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5G导致新冠病毒？英国多座信号塔竟因此惨遭烧毁…… | 外媒说
Mobile phone mast fires are being investigated amid conspiracy theories claiming a link between 5G and coronavirus.
Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said, "that is just nonsense, dangerous nonsense as well."
Videos claiming to be of a 70ft (21m) tower in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham in flames were posted to social media on Thursday evening.
West Midlands Fire Service said eight firefighters from two crews were called to an incident on Spring Road at 8:18pm.
It said: "The incident involved a 70ft telecommunications tower which was alight. Crews extinguished the fire and confirmed there was no smoke or fire spread to surrounding properties. "Western Power attended to isolate power to the tower and the incident was left with them and police."
Several videos claiming to show 5G towers on fire were posted to a page on Facebook which was created on Thursday and taken down by the platform on Friday. Facebook said the banned page was deleted for breaching its policies because it has the potential to cause real world harm.
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Campaign group The Centre For Countering Digital Hate said the first footage was posted to Instagram by a local man under the name of paddymann123 at 10pm and was viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
It was accompanied by the message: "Say no to 5G" and has since been shared on Twitter, on 5G conspiracy Facebook groups and on YouTube.
…certain groups are using the Covid-19 pandemic to spread false rumours and theories about the safety of 5G technologies. "More worryingly some people are also abusing our key workers and making threats to damage infrastructure under the pretence of claims about 5G," a statement said.
这是不可接受的，只会影响我们作为一个行业的能力，维持网络的弹性和运营能力，支持大规模家庭工作以及与紧急服务、弱势消费者和医院的关键连接。 "This is not acceptable and only impacts on our ability as an industry to maintain the resilience and operational capacity of the networks to support mass home working and critical connectivity to the emergency services, vulnerable consumers and hospitals." 在社交媒体上传播的有关5G的阴谋论是毫无根据的，也不是基于公认的科学理论。 It continued: "The theories that are being spread about 5G on social media are baseless and are not grounded in accepted scientific theory. 对包括5G在内的无线电信号的安全性的研究已经进行了50多年，进而制定了包括安全因素在内的人类暴露标准，以防止所有已确定的健康风险。” "Research into the safety of radio signals including 5G, which has been conducted for more than 50 years, has led to the establishment of human exposure standards including safety factors that protect against all established health risks."
NHS England's national medical director, Stephen Powis, said the 5G conspiracy idea was fake news with no scientific backing that risked damaging the emergency response to the outbreak.
"The 5G story is complete and utter rubbish, it’s nonsense, it's the worst kind of fake news," Powis said. "The reality is that the mobile phone networks are absolutely critical to all of us." "Those are also the phone networks that are used by our emergency services and our health workers and I’m absolutely outraged, absolutely disgusted that people would be taking action against the very infrastructure that we need to respond to this health emergency," Powis said.
The video shows a presentation by Dr. Thomas Cowan, M.D, who claims that, because Africa was not as affected by the coronavirus outbreak at first, there was reason to believe 5G could be the cause of the virus. His argument was, "Africa is not a 5G region."
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Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association wrote in an email, "COVID-19 is caused by a virus that came through a natural animal source and has no relation to 5G or any radiation linked to technology."
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