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- COVID-19 is a form of state control
- Argument
COVID-19 is caused by 5G
Many believe that the recent widespread integration of 5G cell towers throughout the world is directly correlated with the COVID-19 pandemic. They cite the 5G signal itself as an active agent in the rapid spread of the virus as a means for the government to control people.
The argument
The COVID-19 outbreak coincided with the mass installation of 5G towers across China and other parts of the world. Many claim that this can hardly be mere coincidence. Proponents of this theory such as social media star Dana Ashley, say that the 5G rollout is the root of the disease, noting that its symptoms are akin to those of radiation poisoning. 5G signal is believed to activate particles within the virus and cause them to replicate uncontrollably. Governments can deliberately target 'non-compliant' citizens with the signal and shut down their organs. The COVID-19 is therefore an advanced form of state control.
Context
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Premises
Counter-arguments
There is absolutely no evidence of a connection between 5G and COVID-19. Scientific studies have shown that 5G cannot penetrate the skin, and therefore can have no impact on a person's internal organs as the virus does. The theory originated in a now debunked paper, which claimed the human brain can experience long term damage from being exposed to phone signal. This was later disproved.
Rejecting the premises
[Rejecting P1] Coincidence in timing is not evidence of a cause, and the timing does not in fact hold: the virus spread rapidly through countries with little or no 5G infrastructure, including in parts of Africa, South America and Iran. The symptom comparison fails as well — acute radiation exposure damages bone marrow and the gastrointestinal tract rather than producing respiratory illness and loss of smell — and the virus has been isolated, sequenced and transmitted under laboratory conditions with no signal present. [Rejecting P2] No physical mechanism is described. 5G uses non-ionising radio frequencies that lack the energy to break chemical bonds and do not pass through the skin, so they cannot reach internal organs; a virus is not a device that a transmission can activate; and selectively targeting named individuals is not something a broadcast network is capable of doing. [Rejecting C] The claim is unfalsifiable as stated — no observation is specified that would count against it — and it traces to a paper on phone signal and brain injury that was withdrawn after review. Its documented consequence has been arson attacks on telecommunications masts, including equipment carrying emergency service traffic.