Towers & siting

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 family and an individual. As the infrastructure of cell towers increased within my city and neighborhood, my husband and I have been having ear ringing problems that affects our sleep, headaches, equilibrium, balance and overall health. We notice as a family when we are away from cell towers we do not hear the ringing and sleep better. Also, as a parent along with other parents in our community there is a high concern with the increased cell towers on schools and churches. https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/tea-time/brave-parents-standing-up-to-telecom-giants. The increased cell build out started in 2018 and now we can not drive down a street without seeing many EMR cells. Anxiety, suicide and neurological issues have increase noticeably in our community. Today in CA we are still fighting to keep cell towers off of school grounds. https://ehsciences.org/petaluma-city-schools-prohibits-new-cell-towers-on-school-district-property/ 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.

Posting for a Friend that wishes to remain anonymous. We'll call the person Jade. Here is Jade's Story: I was comfortable and healthy. In 2010, when my area switched from analog to radio utility meters (aka "SMART" meters), and T.V.s were switched form analog to digital, I went from feeling comfortable in my bedroom and in the world, to very uncomfortable. It took a while to figure out what was going on. I met others that were suffering and felt great dis-ease with this technology. Also more towers and antennas were added to the hill outside my bedroom window. I learned that by turning off or unplugging electronics, I felt well again. Also re moving myself to a healthy location, I immediately felt well again. This horror/toxic trespass has changed my life. Can you imagine how difficult it can be to find a safe and healthy place to live and to work? I did a count of 100 people in my everyday life. It turns out 20% of them felt ill around this technology, ie. man-made, toxic non-ionizing radiation. I figured that probably about 2x as many (40%) are not feeling well around it. They were just not aware of the symptoms of radio poisoning. Not connecting the dots. I later read that scientists that had studied the matter came up with the same results (40% of the population suffering in an obvious way)! We have over 50,000 published peer-reviewed studies showing harm from these non-native emfs, including pollinator collapse, childhood leukemia, and cancerous tumors, ill health of insects and animals and plants, problems affecting the brain, the heart, the blood, the DNA, due to this technology. It is the fiduciary responsibility of the government to protect the health, welfare and safety of the people. A Swedish oncologist, in the early 1900's, wisely said that Anything that is harmful to one living cell is harmful to all living cells. I think this is true. Never put tracking devices on insects or animals! These days my symptoms around too much radio/microwave frequency include: stress, fatigue, pain in the ears and head, feeling frazzled, heart palpitations and general discomfort. How many are feeling ill and not connecting the dots? How many doctors are not connecting the dots? We must take an honest look at this non-native and harmful technology now. We must protect life on Planet earth for all to thrive.Landlines, ethernet, cable and wired technology are much safer than wireless. Let's use and encourage wired tech as much as possible. If not now, when will you take your fiduciary responsibilty seriously, and mindfully curb and regulate this technology, so that life may thrive once again? Thank you for hearing us, Anonymous Jade

My family has been in active litigation against AT&T, etal for over a year now. Their wireless antenna emits so much RF, my family has suffered life threatening health effects. I have a state complaint and an AT&T Office of President called us. Over 3 months promising to inspect their equiptment as it also made loud humming noises. They reported to the ICC. They never sent anyone to ensure their equiptment was safe. They told the ICC they were RF compliant and not willing yo move their antenna. I received nothing but a pole attachment document. They have no paperwork in any city department. Despite exhausting all legal channels begging for help for someone to look into what this technology is doing to our family personally, I am continuing to fight as a prose litigant. I have no law background. Ive been transferred 4 times now in Chancery. No MTD has dismissed me thus far. I have Negligence, Willful & Wanton Conduct & Injunction that are surviving. The new judge will decide on their mtd 2-219. I am 1 person who will do anything I can to provide education and how this tech is harming our world. We are not all the same. We are allergic to tech environmental factors. You are not alone. Be the voice we all need. So many people are suffering. A big tech company decides to ignore our family and suffering and safety. It blows my mind. The science is there. However AT&T has actual knowledge of our complaints and took our letters at first to hide our cry for help we put on the pole. The alderman can't do anything and even after all that they did nothing to help us. They are trying to get us out of court fast. Sorry to all for being forced with all this corruption and non regulated tech. God Bless!

5G rollout made me physically sick, with anxiety, insomnia, night sweats, nauseousness, dizzy. I had to get rid of my cell phone.

