{"id":23134,"date":"2020-02-13T17:32:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/risks-for-your-health-4260-en\/5g-and-health-its-time-to-get-some-skin-in-the-game\/"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:32:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:32:52","slug":"5g-and-health-its-time-to-get-some-skin-in-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/5g-and-health-its-time-to-get-some-skin-in-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"5G and Health \u2014 It\u2019s Time to Get Some Skin in the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>  &#160;<br \/>\n  A cheerful recent pro-industry 5-minute video<br \/>\nabout 5G (fifth generation) telecommunication invites viewers to look forward to the<br \/>\nfaster download speeds. The narrator highlights installation of cell sites and<br \/>\nrelated infrastructure, and the fact that we should get ready to throw out all of<br \/>\nour cellphones, because they will all soon need to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>  Not mentioned in the video is the massive<br \/>\nexploitation of resources including conflict minerals that will be required, as well<br \/>\nas e-waste from millions of discarded cellphones and other devices.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>5G Technical Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Meanwhile, in a February 2019 report on the 5G<br \/>\ntelecommunications rollout in Sacramento, California, ELJ Wireless focused on some<br \/>\nof the challenges of the service, which is based on millimeter wave technology that<br \/>\nonly travels a short range. &#8216;The author of that report estimated Verizon<br \/>\nwould need as many as 4,000 5G sites to adequately cover<br \/>\nSacramento.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>5G Monetization and Customer Adoption<br \/>\nChallenges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  ELJ just revisited the Sacramento deployment<br \/>\nagain; issuing a report this week explaining why it believes that Verizon&#8217;s<br \/>\n&#8220;5G Home&#8221; may not succeed.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/all_uploads\/uploads5\/februarie 2020\/13\/22352_1.jpg\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) &#8211; A research<br \/>\nfirm specializing in media and telecommunications issued an in-depth report<br \/>\nexplaining why it believes Verizon&#8217;s 5G Home service may not succeed.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Sacramento is one of four US cities where Verizon<br \/>\nbegan rolling out fixed wireless broadband in October 2018 and an analysis conducted<br \/>\nspecifically in Sacramento by MoffettNathanson Research suggests that nearly six<br \/>\nmonths later, fewer than one tenth of one percent of people living in single family<br \/>\nhomes here have signed up for the service.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The report titled &#8220;A Peek Behind the<br \/>\nCurtain of Verizon&#8217;s 5G Rollout&#8221; uses data provided by the city of<br \/>\nSacramento under a public records act request combined with the firm&#8217;s<br \/>\nindependent search of 45,000 street addresses using the database on Verizon&#8217;s<br \/>\n5G Home website. The database reveals which addresses have or might have 5G service<br \/>\nand which addresses have already subscribed.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The research revealed that the 273 small 5G cell<br \/>\nsites installed by Verizon under an agreement with the city of Sacramento cover less<br \/>\nthan six percent of residential addresses in the seven zip codes analyzed &#8211;<br \/>\nand of those eligible addresses, fewer than half have signed on with Verizon.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  While addressing the technical issues involving<br \/>\nVerizon 5G Home, the Moffett Nathanson analysis focuses more on the potential<br \/>\nprofitability of the service. The report concludes that Verizon&#8217;s assumption<br \/>\nthat wireless broadband is cheaper to deploy than fiber is flawed, and offers a<br \/>\nmodel showing the cost of running fiber to subscribers&#8217; homes system-wide<br \/>\ncould actually be 64 percent cheaper than installing small cell wireless.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Moffett Nathanson said it was already skeptical<br \/>\nabout Verizon&#8217;s overall chances of earning a positive return on its 5G Home<br \/>\ninitiative and its analysis of the service in Sacramento has made it even more<br \/>\nso.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  (It is not known if any of the early adopters in<br \/>\nthe Sacramento 5G deployment are Verizon employees, or industry or political<br \/>\npartners of Verizon, as was the case, in the flawed Worcester National Grid smart<br \/>\nmeter pilot program in Massachusetts. Nonetheless, adoption of Verizon 5G Home has<br \/>\nbeen underwhelming.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>Majority Involuntary Exposure for Benefit<br \/>\nof So Few A Minority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Extrapolating from Sacramento, is it possible<br \/>\nthat 100% of the population to be blanketed with small cells necessitated by the<br \/>\ndesires of one tenth of one percent of the population?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  In some cases, those small cells will be<br \/>\ninstalled alongside residential homes, with the probability of lowering property<br \/>\nvalues.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/all_uploads\/uploads5\/februarie 2020\/13\/22352_2.jpg\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>  As reported by the EMF Safety Network,<br \/>\n  \u201f&#8216;Small cell&#8217; is a junkyard<br \/>\non a pole. &#8216;Small cell&#8217; towers are not small; they are many feet taller<br \/>\nthan other telephone poles and loaded with electrical equipment. These photos to the<br \/>\nleft are of &#8216;small cell&#8217; towers on Link Lane and Sebastopol Road in<br \/>\nSanta Rosa, California. Overloading poles can cause a tower to fall or spark a fire<br \/>\nlike what happened in Malibu in 2007.\u02ee<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Did those homeowners seeking 5G-connectivity sign<br \/>\nup to have the small cell installed in front of their own property?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  And in some cases, small cells will be installed<br \/>\nin proximity to health-vulnerable individuals who may be forced from their homes.