Smart meters and heath risks
Smart meters and heath risks
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Ari

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19,814 posts

244 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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Partner of a friend is banging on about the 'health risks of smart meters' on Facebook today - loads of evidence apparently (but no links to it).

Cue a load of her friends posting things like

The meter is on the other side of the wall where my bed is. My head is literally next to it. Every day I wake with such a banging headache. I’m at my wits end. I feel like it’s slowly killing me.

I'm no expert, but a quick Google suggests that these things transmit for about 1 second a day...

Is this the latest tinfoil hat conspiracy theory, or is there actually anything in it?

Liamjrhodes

499 posts

170 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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If you have to ask....

Maybe you should get out your tinfoil hat

Funky Squirrel

494 posts

101 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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They can be switched off by an intern in an office. So she could wake up cold in the dark with a banging headache too.

untakenname

5,350 posts

221 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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The health risks of smart meters are there but it's not EMR, lots of domestic incidents have been caused by resentment over how much energy the other partner is using (irons and electric showers especially).


Spare tyre

12,555 posts

159 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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Ari said:
Partner of a friend is banging on about the 'health risks of smart meters' on Facebook today - loads of evidence apparently (but no links to it).

Cue a load of her friends posting things like

The meter is on the other side of the wall where my bed is. My head is literally next to it. Every day I wake with such a banging headache. I’m at my wits end. I feel like it’s slowly killing me.

I'm no expert, but a quick Google suggests that these things transmit for about 1 second a day...

Is this the latest tinfoil hat conspiracy theory, or is there actually anything in it?
Stuff like that makes me chuckle, you’d at least move rooms / change end etc if you genuinely thought it was cooking you!

Scabutz

8,832 posts

109 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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Sounds like she is getting a headache from her tin foil hat being too tight.

Is she an antivaxer and flat earther also?

Ari

Original Poster:

19,814 posts

244 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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I can't help wondering whether these people have mobile phones and wifi...

xjay1337

15,966 posts

147 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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Load of bks all of it.

I dealt with someone who apparently suffered from Wifi signals etc.

I was doing a post installation wireless survey - someone said they had a problem with the old location where one caused them a headache.

Joke is, the previous location, the AP was further away than it was in the new location! To the point where before the work was carried out there was barely any signal (not enough to use!)

And now the new AP was basically right above his head in the ceiling space.

It's all in their head. The real joke? This guy was a senior lecturer at a University.
It is scary that these people are allowed to teach the current generation...

eybic

9,212 posts

203 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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I saw a FB post from someone ranting about 5G and encouraging people to join a "Stop 5G in the UK" group, I looked at the group and the first post was from someone with an LED streetlamp (apparently this is where transmitters will be/ are installed) outside their house and their 8 year old Daughter had a nosebleed, of course this was totally due to the 5G she was being exposed to rolleyes One of the comments was from someone slightly more grounded stating that posts like that will make people think they are akin to flat earthers rofl

Henners

12,423 posts

223 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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Facebook was much better when you needed a Uni email address.

Ari

Original Poster:

19,814 posts

244 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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Henners said:
Facebook was much better when you needed a Uni email address.
xjay1337 said:
It's all in their head. The real joke? This guy was a senior lecturer at a University.
It is scary that these people are allowed to teach the current generation...
scratchchin

Ari

Original Poster:

19,814 posts

244 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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eybic said:
I saw a FB post from someone ranting about 5G and encouraging people to join a "Stop 5G in the UK" group, I looked at the group and the first post was from someone with an LED streetlamp (apparently this is where transmitters will be/ are installed) outside their house and their 8 year old Daughter had a nosebleed, of course this was totally due to the 5G she was being exposed to rolleyes One of the comments was from someone slightly more grounded stating that posts like that will make people think they are akin to flat earthers rofl
5G is the other drum banged constantly by the same group.

eldar

25,268 posts

225 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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eybic said:
I saw a FB post from someone ranting about 5G and encouraging people to join a "Stop 5G in the UK" group, I looked at the group and the first post was from someone with an LED streetlamp (apparently this is where transmitters will be/ are installed) outside their house and their 8 year old Daughter had a nosebleed, of course this was totally due to the 5G she was being exposed to rolleyes One of the comments was from someone slightly more grounded stating that posts like that will make people think they are akin to flat earthers rofl
Started a decade or two ago in the North East with a small bunch of nutters convinced WiFi and LED streetlights fried your brain. They added 4G in to the mix, but stayed a small & select bunch of loons.

5G really excited them, and believing there was a transmitter in every lamp post, and their followers increased.

It seems that people all over the place will believe any old gibberish with no evidence at all.

dirky dirk

3,432 posts

199 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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when 5g contracts become cheaper, the internet providers are really going to have fight on their hands with all the streaming,

if you can get a data sim create a hotspot your laughing,

Roger Irrelevant

3,388 posts

142 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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My sister-in-law goes in for all this woo. A few years ago she was convinced that 'electromagnetic radiation' (a phrase she'd clearly gleaned from some BS on Facebook), was a huge health risk and responsible for every ache and pain she ever got. This despite being on her phone every hour that god sent. On one occasion I asked which particular type of electromagnetic radiation she meant, as surely it couldn't all be bad. But apparently yes, any and all electromagnetic radiation was killing us. I tried explaining that radio waves, microwaves, light itself were all electromagnetic radiation but so far as I'm aware this didn't prompt any further research or understanding.

eldar

25,268 posts

225 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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devnull

3,862 posts

186 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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Better ban the sun then, quite a bit of wave based radiation coming off that.

Roofless Toothless

7,565 posts

161 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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I think someone has. frown

glenrobbo

40,505 posts

179 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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I think the sun poses a, far greater risk to the heath than any smart meters, judging by the fires up near Saddleworth last summer.

jfdi

1,334 posts

204 months

Wednesday 19th June 2019
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eldar said:
It’s all kicking off in Stroud...

https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/177134...
"At the end of our meeting, a vote was held as to whether there should be a halt on the roll-out of 5G technology in Gloucestershire until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists who are fully independent of the industry and of government.

The motion was passed virtually unanimously by the audience"

So almost all the tin foil hat brigade that turned up voted to stop 5G rofl