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What does everyone think of 5G?

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jadey0891 · 04/04/2020 10:00

What do you all think of 5G?

I've heard so much about it but don't quite get it. I have so many questions.
Is it safe, does it cause cancer, is the lockdown to place 5G satellites everywhere,

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WhatdoImean · 04/04/2020 11:45

Aha! WoolySheep - that is what "they" WANT you to think! Obviously, this part of the fake badger culls, which are actually being used to INFECT badgers and spread the Coronavirus, which are then mind-controlled with nano-chips via the 5G relay towers by the Chinese Deepstate Lizards. It is all part of a plot by the New World Order to force us all to be injected with nano-control chips as part of the vaccine when it is issued. This is being driven by Big Pharma of course.

What's this? A hole in my tin-foiled-lined hat?? Oh no - the microwave can see what I am thinking!!!!!

More seriously, a bunch of complete and utter idiots (who OBVIOUSLY know more than those who do work in this area for a living) who (using fingers AND toes) manged to add 2 and 2, and got the letter "J", which when taking into account the current solar cycle, OBVIOUSLY means that the space lizards are out to get us.

Yes. I have very little time for people who discount actual peer-reviewed work done by experts in the area, based on their own YouTube research

mindproject · 04/04/2020 11:47

You forgot to mention FLAT EARTH in that little rant.

WhatdoImean · 04/04/2020 11:49

Damn - I was keeping that secret - you don't want EVERYONE to know about that do you??!!!

mindproject · 04/04/2020 11:52

Shhhhhhhhh. Isn't that the illuminati moto?

Stabbitha · 04/04/2020 11:56

Academics - 'this is what information I found out and here is my source.'

Conspiracy nuts - 'do your own research!'

VirtualHugsAllRound · 04/04/2020 11:59

mindproject I still haven't made my mind up. The more I watch/read stuff (that isn't part of the propaganda machine), the more I know.

As a pretty radical lefty, and someone who's interested in psychology and sociology... I do agree with the idea of "the propaganda machine", thinking deeper into what we're told, and why.

However, the alternatives presented by an awful lot of people who talk about this stuff are no better - if there IS a risk to health from 5g then we need to talk about it seriously and be able to discern reliable sources, not just listen to any old crackpot who's made a website.

nauticant · 04/04/2020 12:04

The public and the roll-out of mobile infrastructure:

twitter.com/sTeamTraen/status/1245813895576596496

mindproject · 04/04/2020 12:06

I agree Virtual, we do need to do that. How do you determine what a reliable source is?

Abraid2 · 04/04/2020 12:10

Our puppy government

Grin
thepeopleversuswork · 04/04/2020 12:11

Genuine question for the conspiracy nuts: what would be the benefit to the ruling party or the country of faking a pandemic in order to provide a cover story for installing 5G masts?

You would basically be bankrupting the country in order to clear the way to spend even more money. Whose interest would that serve? It sure as shit wouldn’t help the government!

These ideas are completely lacking in logic, intellectual rigour or consistency. They are things dreamed up by stupid people to allow them to feel a degree of superiority over everyone else.

Go and spend your lives “educating” yourself reading right wing bollocks on YouTube if it makes you feel more clever. Knock yourselves out. But FFS don’t endanger the rest of us because you’re too stupid to understand the difference between peer reviewed science and conspiracy theories.

Roostersmum2 · 04/04/2020 12:16

Somebody I've known for almost 15 years has "fallen out" with me and blocked me from social media because I refused to entertain their ludicrous conspiracy theory.

Apparently the virus doesn't exist and what we're experiencing is actually people dropping dead from the radiation of 5G.

The people buying into this theory are almost fanatical and if you don't instantly agree with them you must be a "sheep" and uneducated.

Fucking morons if you ask me

Flaxmeadow · 04/04/2020 12:17

Someone just posted this article from a science magazine in another topic. It's about scientist who study virology and epidemics. Experts in their field of research, who have been studying viruses for decades. They go into bat caves in China and take samples, they take samples from local people near the caves, study the bat viruses in petrie dishes and the way it infects human lung samples and so on.

