Children & vulnerable groups

(….continued from previous Comment, this is Comment to HHS Part 2) The American Academy of Pediatrics advises parents to “limit children’s screen time and exposure from cell phones and other devices emitting radiation from electromagnetic fields (EMF)”, but teachers in our town have sent home papers assigning the children to spend more time practicing on their wireless devices at home, to better their skills for testing time. There are hazardous wireless routers emitting radiation in every classroom, but most teachers are not even aware that they shouldn’t stand directly under a wireless router all day, or place an unsuspecting child’s desk directly beside a wireless router for him to absorb maximum radiation exposure every day while attending school. In meetings with school principals, superintendents, teachers, and the school committee in our town, our family asked them to bring in just one local medical professional willing to attest to the safety of a wireless learning environment for children. They reported back that they did reach out to some local doctors, but none of the doctors who responded were willing to make such a statement on the record. One of the doctors reportedly said to our school Principal, off the record, “I’m not attesting to that. Everyone knows you’re supposed to limit your exposure to radiation.” Even still, in our town’s public schools there is no informed consent notice to be signed, disclosing to parents that their children will be exposed to constant microwave radiation while attending school. When I tell other parents about it, it makes them feel sick - and foolish that they’ve been left unprotected and unaware of such a major cause for concern about health risks present in their children’s learning environment. Most the educators we met with uncomfortably agreed that there is definitely cause for concern regarding wireless radiation exposure in the schools, but they’ve made no effort to stop the massive rollout of wireless tech – and instead offered us the option to home school our kids as the only way to avoid the serious health risks of cumulative daily radiation exposure at school. I feel strongly that mandatory radiation exposure is not an acceptable requirement for students attending public school! According to Harvard Medical School/Mass General Hospital’s Martha R. Herbert, Ph.D., M.D., “Radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation from WiFi and cell towers can exert a disorganizing effect on the ability to learn and remember, and can also be destabilizing to immune and metabolic function. This will make it harder for some children to learn, particularly those who are already having learning or medical problems in the first place.” Knowing the terrible risks associated with EMFs, RF, and wireless radiation - from brain cancer to infertility to depression, insomnia, addiction, and much more - our family made the difficult decision to protect our children and home school them at our own expense, but this is not an option for most working families, who all deserve the right to opt out of unwanted radiation exposure - and at least deserve to be protected and informed by responsible authorities on how to minimize risk. 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. Sincerely, A Concerned U.S. Citizen and Mother of Two

I am submitting my information to document the effects of wireless radiation on my health. And I am requesting that people be informed on the potential harmful effects of wireless radiation and also requesting to lower the regulatory levels of what is considered safe. Attached is a letter from a research scientist who has been studying for the past 28 years, at the date of her letter, the biological and health effects of electromagnetic pollution. My Story: In Oct 2016, I was overexposed to the wireless radiation of a GPS in a car that could not be turned off. I knew that they made me dizzy. And my friends knew to turn off their cell phones in cars because they gave me headaches. Following this over-exposure to a GPS, over the next weeks, the dizziness continued and at time got much worse. I would also get tingling in my legs. And I had persistent fatigue regardless of how much I slept. In Sep 2017, when Hurricane Irma took out the power throughout our city for 6 days, I noticed a big change in my symptoms. The symptoms went away and I was able to volunteer with hurricane relief for a number of days. Following this power outage, I was now certain what caused my symptoms – wireless radiation. I then proceeded to reduced my exposures in whatever way that I could. In July 2019, I experienced severe dizziness for 2 weeks. I then found that they had installed a third row of cellular antennae on the cell tower less than a half mile from my home. I shielded the wall of my home facing that cell tower to reduce my radiation exposure at home. I also became trained in doing EMF consultations for others to help reduce their radiation exposures, especially at night when the body needs peaceful, non-EMF exposure time to rest and regenerate to then be better able to handle the unavoidable exposures that we deal with daily in our current society. There are exposures from WiFi that is everywhere, cell phones with every person, cell towers all around and the smart meter network. All of these add up to an environment in which my body is very sensitive and experiences negative health effects. I now live in a shielded home that I created and most of my home is flashing green on my Safe & Sound Pro II wireless radiation meter. This is the lowest reading. When I go outside of my house, most areas have wireless radiation. And a lot of the areas have red or flashing red readings which creates lots of radiation exposure. This is the opposite of what I experience in my home. I have to limit the number of times I can leave my shielded home per week, otherwise, I can experience a significance decline in my health and ability to do things. I especially have to avoid going out into crowded areas where most everyone has a cell phone on them, that not only has cellular service, but WiFi, GPS, data, Bluetooth and sometimes a find my phone signal. My life has been drastically changed. It is my hope that people can become more education on the harms of wireless radiation, especially with our children. Websites like www.WirelessEducation.org should be broadly known and incorporated into our schools and with parents. And where safer technology can be used, it should be. I have no wireless radiation in my home. I have landlines and my computers are hardwired. And this safe technology in my shielded home, allows me to have and live in a home that reads flashing green on my Safe & Sound Pro II meter – a home where I am protected from the high wireless radiation environment. We need to have regulatory standards that protect us from harm. There are thousands of documented scientific studies that show biological effects. And these affect not only humans, but all life forms. We need to protect the world that we live in.

