does anyone have the meme based on an early 20th century political cartoon that includes people freaking out about electrical lines causing death and distraction with a Meme caption showing THIS IS WHAT SOME OF YOU LOOK LIKE WHEN TALKING ABOUT 5G. An internet search isn’t helping me find it.
What would you like to see? A quick search on pubmed shows 3,615 articles with the search prompt of ‘ghz radiation’, with some pretty comprehensive review articles existing before the roll-out of 5G. This is not something that’s missed by science, but I agree that corporations probably don’t have our best of interests at mind when they lobby the government to expand wavelengths which they can operate on and if you’re getting at being upset with the lack of scientific oversight or no good venues to publicly discuss the public health implications, then I’m definitely on board with you.
I would have liked to see more of an open, public discussion.
As someone else responded, sometimes it is acceptable for us as a society to take certain risks to not hold up progress. I can get on board with that here.
Like, the costs and the necessary delay of a long-term study would have probably been prohibitively high. We probably wouldn’t have any form of wireless connectivity now, if that was a strict requirement.
But basically resolving what you described in your last sentence, that wouldn’t have hurt. At least acknowledging that it’s not entirely risk-free, would have probably made conspiracy nuts disappear in an instant:
Yes, we’re risking the health and safety of all of you, but this was actually decided to be worth risking by your democratically elected leaders. We didn’t need some evil council. If this harms you, that was incompetence, not malice.