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Conspiracy!

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In England, vandals have set cellular towers on fire because they believe, thanks to internet, that the new 5G cellular system causes coronavirus. I can–but won’t–speculate on how they came up with this.

I suggest that everyone who has clicked on such links be banned from the internet and required to write a ten page essay, complete with footnotes and bibliography, proving the cause and effect relationship between 5G and coronavirus. Manifestos and anecdotes would not be allowed.

Alternately, each could be required to repeat sixth grade science class–in a real sixth grade class with genuine sixth-graders, complete with sixth-grade size desks.

I also suggest that internet sites that allow such blatantly false information to be posted would forfeit gross revenue for the length of time that the postings were hosted. The forfeited money could be used to improve public education.

Boolean Illogic

 

George Boole – it’s all HIS fault! (And from the look on his face, I think he knows it!)

 

If Extra Large is a size bigger than large

AND

If Extra Spicy is even spicier than the food labeled “spicy”

THEN

Shouldn’t Extraordinary mean even more ordinary than regular ordinary?