where's my tinfoil hat?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/technology/coronavirus-5g-uk.html

as the number of confrimed cases of the plague continues to rise globally...

as well as the number of deaths both here...

and in great brittan,people are, as they always do, looking for answers... i had expected some sort of doomsday/god's judgement pronouncements from evangelicals ( and, in their nihilistic fervor, i don't doubt they have...there simply seems to be a dearth of reportage on it in the media i am accessing...i have abandoned youtube and refuse to scroll the feed on facebook...so i may be missing a lot of lamentations and self-scourging...much like the scenes from "the seventh seal" )...i hadn't ruled out other conspiracy theories, however this one strikes me as being a bit unrealistic...

the link at the top of this post is to this article in today's new york times about cell tower arson in great brittan where, it seems, some feel that 5g technology emits a frequency of radio waves that make people more susceptible to the virus...i am not an especially technophobic individual...i am not remotely convinced it will solve all our problems either...geo-enineering , for instance, sounds like crack-brained meddling in things so complex our human cognition cannot hope to understand all the variables and likely to make things much worse than they already are ecologically...that, like all of this is opinion...i am skeptical of anyone having the persuasive tools to change my mind...at least on the point of technology's problem solving omnipotence

the beeb was reporting on this a week ago and i either missed it or it was buried in the "nonsense" pages...humans worry me sometimes...we are so easily manipulated...especially gullible when fearful and faced by the unexplained or traumatic...and there are always soulless grifters ready to use that to their advantage..and lacking any reasonably understandable explanation they will grasp the ludicrous and opt for violent responses...lashing out at things...or other people all because they need explanations and where they find them is secondary to having them..."yet it didn't make sense. who would play such elaborate jokes? who could have known we'd discover the arrow and take such an interest in it? no, this concurrence, however small, between the stick on the thread and the sparrow on the wire, was pure chance. granted, a stick on a thread...one doesn't see that every day ...yet the stick could have been hanging there for a thousand reasons unrelated to the sparrow, we had exaggerated its importance because it had turned up at the end point of our search, as its outcome...when , in fact, it wasn't any outcome at all, it was just a stick hanging on a thread." witold gomrowicz. from "cosmos"