Closing The Loop: The 5G Rollout And The Wuhan Flu Pandemic -- April 7, 2020

This is really, really deep into the weeds, but it tells me I'm pretty well keeping up with things, with the help of my readers and a few well-chosen social media sites and blogs, all of which are linked at the sidebar at the right.

Some weeks ago a reader asked me about the association between rollout of 5G and the Wuhan flu pandemic. I can't remember my reply but I knew there was no association. What I did not know: where was this "idea" coming from.

We now have the answer. Following the "rabbit trail" (as one reader would call it) the MacRumors page to this link: WhatsApp imposed new limit on bulk media forwarding to slow spread of misinformation.  It begins:

WhatsApp today implemented new restrictions on the mass forwarding of messages in an effort to slow the spread of misinformation on the chat platform.

The new limits on bulk forwarding mean if a user receives a message that has been forwarded more than five times, they will only be able to send it on to a single chat at a time.

The previous limit was five chats at once, which WhatsApp introduced last year. Obviously the restriction doesn't completely prevent mass forwarding, but anyone wanting to do so now has to put a lot more repetitive manual effort into it. 

And then this:

The move comes after several hoaxes went viral on the platform, including false stories about the current global pandemic one of which linked the outbreak to the rollout of 5G networks.

At least 20 mobile phone masts across the U.K. are believed to have been set on fire or vandalized as a result of the baseless theory.

Wow, wow, wow. Who knew? The Brits are nuts. They have great music but a lot of them wear aluminum / tin hats. Speaking of which, was the source of tin for the Romans? Yup, England. It started by adding tin to copper to get bronze, and adding any of a number of other metals, such as zinc to get such things as brass.

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Music

Alexa and Siri work great together. I'm listening to Liberace on Echo/Alexa. Wow. Every so often I hear a particularly good piece -- but can't name it. But Siri can. The amazing thing: Siri not only names the tune, but she recognizes who is playing it. This means that Siri, probably through iTunes, has access to "every" music recording ever made. Running through that immense library, Siri can find the exact recording. And, remember, Alexa and Siri are not related. Well, at least they are not sisters; maybe, first cousins twice removed. LOL. Alexa is an Amazon product; Siri is Apple Inc.

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Lunar Gazing

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Clair De Lune

Clair de Lune, Liberace