The ‘Stop 5G Algarve’ movement is calling for “a serious and informative public discussion, based on unbiased science” about the technology, which they claim is based on “harmful and dangerous radiation”.
Until that happens, they say action to install this technology in the Algarve must be suspended.
I agree. 5G should be banned not only in the Algarve but country and worldwide due to it's dangerous ramifications.
By Phyllis from Algarve on 13 May 2020, 13:29
These people talk about 'science' but they clearly have no understanding of science, they're just jumping on ridiculous conspiracy theories.
The spectrum for 5G is in the microwave range. That's a frequency above radio, but below infra-red, and visible light. It is non-ionizing. It is well below ultra-violet, gamma rays, etc.
I mean, these people have no problem with radios, or infra-red, or indeed visible light (I assume). And the 5G spectrum sits safely in the middle of all that.
I remember exactly the same thing with 3G and 4G.
If you want to go worry about something real, go and worry about covid-19, not some absurd mumbo jumbo objection to a perfectly SAFE technology.
By Paul from Lisbon on 13 May 2020, 16:01
Dear Phyllis
I think Covid 19 has infected your brain
By Manfred Braun from Algarve on 13 May 2020, 17:06
It is progress and beneficial to those who use the internet a lot such as business and tourism.
I am sure it is less harmful to users that smoke cigarettes or breath in toxic fumes from vehicle emissions
So I would like to feel those that complain do not smoke.
By Niall Murphy from Algarve on 13 May 2020, 20:03
5G is just an encoding and protocol method, it's not a given that it will use any particular frequency band. Most telecomms companies are rolling it out first on the same bands as 4G and 3G etc. Very few are using the mmWave bands yet, which have a much shorter range and decreased penetration and require a greater concentration of antennae therefore cost more to provide wide area coverage. As others have commented the spectrum used by the mmWave technology is non-ionising and no different from any other similar nearby frequency bands. What is needed is better science education and less reading of conspiracy theory social media posts. What we really need is a citizen's movement for the removal of nonsense from social media. In my opinion should be illegal to post demonstrably untrue statements. Anything that purports to be a "fact" should be subject to legal proof standards or scientific peer review before "publication" on social media. Opinions should be reserved for politics, economics and other areas where the scientific method or legal proof standards are inappropriate.
By Tony Smith from Algarve on 13 May 2020, 21:12
We don't want 5G!
By Linda Alves from Algarve on 13 May 2020, 21:47
Apart from all the denied health risks - there is the greater plan utilizing 5G ground stations plus a network of satellites for a full total surveillance system. If that technology is spread - in that 'crisis' time - there is this other agenda and it is also very dangerous.
By Miguel Kabov from Lisbon on 13 May 2020, 23:43
5G is highly cancerigenous it also affects brain function.it is even more damaging to the human body than the 4G.but it will allow better tracking of persons reducing and empeding even more our liberty.
By Constantin from Algarve on 14 May 2020, 06:44
5G will happen regardless! If people feel so strong about it, they should move to a little town with a tiny population where it won’t be financially viable to roll out this technology. We as a nation need to move forward and embrace new technologies!
By Anna from Madeira on 19 May 2020, 01:54
What is interesting is that our technologies such as microwave, radio, 3G, 4G, etc. HAVE harmed us, increased cancer rates, impede concentration ability for our children and us due to impeding our very capacity to utilize oxygen. This has all been proven again and again! People walk around thinking they are not damaged by it, but they are. Everyone is getting cancer. Is there no explanation for that? Or could it be as plain as the nose on our face? So saying that this is a conspiracy theory is absolutely burying your head in the sand. Don't read the research of doctors who are against it as if they are cooks, read their research as if they are doctors who find results that go against what you want to beleive.
By Janet from Algarve on 18 Jul 2020, 10:59
As a highly sensitive person I experience the effects of 5G first-hand. I moved out of my appt in Germany because it was impossible to stay in it. Direct health effects of 5G:
• immense headaches on the full forefront ongoing
• digestive problems
• increased need to drink too much water
• heatwaves
• feeling sick
• tongue feeling heavy
• after long periods in the appartment feeling as if drunk, but not in a nice way
• feeling as if electricity goes through the body
• sleeping problems
• high levels of stress and anxiety that no yoga or meditation could take away
• feeling lethargic and difficulty to concentrate
I'm a highly active and healthy person, and I never have any of the above mentioned issues. So I went to a holistic doctor who does a bio scan, scanning the body for lack of vitamines etc but also electro smog and radiation. She said she has never seen anyone with such high rates of radiation in their body. It was triple the normal rate.
I get the same in Portugal now. Whenever I´m in a place that has 5G installed, I can immediately feel how my body becomes highly stressed.
I would highly recommend to read about this subject and understand the negative effects 5G has on the body. There are zones in Africa where they installed towers and the elephants start to die like flies.
We don´t need an internet that runs a few seconds faster, we need a healthy body and mind and relearn connection to nature instead a constant advancement of technology.
By Anne from Lisbon on 14 Aug 2020, 16:33
Look up at the lamp posts. The new ones that have black boxes and are about 500 m apart contain transmitters for 5G. I am electrosensitive and cannot survive more exposure. The people who are making us sick with this technology have said this, we have not done research to see if it is dangerous to humans and animals and we have no intention to do so...
Amazon is putting 10,000 satellites out there. Do your homework, this is a terrible disaster. No 5G in Algarve, or anywhere else...
By paula from Algarve on 23 Sep 2020, 13:36