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I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of someone who is personally affected, a mother of two daughters who are affected, and a concerned member of society. For some reason that is not entirely clear to me, I am acutely aware of the disabling effect of electromagnetic fields on the human body and have been since the early 80’s when these devices first came into our lives. Mainly, I have managed over the years by removing myself from the source of the electromagnetic field. I live out in the country, drive an old car, avoid LED lighting when possible, avoid driving under electronic tolling, avoid biometric face scanning technologies - my old computer is wired via ethernet and I have found technologies for my phone and other devices which seem to help make the effect of the electronic field more bio-compatible - but still, removing oneself from the source of the radiation remains to be the most effective solution. However as these technologies become more and more prevalent, it is becoming more and more difficult to avoid. My first experience with wireless radiation was in 1986, when I returned to Canada from a teaching job in South India. I went to my sister's house and the phone rang. I picked it up and noticed that it did not have a cord. Not having any prior knowledge of this new invention, I wasn’t expecting anything other than what you normally expect to happen when you picked up the phone prior to the advent of cordless phones. I picked it up, noticed that it didn't have a cord and then right away, noticed an extremely intense and disturbing feeling. I would try to describe the feeling by saying, “imagine you were a person who didn't drink coffee and you just had 10 cups of strong coffee”. I felt everything spinning along with an intense, extremely uncomfortable feeling. The feeling began to subside after I put the phone down. The feeling was something I really had never felt before and had no words to describe, but "radiation burn” might come close. I said to myself, Whatever that is, I am never picking up one of those again. Little did I know that there was more to come. A bit more time went by. 3G flip-phones were becoming more popular. I never bought one, and continued to use my old cord phone. I remember that if one of my family members was on the flip phone, and the person on the line wanted to speak to me - I would always vehemently decline. The same feeling that I noticed coming from the cord phone was coming from the flip phone. Fast forward to 2011, I had moved to Seattle, living on the west side and working on the east side. I drove across the 520 bridge several times a week. I knew they were installing tolling hardware on the bridge but it was still not scheduled to start for several months. So, one day .. I was driving across the bridge as usual, not expecting anything unusual, and as I drove under the overhead bar that was being installed I had the most bizarre experience. I felt hundreds of pencil thin rays of burning radiation piercing my body. And, as I was driving along over the bridge I noticed that something like a shadow body fell out of my body as if it was mortally wounded. This is not at all something that I expected, or created from apprehension as I had absolutely no anticipation of anything being any different from any other day that I had driven over the bridge. It took several days for me to actually feel normal again after that. I was so incredulous that this was happening to me that I actually drove over the bridge one more time - thinking that this could not possibly be happening to me. And once again, experienced the same thing. Since then, I have not driven over that bridge. I don't know anything about what kind of technology they are actually using, but it felt like some kind of laser. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. I am concerned that in the future, I will not be able to use a computer, travel, drive a car, use a cell phone to do basic functions etc, Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

I have had extensive exposure to cell phones, EMF/ RF, and wireless radiation from wireless devices. Please regulate these devices for our country. In 1994 I owned the older type of cell phone called a "bag phone". Within one year of it sitting next to my body in the car, I developed an ovarian tumor. Fast forward to 2010, I got my first smart cell phone and by 2013 I developed blood leukemia. It was not until this occurred that I became sure the source of these diseases were from the EMF/RF from these devices. To protect my health I got rid of all devices and hardwired my computer into my home, turning off wifi and bluetooth. I have not owned or used a cell phone since 2017 and already deal with many challenges trying to get by in society without participating in the cell phone world.But my health and being alive is more important than any convenience these devices bring me. I live rural and without any cell phone towers nearby. I've started an amateur radio club (IVARC.org) and use radios for communication while mobile and at home. Please regulate and control the growth of EMF/RF and wireless radiation exposure. I can hardly go into a store for more than five minutes, with cell phones, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth making me nauseous and cognitively woozy. LED lights are just as bad for me. I would be happy to testify to these truths. I am already locked out of many choices due to not having a cell phone, and third party verification on a cell phone, I fear things turning all digital and being locked out of the digital world. Amateur radio operator KF6QAW, GMRS radio operator WRPJ605B.

