5G - safe or harmful to health?

[Rogue]

5G is coming, is it safe on our health?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-08-28/is-5g-safe-dr-karl-radiation-explainer/11416070

[Agartha]

Well, what a surprise: Russian television spreading fake news again! Haven't they done enough damage interfering with Trump and Brexit?

I do not fear G5 at all and your article explains it all very effectively.

[Rogue]

The thing I don't like about 5G is all the extra towers we seem to have to have blighting our environment.

[Agartha]

I actually haven't seen any new ones around here.... I'll keep an eye for them now.

[Rogue]

They're small and there needs to be lots of them...

5G promises an extremely interconnected world where everything from smartwatches, vehicles, houses, and farms utilize the ultrafast speeds and low delays it offers. To accomplish this, and to do it well — with as little coverage gaps as possible — it’s required to have a huge number of 5G towers, particularly in areas that demand lots of traffic like big cities and business districts.

Fortunately, since 5G cell towers are so small, they can be positioned in ordinary places like on light poles, the tops of buildings, and even street lights. This translates into less traditional looking towers but also potentially more eyesores nearly everywhere you look.

For 5G to really shine in a highly-populated city, for example, especially given its short distance limitations, towers need to exist close to wherever connected devices will need access to them, like at intersections, outside the doors of businesses, all around college campuses, right down your street, etc.

Another reason 5G towers have to be installed so frequently in busy areas is that for the small cell to support superfast speeds, it has to have a direct line of sight with the receiving device, like your phone or home. If you ever plan to replace your home broadband internet with 5G, you'll most likely have a 5G cell tower down the street from your house.
https://www.lifewire.com/5g-cell-towers-4584192

[TrueCrazyLion]

Yeah, I don't fear 5G either - as the article explains really, it's well below the energy level which can be harmful to humans or other organisms.
Because there's an inverse relationship between the energy level of an electromagnetic wave and its ability to propagate/penetrate through matter of any kind, the 5G waves need more regular boosts than 3G or 4G as they travel - I'm guessing that explains the need for the towers to be many more and much closer together.

I haven't seen any of the towers in my area yet either - I get the feeling it might be a while yet before 5G reaches smaller cities like mine.

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