It had been a while since I had read a piece of news so little adapted to current times: the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe has approved a resolution asking all governments to take "rational measures" to avoid the exposure of the population, and especially children, to the electromagnetic fields produced by mobile telephony, wi-fi networks or cordless telephones.
We are going, in a nutshell, that the Council of Europe recommends that we go to live in the countryside with the children, that we stop using laptops, that we connect to the Internet via cable again and that we rescue the landlines, which as they say now on TV, it seems that they are going to be fashionable again.
The measure comes at the request of Luxembourg socialist deputy Jean Huss, who has requested information about the health risks of wireless phones and even the intercoms that some parents use to listen and observe their children while they are in another room.
Following this request the Council of Europe has decided to recommend the limitation of electromagnetic waves with measures such as the regulation of mobile phones among children or having networks installed in cable schools and not wirelessly.
The funny thing about the issue is that one of the spokesmen has explained that despite the measure There is no scientific evidence that the waves generated by mobiles, wi-fi networks or intercoms cause any harm to health.
There are many of us who believe that these waves could harm us in some way, but we prefer to wait until it is shown that living avoiding something that, today, in the city, is practically inevitable. There are wi-fi networks everywhere (take a look at the networks that your laptop captures and surely you take a few), there are mobile phone antennas where you least expect it (some with strange shapes that camouflage perfectly in urban furniture ) and the only thing I would see expendable are the intercoms, in my case because wherever our children went, they were awake or asleep.
Summarizing, the Council of Europe has decided to issue an almost impossible recommendation to follow based on assumptions. For my part I am not going to do anything about it, although I confess that I would love to go to live in the country.
