Despite the fact that there are already numerous scientific studies and evidence of the origin of the coronavirus, there is always a group of conspiranoids who seek to find a culprit regardless of the evidence that science dictates. One of these groups has blamed the origin of the coronavirus on 5G , and therefore they have seen well to burn several antennas.
It has happened in the United Kingdom, where seven antennas have already been burned due to the rumor that those antennas were the cause of the coronavirus. It all originated on March 12, where a United States doctor named Thmas Cowan said “Africa doesn’t have 5G, so there are no cases there.” Neither is related, in addition to the fact that there are already thousands of cases in Africa.
Actors and influencers link 5G and coronavirus
In addition, several celebrities and influencers have promoted the rumor. Actor Woody Harrelson posted an image that spoke of the alleged relationship between the two elements, which has no scientific basis whatsoever, since electromagnetic waves from mobile, WiFi and the like do not cause harm to the body beyond generating heat. , and our bodies emit infrared radiation in the form of heat with an even higher frequency.
I regret to inform you Woody Harrelson is posting 5G coronavirus conspiracy theories on Instagram.
The video also isn’t “the Chinese taking 5G antennas down,” it’s from the Hong Kong protests. pic.twitter.com/y4RpOMJi9T
– Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 2, 2020
The origin of the idea of burning the antennas seems to be that it was a Facebook group , where it began to be said that Wuhan was the epicenter of the epidemic because it was the first 5G city in the world, when in fact 5G began to be installed in November and Dozens of cities around the world already had it, including many from Spain or South Korea, which in mid-2019 already had more than a million 5G users.
Vodafone UK claims that four of its antennas have been burned, while one of the burned ones in Birmingham, operated by the US, did not even offer 5G connection, once again demonstrating ignorance of those who burn them, who will even be left without mobile coverage. in that area.
Due to the huge spread of hoaxes related to the coronavirus on the Internet, because people are idle than normal when locked up at home, YouTube has decided to reduce the number of videos that try to link 5G with the coronavirus to prevent more antennas are burned, stating that “they will eliminate any video that violates our policies.”
However, they will allow other conspiracy videos related to 5G, but they will be marked as “content to the limit”. Videos tagged with this tag typically don’t appear in search results to prevent them from reaching more people.
Science shows that the coronavirus arose naturally
To all this we must add that there are several scientific studies that have shown that the origin of the virus is natural. The SARS-CoV-2 does not use any previously known virus base, and it is not possible to create a virus from scratch.
The only thing that can be done now is to modify an already known virus. Furthermore, the binding of the corona peaks to ACE2 receptorsof cells is imperfect, and a laboratory virus would have made it “better.” Thus, the most logical path that the virus would follow was from a bat to a pangolin, and from there to the human, as shown by genome analyzes (96% coincidence with other bat viruses and 90% with another pangolin virus).
Added to this is the fact that 26 of the first 40 infected were shopkeepers at the Huanan live animal market in Wuhan , so it is clear that this was where the jump occurred. And 5G has nothing to do with it.
