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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: 3, Insightful) by canopic jug on Wednesday May 20 2020, @05:20PM (5 children)
Close. It's not a mutually exclusive situation. So now there are two problems. The one is that which the strawman arguments are distracting from and the other is the wound up nutjobs.
You could say there are more problems since, as mentioned, some group is winding them up and, presumably, they are doing it on behalf of some more remote interests. Another is the control that Facebook weilds over mass public opinion.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday May 20 2020, @06:08PM (3 children)
But again, it is NOT a strawman argument because people actually are saying that 5G causes coronavirus.
A strawman is when you rebut an argument nobody made. People ARE making that argument and we have the burning cellphone towers to prove it. [go.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:23PM (2 children)
Nitpick not pertaining to this discussion but "strawman is when you rebut an argument nobody made" is not quite correct, in a debate it means an argument that you did not make. Not that the argument has never existed anywhere ever.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday May 20 2020, @10:01PM (1 child)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfil34ayaEU [youtube.com]
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @08:26PM
Why did you share that video, it says the same thing as the other AC?
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:28PM
My money is on the russians. Anything to sow discord in the West.