I am very concerned that Wireless Radiation has not been adequately studied for adverse health and environmental impacts on humans and other life forms. Since the early days of cell phones, wireless radiation has increased exponentially while the general health, as well as life expectancy, of the population has declined. How much of this, if any, is causative is unknown because it hasn’t been studied. Ignorance does not make it safe. Anyone around in the ‘80s was warned of the dangers of radiation from the new microwave ovens. Especially for those with pacemakers. Now people wear Bluetooth transmitters on their ears and hold powerful cell phones to their ears. Apple says keep the phone a short distance from your ear. That can only mean they fear litigation for “frying people’s brains”. We need to know what are safe levels for all the various wireless radiation sources, both separately and collectively. This needs to be based on protecting the most sensitive members of population. Please do what’s right for the people, not what most profits big tech. Thank you

[Part 1] Subject: Field reality and health emergency Members of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), I have great admiration for your work and for everything you undertake for our well-being. • Original background: I was previously an audiovisual professional in Paris, and also an importer and distributor of connected devices with a small number of resellers. • Onset: I was forced to abandon Paris after developing a violent intolerance to electromagnetic radiation, both in low and high frequencies. I found myself having to sleep in my car, in the forest, and then in a barn without electricity that was lent to me for 10 months. • Direct cause of the condition: This condition was triggered by extreme and continuous personal exposure: an internet router installed directly in my bedroom and, starting out in financial trading, a smartphone turned on permanently in my hand (on filming sets, at home, and during all my round trips). • Professional retraining and market cleanup: Faced with this ordeal, I redirected my activity toward diagnosis and protection against radiofrequencies (RF) and electromagnetic radiation (EMR). I did it first for myself, because I wanted to regain an almost normal life. Then I realized that people needed it. I created a specialized platform to eliminate fraudulent devices that saturate the market and to offer only genuine mitigation and shielding solutions, rigorously validated by testing and now years of practical feedback. There are many scams in the field of RF / EMF protection. People buy things that do not work. That is why they continue to feel the radiofrequencies and do not improve. Every person I equip and follow improves and recovers their health. • Profiles supported and medical censorship: Today, I support and protect a very large number of profiles: teachers, lawyers, as well as healthcare professionals. The latter are forced to protect themselves in the most absolute secrecy, terrified by the risk of disciplinary action or permanent disbarment from the Medical Board if they dare to address the health impact of waves with their patients. • Concrete results on people's lives: Thanks to the physical shielding and adaptations that I design, individuals, including healthcare professionals, can continue to practice safely. For others, it is a matter of pure survival: people who depended entirely on relatives for supplies can finally go out on their own to buy their food. Also people who were in burnout. I was able to adapt their living spaces so that they regained exceptional health. Some were able to start working again thanks to adaptations made in their workplace. When electromagnetic pollution is removed from the workplace, they can finally work again. • Critical condition of the population and children: I have supported hundreds of people. Some affected individuals are in lamentable physical conditions and states of distress because of radiofrequencies. Children today are subjected to totally unacceptable power levels. Within less than five years (and warning signs are already exploding), a massive segment of the population will find itself incapacitated and in need of heavy medical care. • Field observations in children: During my on-site assessments, the contrast is undeniable: children kept away from radiofrequencies are almost always in perfect health, whereas exposed children develop behavioral disorders or develop developmental delays. We know that waves induce a depressive state. What are we going to do with these tens of millions of adolescents injured by radiation? • Observations on prenatal exposure: Women who kept an active mobile phone less than 10 cm from their fetus during pregnancy almost systematically give birth to children suffering from behavioral disorders, developmental delays, or autism spectrum disorders. • Call for absolute emergency: If we persist with such radiation powers, we are heading straight toward disaster. Frankness is required: it is almost already too late for present generations, and for future generations. The HHS must act without delay, massively, and with the utmost firmness. 3 a. Wireless router, Mobile phone, magnetic, smart meter, Electric field. 3 b. I began exposing myself heavily in 2012. To all the objects mentioned above. Exposed almost permanently. Since we have our mobile phones during the day, and at night, we have internet routers close to us.

