just have a very low IQ 🤷🏽‍♂️

Can someone explain EVENT 201 if this is all so innocent and not linked? Also why 5G is being rolled out DURING lockdown when people cant go out and protest? Coincidence?

It's idiots that spout this crap that are causing some real problems right now
One of the phone networks closed their stores when this all started and had 3 team members in a day (so as to be able to do social distancing) taking webchat requests instead. To help with the extra demand.

Then people started destroying 5g masts and some were attacking the engineers working on the sites. So for employee safety, they've had to stop doing the extra webchat help in stores. In case people start on the retail employees.

So if you are on webchat with your network provider and its taking ages. Thank those arseholes!

5G doesn't and cannot cause corona virus! People who believe this are just idiots!

(it is a "radiation" and its oficially cofirmed by its inventors)

Every time you look at something, or listen to the radio you're relying on EM radiation. Perhaps you'd better shut yourself in a black box to be safe? But don't use a TV remote in there, they use infrared radiation....

The frequency range being used by 5G lies somewhere between the TV remote and a radio, and is non-ionising.

Can someone explain EVENT 201 if this is all so innocent and not linked? Also why 5G is being rolled out DURING lockdown when people cant go out and protest? Coincidence?

Can you explain EVENT 201? I’ve never heard of it.
Is it still being rolled out right now?
Are you equally afraid of the radiation from you TV and microwave?

The classic I though was the woman who posted that she went to Belfast that doesn’t yet have 5G and it felt calm like Belfast in the 70s!

@Happybunny199
One thing for sure is NO ONE here knows if 5G is going to cause any health issues (it is a "radiation" and its oficially cofirmed by its inventors)

5G radiation was not invented by anyone, it is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Visible light - eg from the screen from which you are reading these words, or from the sun - is also part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

2-5G (and radios and televisions and microwaves) use radiation which has a longer wavelength than visible light. As you will be aware, the sun “soaks” is in radiation every single day eg with infrared (makes us hot), visible (lets us see) and ultraviolet (gives us a tan) radiation. So all these sun worshippers not on beaches at the moment are essentially doing so to actively exposed to as much radiation as they can! Muppets! And then there are tanning machines.....but let’s not go there now.

Dangerous electromagnetic radiation such as UV light and X-rays have a far (far far far) shorter wavelength than 2-5G network radiation and would be extremely dangerous to use in communications networks (and that’s why x-rays are done under such controlled situations).

You could probably get a lot more comfort from reading up on the basics of the electromagnetic spectrum written by scientists than by visiting conspiracy sites written by non scientists.

The link between 5G and Coronavirus is absolute nonsense.

Btw, if anyone wants to do a cool with electromagnetic radiation with your very own children, then you can measure the speed of light with your microwave and some marshmallows!

wonders.physics.wisc.edu/measure-the-speed-of-light/

Wasn't there the same fears about microwave ovens when they were first sold?

Yes there were @TroysMammy, as I understand it the worry was that the seal around the door wasn’t very good so it would cook you if you got too close.
There have been fears around all new technology. Some real some unfounded.