I do indeed take D3, but I am dubious about 5G being a threat. One interesting thing is that 5G is in fact a wide range of bands, some of them re-purposed from other defunct technologies. I have seen suggestions that 5G operating at the very top of the band might stimulate an electronic transition (triplet to singlet) in molecular oxygen. In theory this could pose a risk, but the very fact that oxygen absorbs at that frequency makes it unlikely anyone would want to transmit at that frequency.
The extra internet bandwidth might be used for sinister purposes - but the internet is used that way already!
I have a suspicion that the 5G rumour (along with the idea of injectable microchips) may have been deliberately designed to discredit anti-vaxers .
Computer engineers must have been exposed to the lower part of the 5G band for years - e.g. every time they take the back of a modern fast PC and study it with the power on. Square waves contain lots of harmonics.
David
David,
The threat from 5G is not that it's going to fry your brain, cause tumors, infertility, etc. As you say, that is nonsense. The threat arises from the capabilities that it represents re; Brave New World/total police state run by The Party. You recognize that, sort of, but dismiss it too lightly.
In fact, the threat is not merely hypothetical paranoia. In China entire new cities are being planned around 5G implementation. 5G is not just incrementally more powerful than what we've had. It is an order of magnitude more powerful. With 5G the government (The Party) can actually collect
and analyze all of that information they've been going after - and they can do it real time. All of the fears to date in the US about the government (or private companies in league with the government) collecting info on private citizens have been overblown because the power to analyze the data and make it actionable, especially real time, just isn't there. 5G changes that.
That means, just for one small example, it is feasible to have cameras every ten feet on every street, in every appliance in your house, in taxis/Ubers, in pubs, etc, etc (no camera? no license to do business) and the ability to know - again real time - what citizen David is doing, where he's doing it, who he's doing it with and what that might mean as a threat or opportunity to The Party according to AI's assessment. AI can crunch all of that data (and much more) and then order reactive or proactive forces into operation.
The dystopian high tech societies of sci-fi are now a truly potential reality because of 5G- and the Chinese are building exactly that in their new hyper-planned cities. The infrastructure is being created, for real, right now.
Of course all of that is too complicated for dummies to understand and so the dummies get the dummy version of why 5G is bad (fries your brain, etc).
A lot of the stuff that people here imagine to be conspiracies and information operations are, in reality, attempts to herd the uninformed, often uninterested, cats away from danger. It is fine to sit around, as a fan of the strange and fringe, and indulge in an academic look at the situation from a position of 0 responsibility, incomplete information, but there are some few out there that have to actually do something about it all in the world given real world confounds; just one being the Bell Curve.
I have a friend who is smart, professional, successful. Even has a PhD. His idea about all of this is, "If I'm not doing anything wrong, what do I have to worry about?". Fried brain, OTOH, would get his attention.