Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house again, you have another thing to worry about: Wi-Fi allergy. A British DJ claims that he is struck by dizziness, confusion, and nausea whenever he’s in range of a hotspot. Hmmm. I used to have the same reaction to office cubicles generally, but I found that distracting myself with the threat of getting fired always left me feeling much better.
Far be it from me to question the veracity of a person’s ailments, but it hardly adds up. He has a Wi-Fi detector to help him stay away from areas he should avoid, though it’s not clear to me why he’d need that if he supposedly senses it naturally. Probably the simplest argument as to why this poor guy should be diagnosed with nothing but raging hypochondria and/or admirably aggressive self-promotion comes in a comment on the Daily Mail article:
The problem with this claim is that Wi-Fi uses the 2.4 gigahertz frequency spectrum along with Bluetooth phones, cordless home phones, and just about any other consumer wireless device. If he really had an ‘allergy’ like that, he wouldn’t have been able to leave his house for the past 15 years. He should try to promote himself a different way than this.
The cynic in me can help but think that the .com for Wifiallergy will be quite a money maker when drugs are introduced to combat this ailment. Unfortunately it’s already taken. So is restlesslegsyndrome and santalives.
