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The fifth generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, commonly called 5G, is on a lot of people’s minds these days. Ever since it was announced several years ago that it would be coming our way, there has been both excitement and apprehension about its proposed benefits and any unintended, unanticipated consequences.

Many people don’t really know what 5G truly is, how it’s different than previous generations of wireless technology, and what its implementation means for humanity and our planet. You may have heard of some of its perks through the extensive marketing campaign that ramped up last year, but may not understand the inner workings. Most importantly of all, the potential deleterious health effects of 5G have started to circulate all throughout the internet, but many do not understand the mechanism of harm upon living organisms, and what they can do to protect themselves.

With this article, we intend to explain 5G in as much detail as possible, without getting unnecessarily technical and missing or diluting the main points.

We will discuss how it’s different, the proposed uses for the technology and the way that many imagine it will change society, the potential downsides and negative consequences of its implementation, the current studies that point towards damaging health effects of extremely high frequencies (microwaves, as well as centimeter and millimeter waves), and what you can do to protect yourself as this technology ushers in huge change to the fabric of society and exposes us to exponentially increased levels of radiofrequency radiation.

The History of Wireless Technology

Let’s briefly cover the history of cellular networks and broadband technology, from 0G to 4G, to provide some background information.

In the 1970’s, the “mobile radio telephone”, which before this point was mainly a large installation in vehicles that required switchboard operators to connect your calls, became a smaller device that was possible to carry with you and no longer required switchboard operators. At the time, this was pretty revolutionary, as I’m sure you can imagine. This is referred to as 0G (Zero G).

In 1981 was when 1G came on the scene. This meant large cell phones that could only make phone calls, but were smaller and more manageable than 0G devices. Like 0G, they still used only analog signals, but were more compact and didn’t have protruding wires, making them more mobile. This new wireless technology meant you could make wireless calls on the go, whenever you wanted, bringing a level of long distance connectivity that began to change the function of human society.

2G standards were reached in 1992. Cell phones became even smaller and more affordable, making the technology more accessible and widespread. This was the beginning of the “mobile phone revolution”. Speeds increased, and text messaging became possible, as it used a combination of analog and digital signals.

3G came about in 2001, and integrated video, data and voice. This was the first time you could access the internet from a mobile device. Wireless devices became even more popular, especially among younger people.

4G standards were announced and begun implementation in 2011. From 3G, 4G has mostly brought with it a drastic increase in speed and bandwidth, making it possible to transfer much more and different types of information, such as video streaming. The term “LTE” stands for Long Term Evolution, which refers to the way they planned to increase 4G capabilities over the following decade. It means that 4G hadn’t reached its potential yet, and had a long way to go to achieve the speeds and bandwidth that was possible for the technology.

4G is still being improved, and it’s actually instrumental as a backbone for 5G technology. This means that 4G will NOT be abandoned as 5G is implemented. Rather, 5G stacks on top of 4G and they work together. This also means that none of the 4G infrastructure will be removed, but they will just add 5G antennas and repeaters along with the current infrastructure, therefore not removing any EMF sources, and actually adding considerably more.

How Is 5G Different, and What Are the Implications?

The actual software for the 5G antennas that are being installed is very different than the 4G software. What are the main differences?

First of all, a much wider range of frequencies is going to be used for 5G. Generally, 4G used frequencies up to 900 MHz. 5G will also use these lower frequencies (even down to 400 MHz) when attempting to transmit signals over very long distances. This is because lower frequencies travel considerably further, and since the waveforms are so large, they also have the advantage of being able to travel around obstructions like trees, buildings and through inclement weather conditions. However, using these lower frequencies that overlap the 4G spectrum will not allow 5G to reach its proposed capabilities. To achieve the speeds that are possible with 5G, much higher frequencies need to be used.

Current “high band” 5G infrastructure (as of mid 2021 when this article was written) is mostly operating between 5 GHz and 28 GHz, with some rare instances of up to 39 GHz. These are popularly referred to as millimeter waves, but they are actually centimeter waves. Centimeter waves are technically 3 – 30 GHz, while millimeter waves’ official definition is between 30 and 300 GHz.

We do not know of any instances where true millimeter waves have yet been utilized for 5G technology, although that is bound to change soon, with some of the 5G satellite companies that plan on activating their services later this year, but we will go more into that later in this article!

Higher frequencies can carry exponentially more data than lower frequencies. The supposed implications for this are capabilities that could change society in big ways. This includes nearly instantaneous movie downloads, extremely fast upload speeds, autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars), and the so-called Internet of Things (IoT).

The Internet of Things describes what are called “Smart” devices, appliances and utilities, which are being released on the retail market in droves. This could mean a video camera with sensors that points at your baby while they’re napping, notifying you when they make enough movement and sound to indicate waking. It could mean you have a wireless oven and a corresponding app on your phone, so you can preheat your oven for dinner on your way home from work. You could have a wireless doorbell that captures video of your visitors and sends it to your phone, letting you see who’s at the door without having to get off your couch. You could even have a “smart” refrigerator that lets you know when you’re out of butter, or even orders it for you without you having to do anything!

The Internet of Things is basically a staff of tiny robotic servants that are supposed to make our lives easier and more convenient. If you don’t like getting too much physical activity or participating in the mundane, manual aspects of life as a human being, you might love this idealized future. If you’re pretty self-sufficient and value the “chop wood, carry water” humble mentality and moving meditation practice of washing your own dishes and turning your oven on manually, you probably just see it as a waste of resources and a pointless invisible soup of wireless radiation permeating the resting space that’s supposed to support your health and well being.

All that philosophy aside, the Internet of Things is one of the main drivers and goals of 5G technology. It will also enable augmented and virtual reality, which certainly could have some valuable uses, one big one being a safe way to train people who are entering dangerous professions like surgeons, truck drivers and pilots. It’s a way for them to physically master the skills beforehand, reducing the likelihood of them endangering the lives of themselves and others due to lack of skill and experience.

However, widespread access to augmented and virtual reality, for the average person, could present serious problems. Once again, this depends on your philosophy of life, and many people are actually excited about the idea of transhumanism, a.k.a. the merging of man with machine. Many people would gladly install their mind into a machine and shed the mortal body, if it meant they could live forever and without the limitations of the natural human organism.

Whatever your philosophy, immersion into a digital and mental life could cause a serious deficiency of the necessities for human health, including physical contact with other humans, time in the outdoors and nature, natural vitamin D production from exposure to sunshine, physical activity, metabolic efficiency and uptake of nutrients. Not to mention the vital but underrated mental “free time” we need to let our minds wander and contemplate existence, without the distractions that come from our overstimulating technocratic world. Even with the current level of digital connectivity we have today, children are spending less time than ever playing outdoors and interacting with real life humans, and more time than ever staring into their smartphones and ignoring their physical surroundings, which is negatively impacting their health and development in many ways.

Other Features of 5G Technology

Getting back to the technical side for a moment, there a few other aspects of 5G technology that work differently than 4G. 3G and 4G cell towers are usually very tall and large, and the emitted signals radiate into the environment around the tower for miles. The signal permeates the air space, and any receiving device within that “cloud” can pick up and utilize the signal.

5G uses an antenna technique called beamforming, which goes along with the higher frequency, much shorter and smaller wavelengths that 5G utilizes. Via beamforming from phased array antennas, these very small wavelengths are directionally focused, depending on where the receiving devices are that are requesting the signal, rather than a cloud that permeates the area. It is so precise that it can even bounce signals off walls (since they generally can’t go through walls), exactly targeting the receiving devices, so that direct line of sight isn’t always required, which increases versatility and usefulness.

The beamforming aspect itself, since it concentrates a beam in a particular direction, could potentially be far more damaging to the health of anyone holding a receiving device (or in the direct path of one), and less damaging to anyone lucky enough to not be in the firing path at that time. As we detailed before, 4G is a “cloud” of radiation, permeating the vicinity and every living organism within that cloud. One may think that in this way, 4G could be more damaging than 5G, since the amount of time within direct 5G firing beams will probably be less overall than the time we spend in the 4G cloud, but the focused intensity of the 5G beams likely more than makes up for it. Additionally, as we stated before, 5G will be built on top of 4G infrastructure, so we will still be exposed to the same 4G, with the added intensity of 5G to boot!

Another feature that 5G brings is called Massive MIMO. MIMO is short for “multiple input, multiple output”, and refers to the nature and function of the antenna arrays on each base station. MIMO is used with 4G, where each antenna array contains between 8 and 12 antennas. With 5G, “massive” is added because there can be hundreds of antennas per base station, up to 256. This is specifically designed for crowded indoor areas where the number of devices demanding data is extremely high, like in sports stadiums, at concerts and in airports. If there are enough available antennas, it’s much more likely a data channel will be available in the exact moment you go to send a text or upload a photo to social media from your phone. Because of the sheer number of signals bouncing back and forth at all times, the beamforming technology explained above is absolutely essential for Massive MIMO to work effectively, without the signals bouncing off each other and canceling each other out.

For 5G to be utilized by receiving devices, like phones and computers, these devices actually need more antennas themselves. This means your current wireless devices won’t work with 5G. You need to buy a new cell phone that’s “5G enabled”, with different software and more antennas that are designed to receive the special 5G signals. All new cell phone models being released now are 5G enabled. If you want a 5G service, you will need a new phone, and likewise, if you want to AVOID 5G, make sure you stick with an older version that doesn’t have 5G capabilities!

We could essentially summarize the ways 5G is designed to improve wireless technology as:

• faster speeds: due to higher frequencies and more antennas available to transmit each data stream
• lower latency: also known as “lag time”, latency is the time it takes for an action to be executed following the instruction
• bandwidth: bandwidth is how large each data channel is, controlling the amount of information sent and received, and the greater frequency spectrum usage of 5G means each channel will be larger
• energy consumption: beamforming is more direct and efficient because it only sends information when and where it’s needed

Millions of Small Cells

The large, looming cell towers of the 3G and 4G days that reach many miles won’t work with the 5G vision, except as supporting infrastructure for long distance transmission. Because the higher frequencies can’t travel nearly as far, and are even obstructed by the atmosphere itself, the antennas need to be almost within line of sight of any receiving device. This means far more antennas need to be installed everywhere to make this a reality. This is called densification. These 5G antenna base stations are called small cells, because they are small, numerous, and low to the ground, compared to 4G cell towers. Because of the densification required to make the technology work in a seamless way, they will be installed on almost anything they can get away with. This includes lamp posts, trees, and top of buildings; indoors on desks, walls and ceilings; and even mobile small cells that are transported by drones to areas of high demand!

This is bringing up some major issues within some local communities who object to the placement of the new antennas. Since the viability of the technology relies on dense antenna placements, the FCC has passed laws and regulations that override the jurisdiction of local municipalities about where antennas are placed. According to their regulations, which are designed to allow the 5G rollout to happen as quickly as possible with the least objections, local areas and their citizens cannot contest the placement of antennas on public property. To expand their coverage even further, they are even trying to override personal and property rights by allowing a telecom to contract directly with a property owner to place a 5G repeater on their house (in exchange for monetary compensation or a discount on their service), without being required to notify neighbors. You can read more about this new rule in our article on the subject: FCC Changes Rule to Allow 5G Repeaters on Private Properties Without Neighbors’ Consent

Security & Surveillance Concerns

One major concern that many people have with 5G and the increase in artificial intelligence (AI) enabled devices in our lives is our security and privacy. This includes both security of sensitive personal information (like credit cards and identifying information) from those who intend to take advantage of it, and privacy from prying eyes into our personal lives.

An automated world could lead to technology that controls access to our basic necessities based on arbitrary standards, like a sort of “social credit score” that communist first world countries like China are already implementing. This could mean that if you say anything dissenting, or not approved by the State, on social media (or even in private email or text messages), the system itself could block your access to international travel, property rental, or even access to food. This may sound far fetched, but many believe that this potential reality is much closer than we can imagine. With the way that 5G is slated to drastically change society in fundamental ways, who is to say that it will always be used for “good” purposes, and won’t ever be an abuse of power by authoritarian governments who want tighter reins to control their citizens with? Just because technology is getting more advanced doesn’t mean that human morality and ethics are getting better alongside it.

Even more immediately realistic (and already happening) is the increased likelihood of the larger numbers of internet connected devices opening up more access than ever to your personal life by hackers. If someone wanted to burn your house down, they could turn on your stove and turn your thermostat all the way up remotely. If someone wanted to break into your house, they could remotely monitor your wireless cameras to study your daily routines and access points.

The truth is, the more of your life that’s on the internet, the more accessible your personal information and actions are to others. No matter how many security improvements are made to a wireless system, someone will find a way around them to get what they want.

Studies on Millimeter Wave Health Effects

In a U.S. Senate hearing in 2019 about the future of 5G technology, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal asked two Federal Communications Commission (FCC) representatives if any studies have been done on the effects of 5G technology on human health, and if they haven’t been done, if they plan to do any studies. Their answer was basically (and very awkwardly), no, there are no current studies, nor plans to do any studies in the future.

The strategy of the FCC and the telecoms is to rely on the highly outdated thermal-based exposure regulations that were established in 1996, the meager list of industry-funded studies that show no effect on biology, and misinterpreting, downplaying or ignoring several thousand additional studies that DO show negative effects on living biology from microwave radiation.

