Camilla Rees presented on wireless tech risks Saturday at the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. MENSA conference. Her talk was titled, “The Wireless Elephant in the Room: The Biological and Health Effects of Electromagnetic Fields–and Steps We Can Take to Protect Our Health in a Wireless Age”.
Rees shared many studies with the high-IQ MENSA members showing biological and health risks from non-thermal (heating) exposures to wireless radiation, and mentioned several review studies by the U.S. government showing risk dating to the 1940s. They included studies by NASA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, EPA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Naval Medical Research Institute, Department of the Army, NIH/DoE, NIH/National Toxicology Program, as well as communication from the Department of Interior to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration indicating present exposure guidelines are outmoded and are inadequate to protect wildlife.
Rees further opened eyes stating that insurance companies have long refused to cover liability for wireless-related health risks. Swiss Re, the second largest reinsurer in the world, Rees said has called 5G mobile networks a “high” and “of-the-leash” risk, indicating claims for health impairments may have a “long latency”.
Rees, a former Wall Street executive, also highlighted the irony that, in the wireless carrier 10k Annual Reports required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, radiation from cell phones, wireless technologies and wireless infrastructure is called a “pollutant” and the radiation is acknowledged as a Risk Factor that may result in significant financial losses.
“The carriers are warning shareholders about risks to comply with SEC regulations, but are not warning users of cellphones and wireless technologies, the people living near cell towers, installers of wireless infrastructure, or the millions of businesses, schools and hospitals and healthcare facilities that have installed wireless transmitters that there are very real risks from these exposures”, she said.
“This has to stop. Society needs to be fully informed so steps can be taken to prevent the many illnesses associated with Radiofrequency Radiation–illnesses that are also driving up health care costs and burdening our economy. Hard-wired Internet access networks must be expanded using ‘fiber to the premises’ throughout the country. It is superior technologically, from many different perspectives, as well as the only possible way to close the digital divide”. She summarized the advantages of fiber over wireless with this handout: