Help: the 5G nutters are loose in Hundon

UK Deaths from CV-19 to 20 Apr 2020

Life in Hundon has always been quiet and uneventful; indeed we may have been the oddest people in the village, for once when Edwin was lying in the front garden behind the hedge reading, he heard some passing people comment, "The people who live there are very strange."

In Saltburn, we used to live next door to a refuge for people whose IQ was a little less than average, and who needed sheltered accommodation. They were pleasant, quiet people, whom we would see sometimes walking in small groups with a carer to make sure they didn't wander off or come to harm. The only interaction we had was with one man who used to wait on the doorstep, and greet us with, "Am I alright?". We would invariably answer, "Yes, you're alright!" and this seemed to satisfy him, for after this little reassurance he'd give a delighted grin.

Now we have a new contender for the title of Hundon Oddballs: one of our own local residents. Her Facebook page is filled with links to the 5G telephone conspiracy, which seems to be the current crackers-craze. New Scientist always called this stuff "Fruitloopery", but their taunts were usually against companies selling wonder water or magic pillows, often with the words quantum or resonance in their adverts: such things as "energised oxygen", though usually the only energising thing about them was the price. But as long as they didn't claim to cure cancer or coronavirus, such nonsense was generally harmless except to the credulous pocket.

The stuff the local Hundonite is promulgating is not harmless; it is vicious and dangerous. Besides the usual rubbish trying to correlate CV-19 outbreaks with the location of masts, and inciting everyone to "burn them down", her latest video shows an obviously well-educated, well-spoken woman haranguing two harmless foreign workers in London who were installing a fibre-optic cable. She demanded to know what they were doing, and when they told her she said, "You do know that when you switch that on, everyone will die!" She then asked if they had mothers and children, and told them "Do you really want to kill them? I hope they are paying you enough, because you will kill them!" She then added for good measure, "All those morgues they are building round London now are for all the people you're going to kill." The workers looked bemused as they just tried to do their jobs under this tirade of abuse. I don't know what school the woman went to, but her parents should sue that school for giving her such an appallingly low level of basic education.

This week, the chart of deaths from CV-19 has shown a dramatic drop to less than half its peak, and the total cases are levelling off. I know the government do not wish to trigger a second wave of infection, but at some stage they are going to have to let people return to at least limited normality. Now surely is the time to begin the process, and at least reopen some of the small shops and places where people can work in isolation from each other. I don't know how the nutters will link a fall in CV-19 cases to 5G, but one day it will be gone. Perhaps they'll switch their intolerant nonsense to some other mythical cause: TV waves, or ordinary 4G radiation, or telephone land lines, or alien invaders. Indeed, it could be anything that involves fanciful ideas with no logic or science behind them.