Obviously, no studies have been done on 5G itself, because 5G has not existed until now. However, there are studies on millimeter waves and their biological effects, because millimeter waves have been used since the 1950s for radar, the ‘60s for radio astronomy and the ‘70s for military applications. Russia has been researching the biological effects of millimeter waves since the ‘70s.

One argument that the industry makes for the supposed “safety” of millimeter waves in comparison to the lower frequencies is because the higher the frequency, the less the frequency will penetrate past the skin. However, this absolutely does NOT indicate safety. Vastly higher frequencies, such as ultraviolet and x-rays, also do not easily penetrate the skin, but everyone knows that an excess of these frequencies can do considerable damage.

The main reason why their argument is invalid, from currently available studies, is because these millimeter waves have a particular affinity for sweat ducts on human skin. It has been shown that these sweat ducts actually act as helical antennas for millimeter wave radiation, channeling it deep into the body. You can read the full study here.

Additionally, skin contains capillaries and nerve endings, and since millimeter waves primarily target the skin (and other surface body tissues), the effects can be transmitted through molecular mechanisms by the skin or through the nervous system.

One way that the military uses millimeter waves, and its implications, is particularly alarming. The military developed a non-lethal weapon that uses 95 GHz millimeter waves to inflict an unbearable burning sensation on the skin, causing the person to immediately move away by reflex. It was designed as a crowd-control method to disperse protesters and rioters. This is a form of Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) called the Active Denial System (ADS). Of course, the beams they use are at a much higher power than 5G will use, but instead of just a couple seconds of exposure, 5G will be a continuous exposure for anyone in the vicinity of an antenna.

Obviously, we don’t know if this low powered, continuous exposure will have similar effects as a high powered exposure that only lasts a couple of seconds, but why should we assume that it won’t have any negative effects? Potential negative side effects of the military weapon include redness of the skin and blisters, and that’s just for brief seconds of exposure. There have been two documented cases of injuries from ADS weapons, both second degree burns that required medical attention. Being targeted by this beam of millimeter waves has been described as making you feel like your body is on fire.

Barrie Trower, a former microwave weapons expert for the Royal Navy and British Secret Service, has extensive knowledge on the subject of microwave radiation. He states that pulsed microwave radiation, which now includes 5G, is considerably more bioactive at lower power levels than non-pulsed radiation. He strongly cautions against allowing children to be exposed to Wifi and cell phones, due to their sensitive developmental stage and the risk of permanent damage.

Doesn’t it sound sensible that we should at least do some more research on these high frequencies, as well as the combined effect of all the RF radiation we are about to be regularly exposed to, before we unleash it on all of society?

5G Satellites

So far we have just covered the ground-based aspect of 5G, which in itself is vast, but this is not even close to all that’s about to change. Several companies in the United States and around the world are in the process of launching tens of thousands of satellites into the low and very-low Earth orbit part of the atmosphere, all designed to provide 5G service from space, especially to rural and low-coverage areas. Even just SpaceX has been approved to launch 42,000 satellites, and up to one million Earth-based satellite uplinks (ground hubs) to connect them to ground users!

These satellites are set to operate up into the true millimeter wave spectrum, from 12 GHz to 75 GHz. This is a considerably higher frequency range than the current ground antennas. The intention to provide coverage to “rural and underserved” areas is concerning, as many EMF sensitive people who have gotten sick from RF radiation have had to move to rural areas to save their health. We currently do not know how much these satellites are going to affect people in the vicinity of 5G satellite service users, or if you will have to be using the service yourself to be affected by it.

There are even more issues with these satellites. One major issue is the massive increase of moving parts within the Earth’s orbit, which will exponentially increase the already high likelihood of collisions. Even one collision between two satellites can create thousands of pieces of “space junk” that circulates through the atmosphere and adds to the already terrible “debris belt” that exists from past collisions. Each piece of space debris, in turn, increases the chances of another collision happening again! Even a tiny object like a screwdriver, orbiting the Earth at an extremely high speed, can render a functioning satellite useless after a collision. Read more about this in our article about 5G satellites and space debris.

Besides this imminent danger, the more satellites and debris we have within Earth orbit, the less access we have to space. This deals a painful blow to astronomy, and even just to any person who enjoys viewing the night sky. Too many satellites in the night sky can brighten it enough to make it hard or impossible to view more distant objects, such as other stars and galaxies. Astronomers are pleading these satellite companies and the FCC to rethink all these satellite launches, voicing warnings of the consequences it will have on space observation and discovery.

An even more serious concern is the unknown effect that this many satellites, emitting their high frequencies, will have on the ionosphere itself. The ionosphere of the Earth holds a very specific and delicate electrical charge, which keeps the balance of all life on Earth. In ways we are just starting to understand, humans and all other life forms rely on this natural electromagnetism to hold and maintain the complex symphony of life on Earth.

How Can Blushield Technology Help?

Here at Blushield, we have been studying and following the plans for 5G for many years now. All our current stationary home and portable devices emit a dual band signal for optimal protection from more intense EMFs like 5G. This updated algorithm (compared to our older mono band products from years ago), which contains an additional microprocessor that emits continuous Phi ratio based frequency patterns, is designed to create a regenerative effect in the body if you’re dealing with close range and/or millimeter wave 5G. Read more here about the Phi ratio and why these frequency patterns are significant when it comes to healing and regeneration.

Close range means you are in direct line of sight of a 5G antenna or small cell, or less than 350 feet. This means you’re more likely to be in the “line of fire” of the 5G data beams at any given time, which can be a source of significant stress on the body.

The design of our current product line is also for exposure to the higher frequencies of millimeter wave 5G, between 40 and 300 GHz. While these frequencies are not currently being widely used, we do know that’s in their future plans, and we do know that the satellites will be operating in this spectrum.

If you are not sure if you’re close to a 5G antenna, or what frequencies your local 5G antennas emit, stay tuned for our next article where we walk you through how to find this information with exacting accuracy.

EMF Spectrum Cheat Sheet

References:

“5G: Everything You Need to Know” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhECDSuXRDs&t=1105s “Scientific American Warns: 5G Is Unsafe” – https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/11/joseph-mercola/scientific-american-warns-5g-is-unsafe/

“5G Wireless Technology: Millimeter Wave Health Effects” – https://www.saferemr.com/2017/08/5g-wireless-technology-millimeter-wave.html

“What You Should Know About 5G Satellites—How Musk’s Sci-Fi Dreams Are Becoming Our Living Nightmare” – https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/what-you-should-know-about-5g-satellites-how-musks-sci-fi-dreams-are-becoming-our-living-nightmare/

Study: “Human sweat ducts as helical antennas in the sub-THz frequency range - an overview” – http://www.tstnetwork.org/June2018/tst-v11n2-43Human.pdf

Study: “Modelling millimetre wave propagation and absorption in a high resolution skin model: the effect of sweat glands” – https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9155/56/5/007/meta

“Elonx: Starlink Compendium” – https://www.elonx.net/starlink-compendium/ “U.S. DoD: Active Denial System FAQs” – https://jnlwp.defense.gov/About/Frequently-Asked-Questions/Active-Denial-System-FAQs/

“Millimeter Wave Radar – Advantages And Challenges” – https://legendkings.com/millimeter-wave-radar-advantages-and-challenges/

A couple of decades into the 21^st century has certainly proven to be a very interesting time to be alive. There are so many new elements, unknowns, and rapid changes, and humanity seems to be on the precipice of even larger cascades of massive change. While many are speculating all day long, we honestly do not know whether this change is going to be very good, very bad, or a combination of both. But there will certainly be rapid change in all of our lives and in society at large, even just in this next decade.

Two perfect examples that are just now popping up in the past 1-2 years but are already dominating the landscape of people’s minds and lives, are Covid-19 and 5G.

Covid-19 is extremely mysterious. Those who listen to the mainstream narrative on the evening news think it’s a simple thing with clear cut answers (the answers given to us by the talking head “experts”), but closely examining even the mainstream narrative over the past 1.5 years reveals constantly morphing and contradictory messages on what is true. The topic also triggers extreme emotional charge in people, making it difficult to think rationally or critically about the issue.

If someone were to examine all the available information about this issue, they would see a wide variety of speculation about what it’s all about and what’s really going on. The truth is, none of us really know the whole truth, and it’s important to keep an open, curious mind about what we are seeing and hearing. One thing that’s for sure is that this worldwide crisis, happening during the age of social media and the internet (where all minds can connect to each other in a huge, intensely active thought bubble), has drastically changed all of our lives in a shockingly short span of time.

Another new and unprecedented change is 5G, or 5^th Generation wireless technology. Currently, 5G is mostly an idea, and a marketing term, for a hyper-connected digital future where everything communicates with everything else, and man and machine live together almost as equals. Some consider it the beginning of a potential new era of transhumanism, where man merges with machine. To many people this brings hopeful visions of rising above the weaknesses and misfortunes of humankind, and to many others this possible future sounds like a living nightmare that could easily go terribly wrong in all the ways (just watch a few episodes of Black Mirror to get an idea).

This concept of 5G, followed by the attempted implementation of it, is on a lot of people’s minds. The actual implementation has been slow going. The current 5G frequency spectrum in many areas still widely overlaps the 4G spectrum, since utilizing the higher frequency centimeter/millimeter ranges requires intensive increase of infrastructure density. Antennas and repeaters will need to be less than 100 meters apart to transmit the incredibly fast and high loads of information required to make the world of self-driving cars and the internet of things actually happen. A lot of 5G still operates between 450 MHz and 6 GHz, which is a similar range as Wifi routers and 4G cell phones.

However, cities all over the world have rolled out what they call “high band” 5G, which is considered anywhere over 6 GHz, and up to 28 GHz and sometimes higher. This frequency spectrum is technically called centimeter waves (3-30 GHz), although popularly referred to as millimeter waves (true millimeter waves are between 30 and 300 GHz). They have been able to install enough infrastructure to increase telecommunications performance to a large degree in many dense metropolitan areas, especially in crowded places like sports stadiums, concert halls and airports.

Higher frequency use aside, humanity is using more wireless devices than ever, so our overall exposure levels (even to the lower spectrums) are going way up. This sudden increase in manmade radiation with pulsed, repetitive, oscillating frequencies is now permeating our bodies in a way we have never had to deal with in the history of our species. What are the consequences of that?

Since radiofrequency radiation (and manmade EMFs in general) are proven to negatively effect the immune system, is there any way that these EMFs are affecting our ability to handle a phenomenon like Covid-19?  

Evidence for a Connection between COVID-19 and Exposure to Radiofrequency Radiation

An 18-page research paper published in January, 2021 examines the high probability of radiofrequency radiation (including microwaves and millimeter waves) as an environmental factor that can moderately or strongly impact the immune system (and other bodily systems), and therefore the body’s ability to fight off and recover from Covid-19. They examined the peer-reviewed scientific literature on the detrimental biological effects of RF radiation, and identified several ways in which RFR may be contributing to Covid-19 as a toxic environmental cofactor.

It was noticed that Covid-19 surfaced in Wuhan, China, shortly after the implementation of city-wide 5G, and spread globally, demonstrating a statistical correlation to international communities with 5G antennas installed.

They conclude that RFR (especially 5G, which includes 4G infrastructure densification) has exacerbated Covid-19 prevalence and severity by weakening host immunity and increasing virulence by 6 separate factors.

The abstract of the paper summarizes these 6 methods of interaction between RF radiation, the human body, and Covid-19:

1. causes morphologic changes in erythrocytes including echinocyte and rouleaux formation that may be contributing to hypercoagulation;
2. impairs microcirculation and reduces erythrocyte and hemoglobin levels exacerbating hypoxia;
3. amplifies immune system dysfunction, including immunosuppression, autoimmunity, and hyperinflammation;
4. increases cellular oxidative stress and the production of free radicals, exacerbating vascular injury and organ damage;
5. augments intracellular Ca2+ essential for viral entry, replication, and release, in addition to promoting proinflammatory pathways
6. worsens heart arrhythmias and cardiac disorders

“In short, RFR is a ubiquitous environmental stressor that contributes to adverse health outcomes of COVID-19. We invoke the Precautionary Principle and strongly recommend a moratorium on 5G wireless infrastructure at this crucial time to help mitigate the pandemic, and to preserve public health until governmental safety standards for RFR exposure based on current and future research are defined and employed.”

Let’s unpack these a little bit, to try to better understand what is happening.  

Effects on the Blood

Erythrocytes are red blood cells, which are cells that carry hemoglobin through the bloodstream to deliver essential oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. Both Covid-19 and RF radiation have detrimental effects on the blood. RFR makes red blood cells “sticky” and causes rouleaux formulation, which is a stacking/clumping of red blood cells, which inhibits microcirculation and oxygen transport.

RFR also increases the production of echinocytes, which are “spiky” red blood cells (also called burr cells) with abnormal and dysfunctional cell membranes. The presence of unusually high levels of echinocytes can indicate organ stress (especially in the kidneys), nutrient deficiency, toxicity and free radicals, dehydration / electrolyte imbalance, and any other factor that creates a pathological condition in the body.

RF radiation has also been shown to cause decreased hemoglobin and red blood cell production, inhibition of oxygen utilization, and hypercoagulation.

Covid-19 can also increase rouleaux formulation, echinocyte production, decrease hemoglobin, and can even cleave iron molecules out of red blood cells, which reduces the number of functional red blood cells while these free floating iron molecules cause oxidative stress, tissue damage and hypoxia.

Since both RFR and Covid-19 have similar effects on the blood, the combination of the two could exacerbate and increase the incidence of hypoxia, thrombosis, strokes, and hypercoagulation, compared to a Covid-19 infection that’s free from the influence of RFR.  

