5G and Health — It’s Time to Get Some Skin in the Game

 
A cheerful recent pro-industry 5-minute video
about 5G (fifth generation) telecommunication invites viewers to look forward to the
faster download speeds. The narrator highlights installation of cell sites and
related infrastructure, and the fact that we should get ready to throw out all of
our cellphones, because they will all soon need to be replaced.

Not mentioned in the video is the massive
exploitation of resources including conflict minerals that will be required, as well
as e-waste from millions of discarded cellphones and other devices.

5G Technical Challenges

Meanwhile, in a February 2019 report on the 5G
telecommunications rollout in Sacramento, California, ELJ Wireless focused on some
of the challenges of the service, which is based on millimeter wave technology that
only travels a short range. ‘The author of that report estimated Verizon
would need as many as 4,000 5G sites to adequately cover
Sacramento.’

5G Monetization and Customer Adoption
Challenges

ELJ just revisited the Sacramento deployment
again; issuing a report this week explaining why it believes that Verizon’s
“5G Home” may not succeed.

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A research
firm specializing in media and telecommunications issued an in-depth report
explaining why it believes Verizon’s 5G Home service may not succeed.

Sacramento is one of four US cities where Verizon
began rolling out fixed wireless broadband in October 2018 and an analysis conducted
specifically in Sacramento by MoffettNathanson Research suggests that nearly six
months later, fewer than one tenth of one percent of people living in single family
homes here have signed up for the service.

The report titled “A Peek Behind the
Curtain of Verizon’s 5G Rollout” uses data provided by the city of
Sacramento under a public records act request combined with the firm’s
independent search of 45,000 street addresses using the database on Verizon’s
5G Home website. The database reveals which addresses have or might have 5G service
and which addresses have already subscribed.

The research revealed that the 273 small 5G cell
sites installed by Verizon under an agreement with the city of Sacramento cover less
than six percent of residential addresses in the seven zip codes analyzed –
and of those eligible addresses, fewer than half have signed on with Verizon.

While addressing the technical issues involving
Verizon 5G Home, the Moffett Nathanson analysis focuses more on the potential
profitability of the service. The report concludes that Verizon’s assumption
that wireless broadband is cheaper to deploy than fiber is flawed, and offers a
model showing the cost of running fiber to subscribers’ homes system-wide
could actually be 64 percent cheaper than installing small cell wireless.

Moffett Nathanson said it was already skeptical
about Verizon’s overall chances of earning a positive return on its 5G Home
initiative and its analysis of the service in Sacramento has made it even more
so.

(It is not known if any of the early adopters in
the Sacramento 5G deployment are Verizon employees, or industry or political
partners of Verizon, as was the case, in the flawed Worcester National Grid smart
meter pilot program in Massachusetts. Nonetheless, adoption of Verizon 5G Home has
been underwhelming.)

Majority Involuntary Exposure for Benefit
of So Few A Minority?

Extrapolating from Sacramento, is it possible
that 100% of the population to be blanketed with small cells necessitated by the
desires of one tenth of one percent of the population?

In some cases, those small cells will be
installed alongside residential homes, with the probability of lowering property
values.

As reported by the EMF Safety Network,
‟‘Small cell’ is a junkyard
on a pole. ‘Small cell’ towers are not small; they are many feet taller
than other telephone poles and loaded with electrical equipment. These photos to the
left are of ‘small cell’ towers on Link Lane and Sebastopol Road in
Santa Rosa, California. Overloading poles can cause a tower to fall or spark a fire
like what happened in Malibu in 2007.ˮ

Did those homeowners seeking 5G-connectivity sign
up to have the small cell installed in front of their own property?

And in some cases, small cells will be installed
in proximity to health-vulnerable individuals who may be forced from their homes.
Had the Sacramento citizens been consulted as well as informed about the benefits
and risks of the untested technology, perhaps Verizon would have been sent packing?

Here is the Real Reason Why 5G Should Not
Succeed: Health Damages

Herein lies the problem with telecommunication
industry 5G plans.

Alongside claims of the benefits of emergency
surgery and remote medicine, the industry is assuming that human physiology will not
notice millimeter wave’s capabilities to penetrate the skin…. as if
only the internal organs are of any consequence.

Some scientists disagree.

Acupuncture may also disagree.

In his article, “Acupuncture: The
Historical Basis and Its US Practitioners,” Gene George Hong, MD
wrote,
‟Acupuncture was essentially unknown in
the United States until President Nixon’s visit to China in the early 1970s.
James Reston of the New York Times was treated for pain after an appendectomy with
acupuncture while serving as a member of the US press corps in China. His first-
person account was widely publicized in the United States. Historically, the
discovery of acupuncture was credited to the Chinese Emperor Huangdi in 2500 BC. He
also is credited with the invention of Chinese written language and agriculture. The
development of acupuncture likely predated Emperor Huangdi and took place during the
Neolithic Period, 5000 BC to 6000 BC.ˮ

The West’s understanding of the mechanics
of the human energy field pales in comparison to the practices refined over
thousands of years in ancient China and India. Patients of acupuncture access
healing because the needles, which barely penetrate the skin, activate points that
have specific properties not recognized or understood in Western medicine.

Lacking an understanding of the skin’s
essential role as the mediator between the internal and external environment, the
West is being driven by aggressive, market-driven, blind, uninformed techno-
optimism.

We have countless examples of technological
innovation gone awry, in many cases sourced from industries that withheld evidence
of harm, accompanied by lax regulation.

“The ‘Miracle on the
Hudson’” pilot Capt. Sullenberger made a statement about the crash
of the Boeing jetliner;
‟Staffing has not been adequate for FAA
employees to oversee much of the critically important work of validating and
approving aircraft certification. Instead, much of the work has been outsourced by
designating aircraft manufacturer employees to do the work on behalf of the FAA.
This, of course, has created inherent conflicts of interest, when employees working
for the company whose products must be certified to meet safety standards are the
ones doing much of the work of certifying them.”
 
‟Boeing, in developing the 737 Max 8,
obviously felt intense competitive pressure to get the new aircraft to market as
quickly as possible.

To make matters worse, there is too cozy a
relationship between the industry and the regulators. And in too many cases, FAA
employees who rightly called for stricter compliance with safety standards and more
rigorous design choices have been overruled by FAA management, often under corporate
or political pressure.

Let me be clear, without effective leadership
and support from political leaders in the administration, the FAA does not have
sufficient independence to be able to do its job, which is to keep air travelers and
crews safe. Oversight must mean accountability, or it means nothing.ˮ
Telecom companies, unlike Boeing, further control
the dialogue about their products through their massive advertising budgets in TV
and print news.

If the scientists sounding the alarm about 5G are
right, the damage unleashed by lax regulation of Boeing by the FAA, of the sugar
industry by the CDC, of the soft drink industry by the FDA, of Exxon and Monsanto by
the EPA, will not even approach the damage that is being unleashed by the FCC.

The emergency is that we believe that wireless
will make our lives safer.

As noted by Joshua Hart,
‟The Camp Fire and other recent
catastrophic wildfires have revealed the weakness and fallibility of cellular
systems in an emergency. There is little doubt that people died because they did not
receive timely warnings from a wireless communications network that was already
compromised by fire when it was needed most. Let’s learn from this
tragedy.ˮ

Citizens accepting and promoting narratives about
AI, 5G and the IOT in the name of sustainability, or progress, or winning the war
against China, or solving the digital divide, including those promoting the Green
New Deal’s emphasis on technological innovation, are on the wrong side of
ethics, the wrong side of science, and the wrong side of history.

yogaesoteric

February 13, 2020