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I have suffered from EHS for some years now. The nature and severity of the symptoms I experience varies according the level of exposure. The symptoms include headaches, muscle aches and pains, tinnitus, severely disturbed sleep, and difficulty with recall, walking, talking (finding the right words, putting the words in the right order and actually speaking them), concentrating, logical thinking, focusing the eyes etc. and with prolonged exposure can become more severe to include problems with coordination and motor control e.g. I can reach out for one object but either knock it over or pick-up the one next to it, go to operate one control (switch, button, knob) and operate the one next to it, go to click on one object on the computer screen and get the one next to it, etc. and constantly drop, spill, bump into or damage things, and injure myself whilst cooking, washing-up and doing DIY etc. It can also cause skin rashes and/or the sensation of insects crawling over the skin. After taking all possible measures to reduce my exposure (including no wireless tech at all) all of the above symptoms improved, but did not stop completely as I was still subject to constant EMF exposure from mobile phone masts and my neighbour’s mobiles, wi-fi, smart meters etc., as well as those outside when I left my home. So I have moved from a large village in the UK to rural France where the nearest mobile masts are 1.2 km away on the other side of a hill, with an electricity meter which does not use radio frequencies and is a 100m from my house, and my nearest neighbours are 300m away so out of the range of their wireless devices, which has further improved my symptoms. Like many fellow sufferers I stay at home most of the time and avoid going to public places and any built environments as much as possible. When absolutely necessary (e.g. to go to the shops, doctor, dentist etc.) I wear protective head gear to reduce the exposure and spend as little time there as possible, This still results in symptoms which may take anything from a few hours, or a day or two, to fully recover from. Life for EHS suffers is like living in a permanent Covid Lockdown, staying at home, going out only when absolutely necessary, wearing protection, and keeping your distance from other people as much as possible due to their mobile phones. (Which is much harder than lockdown as others aren’t also trying to keep away from you) Consequently we can’t enjoy the normal social activities like going to the theatre, cinema, restaurants, bars, clubs, gyms, sports or music events, holidays etc. I was able to retire early but for others finding a safe work environment is extremely difficult, if not impossible. We can’t use public transport, or travel in electric cars and need to have very low tech cars unless all wireless functionality can be permanently disabled and both electric and magnetic fields of the other electrical systems of the car are low at their seated position. We can’t use wireless devices so any government, local authority, or private business systems which rely on the use of mobile phones and don’t have a suitable wired alternative method to use their services are discriminatory against us. There is wealth of evidence of the harm caused by EMFs both to humans and the natural world, please see the attached document for a summary (with links and comments / observations) on a sample of published documents, findings and statements of official bodies such as the WHO, European Parliament, UNESCO, Courts of Law, FCC, and ICNIRP on the effects of EMFs and the actions deemed necessary (but not being taken). Although mobile phones intermittently signal to the masts to register their current location, the main source of 2G-5G radiation is during phone calls and texts, however wi-fi and Bluetooth are transmitting continuously, whether they are in use or not, and their signal levels are much higher than the phone signals. So a very simple way to reduce exposure would be to mandate that all wireless devices should disable wi-fi and Bluetooth if they are not being actively used after say 20 seconds, it is simple matter to make Apps automatically enable them again when they need them, and no great hardship to have to manually enable them for pairing. (This would also dramatically increase the battery life of mobile phones) For mains powered products, although no doubt driven by the desire to cut manufacturing costs, the trend to move away from products with earthed / grounded metal cases to double-insulated products with plastic cases and only a two-wire power cord has led to, in many cases very significant, increase in the radiation of EMFs.

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