Oxidative Stress

Free radical production and oxidative stress is one of the most well studied and established harmful effects of microwave radiation on the body. Oxidative stress itself can lead to many other harmful outcomes, including DNA damage, cell death and cancer. It is a nonspecific pathological condition that indicates the presence of reactive oxygen species (ROS) at a level that surpasses the body’s ability to detoxify and repair the damage they cause. Many harmful environmental factors can cause free radical production and oxidative stress.

Covid-19 inhibits the body’s pathways that naturally reduce ROS levels, which can increase the possibility for immune dysregulation that results in the “cytokine storm” overreactive immune system phenomenon observed in severe Covid-19 cases. In turn, a cytokine storm itself produces oxidative stress, creating a vicious cycle.

“RFR is an oxidative agent with a high pathogenic potential, especially when exposure is continuous.”

Any environmental factor that increases oxidative stress could worsen outcomes and increase morbidity of Covid-19.  

Immune Response

Since the 1970’s, studies on microwave radiation have demonstrated damage to the immune systems of animals and humans. This is another of the most studied and well established detrimental effects of RF radiation. Findings include physical alterations in immune cells, a degradation of immunological responses, inflammation, tissue damage, and autoimmune disorders. Even low levels of microwave radiation have been shown to physically alter the essential cells of the immune system and degrade immunologic responses.

The acute phase of a Covid-19 infection shows many indications of an innate immune response, which is a healthy response to an invader. Severe cases show an overreaction by the immune system, an uncontrolled release of pro-inflammatory cytokines, called a cytokine storm. This can happen if the immune system is under significant stress and is not functioning normally. Cytokine storms can result in cell death, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), multi-organ system failure, and death.

Anything that puts the immune system under chronic stress, such as radiofrequency radiation, can increase the chances of a cytokine storm and a morbid outcome from Covid-19.  

Intracellular Calcium Levels

Dr. Martin Pall’s studies on microwave radiation and voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) in 2013 were a breakthrough in understanding a primary mechanism of damage to the body from these manmade EMFs. To read more about Dr. Pall’s work that shows how calcium channel blockers mitigate the harm from EMFs, indicating that EMFs cause damage by activating the body’s VGCCs, go here:

Microwave Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) Shown to Cause Depression & Anxiety

Intracellular calcium is also essential for viral entry, replication and release, and it has been reported that viruses hijack the calcium channels and increase intracellular calcium. Intracellular calcium may be a factor in Covid-19, as a recent study showed that elderly patients hospitalized with Covid-19 had better outcomes when calcium channel blocking drugs were used in their treatment.

Intracellular calcium is involved in numerous biochemical processes, including the regulation of pro-inflammatory cytokine production, as well as blood coagulation and thrombic cascades. RFR exposure may enhance the infectivity of the virus by increasing intracellular calcium, which can contribute to inflammatory processes and thrombosis (blood clots that obstruct blood flow).

Magnesium is a natural calcium channel blocker, so appropriate magnesium supplementation can be a good choice when exposed to RF radiation, especially if you also have Covid-19.  

Heart Disease & Arrhythmias

Both radiofrequency radiation and Covid-19 have detrimental effects on the heart and cardiovascular system. RFR can impede blood circulation, alter blood pressure and heart rate, affect ECG readings, and cause chest pain, heart palpitations and arrhythmias. In severe cases, Covid-19 can damage the heart muscle through direct viral infection or as a secondary effect of immune system overactivation, which is associated with arrhythmias and mortality.

The combination of these two factors puts extra stress on the heart, reducing the chance of a complete recovery.

Conclusion

“This evidence presented here does not claim causation. Clearly COVID-19 occurs in regions with little wireless communication. The evidence indicates that RFR may weaken the host, exacerbate COVID-19 disease, and thereby worsen the pandemic.

This is the first scientific paper documenting a link between RFR emitted by wireless communication devices and COVID-19. Healthcare workers and policymakers should consider RFR as an environmental cofactor exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods for reducing exposure to RFR should be provided to all patients and the general population.”

Here is the full study:

Evidence for a Connection Between COVID-19 and Exposure to Radiofrequency Radiation from Wireless Telecommunications Including Microwaves and Millimeter Waves

Since last year, as the Covid-19 phenomenon changed all of our lives while we are simultaneously being exposed to unprecedented levels of wireless radiation through the installation of 5G, we think that Blushield is more important and relevant to humanity that ever before! It is one powerful way to protect yourself and your family as we navigate through this interesting time full of mysteries and unknowns.

We believe that utilizing tools to stay healthy and adaptable is the key to moving through this time with as much ease as possible, with vitality of body, peace of mind, and faith of heart!

EMF is an acronym for electromagnetic field, which refers to an invisible field that’s created when the combination of electricity and magnetism radiates outward. This occurs in nature in a variety of ways, as a natural byproduct of charged particles interacting with the magnetic field of the Earth. A couple centuries ago, humans figured out how to produce electromagnetic fields and use them for a variety of practical purposes. If you want to find out more about EMFs and learn about the electromagnetic spectrum, check out our article that explains the subject in depth.

The electromagnetic fields that humans produce and utilize are very different in structure than EMFs that nature produces. Manmade EMFs are usually pulsed, repetitive, oscillating frequencies, which can have a totally different effect on biology than nature’s infinitely varied frequency patterns.

As humanity’s use of electronic and wireless devices has increased exponentially over the past few decades, many have wondered if the invisible emissions from these manmade devices are safe for our health. The result of this widespread concern has been a plethora of scientific studies. The majority of the independently-funded studies, and even a surprising percentage of cell phone industry and government funded studies, have shown that manmade electromagnetic fields from a variety of sources can indeed harm human bodies, as well as other living organisms. While the vastly wealthy telecommunications industries (and the government organizations who supposedly regulate them) try to ignore or downplay these studies, they do in fact exist and carry considerable weight.

If you want to delve more into the thousands of currently existing studies on the harms of EMFs, check out these articles we wrote previously on the subject:

Are EMF Dangers A Conspiracy Theory?

$30M National Toxicology Program Study Shows Cell Phone Radiation is Carcinogenic

New Proof That Cell Phones Are Not Safe

Microwave Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) Shown to Cause Depression & Anxiety

How Do We Protect Ourselves?

Now that we’ve established that manmade EMFs do harm living biology, what do we do now? How do we protect ourselves from an invisible element that seems to permeate every facet of our modern lives?

As awareness of this issue increases, and more people than ever before are taking responsibility for informing themselves of the potentially harmful side effects of this fairly new element of the human experience, potential EMF protection solutions are popping up right and left. It is wonderful that individuals and companies are creating and offering innovative solutions, so that hopefully we don’t have to sacrifice our health and well-being for this enticing modern opportunity of greatly increased digital connectivity.

We get many questions from people who are confused about all the options out there, wondering which ones are effective and which aren’t worth the hype, and how to get the biggest return on their investment in EMF protection.

We will break down the different types of EMF protection strategies and devices that are out there, so that you can more clearly understand which ones will be right for you, with your unique lifestyle and needs.

The Best Protection Is Minimizing Exposure

Before we even start discussing ways to mitigate the bodily damage caused by the EMFs you’re exposed to, it’s important to understand that the number one way to reduce harm from EMFs is to minimize your exposure to them. In our modern world, this is nearly impossible to do completely, and undesirable to do past a certain point. Almost none of us, even if you’re a huge lover of the wilderness, are going to go live there full time. Even if you somehow manage to do so, the new 5G satellites being launched into space at the current rate of hundreds per month are especially designed to provide service to rural and uninhabited areas.

Most of us need, and want, to live our lives and do our work in moderately to highly population dense areas, around other humans and human activity. We may choose this lifestyle because we enjoy it, or feel that we need to live this way due to our individual life circumstances. It may be a nice thought to live somewhere where there are zero cell towers within several miles of your home, but for most people this is unrealistic. It’s also unrealistic, and undesirable to most people, to never use a cell phone, computer, or drive a car. We shouldn’t have to give those things up to feel good and maintain our health.

That said, there are ways that you can moderately and sensibly reduce your exposure, even without compromising essential or enjoyable aspects of your lifestyle. Here are a few easy and smart ways to reduce exposure that will go a long way in decreasing the stress of EMFs, when cultivated as habits:

• Never talk with your phone held against your head, especially during long conversations. Instead, use the speakerphone setting, or an AirTube headset when you need to talk on your phone. If you’re making a quick call, even just holding your phone a couple inches further away from your head (so you can still hear the caller and talk into the microphone) will make a big difference in how much radiation is reaching your head.

• Never carry your phone against your body, unless it’s on airplane mode or turned off. This means keep it out of your pocket or bra when it’s turned on and the signal is active. Airplane mode is your friend! If you’ve never used airplane mode, it’s worth learning how, and it’s an easily accessible setting on all modern phones. If you need to keep your phone on because you’re waiting for a call or text, at least make sure it’s further away from your body, such as on a table next to you, or kept at a safer distance from your body in your purse or bag.

• Keep your phone out of your bedroom at night, and keep electronics away from your sleeping area. If your phone needs to be in your bedroom at night, keep it on airplane mode (you can still use the alarm) or at a safer distance from your sleeping area. You could even turn off or unplug electrical appliances in your bedroom before you go to sleep, or turn off the breaker that powers your bedroom outlets. Many people have found that these few changes improve their quality of sleep at night!

• Turn off your Wifi at night or when you aren’t using it. Wifi is usually the closest range and most intense EMF exposure that many people have. If you can eliminate this one electromagnetic stressor more often, you may find that you feel much better.

• Even better: Ditch the Wifi and get your home wired with copper or fiber optic internet! Wired connections are so much better for every reason. Read more about this in our article, Why Wired Internet in the Home & Office Is Better Than 5G.

• Don’t use “Smart” devices in your home (within reason). This includes wireless doorbells, baby monitors, and “smart” appliances like Wifi enabled ovens, washers/dryers and beds. You may need to use these devices for certain reasons, but we recommend at least thoroughly assessing the use of each device and deciding if it’s worth the extra EMF exposure. If you have a “smart” meter as your electricity meter, contact your electric company and ask if they can replace it with an older digital or analog meter.

Those are just a few suggestions that can immediately improve your quality of life, without compromising connectivity and only slightly decreasing convenience. With this approach, there will be trade-offs, and you will have to decide for yourself which exposures are worth tolerating, and which ones you truly don’t need.

EMF Shielding & Blocking

One popular approach to EMF protection is using shielding materials to block electromagnetic radiation. These items contain certain metals, often in a grid-like pattern, that absorb the measurable EMFs and don’t allow their passage beyond the material. They are commonly referred to as Faraday shields (or Faraday cages), named after Michael Faraday, who invented them in the 1800’s. Often, they will be simply called EMF shielding or blocking materials. They can be made of cloth (with metal strands weaved into the cloth), solid sheets of metal, or grid-like or cage-like structures.

Often people will put these around their bed when they sleep, or wear clothing made of Faraday shielding cloth, hoping to block the EMFs from reaching their body.

This approach can be marginally effective, with certain key limitations. Shielding will attenuate or fully block the conventionally measurable transverse component of the electromagnetic wave, which you can see if you use an EMF measuring device like a Trifield meter. Your cell phones and Wifi won’t work behind a Faraday cage, because the information they transmit is on a transverse carrier signal.

The problem is that shielding will not block the longitudinal (scalar) component of the electromagnetic wave, which is estimated to be 5 times stronger in its biological effects than the transverse component! The EMF measuring devices available today are only designed to measure the transverse component of the EMF. Many people believe that if these devices can’t measure it, then it doesn’t exist.

Every electromagnetic field contains both a transverse and longitudinal component, as theorized by James Clerk Maxwell and proven by Nikola Tesla, and many others since Tesla’s time. A transverse wave cannot exist without an accompanying longitudinal/scalar field, but the opposite is not true: a scalar field can exist without a transverse component, because the scalar field doesn’t depend on the transverse wave. This is what we call “pure scalar”, and is how Blushield devices work. This begins to get somewhat complicated, but to learn more about scalar energy, and longitudinal vs. transverse waves, read these two article we have written to explain the subject in depth:

Scalar Energy and EMF – What You Need To Know
Scalar Energy, Biology, and Consciousness

Back to shielding, because of the above drawback it’s important to understand that relying too much on shielding as a primary EMF protection strategy can give a false sense of security. You may think you’re more protected than you are, because you are relying more on the numbers displayed on a meter than feedback from your body. This is understandable, since many people are not very sensitive to subtle energies, so may not trust their body’s signals.

Another big downside to shielding is that in this world, you can’t live in a bubble. You can’t just block out harmful frequencies and exist in a vacuum. You still need to participate in life, and along with living comes exposure to many frequencies, including a variety of beneficial and harmful ones. Even if you have a fiber optic or copper internet connection, making it possible to use your computer internet inside your Faraday cage, most people can’t completely cut themselves off from the outside world, nor would they want to.

If you currently use shielding products and have experienced benefits from them, we encourage you to continue using them in the limited way you can, but not to overly rely on them as a primary form of EMF protection. Here’s a more thorough explanation of the scalar component of the EMF, and why you can’t truly block EMFs:

Can You Actually Block EMF?

Passive EMF Protection

The majority of EMF protection devices on the market could be considered “passive” devices. This means they don’t use electricity to amplify a signal, so are more subtle and inert aspects of your environment. These include various stickers, necklaces, pyramids and stones, as well as some larger devices.

