At the beginning of the lockdown due to the pandemic I was lucky enough to be able to take a free on-line course on 5G technology offered by Building Biology Institute. They offer courses on several topics having to do with healthy chemical-free homebuilding.
5G is the fifth generation of cell phone technology. 1G (for gigahertz) was the amount of energy used when cell phones first came out and were used just for talking. 2G was the added tech needed when phones were able to be used for texting. 3G was when we could use our phones to email and internet access. 4G has been used for downloading and watching videos. 5G will allow us to download videos in as little as 30 seconds instead of five minutes. But at a huge price to our health, according to experts in the field of EMF research. Many are saying that the biological effects of 1G through 4G have not been tested properly, and that until more data comes in, it is best to err on the side of caution when increasing non-ionizing radiation exposures to our bodies.
Many people are experiencing electrical hypersensitivity (EHS) from 4G, and there are hundreds of studies linking cell phone use to cancer, infertility, dementia.
The guidelines for safe amounts of radiation haven’t been updated since 1976, and that is only for the heating effects, not for other effects on our biology. Cell phone towers affect the plant life around them. Now, instead of putting cell phone towers a couple of miles from where we reside, unfortunately they are now placing multiple antennas on top of hospitals, close to schools, hidden in church steeples. Just because not everybody feels the symptoms that someone with EHS does, the long-term radiation exposures are leading to health problems down the road. It soon may be listed as a Class 2b carcinogen, like arsenic and asbestos.
We are living in a soup of electro-smog. The cell phone companies are doing what the tobacco companies did in the second half of the 20th century. Denying there are any health risks. Funding their own studies slanted in their favor. It’s a billion-dollar industry so the companies are of course going to say there are no adverse health effects. There are safe ways to do technology, such as using fiber optic cables.
Now along comes 5G, when we haven’t even determined properly whether 4G is safe. This new generation technology will be using bandwidths in the low frequencies, and also in the higher frequency military grade millimeter bandwidths. Since the frequencies cannot easily penetrate building walls, and they don’t travel far, it is necessary for the cell companies to install antennas every three to five houses, attaching them to light poles, beaming into second floor bedrooms with high amounts of radiation.
5G is called the Internet of Things, IoT, because it is used for self-driving cars, smart televisions and refrigerators, Alexa.
Robert Kennedy’s foundation, Child Defense Fund is invested in educating people about the dangers of 5G. I was able to use their templated letters to contact my local officials about halting any new installations during the pandemic. There are reports that cell phone companies are going into neighborhoods, communities and installing their equipment in the dead of night, when by law they are supposed to make residents aware and post notices. Understandably the majority of the population is focused on the virus, so while we are looking the other way, I hope we don’t wake up one day in a year or two and realize we have another public health disaster on our hands.
For the sake of our children, many experts on EMFs believe in the precautionary principle and not add new layers of technology without having paid proper attention to what we already have. In addition to beam forming small cell antennas on every fifth house, we are now being exposed to radiation from the thousands of satellites being put into orbit. For those with electrical hypersensitivity, there really is no safe space on this planet to escape the radiation. Some are learning to shield themselves by using metal roofs, or sleeping in Faraday cages. The problem is that there are no affordable measuring meters for 5G. Who could afford $20,000 to measure? Hopefully in the near future there will be affordable meters for the average person.