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Reports diagnosed EHS and prolonged disability, job and housing loss, advocates wired alternatives and policy reform, and raises concerns about vulnerable people, wildlife and the environmental costs of electronics production and disposal.

  • Electromagnetic sensitivity: “diagnosed with the United Nations recognized functional impairment known as "EHS" or "EMS"”
  • Housing, work & access barriers: “suffered job loss”
  • Li-Fi, fiber & alternatives: “We can use communications tech safely via wired options.”
  • Environmental effects: “immense "e-waste"”
  • Exposure limits & oversight: “work to change policy to protect us”

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ORIGINAL COMMENT · UNEDITED TEXT
Since I was injured by wireless radiation radio-frequency exposures in 2014, and afterward diagnosed with the United Nations recognized functional impairment known as "EHS" or "EMS" (electro-hypersensitivity and electromagnetic sensitivity, what used to be called "microwave syndrome") I have lived an extremely marginalized and painful existence - suffered job loss, financial and emotional support (shunned socially), and home/property loss (having had to relocate multiple times at my own expense) all because of my physical reactions to these never-ending increasingly ubiquitous (with their introduction into our environments going largely unregulated and unchecked) manmade artificial electromagnetic fields, are extreme (migraines, heart irregularities, tremors, joint and muscle pain, insomnia, brain fog, etc.) and because these EMFs continue to encroach upon my world, shrinking the available safe places for me - where I can find reprieve, rest, enjoyment of the natural world, work, play, and live. For 12 years now I've fought to educate policy makers and the public about my condition (which at least 3% of Americans suffer with) and other ways the public is harmed by an industry that is basically self-regulated and has not done any real, relevant or recent safety tests on their products and clearly cares about profit over people, seeing any who suffer from these exposures as collateral damage. All for what? Supposed (perceived) convenience? We can use communications tech safely via wired options. We could prioritize protecting the public first, esp. the more vulnerable demographics (unborn babies, infants, children, women and others who absorb radiation more readily or are harmed more easily due to other medical conditions), over protecting industry profit. This is what the HHS should be doing and needs to be doing. We cannot possibly be continuing to argue about whether or not these fields harm us, there are tens of thousands of studies done over the past several decades proving this over and over again. (See EMF-portal.org for access to most of these, as well as a few recent studies attached). Not only are humans harmed, so too are animals of all kinds, plants, insects (particularly bees) and soil microbes. We are all interconnected and interdependent, so it matters that these other creatures are suffering. And it matters that the manufacturing of our wireless tech and all things "smart" is harming our natural world through exploitative mining practices and polluting manufacturing, which along with continued planned obsolescence is creating immense "e-waste" with no end to this in site, growing by the day, polluting our waterways and air with toxic heavy metals, and environmentally persistent forever chemicals. Please do the right thing and work to change policy to protect us from this exponentially rapidly increasing threat to public health. Thank you.

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