I apologize that I didn’t note
where the following quote is from. I think it's from October 2011. After the quote is my reply to it.
“The issue of
whether to remove WiFi in schools is certainly worthy of great discussion. On
the one hand, everywhere that one goes nowadays – from Starbucks, to airports
to work environments – is equipped with WiFi. Is it really that realistic to
think our kids will never be exposed to WiFi? Trying to protect your kids
against WiFi is like trying to protect them from the common cold these days as
WiFi is ubiquitous and a lot of times is around without our knowledge.”
A common cold is not a brain
tumour, nor a salivary gland tumour, nor years of panic attacks, nor piercing
migraines for years, nor a constant buzzing sound inside your head (even when
there should be only silence), nor autism, nor depression, nor insomnia, nor
changes in blood pressure or heartbeat or bloodsugar.
If you could see and/or smell a
lot of car exhaust when you enter a Starbucks, or an airport, or a work
environment – or a school – you wouldn't stay there very long, and as you're
leaving you might even warn people not to go in there, and you'd probably feel
sorry for any people who for some reason HAD to stay there for a long time. It
seems like an automatic reaction; if you think about it, you react that way
because your body doesn’t want to take in the car exhaust pollution because
once it’s inside your body it would be absorbed by various tissues and cells
and could harm your body. If the air in a school contained lots of visible
pollution or a very strong odour for a long time (whether it’s car exhaust or
something else), people would leave the building, and if it was bad enough the
Principal would insist that everyone must leave the building. The
radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF) that the World Health Organization
announced as a possible carcinogen are invisible and have no smell – and they
are a man-made “physical agent” that does pollute air. The emissions from the
normal operation of WiFi equipment is RF. Many WiFi sources are always on, so
the RF is continually being pumped into an area. In an area where there is a
collection of car exhaust, no matter if the area is indoors or outdoors,
usually the car exhaust eventually blows away, or is diluted by other fresh air
– provided the car that produced the exhaust leaves or is turned off.
In many countries, kids (and
teachers and school staff) must be in school for 6 or 7 hours each day, every
day of the schoolyear for many years of their lives. We are fortunate to live
in a country that believes that the health and wellbeing of each individual
citizen is important. Kids (and adults) must spend so much time in their school
environments, so various governments and authorities have provided laws,
regulations, and policies that must be followed for health and safety reasons.
Some of these laws, regulations, and policies are in place to help reduce our
exposures to pollutants that are invisible and odourless. Hopefully, decisions
and changes regarding those laws, regulations, and policies happen quickly
whenever there is new information about a pollutant.
Indeed, if a cure for the common
cold is invented, very likely kids, teachers, parents, staff, volunteers, and
everyone else involved in school environments would be at the very least
encouraged and perhaps regulated by law to use the invention so that exposure
to contagious germs would be reduced—so that fewer people would suffer ill
effects. As far as I know, we don’t yet have a specific invention that is known
for certain to cure the common cold or to be effective in reducing exposure to
it. Some people do choose to take precautions such as taking vitamins, wearing
masks, washing their hands frequently, eating health foods, keeping warm,
sitting at a distance from people who are coughing or sneezing, and so on –
these are choices they can make for their own personal space.
We do, however, have a specific
invention that is known to reduce exposure to RF in schools – where many, many
people are required to be for many, many hours each day for many, many years of
their lives. We can turn off the WiFi and use wires and cords to plug in to
experience the wonderful world of Internet, cloud computing, learning, e-book
readers, socializing, phoning (VOIP), and so on. And the plug-in connections
are usually much faster, more reliable, and less susceptible to personal
security and privacy risks. Always on, WiFi equipment inside a school is
spewing RF emissions non-stop at each person in the school whether or not that
person is using the Internet or other wireless applications. Even if you’re
certain that you’re not feeling ill effects from the WiFi at school, there are
some kids, parents, and teachers who do know that it makes them ill and feel
ill – some of them feel very ill. Some people would like to choose ways to keep
RF out of their personal space, but they cannot because the RF from the WiFi
equipment can’t be avoided by wearing a mask or standing at a distance – the
WiFi travels throughout all the airspace and areas of the school, that’s why
computers and other wireless devices find a wireless connection everywhere
inside the school (and often outside near the school because RF can go through
many walls, roofs, and windows).
I’m pretty sure that no one would
force a child (or adult) to stand face-to-face with someone who is ill and
coughing and sneezing with the ill person coughing and sneezing non-stop. The
WiFi equipment in most schools is constantly on and therefore each body in the
building (kids and adults) is absorbing amounts of that RF, so in effect the
WiFi equipment is constantly “coughing and sneezing” at all the cells and
tissues in each body, your body.
I prefer to hook up with wires and
cords so that the cells and tissues in my body don’t have to face dealing with
RF from WiFi emissions. And I prefer to hook up with wires and cords so that
I’m not “coughing and sneezing” RF at the cells and tissues of other people’s
bodies in my area.
You can probably guess that I
encourage wired/corded plug-in connections everywhere – not only in schools,
and definitely in workplaces and homes where we all spend hours and hours at a
time as well. Hopefully, if we reduce our longer-duration exposures to RF (such
as at school, home, and work), possibly we won’t get ill from RF exposure; I
said “possibly” because I don’t know for certain. If I breathe in just a little
bit of car exhaust every day, it might not be enough to make me ill but then
again it might be!
Thank you for considering your own
wellbeing and for being considerate of others.
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