NO SAFE PLACE; shattered lives, healthcare set to crash − you can’t fix this fast enough

Bron: olgasheean.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/NO-SAFE-PLACE-Letter-to-Gregor-Robertson-1.pdf
juni 2016

A letter to Mayor Gregor Robertson of Vancouver, Canada
by Olga Sheean

Main themes in this document:
Ignored, excluded and incapacitated—citizens forced to flee ..............................................................3
Evidence of harmful effects: quick facts................................................................................................5
Scientific fact versus political spin and misinformation .........................................................................7
Physical effects of EMR........................................................................................................................13
The key symptoms of EHS ..................................................................................................................13
Important landmarks on the EMF lifeline .............................................................................................16
Human rights and human wrongdoings................................................................................................17
Questions for you and the government to answer................................................................................20
A taste of what’s to come: the real cost of electromagnetic radiation...................................................23
Scientists call for more protective measures, given increasing evidence of risk from EMFs................24

Dear Mr Robertson,
In 2003, when I worked for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, the Director
General Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland resigned because cell phone radiation was making her ill.
Along with countless other doctors, researchers and scientists, Brundtland has stated that “research
shows deleterious effects” from the use of cell phones and other devices emitting radiation. “This is
not an innocent technology,”1
she says. It’s an inconvenient truth that we ignore because we’re so far
down the rabbit hole of wireless living.
Your campaign to bombard the city with harmful radiation (benignly referred to as Wi-Fi) clearly
demonstrates that you are uninformed about the scientifically proven harmful effects of nonionizing/non-thermal
Wi-Fi and other electromagnetic radiation (EMR). It also shows that, as an
elected public servant, you have failed to do your own due diligence. In promoting free Wi-Fi as
a positive enhancement to the community, you have led people to believe that there is no danger
involved and that they can use their various electronic gadgets to their hearts’ content—with no
regard for others (babies, children, transit passengers, neighbours etc) affected by them doing so.

Ignored, excluded and incapacitated: citizens forced to flee
Because of this, I’m being forced to leave Vancouver, where I have happily lived since 1992. I am one
of a rapidly growing number of people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), and I can no
longer tolerate the radiation bombarding our beaches, community centres, libraries, cafés, schools,
doctors’ offices and even hospitals. You might appreciate the irony of someone recovering from
brain surgery at VGH for the removal of a life-threatening acoustic neuroma, while being
bombarded by the very same radiation known to have caused the tumour in the first place.
I’d prefer not to get another one.
Sitting on the beach, being in nature, riding my bike, going to see a movie, shopping downtown,
meeting friends in cafés and browsing in the library were simple things that I used to enjoy but can
no longer comfortably do. Far from making the city more user-friendly, you have turned it into
a death trap for those who are sensitive to electromagnetic fields (EMFs). In my neighbourhood
alone, I know of several other people suffering from EHS—one of them virtually housebound.

Nowhere safe to go, and no safe way to get there
With Wi-Fi now in taxis, in car-sharing coops and on buses, trains, ferries and most commercial
airlines, there is not one single form of public transport that those with EHS can safely use. (More
accurately, there is not one single form of public transport that anyone with red blood cells and a
central nervous system can safely use.) They cannot travel, visit family, go on holiday or even get
out of the irradiated city that’s making them ill …without getting even more ill. With nowhere safe
to go and no safe way of getting there, those with EHS have effectively been stranded, abandoned
and immobilized by the municipal, provincial and federal governments.

Those with EHS are the unwelcome biological indicators of just how unhealthy
and unsustainable our radiation-riddled lives have become.

There’s a reason that those with EHS go largely unheard, beyond the fact that most are too incapacitated
or depleted to fight the status quo. We’re the ‘canaries in the coal mine’—the harbingers of what’s to
come—and nobody wants to be bothered by facts that would burst their electronic bubble.


For the complete letter, with a large amount of relevant information, see the link above.



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