'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools

An anonymous reader writes "Readers of Slashdot might be familiar with Lakehead University's ban on WiFi routers a few years ago in Thunder Bay, Ontario because of 'health concerns,' a policy apparently still in effect. Now it seems a group of concerned parents in a number of communities in Ontario have petitioned the local school boards over similar concerns at public schools, where their kids are apparently experiencing 'headaches to dizziness and nausea and even racing heart rates' — symptoms that appear only when they are in school on weekdays, not on weekends at home. 'The symptoms, which also include memory loss, trouble concentrating, skin rashes, hyperactivity, night sweats and insomnia, have been reported in 14 Ontario schools in Barrie, Bradford, Collingwood, Orillia and Wasaga Beach since the board decided to go wireless ...' Besides Wi-Fi signals, could there possibly be any other logical explanation for kids having more symptoms of illness on school days than at home on weekends or in the summer?"

Comments

Re:Hmmm....

[Ethanol-fueled]

Don't forget about churches. In churches (as compared to schools and workplaces) people are crammed much closer together and handholding / hugging are often implicitly mandatory.

Re:WiFi at home? (Burden of Proof)

[vertinox]

Exactly. I, for one, am sick and tired of the 'blame everybody but the self' mentality that pervades society.

To be fair... They are really on to something more profound.

You are limited by your genetics... Or at least being human. You know... Being programmed to want sex, eat, sleep, feel sensations or emotions that get in the way.

You are programmed with 300 million years of evolution which most people are not aware of (much less actually fight).

And you are sometimes limited by the language and ideas that you were taught with.

I mean... Would you blame someone who grew up in the 1400's in believing in witches?

I already used this once tonight but I'll use the concept again.

If you had a yummy fish and you threw it at a bear, and the bear ate it... Would you get mad at the bear for not using self control?

Of course not (well most of us), its what bears do. Now going along with this though...

Humans are also like bears. We are both animals so somethings that we do, we can't help because thats what we've been raised to do, or taught, or just through instinct.

Or lack thereof...

Now I'm not saying that free will doesn't exist and that everyone is blameless, but rather if we looked at human behavior problems as you would an animal or as an evolutionary, then things get a lot clearer...

Because you know how to fix it.