{"id":210744,"date":"2020-07-22T07:56:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T07:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=210744"},"modified":"2020-07-25T06:38:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T06:38:06","slug":"russian-government-recommended-banning-wi-fi-and-cell-phones-in-primary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=210744","title":{"rendered":"Russian Government Recommended Banning Wi-Fi and Cell Phones in Primary Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Dafna Tachover, CHD\u2019s Director of 5G &amp; Wireless Harms Project \u2013 Children\u2019s Health Defense July 20, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/addicted-to-smartphones.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-162067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/addicted-to-smartphones.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On July 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 2020, the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/niigd.ru\/news\/gigienicheskie-normativi-raboti-cifrovoj-shkoly.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Russian Ministry of Health<\/strong><\/span><\/a> published recommendations to schools to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/russian-report-decree-wifi-17.07.2020.pdf\">ban<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the use of Wi-Fi and cell phones in elementary schools. The Medical Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, prepared the recommendations together with the Russian Ministry of Health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The information was provided to Children\u2019s Health Defense by <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/multerland.wordpress.com\/2019\/11\/21\/russian-national-committee-on-non-ionizing-radiation-protection\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Professor Oleg Grigoriev<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Dr.Sc, PhD, the Chairman for the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection. Professor Grigoriev has been outspoken about the harms of wireless technology and has been leading the recent initiatives by the Russian government to protect children from harm. He also <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/O_Grigoriev\/status\/1284277174552461315\">tweeted<\/a> about the news.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ministry of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Health?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Health<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WiFi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WiFi<\/a> banned for primary <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/school?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#school<\/a>.  And smartphones bunned in schools too.  Our proposal became the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/official?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#official<\/a> opinion in the new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hygiene?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hygiene<\/a> regulations for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/digital?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#digital<\/a> school. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/electromagnetic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#electromagnetic<\/a> exposure of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/children?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#children<\/a> will decrease <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8oVp4zkjdN\">pic.twitter.com\/8oVp4zkjdN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oleg A. Grigoriev (@O_Grigoriev) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/O_Grigoriev\/status\/1284277174552461315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Numerous studies show profound adverse effects from Wi-Fi. Professor Martin Pall\u2019s 2018 meta-analysis paper \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ecfsapi.fcc.gov\/file\/10429016089243\/WIF%20threat%20Martin%20Pall%202018%20Environmental%20Research%20.pdf.\">Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u201d references studies showing Wi-Fi causes oxidative stress, sperm\/testicular damage, neuropsychiatric effects including EEG changes, apoptosis (cell death), cellular DNA damage, endocrine changes, and calcium overload.\u00a0Considering the evidence of harm, scientists and medical associations <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ecfsapi.fcc.gov\/file\/106070048305926\/Doctor-Letters-on-Wi-Fi-In-School-Full-Compilation.pdf\">have called<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to ban the use of Wi-Fi in schools and use wired networks instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Russia is following other countries around the world that have taken action to reduce the use of Wi-Fi in schools and protect the health of children. In 2013, Israel became the first country in the world to adopt limitations on the use of Wi-Fi in schools. It banned Wi-Fi in kindergartens and limited the use of Wi-Fi in elementary schools. Wi-Fi is allowed for three hours per week in the first and second grade and six hours per week for the third grade. It must be turned off at all other times. In 2017, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Egkyklios-Jan-17.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Cypress banned Wi-Fi<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in kindergartens and halted the deployment of Wi-Fi in elementary schools. In addition, The Cyprus National Committee on Environment and Child Health initiated a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cyprus-child-environment.org\/easyconsole.cfm\/id\/12\">nationwide campaign<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to raise awareness about cell phone and wireless radiation exposures to children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the US, in 2016 the governor-appointed Maryland State Children\u2019s Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council (CEHPAC), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/phpa.health.maryland.gov\/OEHFP\/EH\/Shared%20Documents\/CEHPAC\/MD_CEHPAC_SchoolWiFi_022017_final.pdf\">issued a report<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>advising the Department of Education to recommend that local school districts reduce exposure of schoolchildren to wireless devices and radiation, and to provide wired rather than wireless internet connections. No action was taken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This action by the Russian Health Department follows another recent action by the ministry to encourage the reduction of children\u2019s exposure to wireless devices.\u00a0 In March 2020, following the outbreak of Covid, Russia\u2019s Department of Health together with the Scientific Research Institute of Hygiene and the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection published <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saferemr.com\/2015\/10\/tips-to-reduce-your-wireless-radiation.html\">Safety Recommendations for Children Who Use Digital Technologies to Study at Home<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong>The recommendation encourages using the internet via a wired connection rather than Wi-Fi. (Children\u2019s Health Defense also published a <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/protecting-our-future\/how-to-make-remote-learning-safe-for-your-children-during-covid-19-quarantine\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u201cstep by step\u201d guide on how to hardwire wireless devices for safe remote learning<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the US, the Federal Communication Commission, which regulates the safety of wireless technology, denies that wireless technology causes harm. The FCC health guidelines rely on the obsolete scientific assumption that the non-ionizing radiation emitted by microwave frequencies used for wireless technology can be harmful, only if they cause thermal change in tissue. That assumption has been proven false in <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bioinitiative.org\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>thousands of studies<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, even before cell phones were commercialized in the 1980s. Contrary to the FCC\u2019s position, in the 1970s, the Russians had already acknowledged that the radiation emitted from radio and microwave frequencies based technologies can be harmful at levels that are <em>at least <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sec03_2007_Existing_Public_Exposure_Standards.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>1,000 times lower<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em> than the levels that create thermal effects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Despite massive evidence of harm, in December 2019, the FCC published a decision that there is no evidence of harm from wireless technology and decided that a review of its health guidelines would not be required. As a result, in February 2020, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/seeking-justice\/legal\/chd-v-federal-communication-commission-fcc\/\">Children\u2019s Health Defense sued the FCC<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. The main brief in the case is due on July 29, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/child-health-topics\/known-culprit\/electromagnetic\/russian-government-bans-wi-fi-and-cell-phones-in-primary-schools\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to advice from the Medical Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Health","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210747,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210744\/revisions\/210747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}