# UK vandals burning down 5G cell towers and attacking workers. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [April 8, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330 "2020-04-08T06:27:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/21 "2020-04-13T17:32:11Z")
No form of stupid is lacking here (in Holland). Normally we are more successful in keeping such out of international media. “Dutch guy” doesn’t have the same ring as “Florida man” but that is not because my countrymen don’t try:) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/22 "2020-04-13T17:36:19Z")
Radiation virus? Harlan Ellison is rolling over in his grave. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/23 "2020-04-13T17:38:47Z")
Am I the first to point out that 5G is in fact one of the technologies that enables these loony conspiracy theories to spread in the first place? If all of these whackos burned all of their own Internet devices, the world would become a much smarter place. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/24 "2020-04-13T17:46:07Z")
Nah, the world is and always has been a silly place. Without the internet, the world wouldn’t be smarter, we just wouldn’t be constantly reminded how stupid it really is. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/25 "2020-04-13T18:32:27Z")
So, we’ve traded flea-ridden rats on wooden ships coupled with word-of-mouth scapegoatism for humans on jetliners and speedy ground transportation paired with instantaneous global misinformation-sharing. Doesn’t really feel like an upgrade. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/26 "2020-04-13T18:38:07Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > I don’t know what to say. On the one hand, it is somehow comforting that other nations have their share of crazy idiots. On the other hand, it’s disturbing that the world is so full of crazy idiots. > > I’m pretty sure there was a Simpsons episode where the townfolk stormed the observatory because they didn’t like what science was telling them, and then when they were injured they demanded science save them. > > Somehow, this feels like that to me. Two different episodes - they burned down the observatory because to prevent a comet from hitting Springfield again (Bart’s Comet). In a different episode (Lisa the Skeptic), they destroy all scientific facilities because science disproves the angel fossil - and in that one Lenny is injured and hopes medical science can help him. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/27 "2020-04-13T18:42:03Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Nah, the world is and always has been a silly place. Without the internet, the world wouldn’t be smarter, we just wouldn’t be constantly reminded how stupid it really is. Yep. I’m fond of saying, “I understand it takes all kinds to make the world, but why do I have to meet them all?” The Internet is probably the answer to that question. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/28 "2020-04-14T02:41:04Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Radiation virus? Harlan Ellison is rolling over in his grave. > > CMC fnord! I was thinking [Stephen King](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(novel)http://), myself. Its a welcome change from The Stand! ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/29 "2020-04-14T03:24:33Z")
The idea that radio waves could spread a respiratory virus is so out-there crackers (way more loony than vaccines causing autism or genetically engineered crops causing cancer) that I can’t help ruminating on a conspiracy theory of my own - that this is all being sparked off and fed by people who want 5G gone for completely different reasons (eg, scared it could be hacked by the Chinese government) I would have thought you’d have to look pretty hard to find people who are at the same time credulous enough to believe this actual CT, but also competent enough to tie up their own shoelaces and locate the matches and petrol. ---
**Author:** ![mandala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mandala/32/95_2.png) [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/30 "2020-04-14T11:27:58Z")
Many people don’t know this, but magnetic vibrations and energy fields emanating from 5G towers are causing viruses to mutate faster and acquire strange new protein spikes. In some cases, the radiation from towers has caused bats to literally explode, spilling their guts (and its viral soup) over an unsuspecting population. That was how the current pandemic began. Infectivity is seen to be higher on new moon days due to the moon and Sun’s gravity adding up. Further research is in progress. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/31 "2020-04-14T19:53:49Z")
> [@mandala](#): > > Many people don’t know this, but magnetic vibrations and energy fields emanating from 5G towers are causing viruses to mutate faster and acquire strange new protein spikes. In some cases, the radiation from towers has caused bats to literally explode, spilling their guts (and its viral soup) over an unsuspecting population. That was how the current pandemic began. Infectivity is seen to be higher on new moon days due to the moon and Sun’s gravity adding up. > > Further research is in progress. This is parody, right? Right? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/32 "2020-04-14T20:18:01Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > This is parody, right? Right? Wait, you don’t remember the 5G exploding bat outbreak? Must be the . . . mandala effect! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330/33 "2020-04-14T21:12:23Z")
The HAARP mindcontrol rays worked so well that 5G is the natural successor. But where are the crop circles? Have 5G towers been mapped in odd patterns? And how come nobody cites chemtrails any more? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-vandals-burning-down-5g-cell-towers-and-attacking-workers/851330.md?page=1)