Since I was injured by wireless radiation radio-frequency exposures in 2014, and afterward diagnosed with the United Nations recognized functional impairment known as "EHS" or "EMS" (electro-hypersensitivity and electromagnetic sensitivity, what used to be called "microwave syndrome") I have lived an extremely marginalized and painful existence - suffered job loss, financial and emotional support (shunned socially), and home/property loss (having had to relocate multiple times at my own expense) all because of my physical reactions to these never-ending increasingly ubiquitous (with their introduction into our environments going largely unregulated and unchecked) manmade artificial electromagnetic fields, are extreme (migraines, heart irregularities, tremors, joint and muscle pain, insomnia, brain fog, etc.) and because these EMFs continue to encroach upon my world, shrinking the available safe places for me - where I can find reprieve, rest, enjoyment of the natural world, work, play, and live. For 12 years now I've fought to educate policy makers and the public about my condition (which at least 3% of Americans suffer with) and other ways the public is harmed by an industry that is basically self-regulated and has not done any real, relevant or recent safety tests on their products and clearly cares about profit over people, seeing any who suffer from these exposures as collateral damage. All for what? Supposed (perceived) convenience? We can use communications tech safely via wired options. We could prioritize protecting the public first, esp. the more vulnerable demographics (unborn babies, infants, children, women and others who absorb radiation more readily or are harmed more easily due to other medical conditions), over protecting industry profit. This is what the HHS should be doing and needs to be doing. We cannot possibly be continuing to argue about whether or not these fields harm us, there are tens of thousands of studies done over the past several decades proving this over and over again. (See EMF-portal.org for access to most of these, as well as a few recent studies attached). Not only are humans harmed, so too are animals of all kinds, plants, insects (particularly bees) and soil microbes. We are all interconnected and interdependent, so it matters that these other creatures are suffering. And it matters that the manufacturing of our wireless tech and all things "smart" is harming our natural world through exploitative mining practices and polluting manufacturing, which along with continued planned obsolescence is creating immense "e-waste" with no end to this in site, growing by the day, polluting our waterways and air with toxic heavy metals, and environmentally persistent forever chemicals. Please do the right thing and work to change policy to protect us from this exponentially rapidly increasing threat to public health. Thank you.

I am writing from south of Sweden. My experience beginning 2020 when they put up 2 mobiletowers 200 and 300meters from my home. I ve experience Vitreous detachment and flottets in my eyes and heartpulpatation on and of. 2022 they installd the smartmeter and then it became very bad. My cat got stressed and got problems whit the urin and hairloss on his stormatch. Then my small dog started to pi inside even when we just got in. I got eyemigraine 1-2 times a week and some days up to 3 times/day. More heartpulpatations on and off, toorhpressing, dizziness, stress and anxiety, tinnitus, problems whith koncentration and memory. 2026 they turn on the 5G in the area and the hole famely feels it and we feel it when we are out in the garden I have tryed to reduce it by painting inside and whit reducing fabric. It turned our lives up side down and I think we must sell the house. Maria, Sweden

I live underneath a water tower and it has a 5G tower on top of it and I have had chronic headaches ever since we moved here. I went to a functional medicine doc and she said I should move but my husband does not agree and told me we aren’t moving.

I live underneath a water tower and it has a 5G tower on top of it and I have had chronic headaches ever since we moved here. I went to a functional medicine doc and she said I should move but my husband does not agree and told me we aren’t moving.

