So this is interesting. Last week, in the US (northeast), we received an emergency alert on our phones for a tornado warning.
Small storm came out of nowhere and storm didn’t last long or wasn’t even that bad, but I was understand why (I’d rather get warnings I don’t need than no warnings at all).
So my thought is, are we slowly being conditioned about warnings? So that we no longer even look at what they say?
Then, when the big dogs eat, the clock strikes midnight , the warnings go off and no one’s even cares?
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I genuinely don’t even get any of the conversation around this at all. I download a dumb app and they don’t stop sending me notifications so eventually after weeks I delete it. The government send one alert about wildfires and everyone’s acting like it’s an absurd abuse of power.
Secondly, why would it condition you to not check an alert. Do you check your emails that come everyday even though most are spam marketing bullshit. Yet people would get conditioned to not check the alert we got once?
Of course. Buts human nature to go againts logic if it spoils your fun.
It was a clear a miss-use of the system here in the U.K. it’s a emergency warning system, for when we need to take urgent action now, not a public address system, and unfortunately people will now disable it on their phones which will reduce its effectiveness if and when it truly is needed.
Sending out pointless warnings is a very big and well understood problem that authorities ignore.
Abusing emergency alerts for non actual emergency purposes should be penalised to the extreme.
When I last visited the US I had to disable the Amber alerts after my second night, nothing but custody battles between the Jamal’s and La’Quishria’s blowing every phone up at 3AM for the 13th time.
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they already do that with the annoying tests
Apparently my comment was removed by Reddit. I was referring to the wild fires in Britain and what demographic is causing them and how the government are sending alerts to our phone.
What a bloody joke this place is.