Smart meters

Hello, I am writing the HHS concerning the impact that wireless technology has had on me. I am extremely sensitive to electromagnetic radiation. I am what was referred to 30 years ago as having “microwave sickness”. I stared experiencing symptoms such as; headaches, brain fog, dizziness, and horrible pressure in my head in late 2017. These episodes were so severe that I could no longer work outside the home. I tried to work from home, but I was so sick I could only work for a few hours a day. One day it seemed like everything was magnified. This was the day a smart meter was installed on our house. I spent a couple weeks arguing with the electric cooperative to get it removed. I was charged a removal fee and an additional monthly fee due to someone having to physically read my meter. The symptoms calmed down for a while. I was also mitigating what radiation I could. Then there was more towers and antennas installed within a 3 mile radius of our home. This made it impossible for me to function. I was unable to take care of myself. We then decided we needed to move. We moved to a rural area in Tennessee away from the suburb of Nashville we called home. Since we moved I have regained some of my life. However, it is becoming harder for me to enter cities where there’s more wireless technology. This limits me and my abilities. I’m currently unable to work. I am unable to drive to areas with lots of radiation without someone with me. I am unable to go shopping without someone with me. I have had to change doctors because I can no longer go to the cities where they are located. I have a hard time going to any healthcare provider because of the wireless technology used in their offices. I am unable to get a haircut due to the wireless technology in the salons. I’m unable to go to any type of entertainment; such as dinners out, concerts, plays, movies due to wireless technology. I can’t go to church or attend weddings or funerals because of the wireless technology. We’re no longer able to travel due to wireless technologies in places of lodging. There are so many smart devices that even when we try to do something in nature like hiking, seeing a waterfall, going to the beach, or site seeing, we can’t. Everyone around you has a smart phone, smart watch or wireless earbuds. Wireless technology has hindered me and my ability to thrive in life. Wireless technology has rendered me practically a hermit. We’ve spent thousands of dollars moving, mitigating wireless technology, apply protocols just for me to survive the environment we live in. Wireless technology has had a harmful impact on my health and quality of life.

I'm a journalist. NY Times published. My life has changed dramatically as a result of the proliferation of Smart meters, cell towers, 5G, etc. I unknowingly lived next to a neighbor who had a powerful HAM radio. I did not know the day he turned it on, but I ended up in the ER with afib the hour he started using it. I had no history of heart issues.. My assistant developed afib. We had to move our office as a result, and both of us have recovered. I later asked my neighbor what day he began using it, and he said, "I can tell you the exact day. It was the day there was an ambulance at your house." I can no longer live in a house with a Smart meter. I have a letter from a well-known integrative doctor stating this. He is alarmed at what he's seeing in his patients and states unequivocally that there are negative health effects associated with this technology. I cannot use a cell phone and don't own one. And our house has to be hardwired. I am not alone. I know so many people who have developed similar issues, particularly from Smart meters. We are ALL grateful to Mr. Kennedy for looking into this. Then again, you are fighting a very powerful industry. Please consider putting a halt to the unchecked expansion of a technology that has no third party longitudinal studies showing safety. Please consider allowing all of us to have a choice about whether we want Smart meters on our homes, cell towers in our parks and school yards, and a technology crammed down our throats that seems to have an interesting correlation with illness and increased cancer rates.

WIFI is horrific for my health. It gives me a pounding headache with 5 minutes of being exposed to it. FPL put a Smart Meter on my house - the wall is on my bedroom. I could not sleep - I would be woken every time I got to sleep. I finally figured out it was the smart meter - I had it removed ( I am charged $13 a month now) and now sleep great as I always have. It is not just me - a friend had a baby. The baby cried all the time when it was in her room. She would take it to the doctor and by the time they got there the baby was happy and fine. Get home, it starts crying. The Palm Beach Post did a story about it - she figured out the smart meters for the building were on the wall outside her room - that was what made the baby cry - and who knows how much damage it did. I recently went into an Olive Garden restaurant that had just opened in my area. I left in 10 minutes with a headache - they had wifi. I have no doubt wifi affects everyone - it is just some people feel the effects right away. Keep exposing yourself to it and dementia will soon follow.

