Meh, we get a couple a year in my area. Its for the greater good of the fellow citizens. Today was nonstop in BC for us, with an abduction case. Yeah it was annoying and startling even after the 8th time, but if that message of the car and license plate gets one persons eyes on it, its with it.
There was a less fortunate case in the province before where mom abducted the kid from dad and was at risk. She murdered her kid and drove around with the kid stuffed in her trunk. We want to prevent those things.
Personally, I think the idea of sending a mass notification to all phones in the province to find an abducted or missing child, that’s fine.
It doesn’t have to be accompanied with a loud alarm tone, though. Anyone awake can still keep watch with a silent notif, and anyone asleep will not start looking for the people or car in question just because of the tone.
The loud alarm should only be for earthquakes, fire or tsunami evacuation, mass murderer at large or war situation. Since I’d immediately dismissed the alert, if it was serious, I could be dead if I didn’t go back to pull up message to know to take cover or evacuate.
Meh, we get a couple a year in my area. Its for the greater good of the fellow citizens. Today was nonstop in BC for us, with an abduction case. Yeah it was annoying and startling even after the 8th time, but if that message of the car and license plate gets one persons eyes on it, its with it.
There was a less fortunate case in the province before where mom abducted the kid from dad and was at risk. She murdered her kid and drove around with the kid stuffed in her trunk. We want to prevent those things.
Personally, I think the idea of sending a mass notification to all phones in the province to find an abducted or missing child, that’s fine.
It doesn’t have to be accompanied with a loud alarm tone, though. Anyone awake can still keep watch with a silent notif, and anyone asleep will not start looking for the people or car in question just because of the tone.
The loud alarm should only be for earthquakes, fire or tsunami evacuation, mass murderer at large or war situation. Since I’d immediately dismissed the alert, if it was serious, I could be dead if I didn’t go back to pull up message to know to take cover or evacuate.
That’s fair
But the depth of overcompensation in this entire virtue-signal of a boondoggle solution is huge.