5g - The We're All Going To Die Thread

[repoman]

I remember hearing all these warnings before, but it was about microwave ovens.

I think grandma was once worried about 'all those telephone wires' being strung across town. All that lectricity just...out there, where people were walking.

 

[Torin]

Both of those studies are looking at 900MHz radiation, which is nowhere near the 5g band (24-72GHz).

I did say I wasn't a scientist.

 

[Bronzeage]

Burn them. Burn the witches.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/4/21207927/5g-towers-burning-uk-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-link

5G phone masts are being set alight in the UK, after online conspiracy theories have misleadingly linked the cell towers to the coronavirus pandemic. The BBC reports that at least three 5G towers were set alight last week, and police and fire services were called to extinguish the flames.

Rumors and conspiracy theories over a link between the roll out of 5G and the spread of coronavirus have been spread primarily through social media networks. A variety of groups exist on Facebook and Nextdoor, where thousands of members repeat false and misleading claims that 5G is supposedly harmful.

5G turned me into a newt.

I'm glad you got better.

 

[ZiprHead]

"The 5G radiation is so much weaker: a 5G cell transmits at 46 dBm the most, which is 40 Watts. And you hardly get closer than 100m to the antenna, which brings down the energy your body feels by a factor of 10.000 to the milliwatt range.
Your microwave oven generates microwave radiation of 600 W at least; most of that stays inside, but be sure that there is some leakage. And you get very close to the device. So Microwave Oven is “worse” for your body in terms of absorbed radiation than 5G.
Nonwithstanding that the worst thing Microwave can do to living cells is to burn them — like a stove element or a cup of hot water poured over you. Despite public rumors, there is no risk of cancer with Microwave. That risk comes with much much harder electromagnetic radiation, like sun light, ultraviolet, x-ray and gamma-ray. All the same sort of thing, but the mentioned ones have photons of million to billion times the energy, and can actually interfere with the chemistry of body cells. Microwave photons cannot."
Kurt Behnke, PHD Mathematics & Physics, University of Hamburg

 

[angelo]

Online conspiracy theories linking 5G wireless service to the novel coronavirus outbreak had some dangerous real-world consequences last week, despite scientists saying there is no connection between the technology and the spread of the disease. Arsonists in the U.K. set on fire 5G wireless towers in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Merseyside and then uploaded videos of the vandalism to social media.

There's no connection between 5G, the new, superfast successor to 4G wireless, and the deadly pandemic sweeping the globe, scientists say. But the vandalism and false connections between the disease and 5G come as a larger and more rational debate continues over the broader impact of wireless phone gear on human health.

 

[angelo]

I'm sorry. But I think these conspiracy theories are quite humorous.