Parents in Canada are blaming their children's illnesses on Wi-Fi in schools

[lxskllr]

How, exactly, does installing a few boxes in random areas and plugging them into a power source "stir up" or "uncover" mold/mildew? It's not like wired networking where you have to run wires through the ceiling or walls...

I would assume it was a combination of wired/wireless. If that's the case, they could have stirred some stuff up.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Easy:
Some wifi is done by wiring antennas and mounting them to walls. The equipment may be a good distance away from the source.

Even so, it's not like you are running wires into every classroom, so there would only be a limited area that could be affected, not the entire school.

 

[zinfamous]

Even so, it's not like you are running wires into every classroom, so there would only be a limited area that could be affected, not the entire school.

say it with me now: Internal Ventilation System.

 

[foghorn67]

Only in America...oh wait.

 

[PingSpike]

How, exactly, does installing a few boxes in random areas and plugging them into a power source "stir up" or "uncover" mold/mildew? It's not like wired networking where you have to run wires through the ceiling or walls...

The microwaves from the wifi cooked up the mold.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Even so, it's not like you are running wires into every classroom, so there would only be a limited area that could be affected, not the entire school.

Say you run the wifi antenna into 5 out of 50 rooms. We'll go for the sake of assumption that one is administrative, and none the cafeteria, so that's 4 rooms. Four rooms, with 25 kids a class, and (for the sake of random numbers) five classes a day.

That's 500 students being "infected". Given that those kids are also spread out through out the day, it may be hard to pin down exactly which rooms. So they blame it on wifi since the signal hits ALL the rooms. If one of the rooms were the cafeteria, consider damned near everyone exposed.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

say it with me now: Internal Ventilation System.

Plausible, but unlikely IMO.

The microwaves from the wifi cooked up the mold.

<spidey07> EXACTLY!!1ONE </spide07>

Say you run the wifi antenna into 5 out of 50 rooms. We'll go for the sake of assumption that one is administrative, and none the cafeteria, so that's 4 rooms. Four rooms, with 25 kids a class, and (for the sake of random numbers) five classes a day.

That's 500 students being "infected". Given that those kids are also spread out through out the day, it may be hard to pin down exactly which rooms. So they blame it on wifi since the signal hits ALL the rooms. If one of the rooms were the cafeteria, consider damned near everyone exposed.

More plausible, but I seriously doubt it's even a mold/mildew problem. I believe it's more likely a placebo effect. Do note that I don't believe it's the Wi-Fi either.

 

[skace]

Even so, it's not like you are running wires into every classroom, so there would only be a limited area that could be affected, not the entire school.

I like how you are actively trying to shoot down one of the more logical reasons for this.

 

[lxskllr]

I like how you are actively trying to shoot down one of the more logical reasons for this.

That's how you get to the truth. They appear to be having some kind of health issue, and it certainly isn't from wifi, so the debate turns to other sources. I'm skeptical of mold problems myself, but with all the unhealthy nancies people raise today, it could be an issue.

 

[zinfamous]

Plausible, but unlikely IMO.



<spidey07> EXACTLY!!1ONE </spide07>



More plausible, but I seriously doubt it's even a mold/mildew problem. I believe it's more likely a placebo effect. Do note that I don't believe it's the Wi-Fi either.

why unlikely? spores and particles like asbestos are easily and widely distributed through internal ventilation. Unless this school runs HEPA filters on all their intakes (which they most certainly would not--expense), then there would be nothing to keep them from dispursing.

...but I'm willing to go with the microwave/Wi-Fi theory, as it wasn't until reading this thread that I was aware of the tremendous "flambe" power of the average WiFi signal. :hmm:

 

[zinfamous]

That's how you get to the truth. They appear to be having some kind of health issue, and it certainly isn't from wifi, so the debate turns to other sources. I'm skeptical of mold problems myself, but with all the unhealthy nancies people raise today, it could be an issue.

well, the symptoms described in the article can all be attributed to mold exposure, with years upon years of solid data to back it up.

Not so for microwave death ray WiFi signals, unfortunately. :\

 

[BoberFett]

...but I'm willing to go with the microwave/Wi-Fi theory, as it wasn't until reading this thread that I was aware of the tremendous "flambe" power of the average WiFi signal. :hmm:

LMFAO!

