Editor:
The short transmission range of 5G ultra-high frequency microwave antennas necessitates their close placement to receivers. According to the research of Arthur Firstenberg, this densification will further deteriorate the health of all living things. His 2017 book, The Invisible Rainbow, gives an historical account of the progression of illness and disease from the advent of telegraph wires in 1850 to all the electrical accoutrements of today. He notes, “We live today with a number of devastating diseases whose presence we take for granted and no longer question.” Included in these are: “anxiety disorder,” which didn’t exist before the 1860s but now afflicts one-sixth of humanity; diabetes, which was extremely rare prior to the 1860s and affected the skeletally thin; heart disease, which usually occurred in babies and seniors but, even then, was less common than accidental drowning; cancer was also extremely rare – even lung cancer in smokers! Firstenberg notes, “Influenza, in its present form, was invented in 1889 along with alternating current.” The 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic arrived with the initiation of radio; the Asian pandemic of 1957 coincided with the beginning of radar; the Hong Kong influenza pandemic of 1968 arrived with the satellite era. The Spanish flu spread amazingly fast. Transferring mucous secretions directly from patients into the nostrils of well volunteers failed to show any contagion. In fact, since 1933 when influenza virus was discovered, no studies have proven that the virus or disease is transmitted by normal contact. Firstenberg began his research after being forced to leave medical school in 1982 due to injury from an X-ray overdose. The huge bibliography in his book is testimony to the quality of his work.
Susan Fletcher, Sechelt