<br \/>\nHad the Sacramento citizens been consulted as well as informed about the benefits<br \/>\nand risks of the untested technology, perhaps Verizon would have been sent packing?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>Here is the Real Reason Why 5G Should Not<br \/>\nSucceed: Health Damages<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Herein lies the problem with telecommunication<br \/>\nindustry 5G plans.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Alongside claims of the benefits of emergency<br \/>\nsurgery and remote medicine, the industry is assuming that human physiology will not<br \/>\nnotice millimeter wave&#8217;s capabilities to penetrate the skin&#8230;. as if<br \/>\nonly the internal organs are of any consequence.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Some scientists disagree.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/all_uploads\/uploads5\/februarie 2020\/13\/22352_3.jpg\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>  Acupuncture may also disagree.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  In his article, &#8220;Acupuncture: The<br \/>\nHistorical Basis and Its US Practitioners,&#8221; Gene George Hong, MD<br \/>\nwrote,<br \/>\n  \u201fAcupuncture was essentially unknown in<br \/>\nthe United States until President Nixon&#8217;s visit to China in the early 1970s.<br \/>\nJames Reston of the New York Times was treated for pain after an appendectomy with<br \/>\nacupuncture while serving as a member of the US press corps in China. His first-<br \/>\nperson account was widely publicized in the United States. Historically, the<br \/>\ndiscovery of acupuncture was credited to the Chinese Emperor Huangdi in 2500 BC. He<br \/>\nalso is credited with the invention of Chinese written language and agriculture. The<br \/>\ndevelopment of acupuncture likely predated Emperor Huangdi and took place during the<br \/>\nNeolithic Period, 5000 BC to 6000 BC.\u02ee<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The West&#8217;s understanding of the mechanics<br \/>\nof the human energy field pales in comparison to the practices refined over<br \/>\nthousands of years in ancient China and India. Patients of acupuncture access<br \/>\nhealing because the needles, which barely penetrate the skin, activate points that<br \/>\nhave specific properties not recognized or understood in Western medicine.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Lacking an understanding of the skin&#8217;s<br \/>\nessential role as the mediator between the internal and external environment, the<br \/>\nWest is being driven by aggressive, market-driven, blind, uninformed techno-<br \/>\noptimism.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  We have countless examples of technological<br \/>\ninnovation gone awry, in many cases sourced from industries that withheld evidence<br \/>\nof harm, accompanied by lax regulation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;The &#8216;Miracle on the<br \/>\nHudson&#8217;&#8221; pilot Capt. Sullenberger made a statement about the crash<br \/>\nof the Boeing jetliner;<br \/>\n  \u201fStaffing has not been adequate for FAA<br \/>\nemployees to oversee much of the critically important work of validating and<br \/>\napproving aircraft certification. Instead, much of the work has been outsourced by<br \/>\ndesignating aircraft manufacturer employees to do the work on behalf of the FAA.<br \/>\nThis, of course, has created inherent conflicts of interest, when employees working<br \/>\nfor the company whose products must be certified to meet safety standards are the<br \/>\nones doing much of the work of certifying them.&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#160;<br \/>\n  \u201fBoeing, in developing the 737 Max 8,<br \/>\nobviously felt intense competitive pressure to get the new aircraft to market as<br \/>\nquickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    To make matters worse, there is too cozy a<br \/>\nrelationship between the industry and the regulators. And in too many cases, FAA<br \/>\nemployees who rightly called for stricter compliance with safety standards and more<br \/>\nrigorous design choices have been overruled by FAA management, often under corporate<br \/>\nor political pressure.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    Let me be clear, without effective leadership<br \/>\nand support from political leaders in the administration, the FAA does not have<br \/>\nsufficient independence to be able to do its job, which is to keep air travelers and<br \/>\ncrews safe. Oversight must mean accountability, or it means nothing.\u02ee<br \/>\n  Telecom companies, unlike Boeing, further control<br \/>\nthe dialogue about their products through their massive advertising budgets in TV<br \/>\nand print news.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  If the scientists sounding the alarm about 5G are<br \/>\nright, the damage unleashed by lax regulation of Boeing by the FAA, of the sugar<br \/>\nindustry by the CDC, of the soft drink industry by the FDA, of Exxon and Monsanto by<br \/>\nthe EPA, will not even approach the damage that is being unleashed by the FCC.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The emergency is that we believe that wireless<br \/>\nwill make our lives safer.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  As noted by Joshua Hart,<br \/>\n  \u201fThe Camp Fire and other recent<br \/>\ncatastrophic wildfires have revealed the weakness and fallibility of cellular<br \/>\nsystems in an emergency. There is little doubt that people died because they did not<br \/>\nreceive timely warnings from a wireless communications network that was already<br \/>\ncompromised by fire when it was needed most. Let&#8217;s learn from this<br \/>\ntragedy.\u02ee<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Citizens accepting and promoting narratives about<br \/>\nAI, 5G and the IOT in the name of sustainability, or progress, or winning the war<br \/>\nagainst China, or solving the digital divide, including those promoting the Green<br \/>\nNew Deal&#8217;s emphasis on technological innovation, are on the wrong side of<br \/>\nethics, the wrong side of science, and the wrong side of history.<\/p>\n<p>    <strong><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n    <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>yogaesoteric<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>February 13, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; A cheerful recent pro-industry 5-minute video about 5G (fifth generation) telecommunication invites viewers to look forward to the faster download speeds. 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