French ban wifi in daycares

thedoc46 · 2 Feb 2015 at 14:32

http://www.takebackyourpower.net/ne...n-daycares-restricts-wireless-infrastructure/

So my question is, is there really any evidence? TBH, I've not really paid any attention, and thought of it as nothing more than a bunch of tree huggers wanting to complain about something.. But for France to actually ban wifi as a precautionary measure ?

Is there something they're not telling us ?

Freakbro · 2 Feb 2015 at 14:38

I wonder if the people concerned about this will stop using their baby monitors too then?

Not to say I don't have any concern, but at the end of the day we are continually flooded with background electromagnetic radiation from many sources, natural, TV, radio etc etc

Freefaller · 2 Feb 2015 at 14:38

Probably a non issue, but they did categorically prove that using a mobile phone heats up (excites the cells in your body) any tissue in close proximity. Whilst this radiation is low power, I think one cannot categorically state it has zero effect. Having minimal effect is probably more accurate. This is probably a little bit of sensationalism. Is it a big deal? Not really.

The thing is all this tech is new, we haven't had generations of exposure to these levels of radio wave radiation levels so we don't really know the effect. We can only theorise and do best guesses.

If they want to make the effort to protect the children by banning wifi, then good on them. Even if it does seem a little OTT.

They should use LiFi instead anyway (check out purelifi.com) it's a far superior tech IMO - we've started to use it at work and it's looking promising.

LockyOK · 2 Feb 2015 at 14:49

Wireless devices will be banned in “the spaces dedicated to the care, resting and activities of children under 3 years”

My God, that is awful, just AWFUL!

How will the poor lambs be able to keep in touch with the modern world. These cheese eating surrender monkeys are nothing more or less than a bunch of medieval Luddites. Why can't they be more like the Amerikans and give their babies automatic weapons?

Cosimo · 2 Feb 2015 at 15:03

LockyOK said:
My God, that is awful, just AWFUL!

How will the poor lambs be able to keep in touch with the modern world. These cheese eating surrender monkeys are nothing more or less than a bunch of medieval Luddites. Why can't they be more like the Amerikans and give their babies automatic weapons?

No need to worry. The poor lambs will go home to full wifi coverage where they can continue with their social networking.

ikillbears · 2 Feb 2015 at 15:47

Freefaller said:
The thing is all this tech is new, we haven't had generations of exposure to these levels of radio wave radiation levels so we don't really know the effect. We can only theorise and do best guesses.

If they want to make the effort to protect the children by banning wifi, then good on them. Even if it does seem a little OTT.

This is something I've though of in the past. All this stuff is relatively new, who really knows what it might do to us in the long run. good news is ill probably be dead or it will have killed me. looking forward to clothes through vision

Burnsy2023 · 2 Feb 2015 at 16:09

ikillbears said:
This is something I've though of in the past. All this stuff is relatively new, who really knows what it might do to us in the long run. good news is ill probably be dead or it will have killed me. looking forward to clothes through vision

I'm part of the UK COSMOS study, run by Imperial College London to find out. They track a large sample of people (105,000 in the UK) over a long period of time, so we should get good data on mobile phone and other wireless technologies.

http://www.ukcosmos.org/faqs_1.html#1

Rroff · 2 Feb 2015 at 17:13

ikillbears said:
This is something I've though of in the past. All this stuff is relatively new, who really knows what it might do to us in the long run. good news is ill probably be dead or it will have killed me. looking forward to clothes through vision

As with most em radiation the field strength has an inverse-square relationship with distance - it doesn't take much distance for the strength to drop off significantly.

As a precaution I'd recommend that babies and young children didn't spend more than about 20 minutes continuously (as a regular occurrence i.e. don't stick the router above their cot) within ~1m of stuff like wifi routers, etc. beyond that the effect will be no different to background levels - thats probably overkill but potentially supported by science.

Burnsy2023 · 2 Feb 2015 at 17:15

Rroff said:
thats probably overkill but potentially supported by science.

Source please.

agnes · 2 Feb 2015 at 17:18

Hold on, so keeping my phone playing music between my legs next to my veg in the car for an hour or 2 every day is slowly... Roasting my veg?

WHAAAAAA/

Rroff · 2 Feb 2015 at 17:29

Burnsy2023 said:
Source please.

Don't have a specific source. I have a little bit of awareness of research done for high power transmission systems in a certain field.

V F · 2 Feb 2015 at 17:30

Cosimo said:
No need to worry. The poor lambs will go home to full wifi coverage where they can continue with their social networking.