Belief in the 5G/Coronavirus connection: A study of a world gone mad

This is a recent article I was quoted in about some of the most demented conspiracy theories involving COVID-19. There is an especially strong focus on the claims of a link between 5G technology and the virus, something I'm certain most rational people can't quite wrap their minds around. As I had written in the previous post, the idea of cell-phone radiation having anything to do with a respiratory infection spread by saliva droplets is so ludicrous that it should barely be addressed. Except a growing subculture of the paranoid out there are willing to believe it and there are unscrupulous charlatans all across cyberspace who are more than willing to profit off of telling them what they want to hear.

So check out the article for more of the 5G craziness and other COVID-19 theories. Like the link between testing for the infection and the Mark of the Beast...

And the prize goes...

To the 5G-Coronavirus-link conspiracy theories for the most moronic of all the conspiracy theorizing oozing through the Internet.

The idea that a respiratory illness could be caused by low-frequency cell tower radiation is almost on par with the Flat Earth theories and the QAnon theories. It is so absurd that skeptics really needn’t waste any time even answering them. It is a theory so irrational and illogical that they make the claims that a vast, global Satanic child abuse ring run by Hollywood’s top celebrities out of a Washington D.C. pizza parlor sound sane.

And then you have people in England setting 5G towers on fire!

So check out this article where a medical director for NHS England and an associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading do have to take the time to explain why the idea that there is any sort of a connection between COVID-19 and 5G radiation is “absolute and utter rubbish.” Basically, if your computer were to be infected by a virus after you had perused too many disreputable web pages—say web pages purveying particularly deviant pornography—would you suddenly get nervous that you, too, might get sick? You woudn’t now, would you? So the idea that an illness spread by droplets of saliva should have anything to do with cell phone radiation is just as deranged.

If one wants to worry about any unscrupulous parties having a hand in exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic, they should pay attention to the article’s points about Russian disinformation campaigns playing a part in the spread of conspiracy theories. As it writes, “some state and state-backed actors seek to exploit the public health crisis to advance geopolitical interests.”

A much more realistic bit of food for thought than then 5G secret weapon of the Illuminati New World Order, isn’t it?

"Conspiracy theories as dangerous as the Coronavirus itself..."

Check out this piece in the New York Times that perfectly hits the nail on the head about why people believe in the most patently ludicrous conspiracy theories, especially in times of crisis. As I had written here before, it’s one thing to let the imagination run away on occasion and indulge in oddball speculation about global cabals and secret societies orchestrating all of the world’s major events. Sure, the Illuminati communing with aliens from secret lairs underneath Denver International Airport sounds like harmless X-Files fun. And then the world is facing a once-in-a-century crisis and people are dying. And then the conspiracy theorists turn their talents for spinning creative fantasies to telling the fearful, the insecure, the unsophisticated to put their lives in danger by ignoring the advice of medical professionals and scientists.

The virus being caused by 5G cell towers, anyone? Had a novelist come up with a plot where conspiracists are able to make people believe such an idiotic theory, he would be told that such a story could never be published because no readers would ever believe it.

As the article details, there are enough scared people out there that they are willing to believe in the most absurd theories in an attempt to give them some sense of control over the unknown.

And there are enough unconscionable, sociopathic monsters out there willing to tell those scared people exactly what they want to hear. That, as the article concludes, is as dangerous as the Coronavirus itself.

Unconscionable Monsters...

That’s the only phrase I could use in a recent reply I wrote to a comment on my October 29, 2018 post about the Call for and Uprising YouTube channel that has recently shifted from its laughably ridiculous obsession with Satanists in the entertainment industry to its jumping on a series of repugnant, morally bankrupt Coronavirus conspiracy theories. The worse of these theories—to be found all over the online conspiracy community—all amount to attempting to convince people to ignore the scientific and medical establishment’s guidelines on avoiding the COVID-19 virus. People who actively try to convince others to ignore the safety warnings about this disease can hardly be classified as human. Can there be no clearer example of true evil in this world today than someone who willfully attempts to deceive others into endangering their lives and health? Such behavior is on par with attempted murder.

Among some of the most repellent examples of these theories, found all across web pages like State of the Nation, The Millennium Report, Before It’s News, or Alex Jones’ Infowars, include claims that the virus just simply does not exist, that the illnesses are caused by 5G cell towers, that the entire outbreak was engineered by some mysterious “they” to depopulate the Earth, or that the virus is real but it had been created to then compel people to take vaccines that will kill them. 

Alex Jones, the most high-profile and prolific of these professional scumbags, has also just been warned by the New York State attorney general’s office to stop peddling a “natural” remedy he claims will cure COVID-19. Check out an article about it right here. Jones, of course, knows full well that tens of thousands of his readers and listeners hang on his every word every day. And he knows that there is no cure yet for the virus. Attempting to sell his listeners this modern day version of snake oil (a concoction called colloidal silver that has absolutely no scientifically proven medicinal properties) is the act of one of the most brazen, the most audacious sociopaths in the conspiracy world.

There indeed are a couple of horrible diseases spreading the world right now. The Coronavirus is just one of them. The other one is the conspiracy theory.

Why we believe nonsense

Check out this article on the Bipartisan Press site where I am quoted extensively about why people believe in and share so uncritically and enthusiastically every scrap of fake news and conspiracy theory about the Coronavirus.

As with most conspiracy theories, the mind-numbing, stomach turning craziness that is proliferating on the Internet about the COVID-19 outbreak actually offers relief and order to the minds of a large segment of the population. Conspiracy theories assure their believers that there is some kind of a hidden order behind the chaos of the world, even if that hidden order is malevolent.

Imagine if the Illuminati, the Satanists, and the New World Order did NOT create COVID-19. Imagine that it's spreading all on its own and there is nothing the best and the brightest of the world can do about it. Horrifying, isn't it?

Cover reveal!

So check out the cover for my forthcoming science-fiction/thriller, THE CEDAR VALLEY COVENANT, coming later this year from World Castle Publishing!

The exact release date, plot details, and all kinds of other goodies will be posted very soon. I just need to keep the suspense alive. So keep an eye on this blog and more about the shattering secret of THE CEDAR VALLEY COVENANT!

These people should be prosecuted!

So this story of a 4-year-old boy’s death from the flu after her mother’s tragically misguided choice to listen to a group of antivaxxers on Facebook has been making headlines…and it needs to keep making headlines. Some people have recently asked me if I think I might have gotten carried away comparing the anti-vaccination movement to terrorists and psychopaths who encourage the mentally ill to kill themselves. After reading this article, I say absolutely not! I would urge anyone to check it out and pay close attention to its most horrific part. Despite the fact their advice led to the death of a small child, these creatures on the antivaxxer site are absolutely unrepentant. There should be a way to lock these people up for murder.