Comment Re:Why Fy? (Score 1) 260
I actually thought his maglight comparison was an excellent layperson analogy. In a crowded room I would be less unconcerned, although there may be several emitters, anything that is a reasonable distance away from you has been attenuated greatly by the spreading of the signal and spread out over a much larger portion of your body. I have not read the scientific literature but I would guess that the main area of interest for RF safety is the cell phone in your pocket since you could conceivably absorb a large portion of that phone's transmitting power over a fairly small volume of your body.
This does not apply to megawatt radars, or kilowatt microwave ovens, but to single watt phones/wifi there's not much to be concerned about.