Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

[Collider <large.hadron.collider () gmx com>]

Some people have to for their safety or medical health (e.g. they're hiding a burner phone from an abusive relative, or 
their blood pressure goes up dangerously high when jumpscared).

The kinds of people who remove batteries from smoke alarms are going to unfortunately use this affordance, if it's 
offered. I say let them.

Le 4 octobre 2023 18:39:04 UTC, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> a écrit :
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Sabri Berisha wrote:
> > Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all remember what happened in Hawaii.
>
> Do you mean the 98 people (at least) who died due to the Maui Lahaina wildfires.  Seems like the same people who 
> complain about the testing of public warning systems also complain when they don't get a warning about something that 
> personally affected them.
>
>
> Public warning systems are designed to get your attention, wake you up, interrupt what you are doing.
>
> Nevertheless, I understand some people will remove the batteries from smoke alarms and turn off public alerts.

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