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Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk)
An anonymous reader sends news that a UK woman named Debra Fry has begun a campaign to raise awareness for "electro-hypersensitivity" (EHS) after the suicide of her daughter, Jenny, earlier this year. Fry says her daughter was allergic to Wi-Fi, and blames Jenny's school for not removing wireless routers and other networking equipment. A 2005 report from the World Health Organization said, "EHS has no clear diagnostic criteria and there is no scientific basis to link EHS symptoms to EMF exposure. Further, EHS is not a medical diagnosis, nor is it clear that it represents a single medical problem." School officials were firm in declining to remove the equipment without solid evidence supporting Fry's claims. A public health official said, "The overall scientific evidence does not support the suggestion that such exposure causes acute symptoms or that some people are able to detect radiofrequency fields. Nevertheless effective treatments need to be found for these symptoms."
Whenever my WiFi goes down I feel sad and depressed.
I have invented the perfect cure for those suffering from EHS. I have a patented procedure in which I take bottles of pure water and expose each of them to very precise amounts of electromagnetic radiation. The device for this uses only natural electromagnetic radiation and focuses it to ensure that the treatment is healthy and all natural. Each bottle is exposed for an increased amount of time, and the patient drinks each bottle starting from the lowest level and increasing from there. Through this process the body is able to build up a tolerance to electromagnetic radiation and will alleviate the symptoms of this horrible disease. And each treatment can be had for the low price of only $100 per 16oz bottle.
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Well at least you've got a few years -> eternity to figure out a solution before you run into any real life issues.
Since this therapy is building up a resistance to electromagnetism, you can call it Ohmeopathy.
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Everybody knows that the wifi protocol was defined in RFC-666. They'll tell you that RFC stands for 'request for comment,' but we know it stands for 'Refuse the Father and Christ.'
Use this handy chart to decode what YOUR kids are REALLY saying:
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After several weeks of complaints rolling in about impotence and dead pets, he invites the neighbors over to show them the crated, unpowered rig. Then he hams away in peace.
Well clearly then the problem isn't that there's power going through it. The metal structure itself acts as an antenna, so it's the tower, powered or unpowered, that is at fault there.
I'm just surprised your friend hasn't run into that objection yet.
If it's an open structure wouldn't the grain run out?