I am personally affected by dirty electricity, which is the only exposure I cannot avoid at all. I found out the hard way by living a mile away from a casino. I couldn’t buy a house I wanted (In the country!!) because it was too close to another casino. My symptoms are immediate itchiness all over, followed by itchy bumps, followed by rash & then leaky pus, much like poison ivy, only in protected areas---groin, armpits, face. And the loss of appetite, nausea, dizziness, insomnia & extreme exhaustion. I avoid EMFs, RFs, and Wireless because I have a friend with issues & I read The Invisible Rainbow. Not having a smart phone is EXTREMELY limiting, but necessary. My computer is hardwired & these days, which no longer supports the technology, is not as reliable as WiFi. I cannot have home security system as they all require WiFi. Too much Wifi causes tingling in my ear & hand while using a flip phone, which also are now not only hard to find but very unreliable. I had to search hard for a DUMB TV. I am concerned that if infrastructure does not continue to support wired internet connections, I may need to move or go without internet. PLEASE RESTORE LOW INCOME ACCESS! I strongly believe that other cable/wired options should be made permanently available to all who need or desire them & that technology supported. I am greatly concerned about the affect of wireless technology on people, especially children, who are not only exposed to unsafe, untested exposures, but seem to have lost their social skills, their communication skills, their connection to the real world, including nature. It’s killing our bees, our insects & affecting our natural food supplies. It’s harming wildlife, and ecological systems & killing trees. It’s EXTREMELY vulnerable to weather, terrorism & corporate/tyrannical control, affecting national security. Also if harm occurs, people should be compensated for injury, illness, or loss with CLEAR & PRECISE language on the symptoms, agencies to contact Bottom Line; I’m against it. I prefer the already taxpayer funded, safer, faster & more reliable & more DEMOCRATIC fiber-optics. Thank you.

I feel concerned about 5G and smart meters. Wireless radiation can greatly impact the health and circadian rhythm of humans, animals, birds, and insects. What are the long-term effects for our children when they are consistently bombarded by electromagnetic frequencies during the most crucial times of their brain's development? The frontal lobe and prefrontal cortex aren't fully developed until age 25. There needs to be more transparent data on this technology, as well as information and access to remediate the harmful effects.

