{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5761","number":"5761","name":"Tobie Simmons","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-28T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-21T04:00Z","body":"October 21, 2026\n\nI am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure.\nI’m an experienced health information management professional – a certified clinical coding specialist and medical transcriptionist – and a parent of two young children, and I have grave concerns about the harmful health effects of compulsory and/or undisclosed microwave radiation exposure on a largely uninformed, un-consenting, and unprotected population of United States citizens.\n\nWith more and more biologically hazardous cell towers, small cell equipment, and smart meters being forced on United States citizens (often against their wishes) and with public schools now enforcing the use of wireless devices in every classroom, and the daily, up-close, compulsory exposure of vulnerable schoolchildren to wireless infrastructure (“WiFi”) health risks all day while held  in captivity by order of the state; soon there may be no place left for anyone to hide from the dangerous cumulative effects of so many unchecked layers of microwave radiation.  \nWithout the benefit of appropriately serious health warnings provided by the government institutions we trust to protect our citizens, most people don’t even question the safety of wireless devices at all!  How many of you know of a teenager who sleeps with a cell phone on her pillow, resting directly against her brain all night long?  How many times have you seen a drooling baby in the shopping cart, keeping quiet with a tablet’s microwave radiation warming his private parts - or teething with A CELL PHONE IN HIS MOUTH?  \nI once witnessed every single pregnant woman in the waiting room at my OB/GYN doctor’s passing the time innocently holding a cell phone pulsing with invisible radiation directly over her pregnant belly - likely without any clue she is causing harmful microwaves to penetrate the delicate cells and organs of her precious baby developing inside.  One of these mothers-to-be stood up when called and placed the biologically interactive cell phone inside the belly pocket of her hoodie, pressed right up against her baby growing inside.\nThe woman sitting next to me was nursing a tiny new baby, while casually scrolling on a cell phone that was resting directly on her infant’s head!  \nMost often when I speak up, these uninformed mothers tell me they had no idea there was any harmful “radiation” coming out of their wireless device, and they thank me for telling them.  WHY ARE THERE NO CLEAR AND OBVIOUS HEALTH WARNINGS BEING ISSUED BY THE COMPANIES THAT SELL THESE DEVICES, OR FROM AGENCIES ENTRUSTED TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH?”\nSadly, my experience is that school administrators, teachers, parents, and people in general are typically not even aware that “WiFi” is microwave radiation!  Well-meaning people in charge of keeping schools, hospitals, office buildings, and other spaces safe - who make crucial decisions that affect people’s safety, on behalf of the public, all seem to be under a false impression that the science is settled, and that “WiFi” (whatever that means) is a completely harmless, unquestionably safe, and necessary part of life now.  \nMeanwhile citizens are being forced and coerced into absorbing wifi radiation from “mandatory” smart meters in their own homes, and now even wired landline phone connections are being phased out in favor of wireless tech – leaving those of us who are concerned about the known health risks from wireless radiation becoming more and more terrorized by the prospect of a future where there is nowhere left to hide from the EMF, RF, and Wireless Radiation exposures being forced upon us. \n(….continued in Comment to HHS Part 2)\n","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5761","tags":["child-development","sleep-cognition","exposure-places"],"source_hash":"0c6590997152e4ed3bfa8a9ec825ba86e0d485ef446a30ef29389a74c2570524","slug":"child-development-comment-5761","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5761","body_sha256":"00ae6dafb828b36dc75c7806159ae8f95717196c703b7bb3d955e027a3e8915e","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"children","topics":[{"id":"children","evidence":" the daily, up-close, compulsory exposure of vulnerable schoolchildren to wireless infrastructure (“WiFi”) health risks all day while h"},{"id":"wifi","evidence":" schoolchildren to wireless infrastructure (“WiFi”) health risks all day while held  in captivity by order of the "},{"id":"reproductive","evidence":"N HIS MOUTH?  \nI once witnessed every single pregnant woman in the waiting room at my OB/GYN doctor’s passing the time innoc"},{"id":"smart-meters","evidence":" coerced into absorbing wifi radiation from “mandatory” smart meters in their own homes, and now even wired landline phone connection"},{"id":"optical","evidence":"mart meters in their own homes, and now even wired landline phone connections are being phased out in favor of wireless tech"},{"id":"standards","evidence":"ng them.  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