2024-12-12 Rebecca Melendez Testimony

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"We're getting a mirror effect now, because the exposures close to cell towers now are almost identical in frequency, in signalling characteristics and in long-term low- level chronic exposure duration as that early microwave sickness paper from the irradiation of the Moscow embassy." In 1978, researchers at Johns Hopkins University published a study on the long-term effects of that radiation exposure and found it led to several serious health problems. Among them: eczema, psoriasis, allergic and inflammatory reactions, neurological and reproductive problems, tumours and mood disorders such as depression, irritability and lack of concentration." Please research on your own and learn that studies show cell towers are harmful to humans, animals, and plants especially if they are directly across from where people live. Could you look at where the county has allowed cell towers? There is a cell tower where the top of the tower is right across from this retirement building on Hualalai St, right across from the retirement home. So this building is getting full radiation effects all day and night. A few towers are in the old industrial area, with the tops of the towers right across from the highway, so all of us driving by are getting the full radiation. In Hawi, a cell tower is right at the base of a gas station, and its top is directly across from residential homes. So, these homes receive the full blast of radiation from these towers all the time. There should be research on these kinds of places to see if anyone has become sick because research shows issues with insomnia, cancer, memory loss, dizziness... Cell towers need to be taken more seriously and a lot more seriously than the Hawai'i county director Zendo Kern is taking them. I'm sure it's a money thing for him. Please stand for the safety of all who live here and don't allow cell towers to go up without properly understanding what the effects on the community will be. Thank you, Sincerely, Rebecca Melendez