Friday, 3 April 2020

We Really Don't Need Conspiracy Theories at this Time

As if we haven't got enough problems with the Covid-19 pandemic! There are now reports of mobile telephone company equipment being set on fire and personnel verbally attacked because online groups have claimed that the new 5G systems are designed to kill people.  They even claim that living near a mast causes the respiratory problems seen in the pandemic rather than being the result of a viral infection (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/03/broadband-engineers-threatened-due-to-5g-coronavirus-conspiracies). It really beggars belief that people can get such ideas although they do appear to be a ramping up of claims in the early days of mobiles that they could damage the brain. The evidence is extremely weak and we do need to have the people connected as effectively as possible at this time
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