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I was living in Honolulu, HI when it opened as the first Iridium satellite gate and when the full system was activated. My health and quality of life was immediately affected. I can't sleep as well, think as well, and have had increasing health issues related to radiation exposures as the levels have increased since then. I have been diagnosed by an MD, under WHO codes, as having radiation and microwave sickness. I have had to move 4 or more times, pay to opt out of smart meters and to modify my home environment, and have lost access to public spaces. I have been forced to use cell phones while traveling, and now even for banking and government services, and have no phone at home options other than voice over internet, which is very poor quality. The more the wireless in integrated into public utilities and public spaces the sicker I have become and been forced to restrict my travel and social life. It has made me functionally disabled with no place of safe shelter and no way to communicate normally and at great financial cost. I don't need or want wireless radiation in consumer products, and I don't want highly conductive nanoparticles or semi-conductive materials in my food, medicine, clothing and household appliances and products, because it increases my sensitivity. If putting wireless objects against or near your body is not advised by manufacturers and doctors, why would anyone want to put wireless objects inside your body? Making a hand held cell phone that can't work without contact to your hand is a health hazard, and a terrible design for communication devices. I have telephone jacks in my recently built home that are now useless and the replacements are much more expensive. I don't want pulsed microwave radiation running through the wiring in my home. How about adapting the technology to people and not forcing people to pay for and adapt to new technology that only benefits the really big plans of the military and corporations that should not be involved in human eugenics or in transforming the planet into a wireless AI system.

The first time I bought LED lights was Christmas lights. I’ve always loved Christmas lights, the glow they give, the mood lighting, signifying a special time of year, and a warmth of a glow in darkness. When I set them up, plugged them in and looked at them, I thought hmmm, this is underwhelming, this light is a cool white that’s not so great. As time went by, studying the situation, analyzing their worth, I noticed that it was actually hurting my eyes to look at them. I also then began to feel an unease, nausea, the complete opposite of a magical sense of warmth of the holidays. I tried to soldier through it, but I quickly realized as an intuitive person and artist, that this light is toxic for me, whatever it is doing, I can tell, this is not good. I wrote it off as maybe being cheap lights. I had also bought a 60 watt bulb around the same time to use closely, with a studio light for painting. I experienced similar results, I was closer to them and felt even more nauseated, and developed headaches. As an artist I also noted that I am not seeing color as well, and light itself as well. I switched back to incandescents and have lived that way ever since. Sadly, as streetlights were replaced with LEDs, and stores started to use them, especially grocery stores, I came under that same feeling, nausea, confusion, and unexplained anxiety response. If you think about the old days in a grocery store, there may have been several different types of light in one store, the meat department may have been different other parts of the store may be different, and that creates memory, differing atmospheres for different parts of a store where you know and recognize where you are. If you replace that with strong LEDs, everything looks the same, there are no different nuances and subtleties to a space that gives you pattern recognition. Everything is just the same, there are no different parts of a store anymore, it’s just all one. It’s a disorienting experience. There is no variety of space, it’s all one, and feels very much like what you would expect prison lighting to feel like, something designed against you, not for your benefit. I am an artist, specifically with a love of the fine gradations of light, it’s what makes a renaissance painting so magical. A deep understanding of the power of light. What we are living under now in the public realm, in my opinion is toxic. I dread big box stores with strong LED light. I know I’m going into confusion, nausea, and not seeing well. It is only when I have left a store, and gone into sunlight, where I see clearly again, and start to feel normal again. That is my true experience as an artist.

