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Mandatory Cancer
A month ago I wrote about "Enshittification of Airports, Airlines, and Airplanes". Each time one travels it seems to be getting worse. Now, in 2025, almost every airport gives you a major dosage/payload of x-rays - demonstrably enough to increase the chance of you getting cancer some time later. There were reports based on a study about that. We saw several such reports throughout the summer. How many lives are saved by those scanners? And how many will die from cancer years or decades later? There's no way to "opt out" (other than missing/skipping one's flight) and there's no "consent paper" to sign before entering those scanners. Nothing. I once confronted staff at those scanners, but that got me nowhere. They just don't care; they're just "doing their job"...
That means there's now an extra element of health risk associated with flying - and the more takeoffs, the worse.
The inventor/s (or the ones behind the discovery) of x-rays died from cancer. That alone is a cautionary tale.
They don't seem to care. Those scanners are "big business" now; they're mostly marketed and sold by former officials of the US Government. We don't know when we'll next travel, but avoiding those scanners is becoming almost impossible. █