# 5G caused the Coronavirus pandemic **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498 "2020-04-10T14:10:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/1 "2020-04-10T14:10:59Z")
Or so goes the newest conspiracy theory. It’s light on reasoning but basically science=bad. > **[A Conspiracy Theory That 5G Is Causing The Coronavirus Is Spreading Alongside...](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/conspiracy-theory-5g-coronavirus-qanon)** > > Even actor Woody Harrelson has succumbed to the baseless hoax that cellphone infrastructure is spreading the coronavirus. Even Woody Harrelson and John Cusack are pushing it on social media. > **[John Cusack is latest star to push conspiracy theory linking 5G to coronavirus](https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/john-cusack-is-latest-star-to-push-5g-conspiracy-theory/)** > > Cusack, 53, never specified the dangers he fears — but his attack came amid a growing conspiracy linking the network with the global spread of the coronavirus. I don’t understand idiots. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/2 "2020-04-10T14:17:38Z")
Somebody really oughta start working on a vaccine for the STUPID-19 virus. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/3 "2020-04-10T14:18:23Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Even Woody Harrelson and John Cusack are pushing it on social media. Forget the “Even” for Woody Harrelson. It’s par for the course for him. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/4 "2020-04-10T14:23:09Z")
Woody smokes _a lot_ of dope. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/5 "2020-04-10T14:43:49Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Woody smokes _a lot_ of dope. Does everybody know that Woody’s dad was a [professional hit man](https://allthatsinteresting.com/charles-harrelson)? Not particularly germane to the topic, but this is MPSIMS after all. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/6 "2020-04-10T14:49:45Z")
There’s long been a subculture of humanoids blaming wireless networks/EMFs for virtually any disease you can name. 5G-phobes are just the latest manifestation. \*“Before every pandemic of the last 150 years, there was a quantum leap in the electrification of the Earth.” That’s the thesis statement of a YouTube video with the innocuous title “Dr. Thomas Cowan, M.D. Discusses the Coronavirus.”"\* [http://slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-covid19-5g-conspiracy-theory.htmlf](http://slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-covid19-5g-conspiracy-theory.htmlf) Cowan is a California physician who’s also an antivaxer and has written books proclaiming that “the heart is not a pump” and that cancer is due to derangement in the intracellular structure of water, so we’re dealing with major crank magnetism here. It used to be mostly people suffering from paranoid syndromes who were convinced that radio waves/x-rays were being used to control their minds; now it’s morphed into a larger segment of the population. Fools - don’t they know it’s _chemtrails_ that are really doing the damage??!?!?!? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/7 "2020-04-10T15:28:40Z")
I had no idea John Cusack was a fucking CT loon. How disappointing. But it does underscore the point made by Ricky Gervais when he last hosted the Academy Awards. Paraphrased: Hollywood actors don’t live in the real world. They know nothing about it. They should just take their award, thank their mother, and Fuck Off! That dumb fucking “Imagine” video that got roundly panned by everyone is the one silver lining of this pandemic. I hope there is no end of grief they all get for being clueless and obnoxious. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/8 "2020-04-10T15:32:43Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Does everybody know that Woody’s dad was a [professional hit man](https://allthatsinteresting.com/charles-harrelson)? Not particularly germane to the topic, but this is MPSIMS after all. Everybody but Woody knows it. Despite his father’s admission, Woody says it isn’t true. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/9 "2020-04-10T15:49:50Z")
Already a thread in the Quarantine Zone about this - [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=893670](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=893670) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/10 "2020-04-10T15:56:54Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Already a thread in the Quarantine Zone about this - [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=893670](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=893670) Well sorry about the redundancy then but maybe not everyone reads that forum. I’m bombarded with “news” and “information” about the pandemic in my everyday life. I don’t want to read about it here so I have never opened that forum. Despite that I did do a search before posting. My weak search-fu didn’t turn up a hit. Shrug. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/11 "2020-04-10T16:04:30Z")
I’m struggling to follow this theory given that nobody has 5G yet, is it causing the virus to spread because the marketing hype is so far out in advance of reality? Maybe this CT is really saying that all of the TV commercials about the non-existent 5G are causing the virus to spread and if they would just quit talking about how great their non-existent 5G network is then the virus would be stopped cold? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/12 "2020-04-10T16:15:43Z")
I just remembered that John Cusack did a movie, “Cell”, where people were turned into zombies through cell phone transmissions. Maybe he’s a method actor who forgot to drop the role. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/13 "2020-04-10T16:37:53Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I just remembered that John Cusack did a movie, “Cell”, where people were turned into zombies through cell phone transmissions. Maybe he’s a method actor who forgot to drop the role. Maybe he’s really being controlled by cell phones, of a company that doesn’t want to invest in 5G towers every 2 blocks. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/14 "2020-04-10T16:56:57Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > I’m struggling to follow this theory given that nobody has 5G yet, is it causing the virus to spread because the marketing hype is so far out in advance of reality? There is no virus; that’s just a story the Illuminati are spreading to conceal the truth, in order to protect the profits of Big Cellular. Pay no attention to the fact that the illness is showing up in places that don’t have 5G yet. [/conspiracy theorist] More seriously, the myth that cell towers make people sick has been around for decades. It used to be mainly “cell towers cause cancer”, but now it seems to have made the leap to “cell towers cause COVID-19”. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/15 "2020-04-10T17:38:26Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Does everybody know that Woody’s dad was a [professional hit man](https://allthatsinteresting.com/charles-harrelson)? Not particularly germane to the topic, but this is MPSIMS after all. And John Cusack _played_ a professional hit man in _Gross Pointe Blank_! See, it all ties together! Wake up, sheeple! ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/16 "2020-04-10T18:53:21Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Somebody really oughta start working on a vaccine for the STUPID-19 virus. It is called science education and is roundly opposed by conspiranoists and Republicans for violating the basic tenets of wanting to promote whatever moral strictures and bullshit alt-medicine products they seek to profit from. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/17 "2020-04-11T02:32:56Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Cowan is a California physician who’s also an antivaxer and has written books proclaiming that “the heart is not a pump” and that cancer is due to derangement in the intracellular structure of water, so we’re dealing with major crank magnetism here. Just to show how deep the conspiracy is, I bet most of you didn’t know water had cells. Wake up people! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/18 "2020-04-11T05:01:45Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > More seriously, the myth that cell towers make people sick has been around for decades. It used to be mainly “cell towers cause cancer”… I’m so confused, I thought windmills caused cancer. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/19 "2020-04-11T05:08:02Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > And John Cusack _played_ a professional hit man in _Gross Pointe Blank_! > > See, it all ties together! Wake up, sheeple! [WHY OH WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!](https://xkcd.com/1013/) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498/20 "2020-04-11T05:59:59Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Just to show how deep the conspiracy is, I bet most of you didn’t know water had cells. Wake up people! You sound like one of them Skeptics. It’s all explained in [this interview](https://www.forewordreviews.com/articles/article/reviewer-matt-sutherland-interviews-thomas-cowan-author-of-cancer-and-the-new-biology-of-water/).\* (caution, Cowan-speak could result in serious brain injury through uncontrollable face-palming). _best quote: “My four horsemen of the apocalypse are EMFs, glyphosate/modern agriculture, vaccines, and school.”_\* \*\*He may be onto something as far as school. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-caused-the-coronavirus-pandemic/851498.md?page=2)