For approximately the last six years, have experienced similar symptoms as survivors of Havana Syndrome have reported. This has been 24/7. Primarily a horrible tinnitus-like ringing in my ears. I only describe as tinnitus-like because there is nothing else someone not suffering from this might relate it to, but it is far worse, and yet every medical professional I have complained to has as best, written it off as tinnitus. At worst, I have been subjected to Mental Health Evals, and been accused of using drugs, having schizophrenia, or just an active imagination. The tinnitus-like ringing is only one, constant symptom though. Others are present as well and range from the debilitating effects described again by Havana Sundrome survivors, as well as similar at times to that Venezuelan guard described of what was later named the Discombobulator by President Trump: Completely disabling, on the ground, unable to move, think, or anything else. Nose bleeding, horrible pressure in my head, heart rate bouncing up and down, and digestive trouble. I have measured the energy density of whatever I am being hit with using an RF meter, and during episodes it far exceeds ambient rf/microwave levels at ~ 400-475 mhz, 800-930 mhz, 1.9 ghz, and 3-4 ghz. Electric Field density around 60 v/m. ....that I purchased an rf/ef/mf field detector in the first place should explain the level of disruption to my life. Furthermore, I am a Disabled US Army Combat Veteran, but the VA refuses to do anything about it besides writing notes in my file about paranoia. No testing, no labs, no MRI, fMRI, EEG, or Magnetic/Electric/RF field testing. No tests for TBI associated with exposure. Just Mental Health tests. Insult to injury.

Please find attached 11 letters submitted to the Board of Directors of the Stonington Commons building in Stonington, CT requesting that the recently installed wireless transmitters in the hallway ceilings, that were impacting a tenant, be removed for the biological and health reasons, and scientific studies, described in the various detailed letters.

Since commenting on the technologies that have caused my Radiation Poisoning Sickness over a four decade period, my targeting has been off the charts with microwave assaults and sleep deprivation frequencies. I am providing just a couple of the studies and a documentary. Additionally I am providing a 6/23/26 MRI of my left hip; an injury caused by months of directed energy radiation causing "a tear" leaving me unable to walk. As soon as I had the MRI on 6/23/26 the radiation assault stopped and I was able to walk again.

I am an individual consumer who started experiencing debilitating symptoms after the installation of a phone tower at about 250 meters from my home in 2021. Early symptoms (2021) were brain fog, tinnitus, thyroid inflammation, extremely low blood pressure, instability, (2022) episodes of severe vertigo, sleep disturbances, visual disturbances, fatigue, memory loss, mental exhaustion. (3) With time and observation I have been able to pair tinnitus, head buzz, visual disturbances and imbalance to the phone tower proximity. Now, if I leave the house for a few days or more the head buzz, vertigo and instability go away, and the other symptoms ameliorate as well. As soon as I come back symptoms worsen. GPS technology from the water smart meter was causing me vertigo and dizziness when I was close to it. After it was removed I didn't have any more episodes of that kind. Bluetooth signal inside a car affects me the same way: extreme vertigo, dizziness, and also nervousness and irritability. Once the signal is deactivated the symptoms go away. Near light bulbs or other sources of strong EMI I experience severe dizziness; I can’t tolerate noise or lights—not even the vibration created by my own voice—and I have to lie down in a dark silent room for at least an hour for the symptoms to subside partially. Near electrical sources I experience more severe tinnitus and sudden momentary hearing loss, and instability. Near Wi-Fi and cordless phones (less than 10 meters): tightness in the head and pain in the forehead, agitation and inability to concentrate, tightness in the eyes and neck. Smart watches in the proximity cause me extreme low blood pressure, vision disturbances, agitation, headache, I have to lie down to avoid fainting. Around electricity higher than 100 V/m or wifi: shakiness, tremors, uncontrollable nervousness, anxiety. For more than a year I was not able to use or even look at my smart phone. If I was on a phone call I would feel a strong buzz in my head. Looking at the screen would make me dizzy. If there’s a phone tower at less then 300 meters, Wi-Fi or electricity exceeding 10 V/m, I cannot fall asleep. Before I understood that my problem was an EMF injury, I was always tired, always sleepy; I struggled to open my eyes in the morning and keep them open throughout the day. My brain felt like it was on fire; it could never “shut down.” When using a laptop or smart phone I had trouble reading screens, at the beginning I even had trouble reading paper, I had difficulty seeing in general. My vision was blurry, and I had trouble understanding what was written. I experienced weight loss as I was too tired to eat. I was often bed ridden. I saw improvements after I started avoiding phones and computers and used a dirty electricity filter. It took me more than a year to start using my phone again for a few seconds at a time. Phone radiation would make me dizzy and make tinnitus louder. Now, almost 3 years after the onset of the symptoms, I always keep my phone on airplane mode with all the antennas turned off. I can only use it for a few minutes at a time, or I get dizzy and experience stronger tinnitus and momentary hearing loss. The proximity of the phone and radio towers still affect me greatly with constant tinnitus, hearing disturbances, fatigue, cognitive issues, sleep disturbances, blood pressure, occasional vertigo and disequilibrium and thyroid issues. At the beginning I experienced severe cognitive decline and memory loss, to the point of being unable to even think about cooking or do any complex activity that involved thinking. Now it is better, but I am not like myself anymore. I experienced and still experience fatigue and weakness and tinnitus as I live close to two phone towers that were installed in the last 4 years, and radio antennas. Medical evaluations were always inconclusive. No doctor had the ability or knowledge or tools to assess my condition, although neurologists reported that my symptoms are increasingly common. (5) Building Biology exposure limits guidelines and people adverse experiences should be taken into consideration when evaluating safety standards. (9) Exposure related information should always and clearly be exposed to consumers, residents, workers, schools,  Healthcare Providers and local governments regarding any type of radiation that people might be exposed to through products, devices, technology, infrastructures etc. This should be done consistently through mass media, and education. (11) Any and all population should be informed and protected against exposure risks and everybody should have a right to be healthy and avoid radiation especially if sensitive. Citizens should have the ability to easily and effectively oppose the installation of smart meters, and phone and radio towers in the proximity of their homes, work places, schools and hospitals. Continues briefly in attachment

