"WIFI radiation"

[Nevilledog]

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Zachary Petrizzo
@ZTPetrizzo
At a far-right Health & Freedom Conference tonight, instead of just getting the vaccine, a speaker says to stay healthy and not have a "harder time with Covid," they should limit their "WIFI radiation." "Unplug your router at night. You don't need that radiating you all night."
4:33 PM · Sep 24, 2021

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Certainly wouldn't hurt you ...

I've definitely heard wackier ideas.

[Nevilledog]

4. But Meemaw and Pawpaw are gonna be pissed when they forget how to get back online.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. Wear a lead burqa whilst microwaving your popcorn

And instead of watching your television, perhaps just look a photographs of televisions with your family. Put your actual television outside for the bears to watch. Screw them. They're bears.

[Igel]

11. Aluminum will do.

[PJMcK]

13. This amuses me

People who think microwaves can harm them are scientifically ignorant. Unless they’re damaged, microwave ovens cannot harm anyone. The window on the door demonstrates the safety mechanism: the holes in the screen are smaller than the wave length of the microwaves. The radiation cannot exit the oven.

Idiots can feel free to wear their protective head coverings. But they won’t be protected from all of the sub-atomic particles they’re bombarded with all day every day.

[0rganism]

3. it won't keep you healthy, but it does save electricity and might improve your network security

I'm confident their bunch regularly promotes far worse ideas than unplugging your network connection when not in use.

[SheltieLover]

5. Just pull your tin foil hat down over your ears.

[Nevilledog]

6. ...

[SheltieLover]

7. Hi hi

[NH Ethylene]

8. That is not a crazy idea. We don't know the effects of high frequency radio waves.

Consumer Reports looked into this, and found that " . . . the existing research hasn’t revealed the threshold below which RF (radio frequency) signals clearly pose no threat."

"While exposure from a single router in your home may be small, the risks could be greater in places that have dozens of laptops and routers working at the same time—such as school classrooms," says David Carpenter, M.D., director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany, who also notes that "children’s developing bodies may be more vulnerable to all forms of radiation from devices."

"With that in mind, several school districts in the U.S. and other countries have tried to reduce exposure in the classroom to RF radiation from devices. The Maryland State Department of Education, for example, recommended in 2016 that school districts use wired networks instead of WiFi whenever possible, turn off routers when not being used, and keep routers as far away from students as possible. In France, WiFi is banned from nursery schools."


https://www.consumerreports.org/radiation/do-i-need-to-worry-about-radiation-from-wifi-and-bluetooth-devices/

[Sympthsical]

9. People have believed this for years

It often gets mashed together with the cell phone radiation stuff.

I actually know people like this (think Berkeley-ites). They'll claim various ailments because they were in a Starbucks or whatever. They claim hypersensitivity to electromagnetic radiation, and it never takes much before they start moaning at you about it.

If any of this were true, I'm pretty sure I'd be dead by now. My house is wired like a bank vault from a Mission Impossible movie.

[Igel]

12. Once had a bunch of grad students (dissertating, no less)

warn me against microwaving my food.

I bit. "Why?"

"Because the food absorbs the microwaves and then when you digest it the microwaves are released and cook your stomach." Truly, follow the psi-ants. They move as a pack, all connected by psi-linking of their brains to one hive mind. In the sense that it produces hives.

I looked at them. In an unusually turn of events, I could think of no snarky, cynical response. So I pretended they were speaking Urdu or Swahili or Chinese or German--some language I find impenetrable.

[Midnightwalk]

10. Suckers I don't need a router any more

I get 5G native since I’m vaccinated.