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Cell-Tower Attacks by Idiots who Claim 5G Spreads COVID-19 Reportedly Hit US

posted by martyb on Wednesday May 20 2020, @08:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-stupidity-it-hurts-it-burns! dept.

DannyB writes:

Cell-tower attacks by idiots who claim 5G spreads COVID-19 reportedly hit US:

US warns carriers to boost security, citing reports of attacks in several states.

The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly issuing alerts to wireless telecom providers and law enforcement agencies about potential attacks on cell towers and telecommunications workers by 5G/coronavirus conspiracy theorists. The DHS warned that there have already been "arson and physical attacks against cell towers in several US states."

The preposterous claim that 5G can spread the coronavirus, either by suppressing the immune system or by directly transmitting the virus over radio waves, led to dozens of tower burnings in the UK and mainland Europe. Now, the DHS "is preparing to advise the US telecom industry on steps it can take to prevent attacks on 5G cell towers following a rash of incidents in Western Europe fueled by the false claim that the technology spreads the pathogen causing COVID-19," The Washington Post reported last week.

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FACT: 5G mobile networks DO NOT spread COVID-19!
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:20PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:20PM (#996892)

    Not just countries, there's interesting counting being done in the backward states, e.g. Georgia [ajc.com].

    In the latest bungling of tracking data for the novel coronavirus, a recently posted bar chart on the Georgia Department of Public Health’s website appeared to show good news: new confirmed cases in the counties with the most infections had dropped every single day for the past two weeks.
    ...
    A spokeswoman for DPH told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the chart was incorrect because of an error in how it sorted dates. An aide to the governor told Holcomb that a software vendor caused the problem, Holcomb said. A tweet from a Kemp spokesman said the data team behind the chart published it because they thought it would be “helpful.”
    ...
    Others worry the data is being portrayed in a way that favors Kemp’s early easing of restrictions. A separate graph on DPH’s page has led readers to think that cases were dropping dramatically, even though lower case numbers were the result of a lag in data collection.
    ...
    “I have a hard time understanding how this happens without it being deliberate,” said State Rep. Jasmine Clark, D-Lilburn, who received her doctorate in microbiology and molecular genetics at Emory University. “Literally nowhere ever in any type of statistics would that be acceptable.”

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:26PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:26PM (#996896)

    State Rep. Jasmine Clark, D-Lilburn, who received her doctorate in microbiology and molecular genetics at Emory University.

    She was so respected in her field that she became a democrat state representative.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:58PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:58PM (#996914)

      Great research well done. Have another one [theguardian.com].

      The scientist in charge of Florida’s Covid-19 database was fired on the same day as the state opened up for business.

      As sunbathers returned to beaches, and restaurants, movie theaters, gyms and hair salons in almost every county were permitted to open their doors on Monday, the Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration fired Dr Rebekah Jones from the Florida department of health.

      Jones, the architect and manager of the online dashboard held up by the White House in April as a model of transparency and integrity, said she was sidelined after protesting orders to censor some of the information it contained. And on Tuesday she claimed she was fired for refusing to “manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen”.

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday May 21 2020, @02:11AM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday May 21 2020, @02:11AM (#997196) Journal

    And that's just the latest Republican attempt to ratfuck the data.

    Florida scientist says she was fired for refusing to change Covid-19 data 'to support reopen plan' [theguardian.com]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @03:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @03:15AM (#997228)

      Ratfuck?

      When did their personal standards rise?