How Invisible Waves Have Changed the World
2020-04-07 [Petri]
There’s an old joke that says: “Ice cream consumption and deaths by drowning go up at the same time. Eating ice cream must therefore cause deaths by drowning”.
This kind of causation because of correlation is of course plain wrong: hot weather both increases the sales of ice cream and heats up the waters to the level that more people go swimming. Hence the change in climate is behind both in the rise of consumption of ice cream and the number of people that have overestimated their swimming skills while taking a plunge in open waters.
Therefore the recent attacks against base station antennas in England because "5G helps spread coronavirus" are plainly ridiculous, and another example of the continuous Internet-driven distillation of human stupidity.
The fact that the quacks on the Internet, especially on Facebook, manage to gain the same amount of bandwidth as the more reliable news sources is a scourge that in apparently impossible to cure. Especially when the leader of the free world keeps on upping the ante by his “fake news” claims on perfectly validated news.
In the Medieval times, they used to burn innocent people as witches, with zero effect on the well-being of fellow citizens. In the Internet age, at least they have switched to destroying inanimate objects, but the result on the well-being of our societies is now actually negative.
The fact that the 5G rollout has started around the same time as the COVID-19 outbreak is a prime example of how correlation does not imply causation. It is actually an even worse example than the ice cream vs. drownings above, as there is absolutely no underlying joint reason behind the timing of these two.
The anti-5G group of Facebook with 27,000 members point out that Wuhan got 5G around the same time as the coronavirus started to spread. But they fail to mention that Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hangzhou got it months earlier, like many other megacities around the world. With zero coronavirus cases.
And the recent arsons in England have happened in cities without any 5G infrastructure whatsoever, crowning the utter stupidity of these acts.
Burning base stations at the time when people are confined to their homes and only have the Internet as their channel to the outside world is not helping in our fight against the coronavirus...
...except maybe by cutting gullible people temporarily off of Facebook - a company that somehow finds itself related to pretty much every fact-ignoring mayhem we have been experiencing in the past couple of years, from spreading Brexit lies to its sheer detrimental effect on the US presidential election.
In the cases related to Facebook-induced interference, we appear to have true correlation with proven causation.
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