If 5G is So Safe Then Why Do Wireless Companies Warn Their Shareholders but Not Consumers?

Bron: theodora-scarato.medium.com/if-5g-is-so-safe-then-why-do-wireless-companies-warn-their-shareholders-but-not-consumers-23171885cabc
3 dec. 2020

T-Mobile is suing San Francisco to make their 5G upgrade go faster. This is the “small cell” outside my hotel bedroom window in San Francisco last year, likely built in the name of 5G.

5G is the fifth generation wireless aiming to tie together the latest and greatest technology at super-fast speeds.

In order to make it work, companies want to erect millions of new short cell towers called “small cells” near homes and schools on poles called “small cells.” According to the FCC, hundreds of thousands of new wireless transmitters will be attached to street lights, utility poles and buildings.

Published peer-reviewed research documents how 5G and the densification of network radiation emissions from small cells will increase environmental exposure levels of radiofrequency non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation throughout the neighborhood.
ehtrust.org/high-radiation-from-millimeter-wave-5g-deployment-in-austin-texas/

Yet when people protest wireless network antennas being outside their bedroom windows, they are met with safety assurances from telecommunications company and government officials.

If 5G and wireless radiation are so safe then why do insurance authorities classify 5G as high risk?

“Off the leash — 5G mobile networks” is the title of a Chapter in the 2019 Swiss Re Report on New Emerging Risks for the Insurance industry, which rates 5G as a “high impact” risk.
ehtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/Swiss-Re-SONAR-Publication-2019-excerpt.pdf

“As the biological effects of EMF in general and 5G in particular are still being debated, potential claims for health impairments may come with a long latency. An uptick in liability claims could be a potential long-term consequence.”

Download the Swiss Re report classifying 5G as “high risk” off the leash here.
ehtrust.org/swiss-re-classifies-5g-as-high-risk-in-white-paper/

See Environmental Health Trust’s compendium of insurance company reports on non-ionizing radiation here.
ehtrust.org/key-issues/reports-white-papers-insurance-industry/

If 5G and wireless radiation are so safe then why do insurance companies refuse to cover damages from non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation?

For example, the Portland Oregon Public School Genesis Insurance Company states,
ehtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/Portland-Public-School-2017-18-Excess-Liability0D0A-policy-1.pdf

“Exclusions: This insurance does not apply to: Bodily injury, personal injury, advertising injury, or property damage arising directly or indirectly out of, resulting from, caused or contributed to by electromagnetic radiation, provided that such loss, cost or expense results from or is contributed to by the hazardous properties of electromagnetic radiation.”

See Environmental Health Trust’s compendium of insurance company electromagnetic radiation exclusion clauses here

If 5G and wireless radiation are so safe then why do the wireless companies themselves define non-ionizing radiation as a “pollutant?”

Both AT&T Mobile Insurance (pg. 4) and Verizon Total Mobile Protection (page 10) state that coverage is excluded for pollutants, which are defined as “Any solid, liquid, gaseous, or thermal irritant or contaminant including smoke, vapor, soot, fumes, acid, alkalis, chemicals, artificially produced electric fields, magnetic field, electromagnetic field, sound waves, microwaves, and all artificially produced ionizing or non-ionizing radiation and waste.”
ehtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/ASATT-531-MI-Terms-web-04.pdf
ehtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/device-protection-brochure-nationwide.pdf .



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