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No, 5G Radiation Doesn't Cause or Spread the Coronavirus - Saying it Does Is Destructive

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Stanley Shanapinda, La Trobe University
A conspiracy theory claiming 5G can spread the coronavirus is making the rounds on social media. The myth supposedly gained traction when a Belgian doctor linked the “dangers” of 5G technology to the virus during an interview in January.
Closer to home, Facebook group Stop5G Australia (with more than 31,700 members) has various posts linking the disease’s spread to 5G technology.

Members of the Stop5G Australia Facebook group share posts and videos claiming 5G helps spread COVID-19. Facebook

Peddling such misinformation is not only wrong, it’s destructive.

The Guardian reported that since Thursday at least 20 mobile phone masts across the UK have been torched or otherwise vandalised. Mobile network representative MobileUK published an open letter stating:

We have experienced cases of vandals setting fire to mobile masts, disrupting critical infrastructure and spreading false information suggesting a connection between 5G and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Celebrities – stick to what you knowMany outlets and people have rushed to debunk this myth, including federal minister for communications, cyber safety and the arts Paul Fletcher. But myriad groups and public figures continue to perpetuate it.

Actor Woody Harrelson and singer Keri Hilson have both shared content with fans suggesting a link between 5G and COVID-19.

Stop5G Australia members have claimed the Ruby Princess cruiseliner’s link to 600 reported infections and 11 deaths is because cruises are “radiation saturated”. That’s wrong.

 

A screenshot of posts from the Stop5G Australia Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Stop5GAustralia/?ref=br_rs

While cruise passengers can access roaming wifi services on board, these are not 5G services. Maritime cruises have yet to implement 5G technology.

One petition is calling on the Australia government to stop 5G’s rollout because the technology can supposedly “negatively affect your immune system” (a claim for which there is exactly zero evidence). It has received more than 27,000 signatures.

How 5G radio signals (radiation) workThe difference between 5G and previous generations of mobile services (4G, 3G) is that the latter uses lower radio frequencies (in the 6 gigahertz range), whereas 5G uses frequencies in the 30–300 gigahertz range.

This diagram shows different frequencies along the electromagnetic spectrum. Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency/AUS GOV., Author provided

In the 30-300 gigahertz range, there’s not enough energy to break chemical bonds or remove electrons when in contact with human tissue. Thus, this range is referred to as “non-ionising” electromagnetic radiation.

It’s approved by the federal government’s Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency as not having the negative health effects of more intense radiation.


 

Read more: There’s no evidence 5G is going to harm our health, so let’s stop worrying about it


Radiation can come into contact with the skin, for example, when we put a 5G mobile to our ear to make a call. This is when we’re most exposed to non-ionising radiation. But this exposure is well below the recommended safety level.
5G radiation can’t penetrate skin, or allow a virus to penetrate skin. There is no evidence 5G radio frequencies cause or exacerbate the spread of the coronavirus.

Also, the protein shell of the virus is incapable of hijacking 5G radio signals. This is because radiation and viruses exist in different forms that do not interact. One is a biological phenomenon and the other exists on the electromagnetic spectrum.

5G radio waves are called millimetre waves, because their wavelength is measured in millimetres. Because these waves are short, 5G cell towers need to be relatively close together – about 250 metres apart. They are organised as a collection of small cells (a cell is an area covered by radio signals).

For 5G to cover a larger geographic area, more base stations are needed in comparison to 4G. This increase in the number of base stations, and their proximity to humans, is one factor that may stir unfounded fears about 5G’s potential health impacts.

Your phone may be dangerous, but its radiation isn’tCOVID-19 spreads through small droplets released from the nose or mouth of an infected person when they cough, spit, sneeze, talk or exhale. Transmission occurs when the droplets come into contact with the nose, eyes or mouth of a healthy person.

So if an infectious person speaks through a phone held near their mouth, enough infectious droplets may land on its surface to make it capable of spreading the virus. This is why it’s not advisable to share mobiles during a pandemic. You should also regularly disinfect your mobile.

 


 

Read more: Can I get coronavirus from mail or package deliveries? Should I disinfect my phone?


Why are we having this discussion?To many of us, it’s obvious a human virus can’t spread via radio signals, and such a conspiracy may be linked to a wider distrust of the government in general.

Addressing this myth is critical as property is now being damaged, and individuals attacked. Physical and verbal threats to broadband engineers can be added to a long list of assaults on health workers.

At a time when millions are relying on fast internet to work and study from home, vital telecommunications infrastructure is at risk of being destroyed. Conspiracy theories have motivated arson attacks on 5G towers in Belfast, Liverpool and Birmingham.

Youtube has announced it will devote resources to removing content linking 5G technology to COVID-19.

The announcement came after fingers were pointed at one video, published on March 18 (and viewed more than 668,000 times), in which an American doctor claims incorrectly that Africa is less affected by COVID-19 because it’s not a 5G region. The video remained online at the time of publishing this article.

Stanley Shanapinda, Research Fellow, La Trobe University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

 


Source: http://gmopundit.blogspot.com/2020/04/no-5g-radiation-doesnt-cause-or-spread.html


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    • Fake News = The False Prophet

      Methinks they do protest to much.

      A lot of rhetoric in that article that suggests the 5G ‘conspiracy’ is probably correct, based on previous similar rhetoric on other subjects.

      They don’t even seem to quite understand what the issue actually is.

      Anyway… I think we need to remove all such technology around us whatever. It looks bad, it sounds bad, there is solid evidence that it is bad, we don’t need it and it involves corporations and known trash entities.

      Let’s burn it all down.

      Everything these people have ever done is anti-life, incompetent, un-ethical, sub-standard garbage.

    • Slimey

      I listened with great anticipation of G Beck’s rebuttal expert and was thoroughly disappointed. First of all, he was an “expert” on 5g meaning he is FOR 5g and sure enough.

      It was how safe 5g would be but didn’t exactly say how. Something about not-ionized radiation but didn’t mention it was safe. Nothing said about power and their fields, about constant radiation on the body to such a persistent nature that it would be akin to getting fried on low heat that never goes off.

      No study done (except on a few people). Same like drugs but they get massive FDA approval. So, it looks like they just want to push this thing on you because the players are going to make HUGE money. They sou’led you the phones and now they want to crucify you.

      Yes, the ROOT of all ebil is the LOVE of money. Sorry, but you got in the way. :wink:

    • HTLIII

      WRONG.Harvard’s Charles M. Lieber holds the U.S. Patent for the 5G release process and was caught lying about it and his secret contracts with the London Pirbright Institute in Wuhan and their Merial Animal lab when he was arrested February 21

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