It was not you I had in mind Guy, as a serious 'ES dismisser', and I'm sorry if you think I rant. I am an emotional guy and get deeply affected by the horror-stories I hear of wrecked lives and how others airily dismiss it as all untrue, wrong cause or 'in the mind'. It is making it difficult to get correct treatments and assistance, when yet another sufferer tells me how they were sent to a psychiatrist, even compulsorily sectioned, it does wind all of us up who try to undo the damage.
Biased?!
Some one told me we at www.es-uk.org.uk are named in a computing magazine as ‘biased’(micro-mart). Presumably they are referring to our attitude to the science on health risks from Wifi’s and the whole microwave shebang.
We ain’t biased, it is the reality as we experience it we rest our case on.
I, Rod, as diretor and admimistrator meet, greet, talk to and listen to sentient, clever computer and mobile using workers, parents, business types, and teachers, all regular folks, just about every day of my life. Often they call on Saturdays and Sundays when not working. It is my job, it is what I do for hours everyday. They are all real, and all ill with an extra-sensitive reaction to not just WiFi but ALL electromagnetic fields, EMFs, 400 of them now.
Don’t take my word for it, we don’t make this up and we all wish it wasn’t happening, and you are welcome to talk to them too, just ask and I will try to fit you up with someone, perhaps nearby. Not all feel well enough to use electronic media often, or for long, others are not so bad. Visit some of them yourself please, try Troy for instance, I have never met him, he is totally independent of us, but at 17 years old has worked out for himself what is happening to his health, see him at:
http://www.electrosensitivity.org/mystory.htm Another who fell ill with EHS, and is a real creative loss wrote ‘The Passenger’ on Iggy Pop’s ‘Lust for Life’ album, some say one of the best rock songs ever, but I don’t want to start another argument, believe me I have enough of those with ‘scientists’ who will not even talk direct to those who are ill and know what is causing it. Ricky Gardiner has a website and talks about it at:
http://freespace.virgin.net/ricky.gardiner/emf/emf1.htm We have 50 personal stories like these on our website, I laboriously typed them all up and html coded them, they are all real, but not everyone wants to risk the ridicule from some ignorant quarters so do not allow real names. Others have a thicker skin. Go to
http://www.electrosensitivity.org.uk/personal%20stories.htm It is very sad and emotional often, at both ends of the phone line for some ES are new to realising they will be lucky to get their lives back on track, because they were, are really, just like all of you who sniffily dismiss this ES reaction. They simply find it incredible and hard to believe, even when they have it initially. Just like you, and me three years ago when we started.
None of them wanted it, the new people sometimes cry as they realise they cannot carry on as they did before, schmoozing through life with all the fun and electronic conveniences. It hits people very hard, that is why we want to warn, urgently, and why Panorama and the BBC agree and had Sir William Stewart asking for new research if we are compulsorily exposing everyone’s children in schools to this new blast of signals.
Most sensitives are aghast at what their reaction means in terms of making a living, we have Paul Collins just about managing to be a surveyor as long as his boss does not insist on time in the office, Jason Gleave with a transport business his lady is keeping going, Dr Rod Williams who had up to 65 employees in a computer consultancy now forced out and building an electro-sanitised house. Ricky who has serious difficulty entering a studio nowadays.
We are only ‘biased’ against whatever science says this is not happening, simply because it has to be wrong, as it patently is happening.
Elsewhere I was criticised for making ‘mere assertions’, not so. I always point to the science, but yes it IS the science that fits with the reality as we know it is. What is the use of ‘science’ not in accord with the facts? It isn’t science, its mouthing doggerel dick-squawk not worth the proverbial bucket of warm spit. I wish I could put it more strongly, these people and the sensitivity they are cursed with which is getting them down are as real as you and me. It is false and biased science which says otherwise.
COULD IT BE YOU?
Frankly, that is unlikely, only a few per cent react sensitively, in Sweden where it is officially recognised surveys show around two per cent, but some do go higher for some low level less serious reactions. Most, 80% we find, of those with ES have a previous history of environmental sensitivities of one kind or another, often to chemicals as MCS, others with sensitive dietary or skin conditions.
The fact is more and more individuals not Luddites or anti-something or other, but computer-using and geeky types too, are finding their threshold, if there is one, for resisting the accumulative health effects of EMFs, is crossed and symptoms result. Low level and non-specific at first so dismissable as temporary or 'other causes' or whatever and GPs agree with this, and indeed we are finding strong associations to do with the immune system being compromised, some of that ‘other causes’ is all in the mix. Continuing excessive exposure, and that ‘excessive’ depends on the unique tipping point of the individual, results in the symptoms all joining up day after day until you never feel fully well, and then get worse.
Then it dawns “Halleujah! Something is wrong, I must be sensitive to something that is getting at me”. Typically then everyone flounders around for an explanation with more and more jigsaw pieces falling into place. We are getting thousands of website hits as worried types puzzle around 'could this be it?' And for some it is, a minority, a few per cent we think, and very unhappy they are: life, work, hobbies, fun, families all destabilised in a nightmare that is real. And bugger-all help coming from anywhere apart from us, and us unresourced telling the Dept of Health, George Hooker and Hilary Walker are the supposed radiation department, that we are doing their job for them, and no-one wants to take on their proper responsibility.
So now we say this ES reaction is politically incorrect, the govt took the money and no-one but an independent handful of us dare say it was reckless. We all took the industry word at face value and they turned a blind eye and worse to the health risks because they have an absolute goldrush. You may as well ask publicans or brewers if beer is a good idea, or car salesmen if we need more roads. Even knowing there will be alcoholics and traffic deaths and injuries they will still say yes. Do bears s**t in woods? Is the Pope a catholic? Did Mandy Rice-Davies say “Well they would say that, wouldn’t they” about those married rich men denying they had had a ‘bit on the side’ way back in the sixties. Will the industry deny these health effects are real or significant? Has any industry representative dared to approach us or responded positively to any health complaints with a listening ear, as they should. Have they heck?
Its enough to make you cross when you hear the suffering day after day and the silly scientific arguments from those who never try to meet and talk to the real thing, actual people, are they not evidence of the most positive kind.