When 5G hubs came out for my electricity company I was given a postcard months before and it said that I could call and I could opt out of the service because it was already a digital hub they could already read my information they could already see it they can turn my power off and on with a flick of a switch with nobody coming out to do so physically. It gave a phone number so I called it, going through a couple of hoops people would not answer my questions and what I needed to know and address my concerns before they actually went ahead and did this or I said no please do not do this... The person on the phone with me told me that if I did not change this hub because medically I have a sensitivity to frequencies to noises to sounds to smells decides to everything because I have my own medical issues and that if I was not going to be switching it over that it would cost me $100 out of my pocket and then every month thereafter would cost me another $50 added on to my bill because somebody would physically have to come out and read this because they would not listen to me when I said I have a medical letter here from my doctor who do I send it to so it doesn't happen to me and to forego also my neighbor who I am renting but as long as I'm here it should be recognized as well because both of our meters are in the same position and her meter would obviously give frequencies off so if I didn't change mine and she did I would still be sick. She furthermore lets me know that it's going to cost me extra and every month it's going to cost me the X amount of dollars that she stayed in she said well don't worry honey it's the same as having a microwave I said I don't have a microwave because I get severe headaches I get them so bad and so frequently I get very nauseous and I would be sick for very large periods of time and sometimes hospitalized. And she didn't know what to say to me I said see me to tell me because I'm disabled because I have a medical reasoning for this not to happen that you're going to charge me extra you're going to charge someone who's disabled extra money to be disabled. I'm trying to understand this because I'll be honest with you my lawyer will be definitely interested in this conversation. She immediately says oh I'm so sorry hold on one moment and puts me on hold furthermore she refers me to another person who claims to be a supervisor and said well this is what it is and until it changes that's what's going to be we're either going to do it and to be honest with you we're already changing in your area and likely this request will not be seen until it's already been done and we cannot undo it once we've done it. Furthermore stating even though they give you the option to opt out they really didn't mean they could opt you out of it they weren't going to they were not intending to and they certainly didn't care if I was medically unwell from this surgeon in waves coming through my home and through my body causing me to be ill. So do I have issues with all of this absolutely these I love this they call them improvements to our energy or not improvements because there have been no studies on this brand new technology because we're at a war of technology and who's got the better stuff and who can get it up and running quicker we're not looking at what are the effects that they're going to have on the people who actually pay for us to have this business these little people who are getting sick these little people who don't have the extra money to put a faraday cage around everything. This is so sick and I can't believe this is being allowed

I am writing this because I believe we have passed the danger zone regarding EMFs, RF and wireless radiation exposure. The public has been misled for many years about these subjects and is not aware of the long-term exposure risk. Many years ago Dr George Carlo was hired by the cell phone industry to study the safety of RF and wireless radiation exposure. He did not deliver what they wanted and they canceled his study because he found over whelming evidence of detrimental effects of long-term exposures. To name a few of the effects, he found molecular, cellular, and genetic changes to our biology. There also was a 2018 toxology study that reported that nonionizing radiation is considered a class 2B carcinogen. EMFs now fill our environment with RF constantly due to all of the following: towers, satellites, antennas, radio, TV, military radar, smartphones, bluetooth, smartmeters, powerlines and motors. It is now impossible to live your life without being subjected to all of these RF producing devices. For those of us that have hypersensitivity to EMFs and RF there is no refuge. I have been unable to find any conventional medical doctor that has any knowledge on this subject and they have no idea how my sensitivity has affected my health. I have been suffering with this sensitivity for almost 4 years. I took a PUB Med Study (PMID 32289567) from the United States government website on hypersensitivity to 3 medical doctors. They had no knowledge of this information and denied my symptoms were caused by it. My husband has spent over $25,000 to protect my home environment (mostly on special shielding paint that blocks WiFi from entering our home) so that I can at least live somewhat comfortably in our home. I have also found an alternative doctor who understands my sensitivity and how it is affecting my health. With my sensitivity it is very painful to go outside my home, especially when I have to go to doctors' appointments since doctor's offices are now all high tech and everyone in the waiting room has their iphone on. It is a nightmare to find yourself in this position. I believe a lot more people will develop my sensitivity if we do not put the brakes on this expanding wireless exposure. They need to recognize hypersensitivity to RF as a disability so we can access public health treatments. Also, children are now saturated with RF from birth. The elderly, babies, children and the auto immune population are in the compromised and vulnerable group. I was auto immune before 1996 when the FCC planned to put this technology into our environment without long-term health risk studies.This grates me as my situation could have been averted had I known the long-term health risks because I would have made better choices and taken precautions when using cellphones and other devices that created RF. I cannot find the words to express how uncomfortable this is to make my story heard, as the dismissal and the cognitive disbelief is so prevalent by those who are not affected.

