What exactly is 5G? As you might guess, this is the fifth generation of mobile telephony. Each previous one lasted approximately ten years, and now it's time for the next one. The current infrastructure, which we sometimes label as 4G, sometimes as LTE, sometimes as something else, is rapidly being replaced by a new, more modern one. What does this "modernity" bring us? First of all, significantly higher data transfer speeds on all mobile devices, speeds that will be comparable to those currently offered by cable television or fixed telephony operators. Data transfer will be cheaper and cheaper, music and movies more and more available, communication between people will never be faster and more meaningful. All the devices we use will become "smart": the washing machine will talk to the dryer, the dryer to the iron, the iron to the ironing board, the ironing board to the housewife while the housewife is "binging" the Babylon Berlin series on the tablet. New phones will also appear, but they will be expensive because you will simply have to have them in order not to be seen in society. It's progress, meeting needs that didn't even exist until yesterday, nothing we haven't seen a thousand times before.
So why are 5G transmitter towers burning around the world, especially in Britain? Someone noticed that the accelerated modernization of the mobile network coincided with the corona virus pandemic. When the infection started to spread, those who believe that nothing happens by chance in the world (which may be true) came on the scene. Of all the possible explanations, self-proclaimed "experts" eager for publicity have chosen the one that best suits our tabloid reality full of sensational headlines and "discoveries". The epidemic started from Wuhan. Wuhan is the first city to launch a 5G network. Need more proof that 5G waves caused the pandemic?
UNIVERSAL EXPERTS
It is true that the paranoia started even before the pandemic. In May of last year, the Russian network RT America (otherwise accused of meddling in the US presidential election) aired a report entitled "Dangerous Experiment on Humanity", claiming that 5G technology causes brain tumors, infertility, sterility, heart problems and autism . That show was followed by six more "episodes" on the same topic, the last one about children exposed to 5G radiation having spontaneous nosebleeds and learning problems. When the epidemic broke out, the already formulated conspiracy theory fell on fertile ground.
Conspiracy theorists are usually easy to recognize. It is often a doctor who likes to explain physical phenomena or a physicist who knows all about the structure of viruses. Sometimes it is a priest who was given a third eye by God to see the hidden reality. Sometimes it is a journalist who collected "irrefutable truths" from a physicist, a doctor and a priest, and mixed them all into a newspaper text. Sometimes it's a famous athlete or actor who thinks his IQ is rising along with his bank account balance. There is often his better half, usually a housewife, an expert on yoga, artichokes and high life, ready to share his hilarious antics with millions of followers on social networks. Sometimes it's a "YouTube influencer" (the name for an influential person who before YouTube was nobody and nothing, in most cases "cyber-jiber"). What they all have in common is that they have the cheeky audacity to talk about things they least understand and for which they have never been educated.
5G conspiracy theorists today go so far as to question the very biological nature of the virus. According to them, the virus is just a poison that poisoned cells are trying to expel from themselves. The virus is a consequence, not the cause of the disease. Man is a being governed by electrical impulses, each electrocardiogram or encephalogram is actually a recording of the electrical currents that control our vital functions. Illness occurs when these natural electrical currents in our organism are disturbed by external influences, which we have not encountered so far. The real cause of the disease is, in fact, insane technological development that has a harmful effect on health and whose negative consequences nobody deals with.
PANDEMIC OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
The largest pandemic ever recorded occurred at the end of World War I, when the Spanish flu infected half a billion people and claimed around 50 million lives. How do 5G "experts" explain this pandemic? The entire planet made a "quantum leap" by experiencing its first major "electrification" in the form of radio waves, which at that time began to be intensively used for military and commercial purposes. How else to explain the fact that the Spanish flu appeared simultaneously in parts of the globe thousands of kilometers away, at a time when people traveled by carriages, ships or on foot? Only radio waves travel fast enough.
After the Second World War, there was a second quantum leap, the next round of electrification of the Earth globe - the radar systems perfected by the British to defend against mass raids by German bombers flooded the whole world in a flash. And mass sickness of the population followed again, death roared like a forest fire through devastated Europe.