Some of these can have neat properties and do seem to exude some kind of beneficial energy. An example are certain types of rocks, like lodestones and shungite. We think these are interesting and worth having around if you like them, and they probably have some minor protective properties. However, there is no way that the energy these stones exude is enough to combat the extremely high levels of pervasive EMF we are exposed to in modern times. They cannot be considered a primary EMF protection strategy.

The same goes for the many stickers and pendants on the market. Some are meant to stick on your phone and supposedly block the radiation from them, or “harmonize” the EMFs so they aren’t damaging your health. Once again, there is no way that a tiny sticker or inert necklace is going to be remotely strong enough to block or render harmless even a tiny bit of the currently obscene levels of EMFs around us. For the ones that claim to block EMFs, if they actually blocked the signal from your phone, you couldn’t make calls from your phone. Our personal experience with these, and those of everyone we know, is that these don’t work at all and are a waste of money.

Pyramids are similar to the above mentioned rocks, in most cases. The pyramid shape naturally has properties that concentrate energy, and the materials the pyramids are made from often have some kind of subtle energetic properties. Many of them are made of a resinous combination of substances that is known as orgonite, and others are simple pyramids made from shungite or other stones. These can be pretty decorative pieces, and often exude some subtly beneficial energy, but most likely do very little to reduce the harm of EMF exposure.

If you start looking into the higher price ranges, you will find some larger devices that are specifically designed for EMF protection, but could also be considered passive devices. They are all designed differently, some using copper coils, mineral solutions, and gemstones or precious metals. Some contain a liquid that releases free electrons, which are supposed to depolarize the EMFs and render them harmless to the body. They may have some positive effect, depending on the person, but once again, a device or contraption that’s passive (not powered) is going to be more subtle and less powerful, and is unlikely to be able to mostly or completely remove the bodily stress caused by EMFs.

Active, Powered EMF Protection

There are only a few devices on the market currently that utilize mains power or a battery to amplify a signal, to become a strong enough positive influence to match or exceed the negative influence of the manmade EMFs. From our research and experience, only powered devices are strong enough to truly negate the overwhelming levels of EMFs we are dealing with in modern times.

Active devices either plug into a wall socket with a power cord, or run from a battery. Comparing the active EMF protection devices that are on the market, that’s about where the similarities end. The actual content of the broadcasted signal is vitally important. Active devices amplify a signal, but what type of information and frequencies are carried by this strong signal, and how does it work to protect your body from the EMFs in the environment? None of these devices remove the harmful EMFs from the environment, because if they did, your communications devices would no longer work. If they don’t remove or modify the EMFs, how do they help?

Active devices can operate through various means. Some use copper coils (aka Tesla coils) to generate a scalar field. These can have some positive effects, but there are downsides to using copper coils. Read more about that in our article on the subject:

Tesla Coils, Copper Toxicity, and Blushield’s Revolutionary Scalar Microprocessors

Some other active devices use precious metals and gemstones along with lights that slowly release the gemstone particles into the surrounding environment. Other active devices generate what’s called a “noise field”, which is random inaudible noise that is meant to combine with the harmful EMFs to deactivate the part of their structure that causes harm, so hopefully they will impact your body in a less harmful way.

Some EMF protection devices emit repetitive frequencies, including supposedly beneficial frequencies like the Schumann resonance, or Solfeggio frequencies. They will repeat one frequency, or one sequence of frequencies, over and over again. Some healing devices, like PEMF machines, will also do this to stimulate healing with a short term use. We don’t recommend exposing your body to repetitive frequencies for too long. You may see benefits at first, but over time, the body can develop a tolerance, resistance, or even an allergy to the repeated frequency. In terms of how it affects your body, the repetition of one frequency is like hitting the same button over and over again, exhausting the body in a certain way, while “under-stimulating” your body in other ways. Think of it like consuming too much of one nutrient or mineral, which eventually creates an imbalance and requires other nutrients to balance the body out.

Repetitive frequencies are thought to be a large part of the harm from manmade EMF sources. The information from your cell phone and cell towers is transmitted on a carrier signal of a single frequency. This frequency, for example the 2.45 GHz from your Wifi router, is stimulating your body in a very specific way, 24/7. This is not natural, and we are not designed to deal with a constant barrage of repetitive frequencies, since they do not exist in nature.

Not only is the repetitive aspect of the frequency and amplitude having a negative impact, these carrier signals (or information carrying radio waves) contain the information of the text or voice that is being sent, which is not coherent when it reaches the body. Energy fields in nature are coherent and beneficial to the body, so when the body is bombarded with chaotic signals, it goes on the defensive.

Blushield Active EMF Protection – Amplifying Nature’s Native Frequencies

We are surrounded by natural frequencies, and have been since the beginning of our existence. These frequencies of nature are infinitely varied, and nothing in nature will ever repeat in exactly the same way more than once, because everything in time and space is always moving and changing. We need these frequencies for our health.

Sadly, most of us live in population dense cities with very little natural elements around us. We are around buildings, cars, and wireless communications devices all day, and our lives are sorely lacking in dense forests, waterfalls, the ocean and beach, and the freshly charged, negative ion rich air of high mountain environments. There is still the background Schumann resonance frequencies (which are actually changing and not a fixed frequency), but our manmade devices are so pervasive that these subtle background frequencies become mostly drowned out, as far as our bodies’ ability to sense them.

The idea and purpose of Blushield is to mimic the frequencies nature emits, but to do it in an active, powered way, amplifying natural frequency patterns so our bodies can “hear” them over the manmade EMFs. As long as the Blushield device you are using is strong enough for your body to hear it over the combined total of repetitive manmade EMFs around you (which will be unique to your situation), your Blushield will emit the dominant signal in your environment, and your body will “hear” or “tune into” this signal and begin to resonate with it.

This process of your body preferentially entraining to a dominant frequency stream that’s more biocompatible is called “sympathetic resonance”.

This doesn’t mean the EMFs go away, just that your body stops paying attention to them and reacting to them. When the body notices the harmful EMFs, it treats these unfamiliar and repetitive frequency patterns like it would treat an actual physical invader (like a virus or bacteria), and mounts an immune response to them, in an effort to attack and defeat them. The problem is, there is nothing physical there to attack and defeat, so the body exhausts itself continuously trying.

This immune system overreaction to repetitive frequencies is the primary reason that EMFs are harmful. If we had another frequency stream available to entrain to, one that was biologically coherent and similar to the way our bodies are designed, we would entrain to it like a tuning fork. Or like tuning into a different radio station. The other stations still exist, but we can’t hear them anymore, since we have turned the dial to a different station. What is interesting is that the biology demonstrates that the body is no longer negatively impacted by the EMF in the environment when Blushield is in operation and once the person is fully entrained. So it is not just ignoring the EMF, the body is actually harmonizing and optimizing its biofield, which is what a lot of these passive devices are claiming to do.

Blushield is an active, powered device that utilizes cutting-edge microprocessor technology. The nature-based, infinitely varied multiple waveform algorithms are programmed into the microprocessor. This extremely complex pattern is sent through a circuit to light-emitting diodes (which can produce scalar fields through photon emission), which encode the waveform patterns onto a scalar carrier signal that radiates hundreds of feet outward in an invisible sphere.

Because Blushield uses a scalar/longitudinal carrier signal, it is highly bioactive. The encoded frequency algorithm emits multiple waveforms at the same time, each conforming to patterns that occur in nature, such as the Phi ratio. The frequencies themselves are all within the human responsive range, which is a range of frequencies that occur in nature that are harmonious with biology. The multiple waveforms overlap in a way where they will never repeat in exactly the same way twice, with the same combination of frequencies at the same amplitude. This ensures that the body never develops a tolerance or resistance to the frequencies, so we will remain attuned to Blushield for as long as the device is plugged in or turned on.

Which EMF Protection Strategy is Right for You?

To wrap it all up and help you apply this to your unique life situation, how can you know which protection strategies will give you the most mileage and results?

We recommend basing your EMF protection on a combination of reducing EMF exposure in reasonable ways, and the appropriate strength Blushield device(s) for your living situation and needs. The active, powered nature of Blushield makes it far more powerful than any passive device, and it also stands out among active devices on the market with its revolutionary scalar microprocessor and infinitely varied frequency output based on natural patterns that have been with us as humans since the beginning of our time here.

If you want to add anything on top of that, go for it! We find that Blushield doesn’t seem to conflict with or negate other devices and approaches, and can be used in combination with most of them with no ill effect. In fact, if there are other frequency generators or devices being used, it will likely fill in the gaps or balance the body to anything that may not be in resonance or coherence with your body.

You can use Blushield with shielding materials, which will protect you from the scalar component of the harmful EMFs that travels through the shielding materials.

You can use Blushield with grounding/earthing sheets and mats, where Blushield could protect your body if the grounding influence is causing ambient EMFs to “ground” through you, which could potentially increase your EMF exposure.

You can use Blushield with stones and pyramids, and passive devices that emit subtle healing substances and frequencies into your environment. In this case, Blushield could be seen as your basic EMF protection, and any passive devices that actually work may add some energetic perks on top of that.

You can use Blushield along with PEMF and microcurrent healing devices, where it can negate any stress that may be caused by repetitive transverse frequencies these devices can emit, while still allowing your body to benefit from the targeted healing influence of these therapeutic style devices.

To find out which stationary home device and portable Blushield devices would be the best choice for your living situation and needs, please read our Blushield Product Guide. We have several models of home devices and portables, each designed for different situations and exposure levels.

We are always here to help you out if you need any more specific guidance, so don’t hesitate to reach out!

On February 26^th, 2021, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) filed another lawsuit against the FCC. This one is in response to a recent “small” alteration the FCC made to their “Over-the-Air Reception Devices” rule (also known as OTARD) that would make it quick and easy for a wireless provider to contract with a private individual to place a “hub and relay” wireless antenna on the individual’s property.

Previously, the rule only allowed individuals to have wireless receivers installed on their houses for their own personal service, not transmitters. The new rule would allow individuals who are utilizing the service of a wireless provider to host antennas that are not just receivers, but also transmitters, acting as a “hub” of wireless service to “relay” faster and more direct service to surrounding homes that are also subscribed to the same service network.

The FCC insists this is now necessary because the higher speeds and increased data transmission of 5G wireless service require significantly denser antenna networks, since higher frequency 5G signals will not reach nearly as far as the comparatively longer and broader 4G wavelengths, and are easily obstructed by solid objects like trees and buildings. Their only way around this is to place antennas in as many places as possible. It seems that they realized they could only get so far with antenna placements in public jurisdictions (which their laws already allow them to do, prohibiting local governments from objecting in most cases), and now they have to go after private property locations, especially in rural areas where their coverage is currently low or spotty.

Sadly, many individuals who own or lease property will be happy to host these antennas, in exchange for monetary compensation by the wireless providers, or a discount on their service. The new rule overrides local zoning ordinances and neighborhood association rules, and does not require public notification before a contract is signed between service provider and individual. So in most cases, neighbors will not even know about the new antenna. If a neighbor notices and objects to the antenna, under the new rule they have no recourse, even though a wireless repeater/relay antenna could irradiate their home with dangerous close range radiofrequency radiation.

What Could Go Wrong?

To get an idea of what could easily happen, and will happen in rural areas if this rule is allowed to persist, imagine a house with one of these hub and relay antennas installed on the roof. Let’s say their neighbor two doors down also subscribes to the same wireless service. With this new antenna placement, the signal will come from a larger antenna or tower further away, straight to the new antenna/repeater, then relayed directly to the home of the neighboring subscriber.

What about the house in between? Let’s say this house doesn’t want the service, because they already have a fiber optic or copper internet connection, or maybe they are okay with their older, slower 4G cell service. Let’s say this family recently moved to a rural area because one or more members experience radiation sickness when they’re around high levels of microwave/radiofrequency radiation. For their health, they had to leave the conveniences of the city and live a slower paced rural life. Their home is their sanctuary from the wireless madness that’s increasingly permeating population dense areas.

There are many people in this situation, and the numbers are increasing all the time as EMF sources and levels multiply. This new rule could make their lives unlivable, and there is no allowance for them to contest the change, violating their bodily autonomy and private property rights.

FCC Rule Is Adopted, Violating Numerous Personal & Property Rights

The lawsuit by CHD was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals, and asserts that the FCC’s amendment violates constitutional rights and common law personal and property rights. The rule also preempts federal and state civil rights laws that protect the disabled. Microwave sickness is a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and a handicap under the Fair Housing Act (FHA).

Dafna Tachover, director of CHD’s 5G and Wireless Harms Project, said:

“This rule will create a wireless ‘wild west.’ Because of the extensive preemptions and how easy OTARD makes it to install antennas to propagate the signals, the rule will likely lead to the most significant and fastest proliferation of 5G by using homes and private properties for the deployment.”

CHD first became aware that the FCC intended to adopt the new rule early in 2020, and filed a 22-page letter with the FCC detailing the legal and moral transgressions it would allow, and urging them to reconsider. The letter was joined by 15,090 people, many of whom experience debilitating microwave sickness. Parents wrote about their children’s sickness with cancer, and how wireless radiation aggravates autism symptoms and causes seizures in their children. The FCC’s proposed rule was objected to by municipalities, the Real Estate Association, and the Conference of Mayors.