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 a parent and concerned member of the public. In 2012 I was exposed to high levels of microwave radiation from two smart meters which were installed directly ont he exterior wall of my bedroom. I experienced a number of symptoms which included: brain fog, fatigue, whole body irritability, dizziness, and a squeezing pressure in my head. I was forced to move out of my apartment and seek alternative housing. This exposure has developed into a sensitivity i didn't have prior to that exposure. Wether or not the utility meters are technically "smart" meters or not is besides the point. They emit high levels of pulsed radiation 24/7. Now, 13 years later, I am living in a house with my wife and two daughters. We don't use wifi(we use ethernet) and we use our cell phones very conservatively. Over the years following my exposure I was pushed out of a number of different jobs becasue I couldn't tolerate the environment. Traveling anywhere via buses, trains, airplanes is very difficult. I work as a private contractor practicing a type of physical bodywork( Structural Integration/ myofascial work) which requires me to rent space for sessions. I am very limited in my options because of either a cell tower placed too close to the building, a banck of smart meters on an adjacent building or wall, or too many smart devices, etc. It's not that I cannot be around wireless radiation at all. i can. It all depends on the proximity and strength of the source. I want to be clear. I did not suffer from this condition prior to my exposre to smart meters in 2012. In fact, I used my cell phone and connected my laptop to wifi frequently. I didn't think anything of it. After figuring out what was causing my symptoms( I was lucky enough to hear someone else talking about it) I started looking into the effects of wireless radiation on biological health. There are 1000's of studies showing harm from exposure to wireless radiation. I am very grateful and hopeful that the HHS will take the necessary steps to consider the evidence and take appropriate action to upgrade and enforce proper regulations and exposure limits. I've attached some files as evidence of action taken by other countries and as evidence of biological harm from wireless radiation. 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. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