I don't know if my router has that setting. If it does I can save money and skip buying a new grill.

 

[shortylickens]

My canadian uncle just happens to be visiting this week. When he gets back from The Mall I will ask him his opinion on this faggotry.

 

[spidey07]

LMFAO!

I don't know if my router has that setting. If it does I can save money and skip buying a new grill.

Put a 4 watt amplifier and a 27 db antenna on it. Oh, and make sure you point the antenna at your head.

But seriously, don't do that. You'll cook your brain.

 

[Jeff7]

LMFAO!

I don't know if my router has that setting. If it does I can save money and skip buying a new grill.

Directional Head-Cooking Protocol.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Put a 4 watt amplifier and a 27 db antenna on it. Oh, and make sure you point the antenna at your head.

But seriously, don't do that. You'll cook your brain.

You do understand how antenna gain works right? You won't miraculously get 2,000W out of it by putting 4W into it.

 

[ShawnD1]

Except that they're not the same at all. When's the last time you heated up a cup of soup using a router?

Maybe your router just sucks if it can't heat up a cup of soup.

My canadian uncle just happens to be visiting this week. When he gets back from The Mall I will ask him his opinion on this faggotry.

Why did you capitalize The Mall?

well, the symptoms described in the article can all be attributed to mold exposure, with years upon years of solid data to back it up

This is the most upsetting part about this. While retards parents are on a wild goose chase, they're not fixing the ventilation or whatever else is actually causing this problem.

Some ventilation systems are just bad. At one job, I had a major seizure and I had to be taken to the hospital. It turns out the intake for the building was near some bushes that were sprayed with pesticide. Pesticide was being sucked into the building and blown right above my desk!

 

[Wyndru]

Even so, it's not like you are running wires into every classroom, so there would only be a limited area that could be affected, not the entire school.

In our school, the access points are in the hallways mounted to the ceiling tiles, about every 50 feet or so. I know just installing those the custodians were complaining that there was dust all over the place.

Even running the cat5 for the install, I found rat feces in the tiles. Old schools have lots of nasties hiding in the ceiling (and walls).

 

[ShawnD1]

In our school, the access points are in the hallways mounted to the ceiling tiles, about every 50 feet or so. I know just installing those the custodians were complaining that there was dust all over the place.

Even running the cat5 for the install, I found rat feces in the tiles. Old schools have lots of nasties hiding in the ceiling (and walls).

lol. This would be a perfect example of horrible logic. If the school had something like new cat6 lines put in for a gigabit network, it stirs up a bunch of dust and animal shit, people get the plague and legionnaire's disease from the shit, people then conclude that cat6 cable causes legionnaire's disease :awe:

 

[PieIsAwesome]

My point is WiFi is the exact same as a microwave. No difference except power. If microwaves are so harmless then like I said, turn your microwave on, open the door and let it run 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Microwave ovens create a standing wave inside, they don't magically heat food by randomly emitting microwaves.

Having it run and leaving the door open is harmless. I would go further and, after I find the node of the wave, stick my hand in the microwave oven where the wave node is.

 

[imported_Researcher]

All the ideas are interesting but the problem is not WiFi related.

Video and pictures used to illustrate articles about this incident show what it is, Subliminal Distraction exposure.

Named for the feature in our physiology of sight that allows it to happen, it was discovered and solved forty years ago.

Designers of Systems Furniture, Cubicles, who deal with it see only light exposure and believe it can cause only a harmless temporary episode of confusion.

It happens when you create the situation so that your brain has a massive number of failed attempts to trigger the vision startle reflex.

The cubicle was designed to prevent this by blocking peripheral vision for a concentrating worker by 1968.

These children do not have enough exposure for the full mental event. But if one of them created the same situation at home where they played video games the full mental break might happen.

Turning off the WiFi won't do anything to stop this if they continue to use computers the same way. Students are shown crowded together sitting in each other's peripheral vision without Cubicle Level Protection.

<link removed> is a seven year investigation of Subliminal Distraction.

It's just an odd piece of information everyone should have. Remember, although computers are implicated today it was discovered before they existed.

You waited 2 1/2 years before spamming something here? I think you just set a record! -Admin DrPizza

 

[SillyOReilly]

People will try to place blame on anything in order to not think it's their shitty genetics or parenting.

 

[Wyndru]

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Mind=Blown