Vermont Conversations: 5G and “Non-Consent” (VT VOX POPULI)
May 25, 2020“Global Coronavirus “Plandemic” 2020 (NEWS UPDATES)
May 27, 2020Publisher’s Note: Let’s hope our Vermont public regulators do the right thing. Here’s a little Wall Street Journal feature for context.
Green mountain greetings, public servants!
Dr. Rob Williams in the town of Waitsfield here.
I am writing to weigh in on public comment re: the proposed Emergency Broadband Action Plan for Vermont.As a newspaper publisher, environmental historian, and professor of media and communication at the University of Vermont, I have studied the political economy of telecommunications and the pros and cons of 5G telecommunications networks for many years.
I enthusiastically support the deployment of a MORE SAFE, 100 times FASTER, and much more effective and resilient fiber “wired to the premises” telecommunications network for Vermont.
I deeply oppose the deployment of a 5G wifi telecommunications option, which is LESS safe, slower, less effective and much less resilient given the challenges of wiring together our beautiful mountains, river valleys, and the realities of extreme weather much of the year.
As you know, the US telecommunications industry and their well funded lobbyists are taking full advantage of this COVID moment to aggressively push for the latter, which is both inferior technologically and the much less safe option re: Vermont public health and wellness.
Please make the right choice, and bring Vermont into the 21st century by deploying a FIBER-driven statewide network: faster, safer, more effective, and more resilient.
Vermont’s collective health, economic vitality, and communications future are all depending on you.
Most sincerely,
Rob Williams, Ph.D.; Waitsfield, Vermont
SNIP – here’s Ishana Artra’s letter out of Brattleboro, Vermont.
Artra: Vermont’s wireless virus
Health matters, especially during a pandemic. Yet, Rutland’s downtown and students’ homes are being outfitted with 4G/5G antennas by VTel. Other Vermont towns are also in line for telecom’s Trojan Horse.
What’s so concerning about even more of telecom’s antennas surrounding us from inside our steeples, houses, silos and light poles? After all, we have antennas, too, such as cilia — the antennas of our cells, and the sweat duct’s helical antenna. That is the problem.
Our natural antennas are impacted by the man-made, pulsed, electromagnetic waves radiating from aptly named cellular and Wi-Fi antennas. The man-made signals change our natural cellular processes.
Experts, such as Dr. Martin Pall, Washington State professor of biochemistry and medical science, are scrambling to wake us up to the facts.
Viruses replicate more rapidly when hit with this unnatural pulsation and radiation. Immunity is lowered. Respiratory illnesses intensify. Those are each gateways for COVID-19. Telecom’s radio waves also increase the likelihood of other psychological, cognitive and physical suffering, including dying from pneumonia.
Is this what we want for our children, for ourselves?
We have better options. For example, students who are already expected to park in hot-spot parking lots to download their assignments could just as easily (and safely) download from a fiber-optic-cable station.
Faster, more reliable and secure Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) could be offered at less long-term cost and vastly less energy consumption. There simply is no justification for choosing to expose Vermonters to wireless radiation. None.
Despite these facts, Gov. Phil Scott has empowered Microsoft Corp.’s massive deployment of less reliable and less secure radio wave antennas across Vermont. Our airwaves and scenery will be canvassed with digital clutter — even blimps and electrosmog. That is the governor’s vision for Vermont. Is that ours?
School boards and other leaders need to hear from us. They assume we consent if we are silent. I firmly believe Vermont can, and should, do better, and the time is now.
Iishana Artra lives in Brattleboro.
