Dr Lauraine M.H.Vivian
This has been written by me, as a sufferer of EHS and former medical researcher in the field of harm from EMR
I wish to testify that I and my family have suffered with EHS since 2011. We were first affected whilst living in Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa because a large main frame and mast were erected near our home, in Great Westerford Buildings. Our exposure to EMR or Non-Ionising Radiation from the infrastructure has debilitated our lives because we suffer with tinnitus, itchy and red rashes and my one son with lymphoma. We reported the 'noise' to the council and it was they who informed us that it was caused by NIR/EMR and they put us in touch with a support group run by Tracey Lee Dorny. Tracey Lee has since died of cancer, which she felt was related to the stresses of EHS and exposure to nearby mobile phone masts. Great Westerford Building experienced fires that led to huge tunnels being built underground to cool the mainframes.
At this time I was working as a medical scientist at the University of Cape Town and together with Prof Olle Johannson and some commmunity members we established research to monitor peoples' responses to the roll out of mobile and Wi-fi technology across Cape Town and especially the township regions. I began to collect testimonies in videos and written accounts from sufferers and was able with their consent to pass these on to organisations working on harm from EMR. Prof Olle Johansson assisted our team to revise the Manitoba/Canadian EHS questionnaire and we put the research protocol to the ethics committee. They rejected it because they said the questionnaire was not relevant in South Africa and I could not carry out the project because I suffered with EHS.
Following this I have continued to support scientists working in the field as I knew that funding was not forthcoming and that it was vital to collect evidence. In Copenhagen, Denmark, together with scientists we analysed data on EHS in people who live close to mobile phone masts. I have supported the initiatives of Prof Olle Johannson, Arthur Firstenberg and today, Andrew Michrowski. I have two scientific publications on harm from EMR. During this time I have given assistance/advice to many people suffering with EHS and as a medical researcher have tracked how: -
1. Children attach to mobile phone pulsations and not their parents' physicality.
2. Addiction to the algorithims in digital technology happens when lasting damage is done to the way algorithims rework neural pathways.
3. The early deaths of Arthur Firstenberg, Tracey Lee Dorny, and others.
4. The relationship between EHS - stress and cancer.
5. How cyber technology and mobile phones have been used to traffic people, drugs, and enable grooming gangs to engage child prostitution.
6. Most recently, I have worked with Andrew Michrowski to try to establish how this now global techology in Wi-fi and mobile phone signalling is adding to global warming. PACE can provide you with the scientific evidence for this but suffice to add that ICNIRP and WHO were tasked with monitoring the thermal effect of EMR have failed to do so. Instead they encouraged its dissemination across the globe and into space for grossly inequitable, monetary reward. Their failing extended to the fact that they did not evaluate the non-thermal effect of EMR which was left for unfunded scientists working in the bio-initiative such as Professor Frank Barns to investigate. The reason harm is now so pervasive and so many suffer (unheard) from EHS is that no proper and extensive testing was done on the roll out of what is 'ionising' radiation. In this respect, I believe that we are experiencing a Hiroshima Effect from EMR and this is shown in increasing temperatures and disaster situations. My reference to this being IR and not NIR comes from a South African physcist who sat on, but disagreed with the committee that downgraded NIR to not-harmful.
I began developing physical symptoms including dizziness, pain in my skull, a sense of passing out, after taking advanced courses at the University of minnesota. I was supposed to be a computer software trainer. But the more I was exposed to high-end computers as they got stronger and stronger, the more my body started reacting. I developed in ovarian cyst for the first time after using a keyboard on my lap because of physical disabilities I couldn't sit up right and I had to sit sideways..... My first experience with a wireless mouse that worked on several gigabytes versus a wired mouse that I'd used for several years, my first experience with a wireless mouse is that it actually caused scarring on the right upper part of my arm. I stopped using it. Eventually with help from a friend and assistance from techies in the disabled community, we were able to put together a computer system that I was able to sit several feet back from. Using a wired mouse. But this was just the beginning of increasing problems. Remember, I was supposed to be a computer software trainer and I ended up with a bachelor in science from the University of Minnesota but wasn't able to do the work with a combination of multiple physical disabilities increased including increasing sensitivity to the technology as it got stronger. As I found myself nearer to cell phones that were becoming prolific (I was still using a landline telephone), and were being used by people in my life, I found that I could physically feel the energy from them that felt very uncomfortable and actually painful, within 15 to 20 feet of their use. When I found myself in a nursing home at the beginning of the pandemic after I lost my apartment due to multiple disabilities and a lack of PCA help, I was inundated by technology all over the place. Large flat screen TVs in public areas that I found myself not being able to be around, I didn't put a TV in my room at all, (when I was in my apartment I still was watching a small cathode ray tube TV, 6 ft away from it)... Anyway, people had cell phones all over the damn place, laptops, large TV screens, every single patient seemed to have some kind of large TV in their rooms, and if my room was next to a person's where the flat screen TV was up against my wall, I physically felt the electricity and I couldn't sleep. Exposure to all of this technology became more and more problematic. Eventually I started actually collapsing near the nurses station where there was so much technology in use and which was right near one of the gigantic large flat screen TVs used by the public community here. I actually started collapsing. I do have a history of autoimmune and inflammation diseases for several decades, and a history of brain damage going back several decades as well. But never collapsing. I got tested for epilepsy. I do not have epilepsy. However the electricity they used in the room to do the testing was so intense, I actually collapsed outside of the room before we could even do the testing. The problem is that I had become so ultra-sensitive to a combination of radio frequencies, EMF fields, RA's, electricity leaking through walls of this old nursing home that couldn't handle high-end technology, or proliferation of cell phones, and I just became sicker and sicker. My functional medicine doctor knew that this was a real physical ailment and diagnosed me with what is being called electromagnetic hypersensitivities. She knows it is real. It was terrible when some of the staff here started believing that I was acting out emotionally by collapsing on the floor. No, my brain and nervous system and all the cells in my body were reacting to the excessive exposure to all these different kinds of energy fields that were pummeling my body. So she gave me the diagnosis. And hold the staff unequivocally that this is real. So they stop pretending this is emotional. This is a real physical ailment. Unfortunately I've been forced to use a cell phone because there are no landlines in this nursing home except for staff. Which puts me in an exceptionally dangerous situation. I'm also concerned that there's talk about ending landlines in the united states. Which I believe would be a really dangerous as more and more people are realizing that excessive cell phone technology is dangerous. We are destroying ourselves, our bodies, probably other things in nature. When I don't absolutely have to use my cell phone as I am now to dictate this, I will put my cell phone on airplane mode and turn it off. And I have become concerned about the proliferation of cell phone towers and that cell phone companies are trying to keep increasing their power. Right now I am on a 4G cellphone and I don't want it to get any stronger. You need to do something to stop this danger that is being caused to all of us. Like cigarette companies making money off of our health problems 50 years ago, you need to stop these technology companies from doing the same.
As a worker with occupational exposure in the telecommunications industry, it became clear that distancing myself from Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure also removed the negative effects I was experiencing from these devices. The main symptoms I experienced while being exposed to these technologies were difficulty concentrating and extreme headaches that only subsided after a nights sleep. Cell towers and groups of smart meters have proven to be the most dangerous sources that I have found. Wifi will also cause concentration issues that will increase with signal strength, and multipule range extenders. This became obvious during wifi rollouts into retirement homes where the units were installed one after another down all the hallways.