Firstly to anyone who actually reads this, I'd like to apologise for the HUGE amount of time that has passed since I last wrote. I'd like to blame life for getting in the way, but as I spent three lazy months of summer doing little more than visiting friends and procrastinating, I don't feel that this is a valid excuse.
So, rather than explaining where I've been, let's get on to a topic, and I promise I will try harder to write things from now on...
Well!! We begin this tale a few weeks back, when I decided to type in my "symptoms" into a search engine to see what interesting illness I might have. These symptoms, you may be wondering, where fatigue, headaches and a lack of concentration - not the best things when you're trying to write essays and carry on with life. The find article that I actually found was this one, entitled "Experts Raise Health Concerns over WiFi"....
"WiFi networks could cause headaches, fatigue, irritability and lack of concentration in some people, experts believe. There is an increasing body of evidence to suggest certain people are hypersensitive to the emissions from wireless access points and other electromagnetic devices."
Well, I was already paranoid about mobile phones, and seeing as we'd just had WiFi internet connection installed in our home, this didn't bode well.
Further research informed me that there is in fact a group for people who consider themselves Electrosensetive, and that in Sweden it is a recognised condition. Do you ever sense when electrical things are on? Do you feel a sense of relief when they switch off? Can you hear them, faintly, buzzing away when nobody else can? Do you feel tired, does your face start to tingle and burn, do you get headaches from being in front of screens?
Here's a page for ElectroSensitivity-UK, have a read! This won't be a long entry, but the main thing I want you to think about is this. Is the human body designed to put up with the vast amount of radio and micro waves we subject it to? Is our technology evolving at a pace much faster than our organic designs can keep up with? Are we putting our health on the line so that our lives can be that little bit easier? People are enthusing over the benefits of WiFi (wireless internet, by the way) now, as people can access the net off their mobiles... of course, the advantages are obvious in means of communication and information access, but then as well as being yet another way for you to be tracked, and your internet history logged, we are putting our bodies in more and more danger. Wherever we go, our bodies are being bombarded with electromagnetic waves, from electrical equipment, radio waves on phones and the possibly even more powerful WiFi. Most people are completely unaware of the health risks, which makes it even more worrying. We are throwing ourselves into the rapidly expanding avalanche of technology, at the risk of subjecting our bodies to dangerous levels of radiation.
Sources:
http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2154970/experts-raise-health-concerns
http://www.electrosensitivity.org.uk/What%20is%20ES.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/6674675.stm
