这几天，包括路透社等外国媒体都做了一款类似的辟谣文章，只不过单看标题的话会让人觉得一头雾水↓↓↓
核实：医用口罩里的金属条，不是5G天线
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这可不是开玩笑，据路透社报道，确实有一则“口罩金属条是5G天线的”谣言视频，在美国社交媒体上大肆传播！
Social media users have been sharing a video in which a man claims that a metal strip in medical masks is a 5G antenna. This claim is untrue.
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视频中宣称“口罩上方的金属条是5G天线，可以通过无线电波追踪并控制人群，最终会影响人的大脑，让人得癌症。”
“Disposable face masks contain a 5G antenna used by the government to track and control people with radio waves that will eventually infect your brain with cancer.”
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图源：CBS 17台网站
视频中的旁白说道：“没错，确实是这样。他们告诉大家要戴口罩，而杀人5G天线就藏在里面……我们从这里把它拿出来”，说这话的同时，旁白者把口罩上方的金属条抽了出来。
A voice narrates: “Yes, indeed. The antenna killer 5G antenna killer that’s inside the masks that they are telling everybody to wear……So, we took this here out which is a 5G antenna that’s inside the mask, right.” The narrator then shows the metal strip that is inside the top part of a medical mask, used to mold the mask around the user’s nose.
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旁白继续道：“他们告诉你戴上口罩，你的鼻孔透过口罩猛吸金属条，然后会直达大脑进行破坏。如同一战二战时那样杀人，通过天线，通过5G。不过当时没有5G，5G是现在才有的。但是这也只是他们大规模杀人的诸多方式之一……”随后，旁白者建议观众自己制作口罩。
He continues: “They tell you to put it on so that you can breathe right above your nostrils so you can inhale and it can go straight to your brain and begin to destroy. Like they say they kill people in the First World War, the Second World War, through antennas, through the 5G. Not 5G, 5G is new now. But, this was one of the ways, one of the mechanisms in which they used to kill a whole lot of people ……” The man then advises watchers to make their own masks instead.
类似这样的视频在网络上不断出现，也陆续有一些外国网友表示深信不疑。
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不过，也有自称是核物理专家的网友给予反击：“这完全是假的，没有任何科学证据。5G也不是部署在医用口罩里的，更不会致癌。当人们发出令人震惊的消息时，一定要让他们给出消息来源。但是他们90%都给不出！”
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另有网友费解，这样程度的谣言居然也有人信：
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更有网友幽默回应：检查一下我的口罩，我咋感觉只有3G的速度！
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如何科学反击这一谣言呢？外媒在做辟谣的同时，也没忘记科普：口罩金属条到底是干什么用的？
CBS新闻网17台的报道指出：有专利档案显示，目前此类口罩的设计可以追溯到上世纪70年代，比1G手机、3G手机或类似无线下载系统的问世要早很多年。
A patent shows the design of those kinds of masks goes back to the 1970s — long before smart phones with 1G, 3G or any other kind of wireless downloading system ever existed.
CBS还指出，这回的“5G天线”谣言是此前4月份就出现的谣言的变种：当时的谣言宣称5G制造了新冠病毒，并且通过电子方式传播。实际上，新冠肺炎由病毒引发，然而电波并不会制造生物病毒。
The myth of the mask antenna is a twist on a story CBS 17 debunked in April, when claims were made that 5G was creating the COVID-19 virus and spreading it electronically. COVID-19 is caused by a virus and electronic waves don’t create biological viruses.
路透社报道指出，口罩上的金属条有很多作用。据防护品制造商3M的一位发言人表示，金属条用于更加贴合佩戴者的鼻子形状。而世卫组织专家April Baller则在一段视频中解释称，金属条表明这部分是口罩的上半部分。
The metal strip in medical masks serves quite a different purpose. A spokesperson for 3M, which makes protective equipment, told Reuters via email that the metal strip in their surgical masks allows them to “be shaped to form against the wearer’s nose to help provide a better fit.” In a video explaining how to wear a mask correctly, Dr April Baller of the World Health Organization (WHO) says: “Verify which side is the top: this is usually where the metal strip is”.
唯一要记住的就是，口罩会保护大家，免受新冠疫情的传染。
The only thing those masks are good for is helping to protect people from the spread of COVID-19.
综合来源：Reuters，CBS 17， 观察者网，Forbes