The Conference of Mayors argued in their official comments that the FCC lacks the legal authority to expand the OTARD rule to include hub and relay antennas, stating that hub and relay antennas fall under exclusive jurisdiction of state and local governments. Many others agree with their sentiments, including CHD. It is clear that the FCC is attempting to gradually remove any and all decision making power over cell tower and antenna placement from the local communities that will have to suffer the variety of consequences of their existence, and who may not even desire their service at all.

In the FCC’s Report and Order that officially approved the new rule on January 7^th, their usual style of callous disregard of public objection was clear once more in the brief and unconvincing counter-arguments they included almost as an afterthought, close to the very end of the order, dismissing tens of thousands of objections with lazy conjecture. As usual, they dismiss the mere possibility of harm from radiofrequency radiation, ignoring the mountain of significant and conclusive evidence proving its existence and prevalence in the population.

CHD attorney Scott McCollough warns, “approval of this rule will lead to massive suffering, extensive litigation and likely public protest.”

Stay Tuned for Progress on CHD vs. FCC Cases

Here at Blushield, we closely follow the activities of Children’s Health Defense, and strongly believe in their tireless pursuit to protect the health of our children from the variety of toxic exposure sources plaguing society today. We donate monthly to CHD to directly support their fight against unethical legislation allowing the proliferation of harmful microwave radiation and 5G.

This is the second lawsuit that CHD has filed against the FCC. The first one was filed in February of 2020, contesting the FCC’s refusal to update their vastly outdated wireless radiation exposure guidelines. This case is currently awaiting the court’s decision. Read more about the first case in our previous article.

As soon as CHD heard about the FCC’s proposed amendment to OTARD that would allow high speed wireless transmitters to be installed on houses in rural neighborhoods, they knew they couldn’t allow this rule to be executed into action without a fight. You can donate to CHD to support this cause and others.

This situation is a perfect example of why Blushield is so important. While there is no substitute for letting our voices be heard in protest of toxic microwave radiation permeating public and private spaces, sometimes unethical laws can slip through the legislative cracks, and it can take a very long time to raise enough awareness and go through the appropriate legal processes to reverse them.

In the meantime, we need to do everything we can to protect ourselves. Blushield technology has significantly improved the quality of life of many of our EMF hypersensitive customers, reducing or eliminating their uncomfortable and sometimes life threatening chronic symptoms of microwave sickness. For an individual who can relate to the example earlier in this article, who suffers from radiation induced illness and suddenly sees a 5G antenna on their neighbor’s property, a Blushield in the home can significantly aid the preservation of their health and well being, as they explore potential accommodations and remedies to ideally remove the source of exposure from their home.

If you are curious about Blushield and wonder which device would be best for you, we are here to help! Please read through our Blushield Product Guide, and send us an email anytime you have any questions.

The electromagnetic spectrum is a description and categorization of the many variations of electromagnetic radiation, and organizes these variations by their frequency, wavelength, sources that generate them, and their practical uses. Electromagnetic radiation is created anytime that an electric field (produced by charged particles such as electrons and protons) consistently oscillates (moves back and forth), which automatically generates a magnetic field. This occurs the other way around, also, as an oscillating magnetic field will create a corresponding electric field. This electromagnetic radiation moves directionally as waves that radiate outwards and have various lengths, and the length of the waves (wavelength) determines the frequency.

The lower the frequency, the longer the wavelength. Frequency is measured in hertz (Hz), which means “cycles per second”, referring to how long it takes for the wave to move through a full wave cycle and return to the same point on a plane as where it started. The more cycles per second (higher frequencies), the shorter the wavelength.

As an example, extremely low frequency (ELF) radio waves are used in high-voltage AC power lines at 60 Hz, and each one of these wavelengths is 6,000 kilometers long! Then on the high end of the radio wave band are the microwaves, some of which have frequencies around 300 gigahertz (GHz), which has a wavelength of just 1 millimeter.

These millimeter waves are the higher end of the 5G (5^th Generation cellular technology) spectrum, which we will discuss more later.

All transverse (versus longitudinal) electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light (minus obstructions). Actually, electromagnetic radiation IS light! Light is just a different term that can be used to describe EM radiation. We don’t usually use that term for it, as we use light to describe the very small portion of the EM spectrum that we can see with our eyes. Within the electromagnetic spectrum, that small portion is referred to as visible light. We cannot see the vast majority of the EM spectrum, but all of it technically is light, as it consists of photons that move energy.

We can also feel some kinds of EM radiation as heat, especially in the infrared, visible light and ultraviolet bands, but certainly others as well.

The sound we hear with our ears is not technically electromagnetic, but is produced by mechanical vibrations. They are mechanical waves, with their own frequencies and wavelengths. They are still frequencies, but with different properties, and are generally purely longitudinal waves (not the transverse electromagnetic waves of the EM spectrum). Human ears cannot hear the full spectrum of sound waves, but the sound is still produced and many animals and insects are able to hear the lower and higher frequencies on the sound spectrum. With all that said, sound is not part of the EM spectrum, but it deserves a mention because it is a form of frequency – one of the few that our bodies can perceive, in addition to light and heat!

Frequencies are everywhere, all around us all the time, whether or not we can perceive them with our senses. Just because we can’t perceive them doesn’t mean they aren’t affecting us. Our bodies are highly tuned electrochemical systems, and our cells perceive and respond to the entire electromagnetic spectrum, even frequency bands that are completely invisible, inaudible and undetectable to our five senses.

Let’s move into the different subranges of the electromagnetic spectrum. These ranges were named and categorized only for the sake of understanding the different properties and uses as you move up and down the spectrum. The truth is that they are all contiguous frequencies with the same basic properties and functions, with boundaries that overlap considerably.

Radio waves

Radio waves generally fall within a wide frequency spectrum, from 3 kilohertz (kHz) to 300 gigahertz (GHz). You can imagine how wide this range is: a frequency of 3 kHz has a wavelength that’s 100 kilometers long! In contrast, a 300 GHz frequency’s wavelength is only 1 millimeter. There are lower frequencies that are sometimes considered part of the radio frequency spectrum, such as 60 Hz high-voltage power lines, but generally radio frequency refers to the portion of the spectrum that radios, TVs, mobile communication devices, and radar use to broadcast information through space without using wires.

Natural forms of radio waves include the Schumann resonance of the Earth, which generates frequencies in the ELF (extremely low frequency) range of around 7.83 Hz to 33.8 Hz. There are objects in space, including the Sun, Jupiter, and certain types of stars, that emit radio waves which often reach into the Earth’s atmosphere, since the radio frequency spectrum moves in and out of the atmosphere fairly easily (compared to most of the EM spectrum). Lightning storms also generate natural radio waves. We have evolved with this symphony of frequencies, and the subtle variance of many different frequencies at different amplitudes that these natural elements produce is usually healthy for human bodies and other living organisms.

Artificial (manmade) forms of radio waves include AM radio, FM radio, TV, cell phones/cell towers, Wifi, “Smart” meters and “Smart” home devices. While these are within the same frequency spectrum as natural sources of radio waves, they have a considerably different structure. Each signal generally fixates on one frequency, and repeats that frequency over and over again, 24/7. We will talk more later about how this difference is a primary cause of the stress that these manmade EMF sources put on our bodies.

AM and FM radio have different ways of delivering their audio information. AM means “amplitude modulated” and FM means “frequency modulated”. When radio frequencies are broadcasted, there are several ways the base signal can be modulated to carry information. When AM radio broadcasts the signal of a certain station, that station will have a base frequency that remains constant, which is indicated in the name of the channel, i.e. a channel called “1280 AM” has a base frequency of 1280 kilohertz (kHz). While the frequency remains the same, the amplitude of the carrier signal will be modulated, which becomes the audio that you hear when you tune into the station.

FM radio is pretty much the opposite. The amplitude of the carrier signal remains constant, while the frequency varies intricately around one base frequency. An FM radio station called “95.6 FM” uses a base frequency of 95.6 megahertz (MHz), with frequency variations that occur above and below to a small degree. The FM radio stations have to be further apart in base frequency to allow these variations, but it’s a more accurate way to carry nuanced information, making FM radio a better delivery system for good quality musical output. AM is primarily used for talk radio, due to the lower quality of the sound transmission.

AM radio is between 540 and 1600 kHz, while FM radio occurs between 88 and 108 MHz. TV broadcasting is in a larger frequency spectrum that starts between the AM and FM range, with the high end being higher than FM radio. TV uses a combination of amplitude and frequency modulation, to carry both visual information (AM) and audio information (FM).

Microwaves (high end of the radio wave spectrum)

Microwaves are the high end of the radio wave spectrum, but we’ll give them their own section because manmade microwave radiation sources are increasing exponentially each decade, and they’re especially relevant to the subject of EMF protection. They have also been the subject of a large percentage of the studies done on the harms that electromagnetic fields have on biology.

The microwave part of the spectrum could be defined as anywhere between 300 MHz (one meter wavelength) and 300 GHz (one millimeter wavelength). Contained within this range of frequencies is all the bustling activity of the electronic communications devices all over the world. This includes radar, cell phones/cell towers, Wifi routers, “smart” meters, “smart” home devices (such as baby monitors, wireless doorbells, ovens/toasters that connect to the internet, etc). It also includes the microwave ovens that many people still use to cook or heat up food, due to the ability of microwave frequencies to dramatically accelerate electrons in food and water, which has a rapid heating effect.

The term “microwaves” just means they are smaller than the waves of radio broadcasting, not that they are in the micrometer range. Microwaves are used by communications devices because the higher the frequency, the more information you can transmit per unit of time on that carrier signal. Much more complex and nuanced information can be carried at a frequency of 6 GHz, compared to 600 MHz. The downside is that the higher you go on the frequency spectrum, the harder it is for that signal to move around objects that are directly between the source and the destination, such as a building or tree between a cell tower and any given cell phone.

This is why a 3G or 4G cell tower can reach cell phones very far away, and be relatively unphased by obstructions within its path; the wavelength is long enough to move around obstructions more easily. A 5G signal, on the other hand, which may have wavelengths that are only a centimeter or even just a millimeter long, will be instantly blocked by small obstructions such as trees. For these higher frequencies with larger loads of information to reach their destination devices, there need to be enough towers and antennas to transmit or relay the signal, considering obstructions. This requires infrastructure densification, or basically having to place antennas every 300 feet or less to maintain consistent 5G availability in a given area. It can even mean having to place 5G “small cell” antennas inside of buildings, as the signal can have difficulty moving through walls! A much different situation than just needing one large cell tower every few miles.

Microwave radiation can be divided into 3 categories: Extremely High Frequency (EHF), Ultra High Frequency (UHF) and Very High Frequency (VHF). EHF is also called millimeter waves, and range between 30 and 300 GHz. This is where the more intense higher 5G frequencies fall, which are not yet in common use in most places, but will likely be needed to achieve the “driverless car” level of the 5G vision. The UHF range can be called the centimeter range, as its 3 to 30 GHz wavelengths are between 1 and 10 centimeters long. Wifi, radar, microwave ovens, and satellite communications are within this range. The VHF range includes Wifi, 4G cell phones and towers, cordless phones, walkie talkies, some TV broadcasting and satellite communications, and many other applications. VHF is the “decimeter band”, which is between 10 centimeters and one meter, and consists of frequencies between 300 MHz and 3 GHz.

Most Wifi frequencies are around 2.4 GHz, but many companies are also now using a 5 GHz signal to improve speed and data transmission. If you see a Wifi connection on your phone, you may see the name of the network, then another option that’s the name of the network with “5G” at the end. This means 5 gigahertz, and is not the same 5G that refers to 5^th generation wireless technology. That said, a lot of the current 5G cell deployments are close to the same frequencies as 5 GHz Wifi, and the 6 GHz to 24 GHz bands are currently being widely used for 5G.

Radar is another common application of microwaves. Radar systems use microwave echoes to determine the distance to a wide variety of objects, from clouds to aircraft. It can determine the speed of moving objects or the intensity of weather fluctuations.

Infrared light

When we move past the millimeter waves of the most intense microwave radiation around 300 GHz, we approach the terahertz (THz) range, and this is where the infrared waves reside. Infrared is most commonly known for its heat production. The heat that our bodies produce is a form of infrared radiation. 49% of the heat from the Sun is from its infrared rays. In fact, most objects and environments that we interact with produce infrared radiation! Objects and living organisms, including the Earth itself, absorb infrared radiation from the Sun, then re-radiate infrared into the environment. Thermography, via infrared cameras and other equipment, can be used to detect and “see” heat-emitting life forms where there is little to no visible light.

There are 3 categories of infrared radiation, with different properties and uses. Far infrared has the longest wavelengths, and exists from 300 GHz to 30 THz. Far infrared somewhat overlaps with the microwave frequency spectrum. Certain portions of this sub-millimeter range are used for astronomy. Mid infrared is from 30 to 120 THz. Human skin and fingerprints radiate in the lower end of this spectrum, as well as other hot objects. Near infrared is from 120 to 400 THz, and is the closest infrared frequency to visible red light, although its wavelengths are still just outside the human eyesight perception range. One wavelength in the near infrared range can be as small as 750 nanometers (nm)!

