5G is the cause of Covid19!

[Culardoch]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-52164358

Yes folks some of our brightest brains have determined that 5G is something to do with the Corona Virus. So to help this along it's apparently a great idea to torch the 5G masts.

You just couldn't make up this rubbish if you tried. Perhaps the virus is really around to knock off the human race! There, that's another crackpot theory.

Think that I'll give up reading the news.

[Pointless Parasite]

Yes I saw this on Twitter and thought it was a lone nutcase, but it seems to have caught on. There are a lot of people who are in denial about Cov19, filming their local hospitals as if to prove nothing is happening and it's all some liberal conspiracy.

[madprof]

This is criminal and right when we need to communicate with each other some of us are going to lose mobile coverage.

I rate them the same as those people who attacked the home of a paediatrician in Portsmouth.

[CharlesT]

The trouble with nutters is they remain nutters regardless of the facts, they are impenetrably stupid.

[Sgurr]

One of my relatives keeps sending me conspiracy theories, I refer her to Snopes (urban myth buster) but now she takes no notice and thinks that they are part of the conspiracy. Last time it was ALWAYS switch your mobile off before entering a petrol station in case someone phones you and it goes up in a fireball.....please, please, please don't tell me it might.

[jupe1407]

Idiocy like this is why I'm fairly sure the human race will one day be ruled by dolphins.

[madprof]

Last time it was ALWAYS switch your mobile off before entering a petrol station in case someone phones you and it goes up in a fireball.....please, please, please don't tell me it might.

If there was any risk of petrol stations exploding from mobile phone usage then it's a fair bet we'd have already seen it given the tens of thousands of times every day that people drive into petrol stations with phones turned on.

[johnkaysleftleg]

Idiocy like this is why I'm fairly sure the human race will one day be ruled by dolphins.

Well the Simpsons has predicted most things...

[Caberfeidh]

A hospital porter earnestly informed me that this was a deliberate release of a biological weapon; someone in the army had told him. This is patently bollox. In the military we are taught how a deliberate biological attack would happen, and this does not fit. An agent (virus) would be released in major cities, governments and military installations simultaneously on a predetermined date, not spreading over months from one point. And it would be more deadly. Spreading panicky nonsense does a lot of harm. Stay safe and stay at home please. I'm off to make a tinfoil helmet, just in case...

This is not me. Or is it....?

[CharlesT]

Idiocy like this is why I'm fairly sure the human race will one day be ruled by dolphins.

You mean to say it hasn't been already?

so long and thanks for all the fish"

[al78]

One of my relatives keeps sending me conspiracy theories, I refer her to Snopes (urban myth buster) but now she takes no notice and thinks that they are part of the conspiracy. Last time it was ALWAYS switch your mobile off before entering a petrol station in case someone phones you and it goes up in a fireball.....please, please, please don't tell me it might.

There are facts combined with evidence, and there is what certain people want to believe.

It is emotion over logic, which has a place when it comes to moral issues, but otherwise leads to stupid, or, at worst, careless/dangerous decision making.

https://www.livescience.com/63658-why-people-believe-conspiracy-theories.html
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2015/12/3/9844480/why-people-believe-bullshit-science

Unfortunately we live in a world where people think they can invent a warm fluffy version of the truth, and any attempt to challenge is to either suppress opposing views, and/or is a violation on free speech (they don't know what free speech means, or depiberately interpret it to mean something that it doesn't, again, warm and fluffy trumps logic).

Ultimately, denying or ignoring the truth doesn't change the truth, no matter how much anyone wants it too.

Karl Pilkington has the right idea:

[PeteR]

Idiocy like this is why I'm fairly sure the human race will one day be ruled by dolphins.

Maybe it already is and they're just toying with us....... I'm not sure CV-19 will do for the human race...... it'll be the many and various types of stupid we've become. I've never needed the hills more.....to escape

[Coop]

A hospital porter earnestly informed me that this was a deliberate release of a biological weapon; someone in the army had told him. This is patently bollox. In the military we are taught how a deliberate biological attack would happen, and this does not fit. An agent (virus) would be released in major cities, governments and military installations simultaneously on a predetermined date, not spreading over months from one point. And it would be more deadly. Spreading panicky nonsense does a lot of harm. Stay safe and stay at home please. I'm off to make a tinfoil helmet, just in case...

Tinfoil helmet.jpg

Just make sure you wear a colander under you tinfoil helmet- just in case, and to be doubly safe

[DavidShepherd]

These conspiracy theories were always here. They are just more prevalent now (see Flat Earthers) because of social media.
It's all too easy to spread disinformation on a platform that is not interested in governing it's content (yes i mean facebook)
WhatsApp have just recently started to stop the spread of disinformation about COVID19 but it won't ever stop.
The people that spread it don't care to go and look for the evidence. And the people that truly believe in it can never provide the evidence when it's asked for.

[gammy leg walker]

Idiocy like this is why I'm fairly sure the human race will one day be ruled by dolphins.

The problem is,you can't argue with stupid folks unless you want to look stupid yourself