Federal rules evaluate EMF, RF, and wireless radiation exposure one device at a time. They do not assess cumulative exposure humans are living with. Phones, Wi-Fi routers, Bluetooth devices, smart meters, wearables, household sensors, and satellite terminals each receive their own compliance rating. No federal program measures the combined, time-averaged exposure in a bedroom, living room, office, an apartment with neighboring networks on all sides, a school, or a crowded public place. Ionizing radiation policy accounts for cumulative dose. Non-ionizing policy does not. That is a regulatory choice and merits modernizing. FCC general-population limits in 47 CFR 1.1310 were built around single sources and peak heating tests. They were not built around dozens or hundreds of transmitters operating at once in the same room or vehicle. New systems are arriving faster than health research can follow. In a short period the public environment gained denser cellular service, additional Wi-Fi bands, consumer devices in every room, satellite broadband, satellite-to-phone service, passenger Wi-Fi, and dense small-cell and venue systems. A credible chronic study takes years. A product cycle takes months. The absence of a completed study of this combined environment is not proof of safety. It is a lag between deployment and evidence. Current limits are designed to prevent tissue heating above defined levels. What remains unsettled is whether lower levels affect other biology, including cellular energy production, oxidative stress, or circadian signaling. Standard-setting bodies have not changed exposure limits on that basis. If effects occur at ordinary public levels, today’s device tests do not capture them. HHS should state what the evidence shows at measured real-world levels, not only in laboratories. In addition to homes, people also spend hours in places where many independent systems overlap and no one person controls them: - Airports and aircraft: terminal Wi-Fi, cellular and small cell radios, airline and passenger Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, operational radios, and then a metal cabin full of devices. - Buses, trains, subways, and stations: onboard Wi-Fi, passengers’ phones, wayside cellular, and transit communications in a confined concentration of people. - Shopping malls, stores, arenas, and other venues: Wi-Fi, tenant networks, cellular in-building systems, point-of-sale and inventory radios, and a rapidly growing list of personal devices. Each transmitter may meet its own limit. The combined field in a airport gate area, a packed bus, or a mall corridor is not what a single-phone SAR fixture represents. Dwell time and cumulative exposure is key. HHS should also quantify how many radios surround people at home and in public. There is no adequate official count of in-home access points, neighboring networks through walls, and client devices. The same gap exists for public venues: how many networks and handsets are active, on which bands, and for how long a person stands in the field. Satellite internet and satellite-to-phone service add whole new bands and geometries to an environment that is already full of cellular and Wi-Fi. They should be counted in the same cumulative inventory. Ku user downlinks are an outdoor field over entire neighborhoods, 24 hours a day, from a growing constellation, on top of terrestrial cellular. Even the energy that does not enter the house still reaches yards, streets, vehicles, and anyone outdoors. A single Wi-Fi router can dominate a spot reading inside one room. That does not mean satellite and cellular are negligible in a person’s full-day dose across home, transit, work, and outdoors. Residential electrical codes only address shock and fire. They do not address powered furniture, outlets at the head of a bed, or always-on equipment next to a sleeping place in a room that already contains several radios. Power-frequency fields and radiofrequency fields are not the same problem. They now occur together in bedrooms. If indoor environment is in scope, wiring layout and household equipment belong in the review with HUD, CPSC, and related agencies. The United States already knows how to approve devices. It has not shown that it can account for RF, EMF and wireless dose in a room, cabin, or terminal.

In 2019 I was in perfect health and suddenly began to experience acute symptoms of tremors and muscle flinching at night, extreme fatigue, pain in hands when holding a phone, pain in chest when near a computer or remote control, interrupted sleep. After much consternation and searching for answers I learned Smart Meters were installed in my neighborhood in January of 2019 and I clearly determined that to be the source. I provided a doctor's medical verification to the power company to request an opt out meter. During the five weeks I waited for the meter after submitting the application, I was suffering so badly I called the power company multiple times to plead for the installation and this is not at all my nature. After I received an opt-out meter in July 2019, the tremors and flinching stopped immediately. But only after implenting MANY other mitigation measures I learned about from EMF advocacy groups (which took a lot of digging to find) did I experience nearly complete relief. But my health never returned to the full measure of stamina as before smart meters, and if I get a lot of exposure I start to have pains again when near devices and fatigue. Apparently the 7 months of smart meter exposure until I received an opt out meter in July 2019, and the ubiquitous presence of 5G, took a serious toll on my body. The EXTENSIVE measures I had to take to effectively mitigate include: a townhome neighbor was kind enough to install a smart meter guard; eliminating wifi router; turning off internet hotspot whenever not in use; turning off breakers in sleep area at night; shielding blankets; removing all battery powered gadgets and electronics from sleep area; always placing my cellphone on a table to scroll or make calls; placing devices in another room or turning them off when not using them; limiting time on devices. This last measure has affected my ability to work since my work required 8-10 hours on a computer and cell phone 4-5 days of the workweek. If I spend significant hours on devices (computer and phone) with wifi connected I start to get exhausted again. I can only surmise that untold millions are suffering without knowing the cause. And I am very greatly concerned about future generations. I am happy to testify or sign off on the complete truthfulness of these statements.