Near infrared in the 700 to 1000 nm range can be used for medical and therapeutic healing purposes, alone or in combination with the visible red light spectrum. Infrared and red light have similar effects on the mitochondria of our cells, by increasing energy (ATP) generation at the cellular level. Red light is more beneficial for skin surfaces, as it does not penetrate further than 25 millimeters. Near infrared will penetrate more deeply, allowing therapeutic treatment deeper into tissue, potentially even into bone and internal organs if the infrared light source is strong enough. Many studies point to a wide range of potential uses and benefits of red and infrared light therapy, including skin conditions, anti-aging, regulating hormones and glands, improving oral and dental health, stimulating metabolism/weight loss, stimulating collagen production (for healthy skin and hair growth), treating arthritis, and more.

As with all therapeutic uses of electromagnetic fields, less is more, and although infrared and red light therapy is generally regarded as safe and beneficial, too much of a good thing can be bad since it will expose your body to repetitive EMFs. This chronic repetition will stimulate your cells too much in the same way, canceling out the therapeutic benefits. Red/infrared light therapy sessions are usually 5-15 minutes at a time, usually no more than once per day.

Visible light

As we stated earlier, the entire electromagnetic spectrum is light, but our eyes can only detect a very small portion of this spectrum. This relatively tiny portion is referred to as Visible Light. Each color vibrates at a different frequency, and subtle changes in the frequency will produce different shades of each color. Red is at the lowest frequencies, with the longest wavelengths, just beyond the infrared spectrum. Orange is a slightly higher frequency, then yellow, green, and blue. Violet is the highest frequency of all visible light, with the shortest wavelengths. Red wavelengths are between 620 and 750 nanometers long, while violet wavelengths are only 380 to 450 nanometers.

Most radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum is blocked by the Earth’s atmospheric gases, so very little radiation from space will reach the Earth’s surface. There is a small window that corresponds closely to the Visible Light range, called the optical window, that refers to a spectrum of frequencies that can pass through the atmosphere with little to no attenuation (weakening). A large percentage of the heat from Sun is from the visible light spectrum. The comparatively warm and mild temperatures on the Earth’s surface are due to visible light from the Sun passing through the optical window of the atmosphere, which is absorbed by the surface of the Earth and re-radiated as infrared heat. Infrared does not easily pass through the atmosphere, so this heat gets trapped inside, which results in the moderate temperatures we enjoy here on Earth, compared to the temperature extremes in outer space.

Ultraviolet (UV)

Beyond visible light, past the range of perception of human eyesight, is ultraviolet radiation. These frequencies are invisible to humans, but visible to a number of insects and birds. The ultraviolet (UV) light we are exposed to on Earth comes from the Sun, but the vast majority of UV rays from the Sun are blocked by the Earth’s atmosphere. UV radiation wavelengths range between 10 nm to 400 nm. Most ultraviolet is classified as non-ionizing radiation, but the 10-120 nm range of “extreme” ultraviolet” reaches the ionizing spectrum of radiation, where the photon energy is high enough to split atoms, causing cell damage and cell death. Ionizing ultraviolet is completely blocked by oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere. Most of the non-ionizing ultraviolet is blocked by oxygen or ozone. When the Sun is at its highest point in the sky in the afternoon, after atmospheric filtration only 3% of its rays are ultraviolet, which decreases even more when the Sun is at lower angles! UV has powerful effects on biology. When it comes in contact with human skin, it’s solely responsible for production of steroid hormone (“vitamin”) D. Vitamin D is vital for healthy nervous system function, bone growth and bone density, immunity, cell proliferation, insulin secretion and blood pressure regulation.

Ultraviolet light is powerful, and although it’s non-ionizing, UV photons contain enough energy to alter chemical bonds in atoms. It can do more damage to biological molecules than can be accounted for by simple heating effects. Moderate exposure to UV from sunlight can give us a rosy glow, improve the quality of our blood and our overall health, and can give us a suntan. Overexposure to UV rays results in sunburn, from the high energy UV photons causing damage to our skin cells. Consistent overexposure to UV rays can result in permanent damage to the skin, which can even result in skin cancer.

X-rays & gamma rays

The high end of the ultraviolet spectrum is when radiation becomes energetic enough to be considered ionizing. These powerful photons have enough energy to ionize atoms and disrupt chemical bonds, which in too strong of a dose (or with chronic exposure to lower doses) will harm living tissue.

X-rays and gamma rays have the highest frequencies and shortest wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. They are generally measured and quantified using different terminology than the lower parts of the spectrum. It’s rare to hear ionizing radiation referred to in terms of hertz and wavelength size, and more universal to measure it in photon energy units, aka electron volts (eV).

X-rays and gamma rays have similar photon energies, and although gamma rays are often at higher frequencies than x-rays, the range overlaps considerably. Some x-rays have much higher frequencies than some forms of gamma rays. The difference between the two is primarily their structure and source. X-ray frequencies originate from the electrons of an atom, whereas gamma rays originate from the nucleus.

Both penetrate deeply into tissue, which can be extraordinarily harmful to the body, but also has certain therapeutic uses. Since x-rays penetrate deeply through body tissue, but can’t move through bone, they are useful for providing images of the inside of the body in a non-invasive manner, without having to perform surgery or place physical objects into the body to examine the state of its inner workings. Medical x-rays have been streamlined with modern equipment to expose body tissue to the minimum possible levels of radiation, while gathering the needed information.

Gamma radiation (along with alpha and beta particles) is usually a byproduct of radioactive decay, from radioactive isotopes such as potassium-40, cobalt-60, and others. Cobalt-60, with its large emission of gamma radiation, is used as a cancer treatment to target and kill cancer cells. It can be therapeutically useful in that way, but radiation does not distinguish between healthy and unhealthy cells, and can have the side effects of destroying healthy tissue and weakening the entire organism, as well.

Ionizing radiation also occurs in nature, usually in very small amounts that humans and other living organisms are well adapted to. The main cumulative source of exposure is called natural background radiation. It is the tiny quantities of radioactive decay that exist in the air, water and soil in most places. Airborne radon accounts for most of our natural exposure to ionizing radiation. It is part of the uranium/thorium decay process, and emits strong gamma rays. In the vast majority of places on Earth, it is in very small quantities and does not pose a health hazard, but in certain areas of the world it’s naturally more concentrated, and can be especially dangerous if it’s radiating from underneath a house and poor ventilation doesn’t allow easy escape, concentrating it to dangerous levels. You can measure the ionizing radiation currently present in any environment, or being emitted from materials, with a device called a Geiger counter (or a dosimeter, which measures cumulative exposure).

Another natural exposure source is from cosmic radiation, which is constantly moving into our atmosphere from outer space. Exposure intensifies as you move to higher elevations – the cosmic radiation level at mile-high elevations on Earth is about twice what it is at sea level! It becomes exponentially more intense while flying in commercial airplanes.

Wrapping it all up

When you learn about all the different properties, uses and sources of the different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, just remember that these are all gradations of the same type of energy, and their differences may be less diverse than we think. It’s long been known that the highest parts of the spectrum, ionizing radiation, can damage and kill living cells and even cause cancer. When you move down the spectrum to the longer, lower frequency radio waves, it’s good to assume that there’s at least a possibility that this “non-ionizing” radiation may also have detrimental health effects.

The non-ionizing ultraviolet radiation described earlier is a good example. It was found to have “the ability of doing far more damage to many molecules in biological systems than is accounted for by simple heating effects”, according to a physics course on the EM spectrum.

For a while, it was believed (assumed) that the only harmful effects that non-ionizing radiation could possibly have are at intense enough power levels to heat living tissue. This has since been proven false through thousands of clinical studies, which have shown definite harmful effects from non-thermal (not strong enough to produce heating effects) non-ionizing radiation, from ELF (extremely low frequency) to the microwave frequencies.

Additionally, not all frequency sources have the same effects on biological health. Natural frequencies in the radio spectrum, with their infinite variations of frequencies, amplitudes, and congruent patterns that have similarities with the structure of our own bodies, can tangibly improve our health and well being.

Just go out into nature, to a waterfall or a dense forest, and take note of how you feel. Then go into an EMF dense metropolitan area, and compare the two. I’m sure almost everyone would say there’s a very big difference! We can’t see or hear the majority of these invisible frequencies all around us, but they are certainly still there, and are affecting us whether we realize it or not.

However, most of us can’t just leave the modern world and go live in nature permanently. Therefore, we will still have exposure to these biologically incoherent, manmade EMFs, if we want to live any semblance of a modern life.

Blushield is designed to bridge that gap. It’s a way to remind our bodies of the symphony of frequencies nature provides, which we may not have access to most of the time. The biologically coherent field generated by the Blushield algorithm out-competes the incoherent, repetitive frequencies of the manmade EMF, as your body recognizes and entrains with the familiar natural patterns, restoring immune power and well-being.

Click here to learn more about Blushield, how it works to protect your body from harmful EMFs, and to find the Blushield device that is right for you.

EMF Spectrum Cheat Sheet

Neuropsychiatric effects from microwave frequency electromagnetic fields have been studied since the 1970s, when two government reports found evidence of a wide variety of symptoms which were linked to occupational exposure to non-thermal levels of microwave EMFs. The observed prevalence of these combinations of neurological symptoms became widespread enough by the late ‘90s that the term “microwave sickness” or “radiofrequency sickness” was coined to summarize and label this increasingly common condition.

The brain, nervous system and mood related symptoms that are most commonly reported include depression, anxiety, restlessness, insomnia and sleep disturbances, fatigue, headaches, concentration and attention problems, memory loss, dizziness, irritability, nausea, skin burning and tingling, and EEG changes. These symptoms have been linked to exposure to microwave EMFs for several decades already, even back when radiofrequency radiation levels were a small fraction of what they are now as 5G is being rolled out, significantly increasing the RF density of our living environments with no prior safety testing.

Dozens of epidemiological studies over the last 50 years all collectively show that various non-thermal microwave EMF exposures produce diverse neuropsychiatric effects. These effects are linked to cell phone base stations, excessive cell phone usage, wireless smart meters, and more.

The main reason these studies have been disputed, or not taken as seriously as they should be, is because of the lack of an apparent mechanism for generating these symptoms. We now have studies which point to a primary mechanism of harm from pulsed microwave EMFs. The mechanism relates to the voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) which occur in very high densities throughout our nervous system and have near universal roles in release of neurotransmitters and neuroendocrine hormones. Their unnatural hyper-activation from external electromagnetic fields causes a destructive chain reaction that includes excessive neurotransmitter release and the resulting oxidative/nitrosative stress.

Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels – A Key Piece To EMF Harm

Our entire bodies run on their own form of natural electricity. These natural electric currents are controlled and regulated by various ions that hold and release electrical charge when appropriate to any given biological function. Knowing that, it’s no wonder we are sensitive to even the very weakest electromagnetic fields from our environment. If our bodies are electrochemical in nature, and respond to even the smallest endogenous electrical signal, of course we are also going to be affected by external electric and magnetic signals.

It has been discovered that a primary mechanism through which manmade electromagnetic fields (especially pulsed microwave frequency EMFs) affect our bodies is through the voltage-gated calcium channels that are found in the membranes of every cell in our body, especially in our brain and nervous system. Calcium ions are sitting at the ready in our cell membranes, waiting for any signal prompt from hormones, neurotransmitters and other messengers in our bodies. When prompted by natural endogenous means, they typically release a tiny amount of calcium into the cytosol (the inside of the cell), which then triggers chain reactions of enzymes and other messengers to initiate a wide variety of functions, depending on what the messenger substance signaled. Our bodies are incredibly complex and sensitive.

The structure of the manmade, artificial EMFs that are being utilized today has a disastrous effect on our voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs). The havoc wreaked is related to the pulsed nature of alternating currents and radio-frequency radiation, which massively overstimulate our VGCCs, triggering the release of a literal flood of calcium into the inside of our cells. This causes a biologically confusing and overstimulating flood of signals that create chain reactions throughout ultimately every one of our bodily systems. It also necessitates the replacement of the calcium ions that are supposed to hold the negatively charged phospholipids of the cell membrane together with their double positive charge, with other ionic elements that are not as suited for this task. This results in small holes in the phospholipid barrier of the cell that leak substances into and out of the cell into places where they shouldn’t be, causing a variety of potential health issues.

A chronic leakage in the cell membrane caused by the calcium channel flooding stimulated by the external EMFs also causes dysfunction in the transport systems of each cell, inhibiting the intake of nutrients and the expelling of waste, causing the cell to weaken and eventually die.

Studies have been published in the past decade showing that calcium channel blocker drugs actually block or greatly reduce the biological effects from EMFs, proving that EMF harm is closely related to the role and function of the VGCCs.

How Can We Minimize VGCC Disruption & Recover Our Neurological Health?

Obviously, healthy people shouldn’t start taking calcium channel blocker drugs to block the effects of EMFs on the body, as these drugs come with the risk of significant side effects and should only be used by individuals with specific heart conditions.

The mineral magnesium is a natural calcium channel blocker, as we elaborate on in our article on the subject:

Importance of Magnesium in Mitigating Damage from EMFs

This article emphasizes the importance of excellent nutrition, and especially correcting chronic magnesium deficiency (which potentially 75-90% of people suffer from) to regulate our response to external EMFs and help us cope better.

The primary changes we hear from Blushield users after they have acclimated to their Blushield devices are improvements of a neuropsychiatric nature! This is likely not a coincidence, and is probably due to our highly sensitive electrochemical bodies picking up on the new dominant signal in our environment, which are Blushield’s complex, biologically coherent, nature-based multiple waveform algorithm on a scalar (longitudinal) carrier signal. Blushield’s signal predominates over the repetitive, oscillating pulsed EMFs in the environment for a few reasons:

1) The amplitude of the Blushield signal is stronger than the combined total of other EMFs in the environment (as long as the specific model used is strong enough for your individual exposure levels).

