re: #132 A Cranky One

During one call with the insurance company about the roof hail damage, while waiting on the system to pull up information, the insurance adjuster asked me what I did before retiring. I mentioned working on 2G, 3G and 4G LTE cellular systems.

He immediately asked me about 5G, mentioning he’d been hearing bad things. I explained that cell phones are basically 2-way radios and 5G is just using different (higher) frequency radio. The higher frequency allows carrying much more data on the connection, but is more limited in distance and the ability to move through solid objects (walls, buildings, etc.), and so requires more cell towers for coverage. The only issue I’m aware of with 5G is potential interference with some equipment used by airports.

Agent was a very friendly intelligent person. Scares me that folks hear such nonsense about things like 5G and think there may some truth to the scare mongering.

re: #135 Shropshire Slasher

I still don’t hold my phone to my head.

apnews.com

re: #137 A Cranky One
re: #145 Decatur Deb

ELF-EMF were pretty well studied to death in the ’90s. The bottom line was that any real health effects were too subtle to bother with. If you can’t dig a risk out of statistical noise, you’re going to be killed by traffic, bumblebees, or falling cocoa nuts.

cancer.gov

As what I’ve seen, fields need to be certain level to have issues, and you also have certain frequencies which are problematic (at those levels). You do have indirect effects such as high voltage fields when you have conductive dust embedded in skin or pores, or magnetic dust and moderately strong magnetic fields.
You’ve also had tests where people have have developed electricity allergy symptoms in a Faraday cage, or by seeing an unenergized coil.