By Claire Edwards, BA Hons, MA – worked for the
United Nations as Editor and Trainer in Intercultural Writing from 1999
to 2017 writes the following appeal:
The first eight months of WWII with no fighting – was called The Phoney War. Using millimetre waves as a fifth-generation or 5G wireless communications technology is a phoney war of another kind.
This phoney war is also silent, but this time shots are being fired – in the form of laser-like beams of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from banks of thousands of tiny antennas[1] – and almost no one in the firing line knows that they are being silently, seriously and irreparably injured.
In the first instance, 5G is likely to make people electro-hypersensitive (EHS).[2] Perhaps
it was sitting in front of two big computer screens for many of the 18
years I worked at the UN that made me EHS. When the UN Office at Vienna
installed powerful WiFi and cellphone access points – designed to serve
large, public areas – in narrow, metal-walled corridors throughout the
Vienna International Centre in December 2015, I was ill continuously for
seven months.
I did my best for two and a half years to alert the UN staff union,
administration and medical service to the danger to the health of UN
staff of EMR from these access points, but was ignored. That’s why, in
May 2018, I took the issue to the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres [transcript].
He is a physicist and electrical engineer and lectured on
telecommunications signals early in his career, yet asserted that he
knew nothing about this. He undertook to ask the World Health Organization to
look into it, but seven months later those public access points remain
in place. I received no replies to my many follow-up emails.
