My concern with these bills in congress is (slightly) less to do with the "upgrade" in frequency, and more to do with the increase in density and the decrease in citizens and town's ability to do anything about it. In my town, existing Federal law just prevented anything from being done to stop a call carrier from installing a cell antenna right next to the home of another EM-sensitive person.
I agree that it seems wrong that there is no legal framework that you can use to object to the installation of these antennas.
Though I am not sure one can say that 5G is necessarily going to increase the power level of microwave radiation in the environment; indeed it may do the reverse, and reduce microwave levels a bit. This is because when a cellular phone and base station are in close proximity of a few tens of meters, as they will be in 5G, they can communicate with reduced microwave power levels. Whereas when the base station is hundreds or thousands of meters away, as it is with 3G/4G, higher microwave power levels are required to cover that distance.
I have electrical sensitivity myself... and it is already almost impossible to travel or find a place to live/stay.
Have you performed a blinded test on yourself? You can do this with the aid of a friend, who can switch on or off on random days the appliances in your home that you think may be causing symptoms, but without telling you which days, so that you have no idea of whether the appliance is on or off on a given day. You can do this daily for a few weeks, noting your symptoms each day. If the days of worsened symptoms are later found to correspond with the days that the appliance was turned on by your friend, then this is good evidence for electrical sensitivity.
Even if I suspected that I was electrical sensitivity myself, I would not be satisfied that I really was until I had performed such a blind test, because as the study I mentioned above indicates, even just anxiety about EM radiation is enough to cause symptoms.
I've no doubt there are people who can tell within a couple minutes when they're being exposed. I certainly could.
Likewise, have you performed a blinded test on yourself, as described just above?
What finally helped in a big way was moving out of a toxic house, presumably toxic with mold. My EHS is 5% or less of what it was, it's negligible. Down in Death Valley it was nonexistent. So I'm pretty sure mold played a big part in it for me.
So how do you distinguish between the ill health effects from mold, and from your assumed electrical hypersensitivity?
You felt much worse in a toxic/moldy house, felt better in a mold free environment, but somehow you are putting that down to electrical hypersensitivity rather than mold?
The things that use the most electricity are the ones that emit the strongest fields.
I don't think that is the case. It depends on the nature of the appliance, as well as the power consumed. The small transformer in a 2 Watt cellphone charging power adaptor will produce a far stronger magnetic field around it than a 3000 Watt electric heater.
There are only three ways that electrical or magnetic influences from electrical wires or equipment can travel through space or air:
(1) Electromagnetic waves (eg, radio waves)
(2) Inductive coupling (which you get from the magnetic fields near the transformers in power adaptors)
(3) Capacitive coupling (mains hum buzzing sounds on your music recordings are via capacitive coupling)
An electric fire will not transmit any electromagnetic waves in the form of radio waves (unless there is an electric motor inside it, as sparks from this can create EM waves), it will not have any inductive coupling (unless there is an electric motor inside it, which will cause inductive coupling), and the capacitive coupling it produces will be no greater than any other electric appliance or electrical wiring.
