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Death By 5G
hen it comes to
technological growth, allegedly designed to help mankind, how much is too much? I’m sure, for most people, that is a hard question to answer. But I be- lieve we’ll soon find out in the next 12 months when the new 5G (Fifth Generation) technology is released onto
the world.
On the surface 5G comes
off as just the latest advance- ment in wireless broadband communication. The next step up from 3G and 4G.
The selling point that has everyone excited about 5G’s unveiling is its promise to make connectivity between devices and systems faster and more efficient. It is the key component in the inter- netting of everything that will allow your refrigerator to order food, your dish- washer to order detergent, your car to drive itself and your television to instanta- neously download movies so that you can “NetFlix and Chill” while barely lifting a finger.
The implementation of 5G speed is perceived to be the beginning of the kind of future that has been antici- pated for decades. The first phase of the Jetsons- styled era we’ve dreamt about since we were kids.a
Unfortunately, living in this futuristic dreamland doesn’t come cheap. And the real cost of 5G, the one the communications companies aren’t telling us, may be at a price we won’t be willing to
pay.
According to Eluxe
Magazine, 5G could be the most dangerous innovation introduced thus far. This is mainly due to the fact that the infrastructure needed to create a reliable 5G network, unlike its predecessors 3 and 4G, requires millions of small cell towers installed throughout the country that will be perched at far lower levels than current cell tow- ers.
This lower perching (on the sides of buildings, homes, light poles, etc.) means that we’ll all be more exposed to the radio fre- quency radiation (RFR) that is typically emitted by these antennas. This is the same type of harmful radiation that the World Health Orga- nization’s International Agency for Research on Can- cer classified as a 2b carcino- gen in 2011 when it specified that the use of mobile phones could lead to brain tumors.
And the introduction of a more powerful 5G band- width has the potential to create even more health problems.
In studies conducted in scientific institutes in the United States, as well as in- side of countries such as Russia, China and Pakistan, the exposure to RFR has been found to adversely af- fect DNA (breaking the strands), cause oxidative damage (which leads to pre- mature aging), disrupt cell metabolism, cause mela-
tonin reduction, disrupt brain glucose metabolism and increases the generation of stress proteins. In lay- men’s terms, 5G could do some very ugly things to our bodies.
Of course, these are just some of the abnormalities that scientists have discov- ered that are a direct result of exposure to these strong signals. Who knows what other side effects will be found down the road after the system is up and run- ning?
The scary part is that, once 5G takes off, there will be no escaping its reach. Even if you don’t use a cell phone or live in a remote area, chances are you’ll still be subjected to its ill-effects because of how extensive the RFR pollution will become once these transmitters are in place.
The irony of what we’re facing is that, in a society that seems to have mastered what it takes to extend life through proper diet and ex- ercise, something is being introduced into the environ- ment that, regardless of how healthy you try to live, will make our time here on Earth a whole lot shorter.
Instead of 40 being the new 30 in the next 20 years, after massive exposure to 5G radiation, 40-year-olds could become the new geri- atrics.
Hopefully, when 5G fi- nally comes to full fruition the aftermath won’t be as cataclysmic as many predict. But, just to be on the safe side, it may be best to just go back to using beepers.
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We Western Cannibals
mother’s anguished cry and angry response to
the fact her child had just suffered the possibility of being wounded while at school was unnerving . . . but since the mother’s tears were in response to the sixteenth American public school shooting since the beginning of the year, our hearts went out, but not as far as before.
Or can gun violence visited upon our public school students become something so every day that after a while we become immune and insensitive to it? Could our nation ever become so hide-bound?
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of students across America continue walkouts, sit-ins, and marches to ex- press their grief and anger about our nation’s reluc- tance to outlaw assault weapons among other common sense sanctions.
Fewer Conservative politicians are sucking their teeth than had done so, before. But NRA hardliners re- fuse to give ground despite rivers of blood shed by school children in the name of the Second Constitu- tional Amendment. (or so some would have us be- lieve).
Meanwhile, the teenager who critically wounded at least two Great Mills High School students was himself shot and killed – not by a pistol packing teacher, but by a trained police officer.
And America once more shuddered to look itself in the mirror and ask, “My God, is this what I have be- come?”
Indeed, this land of recreational firearms and death-defying kicks seems ever more swiftly to have be- come a society that has developed a preference for eat- ing its young.
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