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#2528212 24-Jul-2020 14:10

Batman: I think he's been reading this https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32668870/

Possibly most Americans

And they'll be carefully avoiding the followups pointing out, for example, The paper suggests that 5G waves (the latest cell phone technology) can spontaneously generate Coronaviruses in skin cells. Yet, there is nothing in this article that proves this extraordinary claim. It is absolute nonsense and This article isn’t so much a scientific paper as a representation of what a moron thinks a scientific paper is.

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#2528213 24-Jul-2020 14:14

I see the police have charged these nutters. Who is going to compensate the telecoes for the damage caused.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/122194073/three-arrested-over-cell-phone-tower-fires-in-south-auckland

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#2528214 24-Jul-2020 14:17

ajw:
I see the police have charged these nutters. Who is going to compensate the telecoes for the damage caused.

Does NZ class attacks on critical infrastructure as terrorism like some countries do? I suspect an arson conviction is going to be little more than a slap on the wrist, possibly encouragement to do it again.

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#2528266 24-Jul-2020 16:08

neb:

Does NZ class attacks on critical infrastructure as terrorism like some countries do? I suspect an arson conviction is going to be little more than a slap on the wrist, possibly encouragement to do it again.

Seems unlikely - the hippies who vandalised the Waihopai antennae housings were cleared of conviction due to "defence of right" or some such rubbish. Using the same logic, presumably anti-5G arsonists could claim they are doing it to save the public's health

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#2528276 24-Jul-2020 16:38

ajw:

I see the police have charged these nutters. Who is going to compensate the telecoes for the damage caused.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/122194073/three-arrested-over-cell-phone-tower-fires-in-south-auckland

@ajw Should be many years prison!

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#2528285 24-Jul-2020 16:42

shk292:

neb:

Does NZ class attacks on critical infrastructure as terrorism like some countries do? I suspect an arson conviction is going to be little more than a slap on the wrist, possibly encouragement to do it again.

Seems unlikely - the hippies who vandalised the Waihopai antennae housings were cleared of conviction due to "defence of right" or some such rubbish. Using the same logic, presumably anti-5G arsonists could claim they are doing it to save the public's health

That defense would not stand scrutiny as they are 3/4G sites.

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#2549444 25-Aug-2020 13:55

I will post this here because it doesn't even have the minimum level to be in the actual covid thread. "Grey Power branch president pumps out Covid-19 conspiracy"

In the “President’s Page” column of the latest newsletter from the Howick-Pakuranga branch of Grey Power, president Peter Bankers shocked branch members by filling his column with conspiracy theories about the response to Covid-19. After being contacted by The Spinoff, the organisation’s national president has disassociated the organisation from the views.

Bankers described the upcoming election as “the edge of an abyss that we avoid only if we change direction”, demanding that the country resist the “brainwashing” of the government, and accusing the media of suppressing “counter Covid evidence”.

In a response to one of the complaints, Feringa said “the committee tries to ensure the values of Grey Power and its aims and objectives are carried out, but we do allow opinions to be expressed, rightly or wrongly. We appreciate receiving the views of members to articles in our newsletters, opposing or in agreement with the opinions expressed, as this enables us to better provide material of assistance to our membership.”

Bankers criticised former prime minister Helen Clark, who will co-chair the review of the World Health Organisation’s handling of Covid-19. He described her as an “ambitious woman”, and suggested her statements on the pandemic were “scaremongering”.

In one passage of the column Bankers also criticised the wearing of masks, which he described as “akin to wearing underpants while on the toilet.”

He concluded his column by saying “we seniors have experience. We have wisdom. We recognise a con when we see it. We have some responsibility to put it right.”

The position "the committee tries to ensure the values of Grey Power and its aims and objectives are carried out, but we do allow opinions to be expressed, rightly or wrongly." is absolutely disgusting.

This is not "opinion". This is disinformation. This is propaganda.

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#2549457 25-Aug-2020 14:11

I am not a member of grey power, though I could be. Now I don't want to be!

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#2549515 25-Aug-2020 15:11

Rikkitic:

I am not a member of grey power, though I could be. Now I don't want to be!

Well not the Howick-Pakuranga branch anyway...

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#2561400 9-Sep-2020 21:58

AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag

Well, duuuuh. The 5G signal has to transmit Covid19 alongside the data, no wonder there's less room for the data.

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#2561404 9-Sep-2020 22:11

neb: AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag Well, duuuuh. The 5G signal has to transmit Covid19 alongside the data, no wonder there's less room for the data.

Excellent point :-)

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#2561539 10-Sep-2020 09:20

neb: AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag Well, duuuuh. The 5G signal has to transmit Covid19 alongside the data, no wonder there's less room for the data.

You'd think after nearly 10 months of beta testing, they'd find a way of optimising the COVID transmissions, so it doesn't use up so much bandwidth...

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#2561570 10-Sep-2020 10:07

Handsomedan: You'd think after nearly 10 months of beta testing, they'd find a way of optimising the COVID transmissions, so it doesn't use up so much bandwidth...

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