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Lila00 · 14/11/2024 13:46

My daughter has just started at a daycare that we are happy with. Unfortunately, a mobile tower has been erected 8 meters/1 minutes walk from the daycare. I have read that there are divided opinions about the safety. My concern is that it is so close, and the children spend 7-8 hours a day at the daycare. Would you change daycare?

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BananaNirvana · 03/12/2024 23:06

ilikepurpleforests · 03/12/2024 22:30

@MiddleagedBeachbum Which EMF blockers do you use please? Trying to find some to cover bases but not sure if they even work or which to get. thanks.

They don’t work so don’t waste your money.

Mykittensmittens · 03/12/2024 23:03

well, I’ve worked in telecoms for 35 years, most of that time in technical sites and for many many years now on or near mast sites. I have dozens of colleagues who do my role too (hundreds of us across the country).

If your concern is real we would, statistically, be dropping like flies/dead/ill/reporting serious illnesses even to a small percentage of us. We are not. We have access to tons of health and safety information and training and ironically the greater risk is being assaulted by people who have incorrectly perceived extreme ideas about 5g transmission!

PonyPatter44 · 03/12/2024 22:42

They are all nonsense. Buy whichever sort you like, they are all just tchotchkes designed to part the gullible from their money.

ilikepurpleforests · 03/12/2024 22:30

@MiddleagedBeachbum Which EMF blockers do you use please? Trying to find some to cover bases but not sure if they even work or which to get. thanks.

Hoardasurass · 15/11/2024 10:42

SnapdragonToadflax · 15/11/2024 07:17

Toast is carcinogenic. Do you eat toast?

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So is oxygen 🤣

KrisAkabusi · 15/11/2024 08:06

Lila00 · 15/11/2024 07:13

WHO The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B).

They have also given Aloe Vera and Pickled Vegetables the exact same classification, but both are used by millions every day. Also Petrol, but I bet you dont walk everywhere.

maximist · 15/11/2024 08:00

I just want to know how it takes one minute to walk eight metres....

Alltheunreadbooks · 15/11/2024 07:40

Why does this thread remind me of the episode of 'Gavin & Stacey' where Pam tries to get all her neighbours together to protest about a phone mast being erected...but then gets mad because she can't get a phone signal to text them..

NigelHarmansNewWife · 15/11/2024 07:31

MiddleagedBeachbum · 15/11/2024 07:20

Nah I wouldn’t want that either, 5G is totally different to other radio waves. I’ve seen enough to not want to be near it, always wear EMF necklace protection and have EMF protection on my phone and in my house.

You swallowed the Kool Aid with that stuff.

Tukmgru · 15/11/2024 07:30

If you wrote this using a mobile phone, and can’t see the irony, then you may be beyond help.

Ginmonkeyagain · 15/11/2024 07:29

How is 5G "totally different" to other radio waves?

sunbum · 15/11/2024 07:28

How/why isnit 'totally different'? Its just a frequency range arbitrarily chosen on the EM spectrum in the radio wave frequency area?

CasperGutman · 15/11/2024 07:27

I wouldn't be worried about the mobile mast.

MiddleagedBeachbum · 15/11/2024 07:20

Nah I wouldn’t want that either, 5G is totally different to other radio waves. I’ve seen enough to not want to be near it, always wear EMF necklace protection and have EMF protection on my phone and in my house.

SnapdragonToadflax · 15/11/2024 07:17

Lila00 · 15/11/2024 07:13

WHO The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B).

Toast is carcinogenic. Do you eat toast?

TeenToTwenties · 15/11/2024 07:15

My DB is somewhat of an expert on mobile signal transmission technology. He isn't bothered, so neither am I.

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Lila00 · 15/11/2024 07:13

WHO The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B).

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sunbum · 14/11/2024 21:27

Does the nursery have a radio?

sunbum · 14/11/2024 21:25

Do you have a microwave? If so, you are being ridiculous.

Dunderass · 14/11/2024 21:23

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FFS! You clearly didn't even read the site you put forward as your support.

Researchers who believe that humans can suffer from cancer and tumors when exposed to EMF radiation get their data from studies of people living near power stations. But they fail to give proper justifications, like the relation between EMF field stength and the possible risk associated with it or the mechanisms that can trigger processes like cancer and the creation of tumors.

The website you put forward as justification for not living near a substation (and after you said nobody would ever study this, which was demonstrably false) says that there is no evidence for claims that they are a health risk, or even how they could be a health risk!

Lammveg · 14/11/2024 21:15

When you say 'divided opinions', it's not an equal divide. It's conspiracy theories/'opinions' vs factual scientific evidence.

There many things in our modern lives that can pose health risks, but this isn't one to be concerned about.

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