Coverage, Coverage Everywhere - But not (really) a Drop for You

Wow! I didn't realize this - there is literally nowhere in the US except National Parks and mountaintops that does not have some wireless coverage. And of course, there is global coverage via the satellite system.

That's a lot of radio waves, baby.

I was looking for places that would have low coverage, both for security reasons, and also to reduce the biological exposure load. Literally, there is nowhere. I thought moving away from NYC would significantly reduce my exposure and connectivity but apparently it doesn't.

The coming 5G rollout will vastly increase this coverage, both in terms of bandwidth and in terms of exposure.

It's creepy when you realize you can't get away from connectivity! It's one thing to want it - why doesn't my phone work? I'm stranded ! But another to realize you can't just go be one with nature, alone with your own bad self. And now there are silently (or "constitutive", to borrow a biological word) connecting devices. This means they are transmitting on the wireless system, doing their own thing (which is always uploading your private information, in one form or another). Yes, this is including your phone, which even with airplane mode on (yes! off!) is still connected - unless the GPS shows you to be at an airport. And including Alexa, and the newest appliances which now have (hidden or not) microphones -- and some have hidden video. Why does your stove have a hidden video camera? Or your car?

Which appliances, I hear you cry? Why, the newest, 5G running, microwaves, refrigerators, ovens, routers, smart bulbs, utility meters - all have hidden embedded microphones and some have hidden cameras too. And that's just a sampling. 5G is the door to unlimited spying. And explains why Ajit Pande is rolling it out to all cheers of the country, to the glee of those who want - indeed need - more rural service. It's a Trojan horse and they don't realize it.

Beyond worrisome.

https://www.fleetistics.com/resources/misc/cellular-network-coverage-maps/

In 1958 We Had Geodesists. Now we have - Google Maps??

I find old issues of Life magazine utterly fascinating.  They're archived in Google Books, you know. This article in Life May 12 1958 gives a look through time to the very beginning of a sensible, well thought out, US funded, ground mapping project intended to increase the military edge of our country and protect our citizens during difficult times. This military project matured over subsequent decades into today's GPS satellite system and morphed into, among other things, Google Maps.

Reading this, I found myself imagining being back in 1958 (Father Knows Best! Five and Dime stores! Bad, BAD, communism! Segregation, quiz shows, Marilyn Monroe, fresh foods in season, kids playing outside after school, Laura Petrie, homemade pies...you get it.) There is simply NO WAY I would imagine being able to predict the consequences of this humble and important project of mapping the physical world to protect our country's interests.

 In fact, I'd say it was a great project, essential to national security, and represented well-spent tax-dollars. In fact, in the context of 1958, I can't see any sensible way to NOT have done this project.

But the subsequent steps taken - obtaining this data began to be done using computers and satellites, not geodesists; GPS was invented, facilitating gathering information on land that grew to be gathering information in general; mapping became tracking, tracking became not only invasive and omnipresent, but secretive and malicious, endangering the underpinnings of our liberty itself which is privacy and individuality --  are destroying the Western world by increasingly controlling its citizens, and with that destruction goes all the progress of the Enlightenment, past and future.

My cheerful analysis - enjoy!

Love, 

Regina Roars