[Part 2] 3 c. Potential adverse health effects. My legs could no longer support me. I had bouts of tachycardia and bouts of bradycardia. I had severe insomnia. I was convulsing, and I fell to the ground as soon as I turned on a mobile phone or a touchscreen tablet. On public transport, I was sweating, I was the only one unable to tolerate the ambient temperature. It was as if my body was overheating. I had to leave for work with a backpack that I filled with ice cubes, in an attempt to cool myself down. Before going on stage, at the theater, I was totally exhausted, and I had to lie down backstage between every appearance. I could no longer sleep in my home. I would take my car to go sleep in the forest. I was very irritable, almost aggressive. 3 d. After the beginning of my heavy exposure, symptoms appeared two years later. Before starting to trade on financial markets and having to follow market quotes almost day and night, I had no symptoms. And when I started holding 1 mobile phone in my hand permanently, having to turn on my computer on Wi-Fi next to the bed, and putting an internet router in my bedroom. 2 years later, the symptoms appeared. 3 e. Medical treatments yielded absolutely nothing. 3 f. I searched on the Internet why I could no longer eat with metal cutlery. On forums, I found a lead regarding radiofrequency intolerance, since electromagnetic fields and especially radio settle on anything made of metal. Moreover, with some detectors I now own, when I bring the detector close to a metal piece of cutlery, we see the irradiance increase sharply, and sometimes we can even pick up the radio station by placing the detector almost against the metal piece of cutlery. I could therefore eat with plastic or wooden cutlery, but metal made my hands tingle. These were tinglings that could turn into pain if I persisted in wanting to eat with metal cutlery. I therefore left Paris and went to the countryside. I could see that when there was no low- or high-frequency electromagnetic radiation, I was completely fine, I had great energy. And my voice was clear. Whereas when I was in the presence of magnetic fields, electric fields, or radiofrequencies, I lost my voice. I could barely speak anymore, no sound came out of my mouth, I was totally exhausted. My voice sounded as if I were 85 years old. 3 g. RF: From my personal experience, as well as my experience with the people I follow. I can certify that numerous effects appear starting at 100 μW/m2 (approximately 0.20 V/m), i.e., 0.01 μW/cm2. This irradiance should under no circumstances be exceeded inside homes or places of study, of work, or even lower for places accommodating children, in order to maintain optimal health. I assert from my personal experience and the many people I follow and support, that we should under no circumstances be able to exceed 1000 μW/m2 in public spaces (approximately 0.60 V/m), i.e., 0.1 μW/cm2. For people who are now sensitized, who have been subjected to strong radiofrequencies, their situation is becoming very alarming, because these are people who cannot be exposed to more than 10 μW/m2 (approximately 0.06 V/m), i.e., 0.001 μW/cm2. There are the most extreme cases who were very heavily exposed and who can no longer be exposed to more than 1 μW/m2 (approximately 0.02 V/m), i.e., 0.0001 μW/cm2. The day these people need medical care and are transported to hospitals. Unfortunately, their pain is such that they scream in agony and end up most of the time in psychiatry. Currently, in France, no hospital is equipped to receive radiation victims who need to be accommodated under proper conditions, free from electromagnetic radiation. Electric field: I must be at less than 1 V/m in electric fields; beyond that, my symptoms return. Magnetic: I can hardly expose myself to more than 100 nanoTesla. Beyond 200 nanoTesla, I experience effects: headaches and nosebleeds if the exposure is too prolonged, and difficulty falling asleep. It is imperative to raise awareness among people about the dangers of low- and high-frequency electromagnetic fields. It is important to disseminate how to achieve electromagnetic sobriety. It is important to spread the message that many daily symptoms can be eliminated, such as fatigue, exhaustion, headaches, insomnia… thanks to electromagnetic sobriety. It is imperative to do this, even through television commercials, to show that a pregnant woman must not carry a mobile phone close to her belly. Booklets must be published and distributed in pharmacies and doctors' offices.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS's Request for Information on EMF, RF, and wireless radiation exposure. I am responding from the perspective of an educator of 30 years and concerned member of the community as well as someone who personally struggles with the negative effects. Wireless radiation has affected me personally. I had to have my smart meter removed as it left me feeling lethargic, gave me headaches, impeded my breathing, and highjacked my nervous system. As a result, I had to avoid the backyard and two rooms of my house. My dog experienced similar issues, always avoiding the backyard. The minute the meter was removed, I felt my whole being relax and felt comfortable for the first time ever in this house/yard. My dog, who would not have known the difference, also no longer had problems with being in the backyard for extended periods of time. I have these same symptoms when in my car or some place with lots of electronics, such as a school. One school library was so bad, I couldn't even enter the room much less stay in it for any length of time. I know this wireless technology is affecting our kids as a result of the constant exposure in the school building day after day. Over 30 years, I have watched students struggle more and more just to function during their school day, and this technology is one of the reasons for their struggle. I absolutely support HSS taking an active role in examining the protentional 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, as well as the experience of individuals and families who report being affected. All should be considered alongside current scientific data that is mindful of today's level of radiation exposure. I believe we need to make major adjustments to what is considered an acceptable level of exposure in this country as others countries have done. Thank you for providing individuals and families the opportunity to be heard.

