Because there are virtually no workplaces without computers
any more, I have not held a job since 1990. I had resigned
myself to living on Social Security Disability, and learned,
together with other members of a support group I had found,
how best to live with my disability. This mostly meant
learning to avoid exposure to electromagnetic fields. But in
July 1996, to my dismay, I learned that an innovation was
coming to my city, which threatened to make it impossible to
avoid exposure any more.
At that time, cell phones were still a luxury item that only
worked in some locations. People were not accustomed to
staying connected whenever they left their home, and even at
home most still had a cord, not an antenna, attached to
their telephone. Most were not accustomed to holding devices
that emit microwave radiation next to their brain. In 1996,
the telecommunications industry began a marketing campaign
designed to change all that. For Christmas that year, all
over the country, digital cell phones were going to be on a
lot of shopping lists. And to make them more practical, tens
of thousands of antennae were going to be erected on towers,
buildings, church steeples and lampposts all over the
country before Christmas, and hundreds of thousands more
during the next few years.
In response to this emergency, a few friends and I created
the Cellular Phone Task Force, and contacted all the public
officials we could think of, and the press, to warn them of
the danger. But on November 14 1996, Omnipoint, New York
City's first digital cellular provider, did open for
business, broadcasting from thousands of antennae newly
erected on the rooftops of apartment buildings. According to
the health authorities, an early flu hit New York City - but
not Boston, and not Philadelphia - on about 15 November. The
flu was severe and ran a prolonged course, often dragging on
for months instead of the usual two weeks.
At Christmas time, the Cellular Phone Task Force placed a
small classified ad in a free weekly newspaper. It read: 'If
you have been ill since 11/15/96 with any of the following:
eye pain, insomnia, dry lips, swollen throat, pressure or
pain in the chest, headaches, dizziness, nausea, shakiness,
other aches and pains, or flu that won't go away, you may be
a victim of a new microwave system blanketing the city. We
need to hear from you.' And we did hear from them. Hundreds
called, men, women, whites, blacks, Asians, Latinos,
doctors, lawyers, teachers, stockbrokers, airline stewards,
computer operators. Most had woken up suddenly in
mid-November, thinking they were having a stroke or a heart
attack or a nervous breakdown, and were relieved to know
they were not alone and not crazy.
Later, I analysed weekly mortality statistics, which the
Centres for Disease Control publish for122 US cities. Each
of dozens of cities recorded a 10-25 per cent increase in
mortality, lasting two to three months, beginning on the day
in 1996 or 1997 on which that city's first digital cell
phone network began commercial service. I published both the
raw data and the complete analysis, with graphs. This
appeared in No Place To Hide, an investigative journal
published by my organisation and I am presently working with
scientists in Europe to expand this study to other
countries.
Poland, Warsaw
Gambia, Banjul
Denmark, Copenhagen
Costa Mesa, California, USA
Moldova, Chisinau
Nigeria, Abuja
Georgia, Tbilisi
Cambodia, Phnom Penh
Bolivia, Sucre
Brunei, Darussalam Bandar Seri Begawan
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