The Town without Wi-Fi

Every time &quot;electrosensitivity&quot; comes up, I feel obliged to post this story...<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mybroadband.co.za&#x2F;news&#x2F;wireless&#x2F;11099-massive-revelation-in-iburst-tower-battle.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mybroadband.co.za&#x2F;news&#x2F;wireless&#x2F;11099-massive-revelat...</a><p>...and this related wiki article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nocebo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nocebo</a>

So the proof is she accurately guessed someone, at a skeptics meeting, had a phone on? Do people have no concept of evidence? How about a series of tests, every 2 hours, over a week, double blind?

In the 1970&#x27;s there was a woman &#x27;allergic to the 20th century&#x27;. With her it was the same story but her allergies were to do with credible things like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.google.com&#x2F;newspapers?nid=1338&amp;dat=19810223&amp;id=0PpLAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=QfkDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2674,1618261&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.google.com&#x2F;newspapers?nid=1338&amp;dat=19810223&amp;id=...</a><p>This woman was a regular feature in the news and, if she was alive today, she almost certainly would be allergic to bluetooth&#x2F;wifi etc.<p>Reading between the lines of her story it seems she had a doctor who was seeing her as &#x27;allergic to the 20th century&#x27; when really she was suffering from just the normal things that affect humans from time to time, e.g. depression. So rather than being depressed everything could be blamed on &#x27;the 20th century&#x27;.<p>There must be others from earlier times that have decided to &#x27;play the dead canary&#x27; to devote their lives to distilling our fears of the new into some terrifying allergy condition of a syndrome, providing endless story for journalists to cover.

I&#x27;m kind of electrosensitive though only from strong sources of electromagnetic radiation. I&#x27;m not affected by WiFi, Bluetooth or fluorescent lights. If travelling under a high voltage electric cable I can feel tingling in my head. If using a mobile phone for more than a few minutes, my head becomes hot and I get a headache. Using data is worse. If I&#x27;m tethering my phone I have to connect it to my laptop via Bluetooth and have it on the other side of the room to reduce the chance of getting a headache. Does anybody else experience this?

I used to live in a town that I&#x27;m now aware is about 25 miles from the edge of that zone marked in the article. I&#x27;d be interested to know what the restrictions were in town, because I certainly never noticed them.

An electrosensitive makes me think of a no-nude from Arrested Development.

This page looks great without running any javascript. I cant remember the last time I visited a news&#x2F;magazine site that looked so nice without one line of javascript allowed.<p>On an unrelated note the article is from 2015. They never updated the impressum so the site copyright still says 2014.

More astroturfing from Comcast&#x2F;time warner, et al?

Lots of the comments here are attacking the idea that &quot;electrosensitivity&quot; is even a real thing.<p>I think it&#x27;s not relevant, and actually counterproductive to argue if it&#x27;s real or not. Instead, let&#x27;s give these people a place they can live &quot;free&quot; of those things, which makes them happy, and we&#x27;ll continue to live in a place with electo-stuff, which makes us happy.<p>Win, win, everyone is happy.<p>After all, I can choose to purchase renewable energy or not, I can choose to purchase GMO-free foods or not, I can choose to purchase hormone-free meat or not, etc. etc., so why not let these people choose to live &quot;electro free&quot; if they so choose? Their choice in the matter does not impact me in any way.