People living in other States than NJ should especially contact their non-incumbent Congressional candidates as well as attend public meetings of these candidates scheduled. In NJ the postings tend to be on the County webpages of the respective Parties. Be in attendance and ask the question with others, if possible, asking in a group. Prior to this, send them the data and bring it again, with possibly more additions and/or signed petitions. Maybe the physical damage to the smaller population from the CDLs can be minimized through preventative means. And, if the issue does not specifically target you, it may a loved one now or in the future and possibly substantial mercury, say from vents, and/or high frequency exposure over time can adversely affect you. The scientific and medical journals with the evidence lack the same financing, far less, as the proponents of the Green movement and cannot get the word out. In fact, many people are ignorant of the issue altogether.

I’m AS and I’m not sensitive to fluorescent lamps, but I find CRT very disturbing if it goes at 60 Hz (usually due to misconfiguration). 85 Hz and more is OK for me, and 75 is acceptable. Being an IT person and seeing a lot of monitors and people behind them, I always wondered how people can work with a CRT monitor at 60 Hz and sometimes they even don’t notice it. After reading the post, I see this probably is natural for some people to be more sensitive to this, and for others to be less sensitive.

But I suspect that those who don’t notice, still can grow tired because of using such monitors. So I’m glad LCD’s are gradually replacing CRT, thus eliminating the problem.

But are there some problems with LCD? This is what I want to ask.

But anyway, my primary thing is that I’m 20/200 nearsighted. Evidently also have “light-sensitive migraines”, in that certain lighting conditions freak me out physiologically, to where I damn near go blind (my vision basically whites out, except that it’s shot through with colors, and there’s this weird sound in my head that I can’t even describe….) Seems to only happen under very specific conditions: namely, I’m perfectly fine unless flourescent tube-type lights are both failing in a very specific way: they both have to be flickering much more than usual AND the “beat frequency” interval between the pulses has to be fairly specific, but if this happens (not very often, but several times now), I’m pretty much fucked for the rest of the day. I get this weird burning sensation inside of my head, behind my eye sockets…..very nasty.

I think the best think to do would be for people to go to california and pelt the legislators with light bulbs and rotten fruit. Politics pisses me off, and needs to be destroyed.

Everyone should write to her people.

I hope you consider it.

The organ I play at church has a flourescent light that runs the length of the music rack, and is below the rack so it shines on the keys and the music at the same time. I tried just turning it off but it was too dark. I bought various colors of thin plastic frosted report covers and cut them and taped them to the light above and below and was able to make it so that I did not shut down while practicing. A combination of blue and golden yellowish orange frosted plastic seems to work. I tried about 5 colors in various combinations.

I have to direct my choir rehearsal under flourescent lights and I know it affects me (both the light and the buzzing), but I can’t tell how much. Perhaps if we ever have rehearsals outdoors or in non-flourescent light I will be able to tell the difference.

A mandatory flourescent light law would leave me crippled in quite a few situations.