All you need to know about 5G

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome in the past few days has vehemently spoken out concerning 5G and pointing it out as the cause of the Coronavirus currently ravaging the entire world. He also linked it to the Antichrist - a claim pastors like Sam Adeyemi and Ashimolowo have since debunked.

But pst Chris is not alone in this. Certain celebrities like boxer Amir Khan, Amanda Holden, Callum Best etc have also voiced out their conspiracy theories about Covid-19.

Recently, as the conspiracy theory about 5G is spreading, people began advocating that the 5G masts be burned down. 

"It is time to act now. Any 5g tower in your area burn it down! Collect people and stand and fight this. Act now before it’s too late!"

And yes, people went right ahead to burn them like you see in the pictures below.

According to Sun news, here is what you need to know about 5G. Is it safe or not?

1) Just like 4G (and 3G before that), 5G is simply a new generation of mobile internet

2) Phone networks have tweaked the technology to deliver faster speeds – and have dubbed it the "5th generation", or 5

3) ll signals fall on the electromagnetic spectrum – from radio waves, to X-rays, and even visible light

4) Phone networks use microwaves of a very specific frequency to deliver the internet to your iPhone or Android mobile

5) This was true of 3G and 4G, and it's still true with 5G

6) In the UK, 4G signals generally sit between 800MHz and 2.6GHz on the electromagnetic spectrum

7) 5G is a little higher at 3.4GHz to 3.6GHz, but that's tiny when you consider that microwaves go up to 300GHz

6) And visible light comes in at a range of around 430THz to 770THz

7) That's more than a thousand times higher than the maximum microwave – and 100,000 higher than 5G

8) Dangerous radiation, like UV rays, X-rays and gamma rays are also far higher up the spectrum still

9) Online conspiracy theorists are claiming that 5G can cause harm

10) Early theories suggested 5G could lead to cancer – and now crackpots have linked it to coronavirus too

11) But it's simply impossible for 5G to cause any of these problems

12) Radiation damages cells by breaking them apart, but 5G microwaves simply lack the power to do this

13) 5G is a low-frequency radiation, far below infrared and visible light

14) In fact, it's essential that 5G is low-frequency, because higher frequencies are less useful at delivering mobile signals over large areas

15) We know that this level of radiation is safe, because otherwise the visible light from our televisions would have killed us a long time ago.