I am an elementary school teacher. I started having nervous system aggravation and tinnitus when cell towers were first being built in the bay area back in 2002. I left the bay area to move to the country where cell towers are not invading my health. My symptoms have decreased. In the past 15 years teachers have been experiencing a huge shift in students abilities to focus in the classroom. I have not met one teacher in the past 5 years who isn't having major issues with students being off task and unable to focus or remember two or even one-step directions. This massive change in students becoming so overly agitated while needing to apply 3 minutes of prolonged focus has become universal in schools. The media influence of students spending excessive hours being exposed to adult violent content on screens is changing how students relate to learning. That alone has caused a huge shift as students completely shut out all education to act disruptive and disrespectful like their heroes on tick-tock. I personally see children coming into school already in fight or flight, because of their overly stimulating busy lifestyle and exposure to wifi radiation. There are questions about the physical safety of the wireless radiation associated with computer use. Building Biology Specialist, Laura Markwardt BBEC, EMRS works to reduce electromagnetic radiation in buildings in order to make environments more healthy for inhabitants. She states that electromagnetic radiation has biological effects on cognition, mood, cardiovascular, and cell function. Laura states that the current FCC guidelines for radiation safety are outdated, arbitrary, and do not take into account the biological effects of the technology (Markwardt, L., 2023). Current legislation demands that the FCC reexamine their safety standards. The Federal Communications Commission was ordered to review their 5G safety standards. This must occur. The existing heat level standards are arbitrary as electromagnetic radiation can penetrate buildings and bodies. Electromatic radiation has more complex side effects than exposure to heat levels. As the technology is new it must be studied and regulated with concern for our children's health, it is a major concern that it is being pushed forward without adequate safety testing. If our regulatory agencies are going to support the use of 5G technology without proper safety data then it stands to reason that parents and teachers should be the ones to oppose children’s use of 5G until we have more information on the actual safety or lack thereof of such novel technologies. Studies of how media influences children’s mental capacities show that increased screen time for children at age 1 year is associated with developmental delays in communication and problem solving at ages 2-4 years old (Jama Network, 2023). The CDC recently changed their Developmental Milestones for children, which moved the developmental milestones to older ages (Real Clear Education, 2022). There is concern that they lowered the milestones and standards for language and that the change could cause developmental delays to go undetected. Could developmental delays be caused by wifi radiation? This must be examined. The best policy is to address developmental delays early with treatment options and learning interventions. Specialists are concerned that with the new lower CDC standards children that are in the 25 to 45 percentile are no longer in the developmental monitoring range causing them to go unnoticed and limiting the possibility to utilize early interventions (Solis-Moreira, J., 2022). Studies find that there is a correlation between heavy media use and moderate amounts of muscular pain and dysfunction. Length of screen time is related to severity of pain. The research suggests that children who are using computers and electronic games may adopt the types of sustained and awkward postures that are associated with musculoskeletal disorders in working adults. It also suggests that the physical demands of prolonged computer use could lead to adverse effects on child development including visual, neurological, and physical changes (NIH, 2002). Studies on the detrimental effects of media use on children’s eyes report that increased time on the computer causes children to develop myopia, which is nearsightedness. The studies reported that high levels of cell phone use is associated with about a 30% higher risk of myopia and when combined with prolonged computer use raised the risk factor of developing myopia to 80% in children (Science Daily, 2021). The infostructure that the cell towers support are causing mental, emotional, and physical harm to our children. This is an openly discussed fact amongst concerned teachers. We see the effects of this technology harming our students daily. We must test this technology against actual human health outcomes not overlays of unrelated data points of heat and human tolerance to heat levels.

