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With the pandemic altering our reality, it is more difficult than ever to separate the facts of fiction. And it seems that opinions vary from wherever you look, some who have always spread after being skewed. But in the middle of all theCOVID-19 conspiracy theories There, a new myth circulates which is wilder than the rest: that the face masks have secret antenna 5g.

The messages began to make tricks on social media when someone has falsely indicated that the wire at the top of yourThe surgical mask is actually a 5g antenna That the government can use to track your location via radio waves. They also claim that this can give you brain cancer. In reality, this harmless thread is there only there so you can install the mask around the bridge of your nose. Face masks should not be removed out there, so few breathing droplets can escape.

Steve SBRACCIA, a consumer investigator for CBS17, raised and found that the original patent for theseDisposable Face Masks See you in the manner of the 1970s before any modern day technology existed. The patent shows that theplastic wrapped wire Is there to make the mask and blow up on your face.

This is not the first extremely terrestrial idea of ​​about 5G, which has come out of the pandemic panic. Another similar coronavirus asserted that the disease was created and transmitted through cell phone signals. This misinformation has so far spread that the World Health Organization (WHO) had to degrade it. "Viruses can not travel on radio waves or mobile networks," says WHO in the video below. "Covid-19 spreads in many countries that do not have 5G mobile networks."

So, the next time you read something on the internet or you hear a rumor, make sure you stop and check it first. And for more lies, you should not fall to, consult the25 myths of coronavirus you have to stop believing, according to doctors.