An otherwise healthy, young, mom in my mid-30's quickly changed within one week in early 2020 and doctors were puzzled. A few months prior I flew up over earth (I've been told a trip pilots are only allowed to do once or twice a year); and upon landing in Hong Kong I was miserably ill. The illness was not viral, or bacterial, but nothing I have felt before. Our local friends advised it was likely radiation toxicity from flying over the top of earth. It took me 3 days to recover. I was fatigued, nausea and vomiting, GI issues, headache, dizzy, the list goes on. Back to early 2020 and my mystery illness felt very similar but also more neurological with vision issues, heart palpitations and brain fog. After losing a month to crippling fatigue and scary symptoms my hair started falling out. Chicago's top doctors still stumped, I continued to fight for my life. It wasn't for a few months I learned the exact week I landed in urgent care after almost passing out in a presentation, that I learned 5G was rolled out. I never gained my previous health back and now live a life avoiding radiation, wifi, I have 5G turned off on my phone and had to move out of the city. I noticeably feel best in areas where it is not present. Most recently I recovered from a strep ear infection only to have the pain return off and on over the past six months. Once again after stumping doctors I decided to observe when the pain is flaring and when it is completely gone. After a few months of tracking this it was clear: my ear hurt constantly when I was in Chicago, occasionally home in Michigan, and not at all when I was far away with zero cell service or radiation. My ear became weak due to the strep and is now triggered by EMF. I started supplementing with Eleuthero, an adaptogen that helps reduce radiation exposure and boosts the immune system. My story aside my concern is mainly about the children. Why are these towers on top of schools where children are already strapped to devices, under fluorescent lighting all day and now microwaved? The spectrum of what is considered safe has not been thoroughly studied and we are essentially conducting one massive experiment on humanity, with our smallest being the most vulnerable. I am currently studying to be a Building Biology Advocate to implement within my existing interior design practice which this exact topic being a main driver. The earth, and human body, runs on a frequency of 7.83hz. Doctors from the 1920's discovered any frequency above the visible light spectrum (600thz) is detrimental to human health because of the damage it does on a cellular level. Aside from the unknown harm this human experiment could be causing there also seems to be little to no regulation. The US is at the top for no regulation and highest output with the last study on it's potential harm dating back to 1996. That was 3 decades ago, not to mention the advances in technology since then. Lack of research and regulation aside, there are simple methods that could be implemented to reduce the amount of exposure, such as grounding with copper to name an easy one. I would like to thank Secretary Kennedy and HHS for bringing this topic to the public for opinion and for addressing this urgent matter. I am proud to have campaigned for you for this exact reason.

We live across the street from a major various cell tower. My family and I experience headaches, brain fog, fatigue, tinnitus, poor sleep, anxiety and many other symptoms and I know it’s caused by the cellular, WiFi, radio, et al. waves going to and from that tower. I know first hand because I bought Faraday fabric and put it on the inside of my child’s curtains and she said she slept so much better, then I told her about it. Also, when tinnitus, anxiety and headaches become too much, I lay down and cover my whole body in my Faraday blanket and the buzzing feeling stops, tinnitus minimizes and anxiety wanes. You can’t tell me all the invisible electrical activity is healthy, for any living thing!

I currently life in a residence in line of sitecto 4g, 5g and medical emergency antwnna arrays atop the Kerchikan medical center. It was lowered there a few years ago by military type helicopter. another high telecommunications tower looms across the hoadley creek and on a prominence. My duplex also comes with 2 smart meters and besides wired ethernet thecother rwntal chooses mesh wifi around the clock. we also use copper landline, as it is sluced into the kpu fiber optic unit on the outside. I have informed kpu by mail of my health concern for there forcing a 5g tower upon the neighborhood. please perform a full review of detrimental non native electrical environment that compromises mitochondrial health on a quantum rather than chemical level. research is coming out that implicates cell towers wifis and smart meters with impaired circadian compliance. thank you

Please do the safety studies on EMF, RF, and wireless radiation exposure. During the crazy time between 2020 and now, radio towers were and are continually being built all around my town and looks to be across the country. Since those towers went up, I have experience what feels like shocks to my body. This is not right.

I have had tinnitus ever since the rollout of 5G in Albuquerque, NM. In late 2021 temporally a multi story apartment complex some 400 feet from my home began multiple.arrays and it has continued. City Environmental Health did no pre and post EMF tests. I would like to see, before the next wave of 6 G rollouts that there is pre tower and post emf testing 360 degrees for at least 1000 feet. IMO this electromagnetic spectrum is a physical trespass already with 5G already causing a life damage stressing me out. On another related topic the tinnitus I experience seems way less when I am out of tower range in national forests, remote BLM lands, wilderness areas and national parks. Please keep them out so we have some sort of baseline. We have options to this tech rollout with wire fiberoptics to end user. When that is done no 5G nor 6G should be allowed on local poles as mini cells. Especially not liking that smart meter rollouts that is being done by force with keeping an analog meter system being penalized. In my case about $18 for the "service retention fee" and almost $10 a month for reading the existing meter. There has to be some way too of examining the electric smart meter exposure. My bed is less than 15 feet from the proposed replacement smart meter. Will it exacerbate my tinnitus? I don't know of any long or short term data available but researchers have noted impacts. May I also ask that DHHS convene a meeting of international researchers on this topic. Havas M. Radiation from wireless technology affects the blood, heart, and the autonomic nervous system. Rev Environ Health. (2013) 28(2-3):75–84. doi: 10.1515/ reveh-2013-0004 Association of Tinnitus and Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Hints for a Shared Pathophysiology? Michael Landgrebe 1,*, Ulrich Frick 1,2, Simone Hauser 1, Goeran Hajak 1, Berthold Langguth 1 PMCID: PMC2657824 PMID: 19325894 Book to examine for references not cited here...The Invisible Rainbow. The author when he was still alive operated from Santa Fe.

I became very ill about 6 months ago. I developed severe insomnia and neuropathy among other symptoms. I I had a smart meter directly outside my kitchen, and I knew from much research that they deliver pulsed radiation, which is even more damaging than ambient radiation. Since we cannot even opt out here in PA, I paid nearly $4,000 to have the meter moved away from the living space. We also have a 5G tower nearby. A building biologist tested and reported that the radiation levels inside my home were at unsafe levels. I spent additional money to put shielding fabric on some windows and a shielded bed canopy over my bed. These measures have brought the levels down. Only after doing these things did my ability to sleep improve at all. We are all being affected negatively. Some of us are showing the damage that should be a warning for all.