My name is Janis
Hoffmann, founder of Parents
for Safe Schools and Vancouver Island Rep for C4ST. My grandson, who is now 14
years old and has
been diagnosed with a chronic health disability, EHS (electro
hypersensitivity), also known as microwave sickness. This means with
accumulative and prolonged
exposure to microwave radiation emitting from wireless
technology, he
experiences severe headaches, accompanied with vomiting, extreme
fatigue,
insomnia and night terrors.
It was in Grade
2, when T started coming home
with severe headaches that corresponded with increasing fatigue
and sleeping
difficulties. The first few times T was asked to place his
finger where it hurt
and he would touch the top of his head. But later, as the
headaches
increasingly became worse to the point of nausea, T was unable
to touch the
pain, stating it was in the middle of his head.
Our family’s
physician recommended Advil and
Tylenol to alleviate severe pain, but we knew something was
seriously wrong. We
were discussing the problem with some parents on the school
ground and discovered
a Wi-Fi router had been installed in the school just weeks
before.
T’s pediatrician
requested that T return to
school with the Wi-Fi transmitter turned off so he could start a
process of
elimination to see if the Wi-Fi was giving T the headaches. Our request to the Sooke
School District was
denied. We were told they couldn’t turn the Wi-Fi off, (even
though there were
no wireless devices for the children) because it would set a
precedent. If they
turned it off for us they would have to turn it off for
everyone.
T was unable to
complete grade two with his
friends and we were dismissed from the Sooke School District.
For
the next 4 years T was shuffled around the Victoria and Saanich
School District
and he had graduated into Middle School where we were assured
that there was
only 25% coverage, only to discover the school has 100% coverage
and able to
download 30 laptops from a commercial Wi-Fi router three
classrooms away. We
were never informed about the Front Row Audio System emitting
microwave radiation
on another radio frequency and how the students were encouraged
to use their
cell phones into class.
As a temporary
solution T was pulled out of
his homeroom and placed in a separate room downstairs. T was
really upset,
frustrated and angry about being downstairs for 5 hours a day
with no contact
with any of his peers. He felt he was dumped downstairs and
forgotten, left
there to do his work on his own. He was frustrated that he could
go a day or
two with out even having anyone checking on him to see how he’s
doing. Imagine,
being 11 years old and your only social contact with your peer’s
is in a school
setting, but you are isolated in a room by yourself.
T entered and
exited the school as quickly as
possible, keeping his head down to avoid eye contact in fear of
being
questioned about the situation. T had expressed feelings of
embarrassment,
humiliation, loneliness, anxiety and is losing hope of ever
finding a school
where he can make friends. As
part of
the school experience students have an opportunity to meet
socially and form
friendships with others who have common interests. T has a
fundamental right to
participate and socialize with his peer group and have the
opportunity to build
life skills that include communication, cooperation, and
teammanship. These
foundational components help to form a person into their
adulthood and extend
long beyond school years. T has yet to experience a sense of
connectedness and
school community that is so crucial for his academic and adult
life.
Every attempt to
attend school has resulted
in another painful injury from the microwave radiation that
blankets the inside
of the school. T should be provided with reasonable
accommodation, affording
him inclusion and dignity while building his self- esteem and
personal growth,
but sadly he has only experienced the burden of isolation.
T is constantly facing barriers and has been denied his
right to move
freely within the community. All means of transportation,
accommodation,
education, restaurants, hospitals, entertainment, etc have been
saturated with
wireless technology with no provisions put in place to
accommodate approximately 3 – 10% of Canadians that have been diagnosed
with this
Environmental Sensitivity.
Parents, teachers and students are frustrated
because we have contacted the Provincial Health Officer, Dr.
Bonnie Henry,
Ministry of Health, Adrian Dix, Deputy Minister of Health,
Stephen Brown,
Ministry of Education, Rob Fleming, Premier, John Horgan,
requesting an
official response to the findings of the US National Toxicology
Program Expert
Panel and the supporting Ramazzini Institute who concluded that
there is “Clear
Evidence of Carcinogenic Activity” and the association of cancer
in the heart
and brain and cell phone radiation, only to have our request
fall on deaf ears.
If one cell phone
causes cancer, then what
happens when you enter a school where there is 25 cell phones
and 25 chrome
books downloading in just one classroom, with multiple
commercial Wi-Fi
routers, white boards with over head projectors, wireless audio
systems,
through out the school, surrounded by cell towers, small cells,
Wi-Fi hotspots.
What are the levels of radiation that our children are
experiencing in our
classrooms? Who has put
an exposure
control plan in place, measuring levels of radiation, educating
students and
staff of the safe use of wireless products as per the federally
mandated safety
manual, who is identifying risks, monitoring health and
documenting the results?
It is a SCIENTIFIC
FACT that microwave radiation exposure causes
biological effects confirming
the growing evidence of neurological effects and developmental
delays with
irreversible health effects,
such as Depression, Suicide, Violence,
Anxiety, Autism, Addiction,
Behavioral Issues, Heart Episodes, Infertility, ADD/ADHD,
Compromised Ability
to Learn, Headaches, Nose/Ear Bleeds, Brain Fog, Difficulty
Concentrating, and
Cancer. As
documented in over 28,000 peer reviewed published studies by
scientists and medical
experts.
This information warrants the solicitation of
a current letter, re Wi-Fi safety from Dr. Bonnie Henry to
ensure the latest
peer reviewed studies and recommendations are being applied to
make a sound
decision regarding our children’s health and well being. Currently
it is
mandatory that our children will be exposed to Microwave
Radiation from
wireless technology with no way to shield themselves from this
full body
radiation, much like the rats used in these studies.
The
School Boards have willfully
dismissed all credible health information presented to them from
qualified
experts, nationally and internationally, which emphasizes
children's heightened
vulnerabilities and the need for "precautionary" measures to
reduce
exposure and risk from the harmful effects.
Canada
agreed the
Precautionary Principle would be implemented when an activity
raises threats of
harm to human health or the environment, even if some cause
and effect
relationships are not fully established scientifically.
The Precautionary
Principle shifts the burden of proof, insisting that those
responsible for an
activity must vouch for its harmlessness and be held responsible
if damage
occurs.
The most current letter on file is dated July
2011, from our School Health Officer, Dr. Stanwick, who was
unable to provide
us with any peer-reviewed studies stating the safety of
microwave radiation
exposure. Dr. Stanwick instead has shifted “the responsibility
for professional
oversight” to the Provincial Health Officer. Dr. Stanwick,
appears to have no
educational background on the biological health effects of RF
radiation
exposure, yet has endorsed the installation of a known 2b
carcinogen listed
next to lead, DDT, methyl mercury, chloroform, and car exhaust as
an
acceptable risk in our schools. It's 2019 and we want
to know is Cancer
an acceptable risk too?
Health is a Provincial Jurisdiction.
The BC Government has failed to do their due diligence and take
immediate
action to mitigate the risk by informing the School Boards
throughout the
province of the established health risks associated with long
term exposure to
microwave radiation by recommending the use of hard wired
connections to access
the Internet in our schools. For as little as a one time cost of
$500 US
dollars, every classroom would be provided with 40 Ethernet
ports plus adapters
for their wireless devices, costing about $20 per child, a small
price to pay
compared to brain surgery, chemotherapy, radiation treatments
etc.
By refusing to implement the Precautionary
Principal and ignoring the growing body of “clear evidence” of
cancer, the
mandatory exposure in our schools will ultimately be responsible
for the
greatest health scandal of our time.
Janis
Hoffmann
Victoria
BC
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