Goldberg says people are already contacting her with their stories of debilitating illness, job loss, critically sick children in Wi-Fi’ed classrooms, relocation to remote settings, sleeping in homemade Faraday cages—all due to their exposure to some form of electromagnetic radiation, usually wireless. “Where do you go when an invisible matrix spanning the globe is making you sick?” Goldberg asks.
“I have been shocked by the number and intensity of the stories flooding in to me. We seem to be witnessing a growing electroplague,” she says. “I think these electro-sensitive people, and the special sanctuaries cropping up around the world to keep them safe, may be harbingers of a future we are all hurtling toward.” Goldberg maintains that Canada and the United States lag far behind Europe in recognizing the risks and protecting the public from constant exposure to wireless transmissions from cell phones and towers, Internet Wi-Fi and other sources.
“In England, many people afflicted with electro-sensitivity were first diagnosed by their own doctors,” says Goldberg. “Here in Canada, you would be hard-pressed to find a doctor who even believes electro-sensitivity is medically valid, let alone knows how to diagnose it.”
Sanctuaries and living options emerge for electro-sensitive people
Kim Goldberg will be providing links and information on various sanctuaries and living options for electro-sensitive people as her research progresses. One of these is found in Greenbank, West Virginia. It’s not a formal EHS (electromagnetic hypersensitivity) sanctuary, but a small community that is located within the U.S. National Radio Quiet Zone, established in 1958 to shield the radio astronomy telescopes there from radio interference.
Slate reports that West Virginia’s Radio Quiet Zone has become a gathering place for the hypersensitive since the mid-2000s:
Most find out about the area through EHS groups, at conferences, or by reading about it in the handful of news reports published over the last few years. Diane Schou estimates that, so far, 36 people like her have settled in and around the tiny town to escape radiation.
Diane Schou arrived in the Radio Quiet Zone with her husband, in 2007, after constant headaches from radio frequencies necessitated a change:
In 2007, she learned about the Radio Quiet Zone. When she visited, she finally started to feel better. She and Bert sold half of their Iowa farmland and bought the house in West Virginia, unfinished, and have since installed wiring with thick insulation to reduce radiation. (Bert—who gets much milder symptoms of EHS, including tinnitus—still goes back to their farm every summer to conduct corn research.) Over time, living without exposure reduced Diane’s sensitivity, and she can now tolerate many devices without pain. The Schous use a landline and an Internet-connected computer (without Wi-Fi). But they still haven’t found a refrigerator with low enough radiation emissions, so Diane manually fills an icebox with ice each day. Even now, if she leaves the Radio Quiet Zone, exposure can set her off: “I’ll say, ‘Oh, I have a headache,’ and then someone’s cellphone will ring,” she said. “This happens time and time again.” (Source: Slate)
The Slate article also explores questions around where EHS came from, whether it actually “exists”, briefly reviews research, and states that “there is research supporting the idea that EHS is real—but scientists largely dismiss it as pseudoscience.”
We’re joined in the studio by Kim Goldberg.
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