Most conspiracies stay online, but this is having real-world impact,” said Alexandre Alaphilippe, executive director of the E.U.

From Facebook the social media company that houses millions of users around the world to twitter and even on youtube. Anti-5G groups have continued to add hundreds and even thousands of members. One person in the Facebook group Stop 5G U.K., which has over 59,000 members said they needed to bring the 5G towers down. Others on YouTube and Facebook, including an anti-5G Facebook group, have also shared false claims.


“You know when they turn this on it’s going to kill everyone,” a woman said of 5G in a recent video on Twitter, as she confronted technicians laying fiber-optic cables in an unidentified British town.

Celebrities are not left out in the conspiracy theories been spread on the internet, Keri Hilson, an American singer with 4.2 million followers on Twitter, sent several tweets that attempted to link the coronavirus to 5G. She wrote: “People have been trying to warn us about 5G for YEARS. Petitions, organizations, studies, what we’re going through is the affects [sic] of radiation. 5G launched in CHINA. Nov 1, 2019. People dropped dead.”

Popular actor, Woody Harrelson shared an Instagram post sometimes in April,saying that while he hasn’t “fully vetted” rumors linking 5G to the Virus, “I find it very interesting.”

Some prominent men have in one way or the other contributed to the spread of the misinformation.

On April 2, in one of the first 5G-coronavirus incidents, telecom equipment in a neighborhood of Belfast in Northern Ireland was set ablaze, according to nytimes.com.

You want to know where this all began and also the myth & fact about 5G and Coronavirus then this post is for you.

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
In January, as the novel Coronavirus began to spread from Wuhan to the rest of the world, some groups began claiming that the virus was linked to 5G technology. According to popular website Aljazeera the claims may have originated with comments made by a doctor in Belgium, saying he believed 5G was “life-threatening” and connected to the coronavirus while noting that he had “not done a fact-check,” according to an article in Wired magazine. The newspaper that printed his comments retracted the story, but that didn’t stop the conspiracy theory from gaining traction.

On Jan. 19, a post on Twitter speculated on a link between 5G and the disease, according to Zignal Labs, a media insights company that studied 699,000 mentions of the conspiracy this year through April 7.

In March, a Facebook user named Ben Mackie falsely linked 5G to the coronavirus, saying in part that it’s not actually a virus. “They are trying to get u scared of a fake ass virus when it the 5G towers being built around the world,” he said. He also claimed that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates invented the technology and that it’s an effort to depopulate the world. And Mackie said that vaccines being developed for the coronavirus are actually chips that will be implanted in people. According to the UK Fact checker FullFact these claims were false.

THE MYTH
“This story about 5G has no credence scientifically and is certainly a potential distraction, as is other such misinformation, from controlling the COVID-19 epidemic,” said Dr. Jonathan M. Samet, dean of the Colorado School of Public Health.

It is impossible for 5G to transmit the virus because the virus doesn't travel through radio waves.

Adam Finn, professor of pediatrics at the University of Bristol, adds, “The radio waves involved in 5G and other mobile phone technology sit on the low-frequency end of the electromagnetic spectrum. Less powerful than visible light, they are not strong enough to damage cells – unlike radiation at the higher frequency end of the spectrum which includes the sun’s rays and medical x-rays.

THE TRUTH
The truth is cell phone towers tend to emit radiofrequency (RF) waves, which is a form of non-ionizing radiation. Non-ionizing radiation is not the same as ionizing radiation. As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states on its website: “Non-ionizing radiation is not strong enough to directly affect the structure of atoms or damage DNA.”

That doesn’t mean that RF is always completely harmless. According to the website, RF, “does cause atoms to vibrate, which can cause them to heat up.” Making your atoms vibrate like they are dancing to dubstep is not necessarily a good thing. Indeed, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has determined that RF fields be “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” EPA adds that: “When RF energy is very strong, such as from radar transmitters, it can be dangerous. It can heat parts of your body very rapidly and cause serious injuries, like severe burns.”

Of course, 5G technology is still quite new so you can’t say that it is 100% unequivocally safe under all circumstances.

Then 5G technology is not good for humans then, you may say. Consider what EPA as to say before you freak out already:“These extremely high RF energy levels are only found near powerful equipment, such as long-distance transmitters. Radiofrequency energy decreases as it travels in the atmosphere, which means that it gets weaker the farther it is from the transmitter. Powerful long-distance transmitters usually do not create high-level RF energy on the ground. If there is a ground-level hazard from RF energy, there are safety requirements to prevent the public from dangerous exposure.” The claim is also reaffirmed by The American Cancer Society (ACS) website, stating that most studies “have supported the idea that the RF waves given off by cell phones and towers don’t have enough energy to damage DNA directly.”

NOW YOU KNOW THE TRUTH
This doesn’t mean that the 5G – Coronacirus conspiracy theories floating all around the internet should have any position. Such theories can only make it dangerous for people and scientific studies wanting to need more about the safety of 5G technology. These theories can distract people from the real issue in hand, at the nose, at the mouth and at the respiratory from stopping the spread of the novel Coronavirus. It can also take the focus away from what is more important which is social distancing, finding ways to test as many people as possible for the virus, protecting health care workers and shoring up health care capacity, and supporting research such as vaccine development.

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SOURCES: Techcrunch, Cnet, thenextweb, Forbes, BBC, Aljazeera, NYtimes

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