Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/14/why-5g-doesnt-cause-covid-19.html
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The fact that it is the year 2020 and the public in nominally developed, modern nations requires an explainer re: why radio waves do not carry viruses capable of infecting humans breaks my heart on a really basic level.
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Not so sure about the “demonstrably safe” bit. 5G has been shown to be very efficient at carrying and spreading stupidity.
See exhibits A and B: Limbaugh, Rush and Jones, Alex for further evidence.
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The article is an exercise in futility, as the people who think that it does cause problems are not going to read this and change their minds. THEY KNOW THE TRUTH. However on the bright side, people who know it couldn’t possibly be true now know why it isn’t true - other than just basic common sense.
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Is this only happening here in Britain? For shame.
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So what you’re saying is that lack of explainers causes heart failure???
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the underlying rage here is at … the scraping hollowness of life mediated by technology
Glass houses, @beschizza.
I don’t have the energy right now to come up with a clever post. Just gunna say this whole 5G thing is dumb as hell, i don’t know where to start.
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Some people tried to burn down a 3/4G mast in Ireland yesterday, which is probably even more embarrassing.
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The vast majority of our species are assholes and/or idiots. If that statement were not true the world would be a much better place to live in than the stink-hole it is now. This is even more apparent now.
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Well that just makes sense … you have to stop it before it grows up and becomes 5G 
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Just because the answer to a question contains uncertainty, doesn’t mean you can just plug in any ridiculous CONSPIRACY THEORY you want to. The speed with which misguided ideas (like “5G causes Covid-19” or “5G can penetrate my tinfoil hat”) is dismissed in this community does not reflect poorly at all on its participants. Much the opposite, in fact.
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That’s what you say to other addicts, not dealers.
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BONUS: the underlying rage here is at cellphones and social media and news and the scraping hollowness of life mediated by technology.
Insert: Matt Bors cartoon about society…these drones wouldn’t have access to the means of sending/receiving this toxic nonsense without the technology they are carping about.
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That’s a classic and characteristic sign of paranoid schizophrenia.
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…Touché.
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