EMF Injury: The Next Generation of Silenced Sufferers
Diane Grossi sounds like she’s been crying when she answers the phone.
“This is my radiation voice,” she explains. “I used to have a beautiful voice, but now that’s gone, too.”
The weep in her voice is one of a long list of symptoms - including anxiety, hair loss, nose bleeds, rashes, migraines, nausea, tinnitus, tooth-grinding, loss of balance, body aches and weakness - that Diane has experienced since smart meters were installed in her condo complex five years ago.
“Since August 2018, I have lost my career, my hair and my voice,” she laments. “My hands are numb, so I can’t type and I can’t work. The radiation kind of paralyzes you so you just can’t function. I’ve had to give up my little business, so for the last two years I haven’t had any income at all. I can’t get disability because they don’t acknowledge electrosensitivity. I can’t even get diagnosed.”
Within a few weeks of the installation of smart water meters, Diane was experiencing debilitating symptoms that drew the attention of neighbors in her building. She had started losing her hair and was visibly ill. One of them pointed out a closet with a number of newly installed smart water meters about 55 feet from her condo and suggested that they might be playing a role in her symptoms.
That’s when she started documenting. And doing her own research.
There are 16 housing units in her building, each requiring a separate water, gas and electric meter. Diane and two other residents refused all three smart meters, but as of January 10 there are 10 electric utility meters below the windows of her living space and another wall of electric gas meters on the exterior of a neighboring condo in addition to the closet with electric water meters.
She is subject to the radiation emanating from ALL of these meters despite the fact that she declined to get a smart meter for her own unit.
“I have not slept in my bedroom since the meters were installed,” she says.
“What little sleep I get is on the couch. My heart races. My body is numb. My eyes burn. Sometimes I wake up and vomit. It’s like being tortured 24/7.”
For the last five years, Diane has been seeking assistance from her HOA board, repeatedly reporting her ailments and providing scientific literature that link them to EMF radiation, to no avail. She also has concerns about safety:
“It’s scary since we don’t have appropriate fires walls, if any. No sprinklers. No insurance for fire loss from these meters should something go wrong. When I explained about insurance exclusions…crickets.”
Unable to work, she has been living off an inheritance left to her when her mother died in 2017, but she’s now faced with serious debt for the first time in her life. This puts her in an impossible situation. She cannot live in her home, but she cannot afford to live anywhere else nor can she afford an attorney to help her take legal action.
Sadly, Diane’s predicament is not an isolated one. A growing body of research links EMFs from smart meters to a variety of adverse health impacts as well as public safety, privacy and environmental concerns.
You can read more about them here and watch the 2017 documentary, Take Back Your Power here.
The Plight of the EMF Sensitive
Diane is among the vulnerable that we are constantly told we need to protect. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her 20’s, had a hysterectomy in her early 40’s to address persistent cysts and fibroids and has battled a number of ailments throughout her life.
She learned a difficult lesson about the insidious nature of toxicity after volunteering to prepare food for first responders to following 9/11. Diane showed up at the site every day for about a week to donate her services in the wake of the tragedy. As the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 approached she received a call regarding plans for a volunteer reunion. She looked forward to seeing some of the friends she had made during that time. But a week later she learned that there would be no reunion as too many of the volunteers had passed away.
(I know, I know, “correlation is not causation”. But kudos to Diane for critically thinking and seeking more answers.)
She started to think about how pre-existing vulnerability and toxic accumulations could impact her health and began paying attention to the external factors that impacted her health. She would experience recurring headaches during and after exposure to electromagnetic radiation from her cell phone and stopped using one, except for business or emergencies. She’s had her condo hard-wired and has become mindful about what she puts in her body.
But while Diane does what she can to protect herself from the onslaught of electrosmog and environmental toxins all around her, she remains at the mercy of powerful and growing industries that are promoted in the name of progress.
The Wrong Kind of Victim
Government and regulatory agencies have no problem asking citizens to make considerable sacrifices to protect the vulnerable when it comes to vaccine requirements, mask mandates, lockdowns and other often ineffective and oppressive public health measures. But the vulnerable are readily dismissed and cast aside when they interfere with industry agendas. (The truth is, we’re all dismissed. The FDA would sooner override informed consent than slow down the path of product development.)
Legitimizing EMF sensitivity, or eletromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), would threaten big plans for 15-minute cities and Agenda 2030. And these plans have been in the works for decades.
Regulatory authorities have reserved a cozy spot for smart meters under the“safe and effective” umbrella based on decades old and obsolete research because the show must go on.
EMF sensitivity is not allowed to exist. At least not until smart meters are tucked safely in our collective resignation and we can all become part of a giant target market for “new and improved”, “safer” technology and other profitable solutions. But the veil of ignorance must remain until they’re ready for their “if we knew then what we know now” stage.
First, they need a more entrenched population and an enough decoy science to maintain a degree of plausible deniability.
If Diane and others like her are to be acknowledged, it can only be after regulatory authorities and utility and telecommunications companies sort out the next chapter of their “we’re here to help” narrative and introduce their next round of “solutions.”
Understandably, she just can’t wrap her mind around this. And she knows there’s a bigger picture.
For the board/HOA to not notify unit owners of the health and safety risks , insurance exclusions, etc is unconscionable in my opinion. Their own bylaws say they can step in if something causes insurance exclusions . They have a fiduciary responsibility to maintain a healthy and safe environment . Why do we have laws if we can’t enforce them? I honestly don’t understand how people can be so reckless.
