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Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 4:35 PM
To: • Council Testimony
Subject: FW: Resolution 678 20
COUNTY CLERK
COUNTY 'OF HAWAII
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Original Message Time 6:51 prr By eire
From:John Gelert
Sent: Sunday,June 28, 2020 6:51 AM Date JUN 2.8 .2020
To: Council Testimony<counciltestimony@hawaiicounty.gov>
Subject: Resolution 678 20
Dear Hawaii County Council,
I fully agree that Resolution 678 20 is needed based on science. It is worded like a moratorium. Many of the symptoms that people
have on the mainland are being blamed on Covid-19 are actually being caused by unsafe 5G electromagnetic radiation. Please pass
this resolution for the sake of good health for all residents of the Big Island! I actually live on Maui, but I am concerned for all
Hawaiian residents. We want to keep Hawaii a living sanctuary free from harm.
Best regards,
John Gelert,
Kihei, Hawaii
WHEREAS,the telecommunications industry is engaged in a deployment of microwave and millimeter-wave" small cell" antennas
across the County to facilitate the fifth generation of wireless communications known as 5G; and WHEREAS, the T-Mobile website is
advertising that areas across the State of Hawaii have 5G coverage; and WHEREAS,this new technology uses existing wireless
infrastructure and new types of radio-frequency(RF) microwave radiation to transmit large amounts of data, but requires
significantly closer proximity to users, resulting in the dense deployment of antennas near residences, schools, and hospitals; and
WHEREAS, the deployment of 5G-enabled small cell antennas in our neighborhoods raises serious questions regarding the potential
health and environmental impacts of long-term exposure to untested RF microwave radiation frequencies; and WHEREAS,the
Federal.Communications Commission has not conducted any long-term safety testing ofnew 5G wireless technologies, and has failed
to update its human RF microwave radiation exposure guidelines since 1996, despite being advised to do so by the U.S. General
Accounting Office,the American Academy of Pediatrics, and hundreds of medical and scientific experts from around the world; and
WHEREAS,telecommunications industry leaders have publicly admitted that they have not conducted any safety tests to determine
the possible adverse health and environmental effects from exposure to RF microwave radiation emitted by 5G-enabled small cell
antennas; and WHEREAS, a significant body of published, peer-reviewed, independent science links exposure to RF microwave
radiation with serious environmental and biological harm, including increased risk of cancer, reproductive problems, and
neurological impairments can be found at https://www.5gcrisis.com/scientific-studies; and WHEREAS, populations especially at risk
from this exposure include pregnant women,children,the elderly, and individuals with implanted medical devices,or cardiac or
neurological problems; and WHEREAS, in its 2019 SONAR Emerging Risk Report,which focuses on systematic observation of notions
associated with risk, Swiss Re,the second-largest re-insurance company in the world, called 5G a" high impact" liability risk due to
health risk; and WHEREAS,the theory that exposure to.RF microwave radiation is harmless, which has been the underlying-principle
of all federal legislation and regulations regarding wireless technologies for more than twenty years, has now been proven false;
now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that it calls upon all telecommunications companies
and public utilities operating in Hawai'i County to cease the buildout of 5G-enabled small cell antennas until such technologies have
been proven safe beyond a reasonable doubt through independent research and the public health and welfare can be assured.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the County Clerk shall transmit a copy of this resolution to the Honorable Harry Kim; Mayor; Roy
Takemoto, Managing Director, and Michael Yee, Director of Planning. Comm. No. 9 • 21
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