During the 1960s, telecommunications satellites networked the skies above us. Their electromagnetic waves upset the fine balance in the Earth's ionosphere and the Van Allen radiation belts, which protect us from harmful radiation from space. The Hong Kong flu pandemic followed in a flash.
And so until today, until the corona epidemic caused by the accelerated construction of the infrastructure for a new generation of mobile telephony. The "facts" say that every major pandemic that has occurred in the last 150 years has coincided with an additional amount of electromagnetic radiation injected into our environment.
LOGICAL PUNS
So say the conspiracy theorists. Kesiฤ would say: "Fools!" Unfortunately, it is difficult to argue with fools because fools are very inventive. All conspiracy theories are concocted by carefully selecting facts (no one disputes that the Spanish flu pandemic really happened during the expansion of radio waves), while the cause-and-effect relationship between them is based solely on coincidences and logical puns, while ignoring or twisting all known scientific facts. fact and massive abuse of human superstition, lack of education and fear of the new and unknown. "Everything I don't understand scares me" - this conditioned reflex probably saved man many times during his history, which is measured for hundreds of thousands of years, forcing him to retreat and save himself from often dangerous situations. In the 21st century, however, this fear is a convenient tool for all kinds of manipulations, including political ones.
When you scratch just below the surface of this conspiracy theory, you'll see that the whole "5G virus" theory is on shaky ground. Indeed, it would be said that the most severely affected countries are the countries where the construction of the 5G network has advanced the most: China, Italy, Spain, Britain, America. However, South Korea, which has already completed modernization and relatively easily brought the epidemic under control, remains silent. What about Iran, India and Japan, which have also been affected by the pandemic, even though 5G network work there is in the early stages? The pandemic has spread to Africa and the poor countries of Central and South America, even to rural areas where no mobile phone signal reaches. Even the natives of the Amazon rainforest are threatened, although the nearest radio antenna is hundreds of kilometers away.
DANGEROUS STUPIDING
Those who support the theory also claim that the 5G signal weakens the human immune system due to its higher strength. To understand how absurd this is, we need to recall high school physics. Wireless communication is based on the propagation of electromagnetic waves. Each wave has a specific wavelength that is the reciprocal of its frequency. The shorter the wave and the higher the frequency, the higher its energy, but also the possibility of data transmission. This is precisely why the 5G network uses shorter wavelengths than the 4G network. Shorter waves mean a shorter range and greater sensitivity to natural obstacles (even raindrops), so the repeaters of the 5G network are relatively densely distributed (it is impossible to cover the entire city with a signal from just a few antennas). However, the wavelength of the 5G network signal is still large, incomparably greater than that of ordinary daylight.
Such electromagnetic waves simply do not have enough energy to have an ionizing effect, therefore they are unable to react with matter and affect its structure. In order for such a thing to be possible, electromagnetic waves of very short wavelength are needed: ultraviolet, X-rays or gamma rays. 5G network waves are simply nowhere near this range. Precisely for these reasons, countless institutions and learned individuals categorically denied any possibility of 5G signal impact on human health, and labeled the whole theory as "dangerous fooling around" and diverting attention from the real problem.
But what is it all worth? The virus will go away one day, but the conspiracy theories remain forever. Americans have never been to the moon, Elvis is alive, I know who killed Kennedy, then HAARP, "chemtrails", UFO landed in Roswell, Illuminati, flat Earth... The author of this text is not a medical expert to be able to give you any new advice. how to preserve yourself in the midst of this pestilence (sickness and stupidity). Wash your hands, keep your distance, don't eat bats and hope for the best. Whoever believes in something can pray, it won't hurt. And necessarily a glass of brandy, it was recommended to us a long time ago (in the name of...).
However, what to say to those who, smarter than all, still believe that the cause of our suffering is in the 5G network, who think that the most effective way to kill the virus is to fire up the local repeater of the mobile operator, and turn off the phone or throw it out the window? Maybe the sentence that Eลก from The eighth passenger he forgives the unfortunates not yet eaten by the mysterious "alien": "I can't lie about your chances of survivalโฆ But, either way, you have my sympathies."
