Keeping us in the Dark Ages
The county is coming for your cell phone, and it’s pretty much the last freedom we have left during these pandemic times. I live in Palisades and only have one bar of coverage. When I drive to work on Queen Kaahumanu Highway toward town, coverage is spotty and nonexistent in several places along the way to town. No one I know has a home phone anymore. We rely on these devices to communicate, stay connected, keep up with the news, and for emergencies.
Cell phone companies want to improve the infrastructure and add more towers now and 5G in the near future so that we can keep up with the rest of the world in technology. Tourism isn’t coming back for a long time. We are going to have to do something else. Now is our chance to embrace tech jobs, work from home and much more.
Unfortunately for us, our County Council members have decided to protect us from wealth and the ability to move forward by limiting our technology and shoving us back into the 80s. The County Council never had a problem with the high-power cell tower in the Kealakehe Elementary school playground, now they want to protect us from low-power 5G towers? How about waiting until 5G is proven to be harmful instead of “studying it,” saying they want it proven not harmful. It’s accepted technology, it’s not harmful. How about the wifi in their office that’s microwave a much closer range, should we ban that too? Our flat Earth conspiracy theory council members who have a job, but don’t seem to care if we do, want to keep us in the Dark Ages. Vote them all out next election, they aren’t helping us.
John Caudell
Kailua-Kona
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