Is 5g dangerous or is just fearmongering?
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I believe the only credible issue with 5G networks is interference with weather satellites:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/5g-networks-will-likely-interfere-with-us-weather-satellites-navy-warns/
It’s 100% fear mongering.
There are people who believe that all radio waves are ‘Dangerous radiation’ and that things like WiFi and cellphones will give you cancer. This is because they hear the word “Electromagnetic radiation” and immediately associate it with ionizing radiation, the kind that things like X-rays and nuclear power plants create.
5G in the US will be on frequencies around 6GHz-50GHz. Ionizing radiation starts at 30PHz (Petahertz, which is above Terahertz, which is above Gigahertz/GHz).
Radiation, in terms of biological effects, can be broken into two main categories: ionizing and non-ionizing. Ionizing radiation is bad as it can strip electrons from atoms and molecules, breaking apart molecules and generally causing damage. Non-ionizing radiation doesn’t have enough energy to strip electrons, if absorbed it primarily turns into heat. Non-ionizing radiation can be harmful, but it takes enough to basically cause a thermal burn (lasers for example can do that, or something like microwaving yourself). 5G is in the radio spectrum, well below in energy even visible light. It’s in UV that radiation starts to become ionizing, and going further up the spectrum increases the energy further. This is why sunscreen, while appearing invisible to visible light, protects from sunburn. UV causes a radiation burn, and sunscreen basically is “sunglasses” for the skin that block UV. 5G is a higher energy frequency than 4G, but it is still pretty low compared to anything damaging.
No, it’s safe. For the radiation fear mongering, you get in the range of solar radiation and above for any damage.
Linus techquuckie video for more detail.
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Fear-mongering
We’ve been using 3-g technology 4g technology and 5G technology won’t be too different.
Primary difference is that 5G require more antennas to actually make a usable connection or give it greater area coverage I should say.
These people are conflating bad radiation from nuclear weapons with this electromagnetic radiation and they’re just not really the same.
so there are people confusing one radiation with the other and they’re also hearing that there’s going to be a lot more of these devices releasing the radiation.
[this has some more info](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtogeek.com/423720/how-worried-should-you-be-about-the-health-risks-of-5g/amp/)
These people here don’t know anything. They are all slaves to billion dollar corporations who simply reiterate propaganda they were exposed to. Do your own research and see that those who suffer from low frequency, CONSTANT exposure (from satellites, phones, Bluetooth devices, router, anything with WiFi, tv, etc) are more likely to get certain health problems.
Sure it’s non-ionizing. You know what else is non ionizing? The radio waves in kitchen microwaves. This operates at 2.45 GHz, the same as Bluetooth. That’s because it operates at a much higher power output, which no one seems to consider.
Sure, there hasn’t been a conclusion that this 100% cause effects, but that’s because we’re really on the low side. When 5G comes out, now we’ll have much more solid evidence of its harmful effects. Besides, hardly any research has gone into 5G this far.
Yea I know this will be disliked to hell. I have actually done more research than any of these Reddit “experts” have done. Take a look at the documentary Merchants of Doubt. What’s happening with these 5G companies is similar to how we were convinced climate change wasn’t real and how tobacco did not cause cancer.
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