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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: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:23PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:23PM (#996893)

    I think people burning them down is the conspiracy theory.

    Quite so, but I did see people with anti-5G posters when I was protesting the house arrest order in my city. It is the MO for the powers that keep us imprisoned globally: Find people or a situation far off the deep end, give it great coverage and suggest that they are related to "Covid-19 deniers". Could have the secondary effect of inhibiting rationally concerned people to show up, because they are afraid of being ridiculed for the unrelated opinions of people standing next to them.

    German MSM is doing the same, only there it is insinuating that demonstrators are actually AFDs, Pegidas, Populists, Anti-democrats -- whatever propaganda terms they have worked diligently the last 10 years to negatively tinge.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday May 20 2020, @04:37PM (7 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday May 20 2020, @04:37PM (#996965) Journal

    Quite so, but I did see people with anti-5G posters when I was protesting the house arrest order in my city. It is the MO for the powers that keep us imprisoned globally: Find people or a situation far off the deep end, give it great coverage and suggest that they are related to "Covid-19 deniers".

    Being at the covid-denial protest kinda leads one to that conclusion...

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @05:08PM (6 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @05:08PM (#996981)

      It fills me with joy to thwart your dream of a life of leisure on the government teat.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday May 20 2020, @05:41PM (5 children)

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday May 20 2020, @05:41PM (#996995) Journal

        I'm in an essential industry, moron.

        I'm one of the people keeping the lights on in your house right now.

        • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:05PM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:05PM (#997060)

          Morons are an essential industry?

          • (Score: 5, Funny) by krishnoid on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:17PM (2 children)

            by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:17PM (#997067)

            No dummy, it's monkeys. You know, the ones on the bicycles attached to the generators. Come on, it's right in his name! Of course, 'Death' probably means he's in project management.

            • (Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Thursday May 21 2020, @02:03AM (1 child)

              by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday May 21 2020, @02:03AM (#997195) Journal

              Worse, I'm in the Health & Safety Department!

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @02:58AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @02:58AM (#997219)

                Does it come with a sonic screwdriver?

        • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:08PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:08PM (#997062)

          Wait, you're the one turning lights on and leaving the room?! All this time I blamed the kids ...