{"id":9159,"date":"2020-03-31T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iaf.care\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2022-12-14T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:00:31","slug":"decisions-about-your-health-pandemic-cell-phone-use-or-pandemic-covid-19-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaf.care\/decisions-about-your-health-pandemic-cell-phone-use-or-pandemic-covid-19-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Decisions About Your Health - Pandemic Cell Phone Use or Pandemic COVID-19 Virus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we sit at home reading our cell phones worrying about contracting the COVID-19 Virus, is there something greater to consider? I think the math, governments, and lack of consumer knowledge have made the choice.<\/span><\/p>\n

The big cell phone companies have borrowed the very same strategy and tactics big tobacco and big oil pioneered to deceive the public about the risks of smoking and climate change. Similar to their tobacco and oil counterparts, the wireless industry has lied to the public even after their own scientists privately warned that their products could be dangerous, especially to children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Radiofrequency radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation. Electromagnetic radiation can be categorized into two types: ionizing (e.g., x-rays, radon, and cosmic rays) and non-ionizing (e.g., radiofrequency and extremely low frequency, or power frequency). Electromagnetic radiation is defined according to its wavelength and frequency, which is the number of cycles of a wave that passes a reference point per second. Electromagnetic frequencies are described in units called hertz (Hz).<\/span><\/p>\n

If RF radiation is high enough, it has a 'thermal' effect, which means it raises body temperature. There are concerns that the low levels of RF radiation emitted by mobile phones could cause health problems as little as headaches to major diseases like brain tumors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mobile phones had been allowed on to the US market a decade earlier without any government safety testing. Now, some customers and industry workers were being diagnosed with cancer. In January 1993, David Reynard sued the NEC America Company, claiming that his wife\u2019s NEC phone caused her lethal brain tumor. After Reynard appeared on national television, the story gained ground. A congressional subcommittee announced an investigation; investors began dumping mobile phone stocks and the CTIA swung into action.<\/span><\/p>\n

The risk of \u201crare neuroepithelial tumors on the outside of the brain was more than doubled\u2026 in cellphone users\u201d; there was an apparent correlation between \u201cbrain tumors occurring on the right side of the head and the use of the phone on the right side of the head\u201d; and the \u201cability of radiation from a phone\u2019s antenna to cause functional genetic damage is definitely positive\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The World Health Organisation in 2011 would classify mobile phone radiation as a \u201cpossible\u201d human carcinogen and the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Israel issued warnings against mobile phone use by children.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation\" -- Dr. Devra Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n