["fitbit" is a consumer product line that's extremely easy to find via internet search.]
In reaction to a recent media article, Dr. Devra Davis (Founder of Environmental Health Trust) wrote: "Fitbit is becoming fitbite. Growing reports that fitbit microwave
radiating tracker produces severe skin rashes requiring medical treatment.
Company explains there are no known allergens in its plastic or metal parts.
Ironic that microwave emitting device transmits information using pulsed
microwaves 24/7 so that people monitor their fitness level. Must be a silent
epidemic of sleep-exercising sheeple who need constant feedback to learn
whether they've moved enough to burn calories. What's next? A swallowable chip
to record calories eaten to link with those consumed??"
The problem is that it isn't only big or small devices made
of metal, glass, and plastic that transmit and receive EM radiation as an
invisible electromagnetic network. Fully-accepted scientific fact: EM radiation
penetrates into everyone's body. Fully-accepted scientific fact: our bodies
must use EM radiation every moment in order to survive, and our bodies
developed to use natural sources and natural levels of it.
Yes EM radiation is invisible - invisible doesn't mean it's
nothing.
Any electronic device that can communicate wirelessly (to
another component, to a separate device, to a router, to a phone, to a laptop,
to a tablet, to a computer, to a network ...) is generating and emitting
electromagnetic (EM) radiation - causing firsthand and secondhand exposures -
into skin, bodies, brains, and throughout the environment. Because everything
wireless is both firsthand and secondhand exposures to this EM radiation, you want
to reduce exposures for yourself, for everyone you care about, and to be kind
to other adults and kids (and pets and wildlife).
Please think about and begin and continue reducing your
firsthand and secondhand exposures. Please realize that your use of a wireless
device for non-urgent and other lifestyle purposes is YOU generating this EM
radiation and sending it into your own body, everyone else's body, and into the
near and far environment. Please realize that when your device is on and
capable of receiving any type of communication, even if you aren't directly
using the device it is generating and emitting this EM radiation (usually more
often than once per second, or some active apps may require continuous EM
radiation emission).
And the EM radiation isn't only at the electronic device
you're using... your device's communications can hurtle long distances between
a personal-use device and a router or network, right? And this can happen even
when you're moving, right? What do you think a "coverage area" is?
It's the huge volume of air where this EM radiation is constantly arriving and
travelling at ultra-high speed from routers, network towers/antennas, and other
equipment constantly generating and emitting the EM radiation so that if
someone happens to be at a location within that air volume and wants to choose
to send or receive text/voice/data wirelessly it could happen. Think about it:
where are these huge volumes of air where there is coverage? Pretty much
everywhere indoors and outdoors, and including throughout your home, and 24/7
so also while everyone is asleep. And how many sources are each separately but
simultaneously constantly pumping EM radiation into that air?
Wireless users: please reduce your own use, for your own
sakes and for others. Also, are you really okay with paying products and
services that give you the "privilege" to irradiate yourself, others,
and the environment? I realize that for some of you, you're not accustomed to
any other way of conducting everyday life. There are plenty of modern and
plenty convenient enough ways of doing so, and you'll likely find that they
have other benefits you didn't realize. At the very least, as a valued
consumer, ask and insist that your product and service providers give you safe
modern alternatives now and ongoing. If you speak, they have to listen. History
shows us that, for the most part, companies tend to survive no matter what
change becomes necessary for them. Sure they'll probably try to talk you into
sticking with whatever they want to promote - their priority is the
"health" of their company's bank account and stockholders. You have
the right to prioritize your health above that.
Some of you may want to ask and insist by contacting your
government representatives. Certainly government is informed and makes choices
that I won't comment on here except to say that new information is new
information, and old information can be insufficient (even if it isn't wrong).
Some people are of the opinion that government hears industry voices more loudly,
so you might have to speak louder than you expect. You have the right to
prioritize the need for industry changes in support of human health.
Regarding EM radiation pollution of people and the
environment, corporate social responsibility is severely lacking. Whatever you
learn about EM radiation, please inform (and continue to inform) all product
and service providers that for all uses you want this artificially-generated EM
radiation reduced and eliminated, not added to products and services, and not
as replacement for non-wireless products and services.
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