< Please see the attached PDF document for our full substantive comment. > Introduction I am submitting this comment to the "Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure", Docket HHS-OASH-2026-0397. My comment is grounded in my personal experience of major adverse health impacts from wireless exposure and my foray into the knowledge aspect of this topic. I hope my experience can help HHS prioritize and fund independent, ongoing research into the health impacts of wireless exposure with the necessary breadth and depth, given the extreme complexity of the subject. I further hope it will emphasize that many Americans are suffering from exposure-related illnesses today, that delays in research and updates to FCC guidelines will only prolong and intensify that suffering. Finally, I hope that HHS can spur the development of the tools, technology, and methodologies needed to continuously monitor and assess health impacts as the wireless landscape continues to rapidly evolve. Background My comment will focus primarily on the "Public Experiences and Reported Potential Adverse Health Effects" question from the RFI. < Please see the attached PDF document for our full substantive comment. > Insights and Recommendations I believe the questions posed by the RFI particularly in the sections "Exposure Standards and Risk Assessment" and "Measuring Human Exposure and Public Health Surveillance" are critically important and are the right questions to be asking. As a non-expert, I can simply discuss how my own experience with the harmful effects of wireless exposure and my own journey to find answers confirms the importance of these inquiries. < Please see the attached PDF document for our full substantive comment. > Conclusion I shared my personal account of suffering with moderate sensitivity to wireless exposure, which hopefully makes the condition feel real to the reader, and moreover highlights how inescapable exposure is in our modern urban environments and how there is currently no effective countervailing force pushing back against ever increasing exposure. I noted some luminary doctors whom HHS should certainly consider consulting through its EMF/RF exposure health program. This is a call to action for HHS, as public health is most certainly not being served currently with respect to health impacts of wireless exposure. Concretely and in summary, I recommended the following: 1. Research to understand and catalog the root causes of wireless sensitivity in individuals that experience it. Recognize wireless sensitivity as a disability. 2. Research and formulate effective diagnostic criteria and assessment methods for wireless sensitivity. 3. Research how infections past or present, toxins, and other factors may have an amplifying effect on the health consequences to wireless exposure. 4. Research to develop a clear understanding of whether and how non-ionizing radiation can cause negative health impacts, working closely with experts in RF physics. Develop tools for Americans to effectively identify wireless risks in their environments. 5. Make research into wireless safety an ongoing, high priority focus with the intent to empower FCC to adjust exposure limits according to an evidence-based approach. Evaluate and integrate competing international standards such as from Russia, Switzerland, Italy, and China. 6. Establish a wireless health impact monitoring system, and explicitly prioritize residents living near past and future wireless infrastructure deployment sites. Feed this collected data into urgent research. 7. Design exposure studies to be more realistic, and to collect a wider and more useful array of metrics that may be more likely to quantify health impacts. Respectfully submitted.

Question 2. While I have a background in Neuroscience (PhD) and Government Administration in Health Care, I am retired and these comments are submitted as a member of the Public who is sensitive to EMF. Question 3 a. Mobile phone, Wi-Fi, wireless infrastructure b. Daily- worse at night c. Dizziness, vertigo, inner ear balance issues, earaches, acute episodes of tinnitus, sinus, fatigue, stiffness muscles and joints, headaches, sleep disturbances, breathlessness, dry cough, palpitations, tachycardia, chest pain, dry eyes, blurred vision, skin rashes, burning pain, memory issues, difficulty thinking- brain fog, pressure on head. d. Symptoms began in Spring of 2020. e. - f. I no longer use a cell phone, turn Wi-Fi off at night, wear EMF protection clothing (e.g. HAVN). I purchased a 5G meter and tracked fields back to a local cell tower. House plants began dying, so I used meter to map out areas with lower field readings to change seating arrangements at home and stop plants from dying. Fields seem to accelerate mold growth and food spoilage. I got rid of newer, made in China, lamps and fans which had electric fields too high to measure. Everything has improved, health is slowly recovering, but symptoms are not completely eliminated. Question 5 o. Electronic products, especially foreign-made in China, should be tested for EMF output before sold to consumers. Question 10 c. Dying foliage around power lines and/or cell towers may be an indicator of levels that are too high. See attached photo. Question 18 Would like to see studies on effect of EMF on cellular communication, mitochondria. Establishment of EMF free zones for sensitive people. It has been suggested that EMF causes mold to increase growth and mycotoxin production. My observation of food and/or plants molding overnight supports the idea of an effect on food spoilage.