I am Daniel Vasku, a Dutch citizen, trained in media and image technology, with a lifelong love for technology. After moving to New Zealand I helped organise festivals and events, doing everything from my smartphone, with me 24-7. While setting up wireless networks and video systems for these festivals, I built a mesh network at a rural venue out of consumer Linksys routers. One day, after hours configuring a stack of four active routers, I felt a strange spastic tingling in my right arm, the one nearest the stack. Over the following summer I developed persistent nose congestion, brain fog, painful joints and fatigue. I assumed it was hay fever, but it made no sense that the symptoms lasted for months while we travelled to completely different places. The turning point came in Golden Bay NZ, at the home of a friend who had deliberately restricted his Wi-Fi. While he explained this, I realised that every time I switched my phone on, I felt a brief stabbing pain in my brain. Minutes later the sting returned, and my girlfriend had just powered her phone on. That confirmation made me take the possibility seriously. For the next two or three years I stayed skeptical, but the pattern held: whenever my phone and Wi-Fi were off and I avoided close exposure, I felt much better. In a shared home where Wi-Fi was kept off except when needed, I repeatedly told housemates it was on when they were sure it wasn't, and I was always right. I learned to trust the specific head pressure that came with wireless signals. A few years ago I visited family in Europe, and my condition worsened dramatically: relentless headaches, growing joint pain, visible decline. Eventually I could no longer function, and a friend urged me back to New Zealand. In a small, reception-free valley in Auckland I recovered almost immediately. So I bought my first meter, a Cornet. In a room where everything was powered down, it revealed a pulsing signal coming from my Apple Pencil, whose Bluetooth pulses around the clock. After boxing it up outside the room, I slept that night, for the first time in ages, without the head pressure that so often became a full migraine. With renewed energy I started a sauerkraut business at a Sunday market. It went well, but every market day was followed by a migraine, and recovery grew from one day to two, three, then a full week of pain. When the owner of a new venue told me a cell tower was going on the roof with strong indoor repeaters, I realised I had to quit. When savings ran out, I moved to a rural community in the Coromandel. There, with almost no cell reception, my health picked up tremendously. But my sensitivity kept increasing. One or two hours in town cost me severe headaches the next day. I tried shielding: first a silver-coated veil, which helped, then a full radiation suit from China made of stainless steel and cotton, which let me shop without next-day migraines, at the cost of looking odd, overheating badly in sunlight, and sensitivity to AC electric fields. Even that was not enough. People using a phone in a neighbouring room triggered headaches before I even saw the device, and I was always right. I began carrying my meter constantly as an alarm system, because by the time I felt pain it was already too late. About five years ago my condition worsened again despite shielding. My meter showed levels higher than before, and the timing coincided with the switch-on of 5G in the town. I found a new community in Golden Bay in the South Island, verified it with more sensitive equipment like the Safe & Sound ProII, which registers the far lower levels at which I now react, and moved there. Today I can function outdoors with a clear head and no pain. But I can visit town only briefly once a week, still paying one or two days of migraine even with the suit, and I live in near-total social isolation, a hard adjustment for a social person. And with all pervasive wireless radiation, it's difficult to access healthcare. I am de facto an EMF refugee. An example: a friend came for tea and swore he had left his phone in the car. Within minutes I became nauseous and started stuttering. My meter found active AirPods in his pocket emitting about 16,000 microwatts per square metre. In ten minutes, from two metres away, they cost me my train of thought. I am desperately looking for an EMF sanctuary where I can function as a human being among people who keep wireless off. In the meantime I have helped many others with similar symptoms, using calibrated meters to find and eliminate sources, and it is clear that this problem is growing. I am deeply troubled by what this means for children, and for humans, animals, plants and insects. We are gambling with the future of humanity in what may be the most irresponsible open-air experiment ever undertaken. The more people learn about Electromagnetic Radiation Syndrome, the more will recognise their own unexplained suffering in it.

I can only be on here briefly. Im extremely compromised from RFs EMFs Elfs and chemicals. And have been for years. Wifi Bluetooth gps keyfobs etc are all terrible torture to me. One thing i need to mention also that I forgot previously is that since i have removed myself from most all civilization most of the time i can relate feelings to things easier. One that is so stand out is covid vaccinated people. My dad my aunt and a few friends have been vaccinated and i can feel them extremely bad. Not only do they feel like a cellular signal but also a location of gps! And if i have a brief discussion on the phone and need help with something as soon as they say i will be right there, BAM! Location is on! It’s torture the entire wait for them to get here then when here its a brief visit because i cant think or function and feel miserable! Once they are gone or even think about where they are headed Bam! Location off and it’s instant relief