2) Blushield’s waveforms mimic natural patterns within a range of frequencies that occur in nature and that humans are known to respond well to, so it’s instantly familiar to our bodies (based on our genetic memory of what we have evolved with), and our cells actually prefer to entrain to these types of waveforms.

3) The waveforms are on a scalar / longitudinal carrier signal, instead of a transverse wave. Living organisms are considerably more responsive to scalar fields (as compared to transverse EM waves), since our bodies themselves naturally produce a type of bio-scalar. You can read more about scalar energy here.

Note that not everyone will feel the changes from Blushield at the cell level, but that doesn’t mean it’s not working. These are extremely intricate cell-level processes, and that’s why we perform live blood analysis and other testing to show you what’s actually occurring in the blood, whether or not you are sensitive enough to tangibly feel the effects. Also note that if you’re in a state of chronic illness that has you essentially frozen in a sympathetic (fight-or-flight) state, it could take considerably longer for you to acclimate to the Blushield frequency field and release the stress of trying to fight the pulsed, oscillating EMFs that we are used to fighting for many years or decades.

Conclusion

We think these studies that have been done in the past decade on the mechanism of harm from EMFs are fascinating, and important to be aware of. The initial discovery was made by Dr. Martin Pall, a Professor of Biochemistry and Medical Sciences at Washington State University. If you want to read more about his discovery and subsequent research, this is a great one to start with:

Microwave frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) produce widespread neuropsychiatric effects including depression

When you click that link and scroll down to the references at the bottom of the page, you will see hundreds of related studies and reports.

We wanted to pass this information along to you because so often we hear from sensitive individuals who are having neurological symptoms that they feel certain are from EMF exposure. Hopefully this article was helpful for you in validating your symptoms, explaining their likely cause, and sharing a few powerful things you can do to alleviate your symptoms and live a better life!

Do you consider yourself to be sensitive to EMFs, or do you know your health has been negatively impacted by exposure to EMFs? If you have (or have had in the past) symptoms related to electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure, top EMF scientist Magda Havas wants to hear from you!

Dr. Magda Havas, a Professor at Trent University in Canada, is an environmental toxicologist who has studied the effects of chemical pollutants in the environment and more recently the biological effects of electromagnetic fields, from extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields to ultraviolet radiation. She works with people who have developed electro hypersensitivity and is advising the health care/medical community on how to objectively assess this condition and how to help people heal. She also works on the beneficial effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF), vibrational therapy and light therapy.

She recently put out a call to her contacts about two projects she is doing. First, she is creating a questionnaire to distribute to medical practices and individuals about electromagnetic illness (EMI), and how likely it is that any given person has it. She wants to hear from experts in this subject, as well as anyone who believes that they personally suffer from EMI.

Electromagnetic illness is a term she uses that she feels is more accurate than the one that’s currently in common use, electro hypersensitivity (EHS), because these individuals are literally becoming ill (in one way or another) from exposure to EMFs. Using the term “hypersensitive” in the diagnosis implies that there is something wrong with the affected individual, rather than there being an inherent danger to the external stimulus that’s affecting that person.

She wants to hear specifically what questions you feel should be included in this questionnaire to make it as powerful and accurate as possible in gauging EMF illness in an individual.

Second, if you have (or have had) electromagnetic illness, she wants to hear about interventions that have helped you alleviate or fully resolve your symptoms. This can include lifestyle changes, supplements, various kinds of detox, removing EMF sources from your environment, healing/therapeutic devices, etc.

If you are a healthcare provider who wants to contribute, she would love to hear about any success you have had in treating patients who are damaged or ill from electromagnetic fields/radiation. What treatments work for a large group of people?

Many individuals with electromagnetic illness have contacted us here at Blushield USA and shared with us that Blushield devices have significantly reduced or alleviated their symptoms. If you are one of these individuals who has found great benefit from the biologically coherent, nature-based multiple waveform scalar field that Blushield emits, this is a great opportunity to share your experience with your Blushield devices with an influential individual who can help people on a much larger scale!

If you feel that you can personally help Magda Havas with her projects in the way she is requesting, please e-mail her directly at drmagdahavas@gmail.com. When you are writing your e-mail, put either EMI Questionnaire or EMI Treatments (or both, if you have something to say about both projects) in the subject line of the e-mail.

When you send your contribution, please indicate if you want to be acknowledged in a publication, as she would like to include everyone who contributes to it, to thank them for their effort. She plans on compiling the questionnaires by the end of January 2021, so it would be ideal if you could send your suggestions to her before that time.

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In Dr. Havas’ research on this subject, she believes that EMF illness is a lot more likely to occur for individuals with certain precursor conditions, which the EMFs will trigger and then symptoms will manifest. She believes that one key to healing electromagnetic illness is by resolving the underlying conditions that may be somewhat lying dormant until triggered by an electromagnetic stimulus. The 8 precursors she has theorized so far are:

1. Physical damage to the central nervous system from concussions, whiplash, etc.
2. Chemical & metal toxicity such as mercury or lead poisoning, pesticides, medications/drugs
3. Electromagnetic trauma: excessive/prolonged exposure to EMFs such as excessive shocks, electrocution, lightning strikes
4. Biological trauma: excessive parasite load, Lyme disease, mold toxicity, prolonged bacterial/viral infection
5. Compromised immune system due to genetics, medication, prolonged illness, environmental stress
6. Metal in the body such as surgically implanted metal rods, metal braces and dental implants, mercury/silver dental fillings, and tattoos with metal in the ink
7. Dental issues such as metal fillings, root canals, and prolonged infections
8. Prolonged limbic system disturbances that put people into a constant fight or flight response with sympathetic dominance. In this state people cannot heal, and hence moving them out of this state can go far in helping them to recover. Our thinking is important and can alter our health to a certain degree.

Dr. Havas’ preliminary conclusions seem sound to us, and emphasize why we need to alter our lifestyle and health in a holistic, all encompassing way to truly achieve and maintain health. Our own research has come to similar conclusions, and you can read some of what we have found in these two articles we wrote:

EMF’s, Retroviruses and Chronic Illness is about how EMFs can trigger dormant infections to manifest, causing symptoms

Do You Know How Powerful You Are? This one is a reminder about how powerful human consciousness is, and how we often have more of a say over our health and well being than we think!

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In related news, at the end of this month (January 2021) is The EMF Medical Conference 2021, a 4-day online event and study course on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of EMF associated illness. Leading physicians, clinicians and scientists will get together for a series of presentations on the topic, and this course provides Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for healthcare providers.

The general public is welcome to attend, as well! If this is something you are passionate about learning more about, this course could be a good investment:

The EMF Medical Conference 2021

Just a reminder, if you’re planning on sending Magda Havas a message about her projects, make sure you do so within the next couple weeks!

To your health,
The Blushield USA Team

In November 2020, New Hampshire became the first of the 50 United States to publish a comprehensive assessment and recommendation guide regarding the dangers of 5G and radiofrequency (RF) radiation, through a legislative Commission that was created following the passage of their House Bill 522 in 2019.

H.B. 522, titled “Establishing a commission to study the environmental and health effects of evolving 5G technology”, was introduced by Representative Patrick Abrami, who is an engineer, and passed easily in the House and Senate in 2019.

Abrami explained his thought process for introducing this bill and why he believes it’s important:

“The concern is radio frequency (RF) radiation. This with the vision of the Internet of Things; everything electronic being connected to each other via RF means there will be a soup of RF waves all around us. There are 1,000′s of peer-reviewed papers reporting on health and environmental problems. In the House hearing I brought in the former president of Microsoft Canada, a professor of toxicology, and an expert on the push back by municipalities throughout the country as well as others. The skeptical Science and Technology Committee had the same wow moment I did months ago. This bill, designed to establish a road map for N.H. on this topic, passed on the House floor without debate.”

This landmark bill and subsequent Commission not only established a road map for the State of New Hampshire, but could easily become a template for every other state with similar concerns to make significant progress in public awareness of the dangers of RF radiation, as well as establishing widespread safety precautions to protect public health.

Mounting Evidence of DNA Damage From Non-Ionizing Radiation

On November 1^st, the Final Report of the Commission to Study the Environmental and Health Effects of Evolving 5G Technology was released. The Commission, whose members have backgrounds in physics, electromagnetic engineering, epidemiology, occupational health, toxicology, medicine, public health policy, business and law, after comprehensively researching the topic for almost a year, agreed in majority that RF radiation is harmful to human health and the environment.

The two exceptions to this nearly unanimous consensus were a wireless industry representative and a telecommunications rep, whose combined opinion was included in a minority report within the Final Report, repeating the standard narrative on the topic that telecom industry reps and the FCC have been parroting for years, which has consistently been downplaying or completely ignoring a mountain of evidence to the contrary. (In related news, this repetitive and dangerously dismissive message from industry and the FCC who supposedly regulates industry has recently been challenged in a large scale lawsuit by the Children’s Health Defense and Environmental Health Trust that is currently in process.)

The Introduction of the Final Report states, “There is mounting evidence that DNA damage can occur from radiation outside of the ionizing part of the spectrum.” Commission members were tasked to answer 8 questions, to assess this topic from every possible angle. The research and study engaged in to answer these questions was lengthy, and supported by considerable evidence and citations within the Final Report.

1. The insurance industry considers wireless radiation as high risk, and refuses to cover damages by the pathological properties of RF radiation. Why?

2. Why do cell phone manufacturers state in the legal section within their devices to keep the phone further than 5mm from the body, even though the phone’s radiation emission is supposedly within the “SAR safety limits” when “used normally”?

3. Why have thousands of peer-reviewed studies, including the U.S. National Toxicology Program 16-year $30 million study, that are showing a wide range of statistically significant DNA damage, brain and heart tumors, infertility, and so many other ailments, been ignored by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC)?

4. Why are the FCC-sanctioned guidelines for public exposure to wireless radiation based only on the thermal effect on the temperature of the skin and do not account for the non-thermal, non-ionizing, biological effects of wireless radiation?

5. Why are the FCC radiofrequency exposure limits set for the United States 100 times higher than countries like Russia, China, Italy, Switzerland, and most of Eastern Europe?

6. Why did the World Health Organization (WHO) signify that wireless radiation is a Group B Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans category, and why are some experts who sat on the WHO committee in 2011 now calling for it to be placed in Group 1 (“known carcinogens”), and why is such information being ignored by the FCC?

7. Why have more than 220 of the world’s leading scientists signed an appeal to the WHO and the United Nations to protect public health from wireless radiation, and nothing has been done?

8. Why have the cumulative biological damaging effects of ever-growing numbers of pulse signals riding on the electromagnetic sine waves not been explored, especially as the world embraces the Internet of Things, meaning all devices being connected by electromagnetic waves, and the exploration of the number of such pulse signals that will be created by implementation of 5G technology?

After reviewing countless study reports, hearing from experts on both sides of the argument about RF radiation safety, and trying to get answers directly from the FCC and other government agencies (with no luck), they were not able to sufficiently answer all eight of their study questions.

What they did take note of are several ongoing lawsuits against the FCC regarding their failure to update health based limits for wireless radiation exposure, and the fact that the World Health Organization and insurance companies are hedging their bets against RF radiation due to potential harm. They became aware of the mountain of research that has already been done that shows the harm of RF radiation, and specifically the pulsed and modulated aspect of these radiation sources which are increasing as the data transmission rate increases. The current situation is far different than when their “health safety limits” were established in 1996, as many different sources of radiation are stacking and overlapping, all piling their separate pulsations on top of the other, creating a “soup” of radiation that is completely new to humanity, and very experimental.

All of that duly noted, they conclude that the precautionary principle needs to be applied. They feel that it is prudent to approach this subject as if these new levels and forms of radiation are extremely harmful to living organisms, because it’s better to be safe than sorry, and the evidence so far is strongly pointing in that direction.

15 Recommendations To Increase Awareness & Protect the Public

After one year of meetings with study sessions and educational talks by experts on the topic, the Commission formulated 15 recommendations to shape future policy for the State of New Hampshire. Their objective with these recommendations is to bring greater awareness of cell phone, wireless and 5G radiation health effects, and to provide guidance to officials on steps and policies that can reduce public exposure. The 15 recommendations are all considered to be of equal importance.

1.Propose a resolution to US Congress to require the FCC to commission an independent review of the current radiofrequency (RF) standards of the 300Mhz to 300Ghz microwave spectrum, as well as a health study. Research should be conducted by independent organizations, and focused on establishing safe exposure guidelines that include non-thermal exposure effects, ways to reduce human exposure, as well as optimizing the devices themselves to be less harmful to human health.

2. Require various State of New Hampshire websites to contain links with information on the dangers of RF radiation, and specifically of the 5G small cells installed in public rights-of-way, and showing proper use of cell phones to reduce exposure to RF radiation. Also, public service announcements on radio, television, print media and the internet should periodically appear, warning of the health risks associated with non-ionizing radiation exposure. Warnings concerning babies, young children and pregnant women are of special importance.

3. Require that every pole and other structure in the public right-of-way that holds a 5G antenna be labeled indicating that RF radiation is being emitted above, and to keep a safe distance. This label should be visible at eye level from at least 9 feet away.

