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Describes a wired household and other exposure-reduction measures to protect family health. Opposes mandatory smart or digital meters and opt-out fees, advocates analog-meter choice, criticizes FCC oversight and asks HHS to improve public awareness of wireless risks.
- Smart meters: “I am completely opposed to 2-way wireless "smart" utility meters, digital utility meters, and opt-out fees.”
- Li-Fi, fiber & alternatives: “We have internet but we have it safely hard-wired.”
- Children & vulnerable groups: “The last thing I want on or around my home and my child is a cell tower or wireless smart meter.”
- Exposure limits & oversight: “I ask that HHS make more Americans aware of risks from wireless devices and infrastructure”
- Surveillance & privacy concerns: “Wireless smart meters are data collecting devices that were forced on Americans”
ORIGINAL COMMENT · UNEDITED TEXT
I have been aware of health risks from Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) and RF wireless radiation for many years. Here is a website that has a list of research links for your consideration: https://ehtrust.org/send-science-to-the-fcc-govt-is-asking-for-evidence-you-can-help-now/
Because I have been aware of the dangers, to the best of my ability, I have created a safe environment for my husband, our son, and I where I can better control the RF wireless radiation levels inside of our home. We do not have WIFI in our home and haven't for years. We have internet but we have it safely hard-wired. We kindly ask anyone entering our home to please turn off their Cellular Data, Bluetooth, and WIFI on their phones and tablets as my husband and I do the same. Rarely do we need to use the internet on our phones but if we do, we do it quickly and away from our son and then once we are done, we make sure to turn it back off, immediately. We have asked our neighbors to apply faraday cages on their digital meters and they gladly obliged. We take all these measures, and I could go on listing more, because we are aware of the dangers of exposure to EMF and other sources of RF wireless radiation. We do the best we can, to control what we can, knowing once we leave our house, it's a battle zone of cell towers, cell phones, wireless and digital “smart” utility meters, public Wi-Fi, and other sources of RF wireless radiation.
The last thing I want on or around my home and my child is a cell tower or wireless smart meter. I am completely opposed to 2-way wireless "smart" utility meters, digital utility meters, and opt-out fees. Wireless smart meters are data collecting devices that were forced on Americans and they emit harmful radiation. I have participated and continue to participate in state and national campaigns asking for utility meter choice legislation. I have collected signatures of Ohioans opposed to these meters and have sent them to state lawmakers. Here is a link for a national campaign for utility meter choice legislation: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/community-forum/support-utility-meter-choice/
I have filed several complaints already about smart and digital meters with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to only be ignored. I do not like the wireless smart meter "opt out" option that we currently are offered because it cancels our own rights when we do so. With this option, we’ve had to AGREE to ALLOW utility providers and unknown 3rd party companies, to violate our constitutional rights – so we are legally consenting to being violated. Why should my "option" (opt out) be coercion to violate my own rights? That doesn't seem like an option to me.
I have sent the CEO of my gas and electric utility provider, AES an Affidavit of Truth stating many points of intent to harm and multiple violations to my rights and I’ve received no rebuttal. Because I received no rebuttal, my affidavit stands as truth. Listed in the affidavit are my constitutional rights that have the potential to be violated, if I am forced against my will, into a smart or digital meter. I know my family’s health will 100% be affected by these types of meters. It’s not a matter of IF, but WHEN, we will be sick as long as we have it, being forever. We want old-fashioned analog meters but we have been forced to settle for digital meters (for which we pay opt-out fees) which are safer than smart meters but still not as safe as analog meters.
Over 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies have demonstrated serious adverse health effects from the wireless radiation coming from cell phones, cell towers, and the "smart" meters radiating our homes and other buildings 24/7. This includes DNA damage, infertility and reproductive damage, cardiac effects and arrest, neurological conditions (anxiety, depression, Alzheimer's), immune system dysfunction, and even cancer.
The FCC was sued in 2021 for failing to update their safety guidelines for human exposure limits that were established in 1996 when we were using 2G wireless technologies, not the 4G and 5G we have today. The lawsuit was successful, but all these years later the FCC still has not responded to the courts and is refusing to regulate the Telecoms. The reality is NO ONE is measuring our cumulative daily human exposure of EMF “electro smog” coming from all of our current sources of wireless radiation including 4G/5G “mega” towers, 5G small cells, and the EMF pulsing Smart meters attached to our homes. https://ehtrust.org/in-historic-decision-federal-court-finds-fcc-failed-to-explain-why-it-ignored-scientific-evidence-showing-harm-from-wireless-radiation/
I ask that HHS make more Americans aware of risks from wireless devices and infrastructure so they can create healthier homes and communities for their families too. Thank you for accepting my comment.
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