No mention of 5g at all, but oh wait! What do they know. Must be making it all up. All those years of dedicated hard work and peer reviewed research must be some kind of ruse Confused

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1/

Roostersmum2 · 04/04/2020 12:18

I also asked this person ranting about 5G, one pertinent question.

If 5G is a threat to life on a populace scale and indiscriminately kills people of all ages, why would the government roll it out and risk it harming them and their families.

After a brief pause they came back with "why do you think Boris isn't doing his press conferences any more, he's being shielded inside from the radiation"

I then asked whether his point was that the elite will know to stay far away from these new towers and so they would be safe.

Yes he said.

Yep, morons.

buttermilkwaffles · 04/04/2020 12:34

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What does everyone think of 5G?
PicsInRed · 04/04/2020 12:38

Unless there is some powerful 5G in hospitals infecting and killing medics by the hundreds or in care homes, cruise ships and prisons infecting the residents...I would presume that we have an airborne, infectious pathogen.

Obviously. Hmm

thepeopleversuswork · 04/04/2020 13:03

buttermilk hear hear.

Anyone who believes this shit should be disenfranchised. I am not even joking.

ErrolTheDragon · 04/04/2020 13:06

Who to trust? Hm, tricky.
On the one hand: Scientists and engineers with many, many years experience developing the technologies we use.

On the other: people who deliberately search out 'alternative' sources and call this 'research'.

There have been ignorant scaremongers for every new technology ever invented, I suspect - certainly starting with the railways. No way could people safely go faster than a horse etc.

mindproject · 04/04/2020 15:13

One 'authority' we definitely don't trust is the mainstream media.

Check out Dana Ashlie on YouTube. She exposes some of the lies currently being told about the 'virus' on the mainstream.

mindproject · 04/04/2020 15:16

The footage of all the empty hospitals is what I had suspected.

She doesn't seem to be a big fan of 5G either.

ErrolTheDragon · 04/04/2020 15:25

Check out Dana Ashlie

Yeah, I've checked her out - what a surprise, yet another professional conspiracy theorist. If she's representative of your sources of 'research', you're really not as smart as you think you are.

YouAreTheEggManIAmTheWalrus · 04/04/2020 15:32

How do the conspiracy theorists explain all the deaths from a “virus” in countries where 5G hasn’t been rolled out?
Japan? Iran? Ecuador?

It’s fear that melts people’s brains, not radio waves.

esjee · 04/04/2020 16:00

@mindproject You are literally just reading stuff that is part of a far more stupid, far more dangerous, anti-logic, anti-rational thinking 'propaganda machine' and thinking it makes enlightened instead of even more blind and idiotic. The internet is making people stupider and more gullible sadly. This kind of stuff used to be confined to raving loonies in their basements. It should have stayed there. There's no place in a rational enlightened society for conspiracy theories.

YouAreTheEggManIAmTheWalrus · 04/04/2020 16:10

@esjee I agree with a lot of what you say but just wanted to point out that many of the worlds’ historical conspiracy theories turned out to be true. (Not saying the 5G thing is legit, just making a point about people in basements and theories having no place in society etc)

www.rd.com/culture/conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true/

midgebabe · 04/04/2020 16:14

People are assaulting telecom engineers and burning down mobile base stations that are helping keep the country connected in these difficult times

Starting to think there are a load of Russian agents trying to destroy the uk

esjee · 04/04/2020 16:20

@YouAreTheEggManIAmTHeWalrus. These are not the kind of conspiracy theories that are usually parroted by nutters. Most of them I've never heard of. Of course, some things get covered up but the simplest explanation is usually the right one. The bigger and more complicated and inane the conspiracy theory and the more people involved, the less likely (like we're talking impossible here) it is to be true. But these off the wall nonsense theories are now commonly believed by internet nutjobs and its sad for society. Always think of the validity of sources, read widely, but don't read any old idiot with a youtube channel or website who has no logical reasons except paranoia behind what they're saying. The whole of mainstream media is not trying to trick us, you don't need to resort to a handful of wackos on the internet.

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