I am father to two daughters that exhibit high sensitivity and adverse reactions to emf exposure, specifically cell phone, cell tower, and wifi router radiation. I am grateful that the HHS has invited public comment on this issue. As a high school physics teacher for over 30 years, I was at first slow to believe that wireless radiation could cause non-thermal biological effects in humans. The alarming symptoms experienced by my daughters, however, challenged my assumptions. I spent over $1000 on various meters so I could take my own measurements. I understand that there has been a lot of scientific research on this subject and that many studies conclude there are no harmful effects from cell phones or cell towers. My own experience and that of my family convinces me that this conclusion is false. Microwave radiation can definitely have serious effects on some people. In order to protect my family from wireless radiation harms we moved out of Chicago and now live in a semi-rural area on 2 acres. We use only wired internet devices in the home. We have no wifi router or bluetooth devices. The average microwave density in our home is now under 1.0 microwatt per square meter as measured by a Safe and Sound Pro II RF meter (see attached image). In contrast, the level in the high school where I teach averages 4.6, and in the eldercare facility where my son works around 18 𝜇W/m2. (See attached images) My eldest daughter began showing symptoms during her junior year at public high school in Chicago. When in the school building, which had a high density of wifi routers installed throughout, she would gradually feel more and more ill with nausea, brain fog, weakness, and bloody noses. These symptoms quickly abated when she left the building. Her high school counselor discounted her complaints and suggested she seek psychotherapy. She tried toughing it out, wanting to finish her high school diploma, but the continued high exposure only made her sensitivity increase. Eventually she had to withdraw and complete her diploma as a homeschooler. Meanwhile, my second daughter also began exhibiting similar symptoms. She was already being homeschooled but very active in Chicago community extra curricular activities – theater groups, art classes, park district programs, and martial arts. Sadly, because of adverse reactions to the radiation exposure in these facilities, she had to withdraw from these activities one by one. Similar to her sister, her reactions to RF include brain fog, fatigue, loss of speech, joint pain, and heart irregularities. While the move out of Chicago and the removal of sources of RF from our home was a necessary and effective remedy for my daughters, their lives are severely limited. High levels of RF, over 100 𝜇W/m2, are now becoming ubiquitous. My daughters must carefully limit time spent in stores, urban centers, medical facilities, even church and peoples homes. In person higher education is not possible for them. Radiation free employment is extremely difficult to find. Surviving emf sensitivity is not only logistically difficult but also expensive. In order to avoid the radiation from a smart meter, which emits intense short pulses of emf energy, I have to pay the electrical company a “manual read fee” of $115.77 each month. (See attached electrical bill) This adds up to nearly $1400 per year, a ridiculously unfair penalty. Another source of emf radiation which my daughters react to are LED lightbulbs. These devices produce what is known as “dirty electricity” in the home circuits. It is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive to purchase incandescent lightbulbs. The current federal rules prohibiting the manufacture and sale of incandescent bulbs needs to be repealed. I am very concerned for the future. If the spread of high radiation levels continues at the current pace, opportunities for a healthy life for people like my daughters will shrink ever smaller. I urge the HHS to take seriously the potential harms of RF radiation and pursue more independent research on this important issue.

I am Dr Margaret Christensen, MD former board certified OBGyn and now Functional Medicine environmental medicine specialist. The lack of updated regulations and limit ions around the whole area of electromagnetic radiationEMFs and 5G/6G is beyond appalling. It’s unbelievable how our government which is supposed to be for the people had been completely co opted by industry. We are failing our children!!! They are being radiated beyond belief (and adults too) impacting cognitive, developmental neurological and immunological symptoms. I see this every day in my clinic on the damaging effects of radio frequency on cell membranes and mitochondria. Particularly impacting the brain and heart! Terms of studies on these areas have been ignored! No wonder we have the sickest generation of kids ever, depressed, anxious, ADD and suicidal from constant low level bombardment. Wake up and save your selves and generations to come instead of making a devils bargain for short term profits!