Background to the study
The internet is full of conspiracies as people try to understand the cause of the pandemic that has wiped several people from the planet. The rumours and misinformation being peddled by individuals are misleading and a possible cause of panic to the public. The coincidence in the launched 5G Technology in Wuhan and the Covid-19 first reporting in a similar venue has promoted the information. Consequently, the paper checks on the benefits of the Technology and the reality of coronavirus in differentiating and diffusing the conspiracy that is filled on social media.
Aims
The study purposes to shed clarity and restore trust to a future technology that is set to revolutionize the way people do business and carry out their daily lives.The study aims to enhance understanding on the subject of Corona virus and that of 5G technologies. In differentiating the two, the lack of relation shall be identified thereby giving benefits of the Technology to diffuse the information attached to the Technology that is yet to be launched fully.
Problem statement
The case of COVID-19 and 5G’s relation serves as the core issue that calls for examination through the research work. The rumours and conspiracies connecting 5G to the occurrence of Corona has prompted the study on the two aspects, their causes and opportunities and finding truth to dissolve the conspiracy that is causing panic among people.
Objectives of the study
The study aims to achieve key objectives regarding the subject of study.
- Definition of 5G Technology, the business models, value creation, and use cases.
- Examination on the claims surrounding 5G Technology and its impacts on human health
- Information on the conspiracies linking 5G Technology to the emergence of COVID-19
- Understand the opportunities for 5G Technology in the midst of COVID-19
Research questions
1- What is 5G Technology, its business models, value creation, and use cases?
2- What are claims around 5G technologies and its impact on human health?
3-What are the conspiracies relating 5G to the emergence of COVID-19?
- What are the opportunities for 5G Technology in the midst of Covid-19?
Significance of the study
The study shall be of benefit to the scholars in the field of Technology as well as the medicine world. The study shall provide a separate study on 5G and Covid-19 thereby enhancing knowledge among the target readers. Students in both sectors shall be able to comprehend the two and extract truth on the COVID-19 causes thereby dispelling fears caused by the conspiracy. On the other hand, the information shall be important to the society in bringing truth to divert the myth formed on cause of Corona related to the 5G technologies. Therefore, the information shall not only enforce understanding on the concepts, but also destroy the notion that 5G has negative consequences.
Literature Review
Introduction
As the telecommunication industry warms up to roll the 5G networks across the world, the rate of public concern has risen with regard to the safety of the Technology that has kept the social media busy. Unfortunately, several theorists have related the ongoing debate to the Covid-19 outbreak thereby sparking concerns on the truth surrounding Covid-19. The theorists base their argument on the city of Wuhan being both a pioneer in deploying the 5G network and as well being the origin point of the Corona virus.
Moreover, some of the 5G theorists allude that the new network generates radiofrequency radiation that are capable of damaging DNA composition thereby leading to cancer, premature aging, metabolism disruption, and other diseases (Sohrabi, Alsafi, O’Neill, Khan, Kerwan, Al-Jabir, Iosifidis, and Agha 2020). Thus, it is at this point that the Technology is related to the claim revolving around 5G’s damage to immune system which leaves individuals highly exposed and vulnerable to the Corona disease.
Corona disease (COVID-19) is a globally declared pandemic that is being managed through clinical course and management. The disease was first heard on December 2019 where the World Health Organization was alerted by the China Health Authority based on several cases of pneumonia in Wuhan city around the wholesale seafood market (Ahmed, Vidal-Alaball, Downing, and Seguí, 2020). The outbreak was later discovered to be corona virus disease which was caused by novel severe acute respiratory syndrome which led to the declaration of Public Health Emergency (Sohrabi, Alsafi, O’Neill, Khan, Kerwan, Al-Jabir, Iosifidis, and Agha 2020). The disease in the first two to three months began to spread across the globe causing several deaths in Europe and high numbers of infection.
The 5th generation of mobile technology 5G is set to address demands and business contexts of 2020 and beyond. The Technology is designed to be a fully fledged connected society that empowers socioeconomic transformation. The Technology is designed to meet the present demands in connectivity and data growth in the modern society. The Technology is meant to actualize the internet of things where billions of connected devices and innovations shall emerge. The Technology takes pride in providing fast connections with greater capacity with a high response time over wireless network.
According to Collins (2019), the enhanced performance is expected along with the capability to control a highly heterogeneous environment, and capability to, among others, ensure security and trust, identity, and privacy. While extending the performance envelope of mobile networks, 5G should include by design embedded flexibility to optimize the network usage, while accommodating a wide range of use cases, business and partnership models (Collins, 2019).
Business orientation and economic incentives with foundational shift in cost, energy and operational efficiency should make 5G feasible and sustainable. 5G should also enable value creation towards customers and partners through the definition and exposure of capabilities that enhance today’s overall service delivery (Collins 2019). Further, it stresses on 5G Technology as an opportunity based on factual findings rather than a conspiracy theory that doesn’t support the increasingly aggressive demand of technologies.
The Technology is set to benefit the society with opportunities in internet of things such as driverless cars, robots in operations, medication and food delivery, and a technology that allows taking of crowd temperatures among other monitoring devices (Collins 2019). The benefits shall transform the society and increase the pace of doing things. The great promise sets aside the rumours and distractions to the technology launch and successful launch while giving room to the scientists to examine the cause of the disease to set the two apart.
Methodology
The section refers to the means of acquiring information on the subject of study on corona and 5G and the controversies surrounding the two. 5G information remains accessible over the internet with much of the development having taken place in China with other nations set to roll out their plan. the information for the research shall surround 5G technology introduction, the benefits therein, impacts on people, and the presumed demerits of the Technology. On the other hand, information regarding corona virus shall be sought with regard to the disease outbreak, impacts on people, and information surrounding its curb. At the end, information on the relation between the two and the conspiracy surrounding its implementation shall be sought.
Further, the research shall utilize much of secondary data given the yet to be launched state of the Technology in most nations around the world. As such, information on the subject shall be obtained from reliable sources such as technological journals, surveys, expert in the tech sector, books, and government white papers on the issue in gaining understanding within the research. Primary source of information remains important in enhancing information. However, the scanty nature of information access and cases of lockdown makes it difficult to obtain such information from the relevant sources. As such, the secondary data remains the most viable means to the understanding. The information shall be used to dispel the fear and conspiracy surrounding the link of the Technology to the eruption of corona virus disease that has brought the pandemic to the world.
Study Limitation
The 5G Technology is yet to be launched in most nations across the world. On the other hand, corona virus is yet to be solved and discussions on the causes deliberated succinctly. The reality puts the primary data for both cases limited thus passing reliance on the secondary data. Despite the available information on the two subjects, the limited nature on the development of the Technology and the disease leaves little to be revealed regarding the conspiracies being peddled. In overcoming the limitation, the use of scientific information from reputable sources shall be embraced alongside that from tech-world to bring out a formidable research work on the conspiracy.
Research Schedule
The research is set to take a period of one month where the paper shall undergo through all the required stages. The first stage is the proposal submission, information gathering, compiling and writing, editing and submission of the key research findings. All these shall follow the required guide to ensure it factors the critical aspects within the case. The paper shall be organized in chapters from the 1st to the 3rd in representing the information gathered. Each chapter shall be distinct but remain answerable to the research questions developed as guiding line for the paper.