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by coolhand2120 1092 days ago
There are dangers with radio signals. People have been cooked to death by radio before. If you want to have more bandwidth so people can watch videos on their phones etc, you need to have higher frequency. Higher frequency needs to be higher power. You don't want to fry your customer so you can't crank the power too high, so they have to make more base stations.

There is the trade off. The higher the power the fewer the base stations. You don't want to make it so high that it will cause harm, but you also don't want to spend more money installing base stations. So there should obviously be a study done on how much power we can push into living tissue from 5G sites before it causes harm to the tissue. But there isn't such a study. And that's the real crime.

There could be potential harm but we're not looking into it _because there could be potential harm_. Such a finding would really upset the whole 5G rollout. Now anyone near 5G is unwittingly involved in the experiment to find out if it does or does not cause harm. Wonder how many years before we know the results. Wonder if people with financial interests would want to let that info out. But mostly I wonder what the harms might present themselves as.