[ RadSafe ] Cell phones (off topic...)

[John R Johnson]

Doug.

Thanks for this.

I was going to post something similar but decided not to. One of the worst 
I've experienced is a parent with a baby in the shopping cart talking on a 
mobile phone and blocking the aisle. It turned out that the parents were in 
different aisles discussing what they should buy for dinner!

John
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Aitken" <jdaitken at sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com>
To: "Brennan, Mike (DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:12 AM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Cell phones (off topic...)


> At 11:13 AM 8/8/2007, Brennan, Mike  (DOH) wrote:
>>There are two serious health effects connected with mobile phones:  The
>>negative effect of people talking on them when they should be
>>concentrating on something else, which kills tens of people per day in
>>the US, and the positive effect of summoning emergency services almost
>>instantly from almost anywhere, which saves tens of people per day in
>>the US (both effects with orders of magnitude larger numbers of people
>>injured or the severity of their injuries lessened, respectively).  All
>>other proposed health effects vanish into the background when compared
>>to these two.
>
> I totally agree with this. But on a sociological level, do none of you 
> feel that the use of these phones has totally changed people's behavior? 
> It used to be that the use of a phone was a somewhat private act 
> (obviously except in crowded offices - I am talking about in public 
> places). Now we are subjected to loudmouthed people happily carrying on 
> their "private" conversations, oblivious to others around them. While we 
> may gain a little prurient thrill in eavesdropping, I personally feel that 
> this is a bit of an invasion of MY space..... and extremely rude behavior 
> on the part of the person on the phone.
>
> The second insidious effect of the cell phone is that we are constantly 
> "supposed" to be available at ant time........
>
> Of course, the most ridiculous aspect of cell phones behavior (now pretty 
> much disappeared, as the cost of these devices drops dramatically) was the 
> large quantity of people (mostly young men) in Latin American cities that 
> would walk around in public with fake phones on their ears, just to look 
> cool.......
> ;~)
> Doug
>
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