She combed through a stack of research studies. But after becoming the chair of Pittsfield’s Board of Health as the complaints emerged, Orsi, a 66-year-old registered nurse who had spent much of her career in public health, decided to educate herself. She mostly viewed it as an issue that had long ago been put to rest. Like many people, Bobbie Orsi had never paid close attention to questions about the health effects of cellphone technology. A few children had to sleep with “vomit buckets” by their beds. Seventeen residents reported headaches, dizziness, insomnia or confusion. Holy shit.The health complaints started rolling in within weeks of the activation of a new cellphone tower in August 2020 in Pittsfield, an old factory town in Massachusetts’ Berkshire Mountains. You quickly looked back down, picking up some old Modest Mouse record, and tried to pretend like you hadn't been checking out this oddly attractive guy that was. He wore a brown corduroy jacket and black pants and beat up Vans and you didn't think you had ever seen anyone look so good at 10 AM on a Tuesday. He looked to be about your age, with deep brown eyes and dark curly hair that poked out from under a beanie. As you turned to look at who had just walked in, you couldn't help but stare. You were shuffling through the "M" section when the bell over the door rang. It was a slow day, which was expected, since majority of your business didn't happen at 10 AM on Tuesdays, and your customers were usually rowdy teenagers trying to look cool for Instagram who came in on the weekends, or old men who came in the evenings, looking through the classic rock section. You gave her a small hello and a wave as you walked past the counter at the front of the store and to the back, wheeling out the cart full of boxes of records and CDs that needed organizing.
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