5G COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES: A TECHNOLOGY-INDUCED PANDEMIC DRIVEN BY PROFITS AND POLITICS?

I have every reason to believe that certain politically-connected telecommunications companies and their equipment vendors may be attempting to minimize reports of potential health risks much in the same manner as the tobacco companies hid the risks of cancer from the public.

What makes 5G telecommunications so dangerous to humans is that the Earth would be awash in man-made millimeter-band high-power microwaves that could cause deleterious and dangerous effects within the human body. And given the scale of the installations needed for a wide-coverage communications network, few individuals would be spared flesh penetrating microwave energy.

It appears that the politically-controlled Federal Communications Commission has given their permission for at least 20,000 low-Earth-orbit satellites flooding the Earth with tightly-focused beams of microwave radiation. At the present time, it looks like the major players will be Tesla’s SpaceX (12,000 satellites), OneWeb (4,560 satellites), Boeing (2,956 satellites), and Spire Global (972 satellites).

In addition to the satellites will be higher-powered mobile devices and high-powered ground transceivers and boosters to extend coverage within buildings.

While non-ionizing millimeter microwaves lack the penetrating power and tissue destruction capabilities of ionizing radiation such as X-Rays and Gamma Rays, their effects on the human body MIGHT be significant. And there will be no escape as humans in populated cities will be irradiated 24/7/365 with no relief other than to live in shielded areas known as Faraday cages. Of course there would be no direct wireless device communications with the outside world.

At the risk of sounding like one of the no-growth technophobic crazies, I do not believe that the science relating to 5G effects on humans is settled science.  I can find a number of peer-reviewed journal articles that suggest that 5G may present completely unknown long-term health effects.

5 G wireless telecommunications expansion: Public health and environmental implications. Russell CL (Environ Res. 2018 Aug;165:484-495. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.01.016. Epub 2018 Apr 11.) Abstract The popularity, widespread use and increasing dependency on wireless technologies has spawned a telecommunications industrial revolution with increasing public exposure to broader and higher frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum to transmit data through a variety of devices and infrastructure. On the horizon, a new generation of even shorter high frequency 5G wavelengths is being proposed to power the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT promises us convenient and easy lifestyles with a massive 5G interconnected telecommunications network, however, the expansion of broadband with shorter wavelength radiofrequency radiation highlights the concern that health and safety issues remain unknown. Controversy continues with regards to harm from current 2G, 3G and 4G wireless technologies. 5G technologies are far less studied for human or environmental effects. It is argued that the addition of this added high frequency 5G radiation to an already complex mix of lower frequencies, will contribute to a negative public health outcome both from both physical and mental health perspectives. Radiofrequency radiation (RF) is increasingly being recognized as a new form of environmental pollution. Like other common toxic exposures, the effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation (RF EMR) will be problematic if not impossible to sort out epidemiologically as there no longer remains an unexposed control group. This is especially important considering these effects are likely magnified by synergistic toxic exposures and other common health risk behaviors. Effects can also be non-linear. Because this is the first generation to have cradle-to-grave lifespan exposure to this level of man-made microwave (RF EMR) radiofrequencies, it will be years or decades before the true health consequences are known. Precaution in the roll out of this new technology is strongly indicated. This article will review relevant electromagnetic frequencies, exposure standards and current scientific literature on the health implications of 2G, 3G, 4G exposure, including some of the available literature on 5G frequencies. The question of what constitutes a public health issue will be raised, as well as the need for a precautionary approach in advancing new wireless technologies. <Source> Towards 5G communication systems: Are there health implications? AgostinoDi Ciaula (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2018.01.011)  Abstract The spread of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) is rising and health effects are still under investigation. RF-EMF promote oxidative stress, a condition involved in cancer onset, in several acute and chronic diseases and in vascular homeostasis. Although some evidences are still controversial, the WHO IARC classified RF-EMF as “possible carcinogenic to humans”, and more recent studies suggested reproductive, metabolic and neurologic effects of RF-EMF, which are also able to alter bacterial antibiotic resistance. In this evolving scenario, although the biological effects of 5G communication systems are very scarcely investigated, an international action plan for the development of 5G networks has started, with a forthcoming increment in devices and density of small cells, and with the future use of millimeter waves (MMW). Preliminary observations showed that MMW increase skin temperature, alter gene expression, promote cellular proliferation and synthesis of proteins linked with oxidative stress, inflammatory and metabolic processes, could generate ocular damages, affect neuro-muscular dynamics. Further studies are needed to better and independently explore the health effects of RF-EMF in general and of MMW in particular. However, available findings seem sufficient to demonstrate the existence of biomedical effects, to invoke the precautionary principle, to define exposed subjects as potentially vulnerable and to revise existing limits. An adequate knowledge of pathophysiological mechanisms linking RF-EMF exposure to health risk should also be useful in the current clinical practice, in particular in consideration of evidences pointing to extrinsic factors as heavy contributors to cancer risk and to the progressive epidemiological growth of noncommunicable diseases. <Source> The Radiation Safety of 5G Wi-Fi: Reassuring or Russian Roulette? ShearwoodMcClellandIII, MD; Jerry J.JaboinMD, PhD (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.04.051) The impending rollout of fifth-generation (5G) Wi-Fi in mobile phones, augmenting the current fourth-generation (4G) technology toward making global interconnectivity between devices a reality, has been touted as a significant improvement of speed compared to current and previous wireless signaling  Less well explored are the potential consequences associated with this need for speed: namely, the substantial increase in biologic exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from the 1900-2100 MHz associated with 4G to the 3500 MHz estimated median bandwidth of 5G <Source>

Bottom line…

Since almost everybody will be exposed to 5G radiation, perhaps it is time to take a closer look at the technology in order to prevent a technological pandemic of cancer-like effects in the near future. And, unlike the political immigration battle over sanctuary cities, there can and will be no opt-outs.

We are so screwed.

-- steve