So, how can this happen?
The Tyranny of Evidence-Based Science
The “evidence-based” model is a captured machine that uses research and experts to produce and endorse the evidence that can promote profitable initiatives and suppress evidence of harm.
Toby Rogers brilliantly explains how perverse incentives have captured government regulators and turned science against us here.
When you hear the phrase “there is no evidence” - a favorite among fact-checkers and narrative-reinforcing mainstream media outlets - you can generally follow the assertion back to research that goes out of it’s way to support a pre-determined conclusion and avoid discovering anything outside of that conclusion.
This is why Diane is unable to get diagnosed. Because unlike Long Covid or Congenital Zika Syndrome, electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is purportedly based on “pseudoscience.”
(Apparently, correlation can only equal causation when you attribute your problems an infectious disease or a decoy that will distract us from inconvenient truth.)
Anything But the Radiation
Note how organizations like the World Health Organization create a self-perpetuating electrohypersensitivity narrative feedback loop:
EHS is characterized by a variety of non-specific symptoms that differ from individual to individual. The symptoms are certainly real and can vary widely in their severity. Whatever its cause, EHS can be a disabling problem for the affected individual. EHS has no clear diagnostic criteria and there is no scientific basis to link EHS symptoms to EMF exposure. Further, EHS is not a medical diagnosis, nor is it clear that it represents a single medical problem.
Physicians: Treatment of affected individuals should focus on the health symptoms and the clinical picture, and not on the person's perceived need for reducing or eliminating EMF in the workplace or home. This requires:
a medical evaluation to identify and treat any specific conditions that may be responsible for the symptoms,
a psychological evaluation to identify alternative psychiatric/psychological conditions that may be responsible for the symptoms,
an assessment of the workplace and home for factors that might contribute to the presented symptoms. These could include indoor air pollution, excessive noise, poor lighting (flickering light) or ergonomic factors. A reduction of stress and other improvements in the work situation might be appropriate. (emphasis mine)
Essentially, the WHO’s recommendation for physicians treating people with electrohypersensitivity is:
treat symptoms,
ignore the patient’s experience, and
seek a better explanation for their ailments.
This ensures that evidence will NEVER be collected and the science will continue to say what they need it to say. And these assertions are parroted throughout mainstream health and science publications.
Hundred of articles asserting that a syndrome doesn’t exist. Weird.
Yet this happens all the time. If you pay attention, you’ll find thousands of articles denying links between various ailments and lucrative products from BigTech, BigAgriculture and BigPharma. The industry doth protest too much, methinks.
Hope for the EMF-Injured
Fortunately, advocates and members of the scientific community are pushing back.
Scientists are asking the WHO to revisit its assertions:
Since 2009, we built up a database which presently includes more than 2000 electrohypersensitivity (EHS) and/or multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) self-reported cases. This database shows that EHS is associated in 30% of the cases with MCS, and that MCS precedes the occurrence of EHS in 37% of these EHS/MCS-associated cases. EHS and MCS can be characterized clinically by a similar symptomatic picture, and biologically by low-grade inflammation and an autoimmune response involving autoantibodies against O-myelin…
Because EHS is becoming a new insidious worldwide plague involving millions of people, we ask the World Health Organization (WHO) to include EHS as a neurologic disorder in the international classification of diseases.
Contrary to present scientifically unfounded claims, we indubitably refute the hypothesis of a nocebo effect to explain the genesis of EHS and its presentation. We as well refute the erroneous concept that EHS could be reduced to a vague and unproven “functional impairment”. To the contrary, we show here there are objective pathophysiological changes and health effects induced by electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure in EHS patients and most of all in healthy subjects, meaning that excessive non-thermal anthropogenic EMFs are strongly noxious for health.
You can read more about the scientific evidence supporting electrohypersensitivity here, here and here.
Organizations are also calling for the recognition of the electromagnetic sensitivity as a disability under the ADA.
In Brown v. Los Angeles Unified School District Dist. (2021) 60 Cal.App.5th 1092, the Court of Appeal addressed the limits of what constitutes a “disability” for purposes of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”) and found that “electromagnetic hypersensitivity” (“EHS”) as pled by plaintiff was a triable issue.
You can read about other legal efforts to combat the harms from electromagnetic radiation here, here and here.
If you’re embarking on your own effort to seek disability or address discrimination, Nina Beety has created an 18 page document entitled, Electromagnetic sensitivity, disability, and ADA: What you can do with comprehensive information, sample letters, and excerpts from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other legal documents.
https://neighborsorganizingagainsttrespassingtechnology.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/nbeety-ems-disability-and-ada-rights-what-you-can-do-final-7-7-19-1.pdf
Please. Don’t let “experts” or regulatory authorities connect the dots for you. Diane is one of many thousands of people who recognize their EMF sensitivity. But we are ALL impacted by the electrosmog around us. She is sharing her story so that you and your loved ones never have to have a story of your own.
That’s her wish for you. Let’s do what we can to make it come true.
Thank you very much for telling Diane's story. There is so much that needs to be said about EHS and electrosmog symptoms. I have written a great many articles and will continue to do so. This is just the latest: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sudden-deaths-by-parasites
I also suffer from EHS. Thank you for bringing attention to our plight. I was wondering if there are any updates on Diane's condition, and if she found a financial solution, as I find myself in a similar situation having run out of money and unable to work.