4. Schools and public libraries should move away from wireless connections and towards hard wired fiber optic or copper connections for internet. Their stated is goal is to achieve this within 5 years as funding becomes available, acknowledging that schools and libraries have already invested a lot of money into the wireless systems they use currently. They deem this additional investment of resources to be extremely worthwhile, as children and teenagers are far more vulnerable to the harms of RF radiation than adults, as their skulls are thinner and they are still in the sensitive developmental window where external forces can permanently influence their growth in a positive or negative direction.

5. All RF radiation facilities and base stations should be measured for their radiation output, to ensure they are in compliance with the FCC’s current guidelines on safe levels. There have been many cases where a facility has been found to exceed the safety guidelines, threatening the health of humans and animals in the vicinity. Measurements should be done periodically, such as anytime changes are made to the system, and this data should be consistently available to the public on a website. Measurements should be done by an independent contractor, and paid for by the site installer.

6. Establish new protocols for measuring radiation output, taking into account additional nuances of radiation’s health effects, beyond simply measuring frequency, amplitude or heating effects. Of particular importance is the impulsive nature of high-data-rate radiation, which we are increasingly faced with as we move towards faster speeds. This faster pulsation rate has been shown to be especially harmful to living organisms, and there needs to be ways to measure and account for this factor.

7. Require any new wireless antenna located on public right-of-way or on private property to be set back from residences, businesses and schools. This should be enforceable by the municipality during the permitting process, unless the owners of residences, businesses, or school districts waive this restriction.

8. Upgrade the educational offerings for licensure and certification of home inspectors to include RF intensity measurements. Home inspectors are private contractors who can be hired by citizens or businesses to look for hazards such as radon, mold, insect damage and test water quality, prior to renting or buying a home or office space. Being able to detect high levels of non-ionizing radiation in a building would add value to their services, especially as awareness of RF dangers increase and the incidence of electromagnetic illness in susceptible individuals increases (as RF radiation itself increases).

9. The State of New Hampshire should begin to measure RF intensities within different frequency ranges all throughout the state, to develop and refine a continually updated map of RF exposure levels across the state. This information can then be used by RF sensitive individuals (or anyone who just doesn’t want excessive exposure) so they can choose to live and travel mainly in low-RF and RF “dead zones”.

10. Strongly recommend all new cell phones and all other wireless devices sold come equipped with updated software that can stop the phone from radiating when positioned against the body. Cell phones contain proximity sensors that enable them to shut off radiation output when they detect an obstacle, which just requires the installation of software that can utilize this built-in feature. These software upgrades should be known about and available to all cell phone users, and can be easily turned on and off for different purposes. Phones, laptops and tablets that are marketed specifically to children should have this radiation sensor setting turned on, in all circumstances.

11. Adopt and promote a statewide position encouraging the deployment of fiber optic and internal wired connections to serve all commercial and public properties statewide.“The majority of the Commission believes that fiber optic transmission is the infrastructure of the future. When compared, RF wireless transmission lacks fiber optic characteristics: speed, security, and signal reliability while avoiding biological effects on humans and the environment.”

The last three recommendations deal with increasing education and awareness of the clinical symptoms of electromagnetic illness within the medical and health care industry, posting RF exposure warning signs in all commercial and public buildings, establishing RF-free “safe zones” where employees and visitors can seek refuge from RF exposure, and developing RF radiation safety limits that will protect trees, plants, birds, insects and pollinators.

Conclusion

Overall, this report is a leading example by one state of what can be done in all states, if we can raise enough awareness. Please consider sharing this with influencers and policy makers in your local area, so we can move towards making changes that will protect the health of people and nature, as 5G is starting to proliferate unchecked and only has the interests of its bottom line and faster speeds in mind. As we work towards increasing humanity’s awareness of RF dangers and fighting the long, slow battle of changing policy, we strongly recommend investing in a Blushield to keep your family healthy and protected in the meantime.

References:

Final Report of the Commission to Study the Environmental and Health Effects of Evolving 5G Technology – http://emfsafetynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NH-State-5G-final-report-2020.pdf

Daily Breaking features Cece Doucette, the Director at Massachusetts for Safe Technology (video interview) – https://www.wccatv.com/video/daily-breaking/dailybreaking-116

Commission Meeting Minutes – http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/statstudcomm/committees/1474/minutes.html

If you have read our most recent article, you may have been surprised to learn that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was sued earlier this year for their refusal to update their 25-year-old wireless exposure “health” guidelines, which are obsolete and ineffective for several reasons. This lawsuit, filed by Children’s Health Defense and the Environmental Health Trust, is in process, and their case against the FCC is strong! We will continue to follow their progress and keep you updated on proceedings.

However, the FCC hasn’t just been sued once. There was another recent Federal case against the FCC, which lasted a year and resulted in a verdict that opens up a lot of possibility for positive change on a state level. This one focuses on another area of corruption not directly related to wireless technology’s harmful health effects.

It was discovered that for nearly two decades, the FCC has been allowing several big telecoms who provide both wireless and wired phone services to pull a sleight of hand, secretly repurposing funds paid by landline telephone subscribers that were promised to go towards building up fiber optic infrastructure to all households, into the buildup of 5G wireless. The FCC didn’t just allow it, but encouraged it due to their flawed accounting rules that do not hold wireless service to the same strict regulations as landline, local phone service.

As a result, telecoms have been tempted by the massive profits they could acquire through this “legal cheating” that the FCC has allowed. Intentionally or unintentionally, the FCC and several big telecoms have created the Digital Divide. If you haven’t yet heard that term, it refers to the disproportionate access to high speed internet in urban and high income areas, compared to rural and low income areas which often have slow or nonexistent internet capabilities.

In modern times when nearly every form of human progress is dependent on connectivity, this unfair playing field ensures that the wealthy get wealthier and the poor get poorer, instead of providing equal opportunity for every person who is motivated to succeed. Internet access should be seen as a household utility, like electricity and water. The Digital Divide is a huge social issue that could be easily fixed, as this lawsuit points out.

5G Wireless Is Being Funded By Landline Customers Who Were Promised Fiber Optic

The heart of this unfortunate circumstance is based on a decades long, half a trillion dollars’ worth broken promise. The stated goal, nearly 20 years ago, was to build out high speed fiber optic connections to 100% of households all across the United States, creating a culture of connectivity and equal opportunity to all U.S. citizens.

To achieve this goal, local landline phone service subscribers were charged extra fees with every single phone bill, for decades, amounting to a total of thousands of dollars per household, to ensure that this future of connectivity was actualized for every home and family. The fees were specifically promised to go towards the built out of FTTP, or “fiber to the premises”, which means a direct fiber optic connection to every home and office. This never ended up happening in 25% of homes, which increases to 35-40% in low income areas. Therefore, to get connected, these people are forced to subscribe to the more expensive and relatively slower and less reliable wireless services as a poor substitute for high speed in-home internet access.

So where did this over half a trillion dollars of extra funds go?

According to the telecom accounting records (and the direct admission of industry spokespeople to their investors), it went towards building up the fiber optic infrastructure to cell towers, including the millions of new 5G “small cells” being installed all over the country, especially in larger cities.

What many people don’t know is that wireless service depends on fiber optic lines for the majority of its data transmission. The “wireless” part is just the very end of the line, from tower/antenna to the user’s device, and in the case of 5G this is often just 1,000 feet or less because the range of 5G is so short. These fiber optic lines only benefit the wireless companies, even though it would be easy (and relatively inexpensive) to extend the lines to nearby homes to give them direct access, freeing each family from being overly reliant on wireless services.

Local, state-based landline utilities are usually provided by the same big telecoms that also provide wireless, although they technically have an “affiliate” relationship. For example, Verizon NY (which provides New York’s local phone service) and Verizon Wireless are affiliates, basically controlled by the same company, Verizon. This makes it easy to fudge profits and expenses to make things look a certain way. You may have heard that “local phone service and wireline internet are unprofitable” compared to the highly profitable wireless services. This is completely inaccurate, and only due to letting “local phone services” pay for the entire backhaul that wireless service depends on. It gives the false impression to the public that wireless is more profitable, and therefore a better option to rely on for our connectivity needs.

If 5G wireless had to pay its own infrastructure expenses, it literally could not fund itself, by a long shot.

Who Dares To Sue the FCC?

The Irregulators are an independent consortium of senior telecom experts, analysts, forensic auditors, and lawyers who are former senior staffers from the FCC, state advocates and Attorneys General Office experts and lawyers, as well as former telco consultants. Members of the group have been working together, in different configurations, since 1999.

Bruce Kushnick and Scott McCullough are the primary spokespeople of the Irregulators.

Bruce has been a telecom analyst for over 30 years, and has been involved in several important technology upgrades over the decades, including touchtone phone, caller ID and voice message capabilities. His newest tome of a book (581 pages!) is freely available to download and read, called “The Book of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal & Free the Net”, and is the third writing in a related trilogy. He writes the many extensive articles detailing this issue and court case, and is the face of all the other consumer advocacy work they are doing to ensure fair play by the telecoms and the FCC.

Scott is the highly educated and experienced cutthroat attorney who took the FCC head on in this court case. His practice focuses on communications, computer and internet law and regulation, with an emphasis on representation of consumers and small competitive and new technology application and service providers. He has unparalleled knowledge and experience relating to those places where technology and regulation intersect – and often collide.

Scott’s participation in this case is especially relevant, as he just signed on as an attorney in the other FCC lawsuit by the Children’s Health Defense, focused on the FCC’s obsolete wireless “health guidelines”, which we discussed in a previous article.

A Step In the Right Direction: The Irregulators Freed the States From the FCC

Almost a year after the Irregulators challenged the FCC in the DC Court of Appeals about the FCC’s cost accounting rules and formulas, the Court issued an opinion that opens the door for the next stage of the Irregulators’ plan. The Court essentially stated that this fight cannot be fought in a Federal court, and remitted power over this issue to the state jurisdictions. They basically gave each state permission to demand correction of the fraudulent accounting of their own local services, and pursue these lost funds. This officially closed the FCC lawsuit through the DC Court of Appeals, which was what the Irregulators were hoping would happen.

The next step for the Irregulators is letting each state know that their hands are no longer tied by FCC “rules”, and that they can (and should!) go after the misappropriated funds, and ensure that they are used to complete the long overdue buildout of local high speed internet to ALL residences.

If most or every state jumps on this and decides to do it (once they are informed that they have the power to do so), this will retract massive amounts of wrongly placed funding from 5G. This will be a very good thing, as 5G implementation has been extremely rushed, barreling over and ignoring the many concerns of local municipalities and residents, from health concerns for humans, animals and the environment, to aesthetic issues relating to intrusively placed 5G infrastructure reducing property values. Slowing down the illegitimate funds for 5G will force the FCC and telecoms to face the health issues involved that they have been blatantly ignoring as they are singly focused on implementing their technology as fast as possible. It will also force them to find a legitimate and fair way to fund their wireless pursuits.

Wireless services are certainly useful, but ideally only as an adjunct to high speed wired connections to residences and businesses. We elaborate a lot more on why this is the case in another article, Why Wired Internet in the Home & Office Is Better Than 5G.

What You Can Do To Help

The best way you can help is to contact your local representatives, letting them know that they have the power to ensure that the telecoms are serving their constituents as fairly and honorably as possible. You can tell them to stand up for the people’s rights to equal access to basic utilities, as well as being protected from the currently unavoidable health risks of wireless radiation in their environment. The standards we hold the FCC and telecoms to needs to be raised.

The state legislators can refer to New Hampshire’s great example. In 2019, they passed a law establishing a commission to study the health and environmental effects of evolving 5G technology. The commission just released its final report in November of 2020, and it sets a wonderful example that other states can follow. The report issued several recommendations regarding 5G, including:

• warnings on state agencies’ websites about the harms of RF radiation, including 5G small cells, and specific warnings concerning babies, children and pregnant women
• recommendations that wireless antennas be placed at a safer distance from homes, schools and businesses
• recommendations that schools and libraries move away from Wifi and instead use hardwired internet connections
• encourage statewide deployment of fiber optic internet connections to serve all public and commercial properties
• encourage the state to consult with agencies with appropriate scientific expertise about RF radiation dangers, to establish safer protocols to protect the natural environment from RF harm

You can read the full report here: State of New Hampshire’s 5G Final Report

Let your state representatives know what New Hampshire has done, and what the Irregulators have done to free the states from the previous assumption that they could not devise their own accounting rules, and had to rely on the FCC’s rules.


"The states are free to do what they want. Our strategy in bringing this case was to secure a definitive answer about the rights of states vs the control by the FCC over the financial accounting. The Court made it clear that the states are independent from the FCC and from the application of the federal accounting formulas." -- Bruce Kushnick


Resources:

“They Created the Digital Divide By Design” – https://newnetworks.com/digitaldividebydesign/

“Irregulators Big Win: We Freed the States From the FCC” – http://irregulators.org/irregulatorsbigwin/

“The Irregulators: An Independent, Expert Telecom Team” – http://irregulators.org/who-we-are/

“Solve the Digital Divide by Halting Billions in Cross-Subsidies: Verizon NY 2019 Annual Report” – https://kushnickbruce.medium.com/solve-the-digital-divide-by-halting-billions-in-cross-subsidies-verizon-ny-2019-annual-report-405ddf9b4ac

“5G Wireless Is Not Profitable When the Wired, State-Based, Utility Cross-Subsidies Are Removed” – https://kushnickbruce.medium.com/5g-wireless-is-not-profitable-when-the-wired-state-based-utility-cross-subsidies-are-removed-f7888e343094