I am an elderly person who did not have a cell phone until 2013. The reason was I felt like I was going crazy after using a cordless phone Or a wireless phone. By 2013 my husband said we couldn’t afford a landline and also an iphone. By that time I also understood I Could purchase some protection from the wireless radiation - which I did. My iphone is kept on LTE and does not connect to 5Gs at all. As I have spoken to other folks I heard another say putting cell phone (before 5Gs) to her head caused earaches. Earaches ended when She stopped using it that way. Another elderly person reported feeling depleted of energy from cell tower put near her home residential area. Children relatives had earaches only when visiting her. Earaches stopped when kids stoped visiting. Cell towers are not okayed to be put near schools or directly on school grounds in other countries. My husband felt nauseated after about 15 minutes on school grounds with a cell tower about 650 yards from the school. Children’s Health Defense has a lot of science showing the negative biological effects of wireless radiation to children with thinner skulls than adults and so more sensitive, 5Gs is many times more powerful than previous technology. And I see pregnant women exposing their fetus to it. Smart meters here in Virginia are being put on houses after residents said “no”. They are pulsing radiation through the walls and residents can measure with a hand-held meter sold at Virginians for Safe Technology. They are foisting “opt out” meters on houses the opposers live in. These meters are jacking up the sine waves going through the walls. As I came to understand that I measured with a different hand-held plug-in meter. Many of my walls measured 318, 5x as many as the 60 I was exposed to as a child. I am using a stylus to write this on a tablet with protection on it rar away from the router. I feel more fatigued when I’m exposed to more wireless radiation. I have a history of having an overload of heavy metals. We need regulations and education about all this wireless to have quality of life for all the living.

I've known I was sensitive since a teenager. Walking into a friend's college dormatory made me nauseated and dizzy. That was in the early 70's! Missouri 2017 I went from working online for 12 hours a day, to where all I could do was lie on my back and stare at the ceiling. This was in Columbia MO @250 cell towers or antennas within a 3 mile radius. I moved to Green Bank, WV for the Quiet Zone. Immediately I was able to work 12 hours several days a week at a hotel that did not have wifi, smart meter or cell tower within maybe 15 miles. The new smart meters on gas and electricity can immediately incapacitate me. Thank you for my chance to tell a part of my story. Julia

I am sensitive to EMF. It started about 10 years ago when DTE Energy, in Michigan, put a smart electric meter on my house. Shortly after every morning I would wake up feeling weak and nauseous. After leaving my house it would go away. Went to my doctor to try to find out what was causing my symptoms. No answers. After about a year of this I had a lightbulb moment! Could it be my meter and WiFi router. My electric company has an opt out program ( wonder why?) so they replaced my meter and phone company moved my router from under my kitchen table to a corner of the basement. Miraculously the very next day I was cured! Every now and then it reoccurs if I’m on the computer too long or if I forget to unplug my Roku box. I’m managing but am afraid of the proliferation of cell towers everywhere. Thanks for listening. Even now years later some people don’t believe me. I say I’m the canary in the coal mine.

I'm convinced that my "tinnitus" is from emf radiation. I never had a problem until I cut my cable and went wi-fi. I also got a 5G phone and they installed a smart meter on my house to measure electricity usage. I have tried various things to get rid of it and nothing has helped. It's not in my ear but is like a buzzing sound in my brain. It has also gotten worse since I bought a new car which, of course, is high tech. I also had my house tested and it is, of course, blanketed in radiation from the cell towers. Even if I had no technology in my house, everywhere is blanketed. I keep my modem off most of the day and have purchased cage-like things to cover my modem and the smart meter on my house. Nothing has helped. I have also gotten a phone that is on 4G, except when my modem is on. barSome times are louder than others. As with many things, I feel this is something that is out of my control and has been thrust upon me. I especially hate that all of the newer cars are high tech.

We asked politely if our electricity co-op would remove the RF electricity meter/device from the side of house, directly opposite the kitchen. As a preventative measure on my part, they came out and removed it. It should be noted that they did this install while we were out-town on an extended big project. Since removal was free I am now subject to $19.00 per month fee for having someone come out once a month to physically read the meter but I totally OK with that fee per month. We did notice any symptoms while it was working but since my wife is already chemically sensitive I erred on the side of caution. Thanking you for taking up this enquiry, on behalf of everyone who may or may not be affected.