Editorial: Stop The 5G Health Risk Scaremongering ((NEW))

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Editorial: Stop the 5G health risk scaremongering

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Social unrest stemming from coronavirus fears again led to violence in Mexico. In Mexico state, residents attacked police officers and accused them of putting a village at risk of infection. Despite a regulation threatening punishment for perpetrators of violence against health workers, attacks continued. In Coahuila state, three women who worked as nurses and administrative staff for a hospital were found dead in their house. In Tabasco state, a nurse was killed in a drive-by shooting.

This special issue in IJERPH aims to advance the field of human health impacts of climate change with topical contributions. It aims to synthesise some of these public health issues but also to address the technical challenges. This issue welcomes both quantitative and qualitative studies and is intended to include papers that measure, monitor and describe health impacts. Of particular interest are decision-support tools for identifying and prioritizing risks through surveillance, vulnerability, impact and adaptation assessments. Interventions on climate-sensitive health risks are also of interest, particularly rigorous cost-effectiveness, program, and process evaluations. Monitoring environmental precursors of disease can be used as early warning for health threats and the application of these tools is of great interest to public health practitioners. Thus, this special issue prioritizes research papers over review papers, unless there is an obvious gap in the literature. This special issue on Climate Change and Human Health represents an effort to capture current developments in the field and provide a forum for cutting edge contributions to the literature.

While 4G phones typically operate on frequency bands below 6 GHz, the most advanced type of 5G runs between 24 and 47 GHz. These high frequencies are known as millimeter waves because their wavelengths are tiny, spanning between one to 10 millimeters. And according to health experts, millimeter waves may potentially pose some risk because they can heat up the eyes or skin when deployed in powerful doses.2

In addition, The Secretary of State is to be challenged in the Court of Appeal on failure to give adequate information to the public about the risks of 5G and to explain the absence of a process for investigation of any adverse health effects. Michael Mansfield QC, Philip Rule and Lorna Hackett of Hackett & Dabbs LLP represent the claimants. The Court of Appeal has granted permission on two grounds concerning: 1. The failure to provide adequate or effective information to the public about the risks and how, if it be possible, it might be possible for individuals to avoid or minimise the risks; 2. (a) The failure to provide adequate and sufficient reasons for not establishing a process to investigate and establish the adverse health effects and risks of adverse health effects from 5G technology and/or for discounting the risks presented by the evidence available; and/or (b) failure to meet the requirements of transparency and openness required of a public body. These grounds advance a breach of the Human Rights Act 1998 by omissions and failings in violation of the positive obligations to protect human life, health, and dignity, required to be met by Articles 2, 3 and/or 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The case has been sent back to the Administrative Court. -case

A new peer-reviewed paper on October 18, 2022, presented a scientific case for revision of the ICNIRP limits. The International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF) challenged the safety of current wireless exposure limits to radiofrequency radiation (RFR) and is calling for an independent evaluation. This new paper warns about the risks of exposure to radiation from 5G technology and claims that existing exposure limits for wireless radiation are inadequate, outdated, and harmful to human health and wildlife. The ICBE-EMF group reports that exposure limits for RF radiation set by ICNIRP and the FCC are based on invalid assumptions and outdated science. ICBE-EMF group called for a moratorium on 5G. -022-00900-9

A very important announcement received today from Action Against 5G confirms an up-and-coming court hearing. The Secretary of State is to be challenged in the Court of Appeal on failure to give adequate information to the public about the risks of 5G and to explain the absence of a process for investigation of any adverse health effects. Michael Mansfield QC, Philip Rule and Lorna Hackett of Hackett & Dabbs LLP represent the claimants. The Court of Appeal has granted permission on two grounds concerning:

1. The failure to provide adequate or effective information to the public about the risks and how, if it be possible, it might be possible for individuals to avoid or minimise the risks;2. (a) The failure to provide adequate and sufficient reasons for not establishing a process to investigate and establish the adverse health effects and risks of adverse health effects from 5G technology and/or for discounting the risks presented by the evidence available; and/or (b) failure to meet the requirements of transparency and openness required of a public body.

I think most of my coworkers and I agree that the flu shot is mostly a crapshoot. The vaccine is formulated a year before based on models of how the virus is expected to behave the next year. Obviously it mutates before it shows up again and the vaccine is rendered far less effective (moreso against FluA, vs FluB or vice versa). But we are healthcare workers and are required to get it to be cleared to do our job. We get it to protect the patient, not us. So we do it no matter what the risk may be and whether or not its 100% effective. We also have to get the HepB shot series to be employed in the county hospital, like it or not. And those hurt like a bitch. Would I do it again to do my job and help people? Absolutely. Without question.

Many individuals from ethnic minorities remain unvaccinated across the UK, and in the context of high COVID-19 infection rates, future policy efforts and funding must focus on mitigating those risks through targeted campaigns and support to prevent widening health inequalities and inequities.

DAILY ZAPIn 2012 the Bioinitiative Working Group of international scientists and public health experts investigated 1,800 recent studies of EMF health risks. They produced evidence of carcinogenicity and neurotoxicity in both humans and animals, reduction of melatonin and other free-radical scavengers, serious damage to human and animal sperm, DNA damage including loss of DNA repair mechanisms in human stem cells. EMF exposure in young animals resulted in abnormal behaviour. Exposure during pregnancy resulted in abnormal bone and brain development.

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