Kate Matsuda · 6 answers · 3y
Why do people question the effects of WLAN radiation while eating a burger of suspicious smell, taste and ingredients?
Why do people question the effects of WLAN radiation while eating a burger of suspicious smell, taste and ingredients?
we have a certain amount of risk we accept and incorporate into our lives, like how many of us get in a vehicle daily when vehicle collisions are a much more likely cause of death than whatever the news is screaming about this week...the news thing is outside of that risk we've accepted and that means it's freakout time...now lemme tell you about how 5G internet will end human civilization...
Yes, and they’re also the people least likely to wear masks/socially distance because they believe COVID is a big fat lie. I read something a while ago that said when there are significant advances in technology, there are always people who believe it makes them ill. When mirrors first came on the go, some people thought they made you sick and turned you ‘mad’. A piece of polished glass got the blame for all kinds of strange things. People would go around purposely smashing them because of it. In the 1960s/1970s, some people (in America particularly) were convinced chemicals in everyday objects (formaldehyde esp) were making them seriously ill. Funnily enough, the symptoms described for each of these groups of illness are all very, very - spookily - similar: headaches, nausea, tiredness, digestive problems, skin irritation. I remember when I was a child, watching a programme about a group of people who moved to the Californian dessert to get away from formaldehyde in seat cushions. They were all as you’d imagine: self-absorbed, angry at what the cruel world had done to them, emotionally fragile conspiracy theorists who knew the BIG PICTURE and thought the rest of us were just sheep. (Bah!) Strikingly similar to today, don’t you think?
Because there's nothing hidden about the health disadvantages of a burger, and eating them is fully ingrained into society/culture. WLAN is both new and mysterious (mysterious as in you can't see radio waves), so it's ripe for reactionalism and conspiracy theories, etc. Not that I think WLAN necessarily doesn't have health/wellness implications for people and animals. It may very well be dangerous. But I agree that it's stupid to worry about WLAN while biting into a burger..
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