Government emergency alert test at 15:00 today?

[wellyjen]

No one has yet suggested the obvious. If you didn't get the message, the government considers you to be expendable in an emergency. Now we know.
https://newsthump.com/2023/04/24/go...y-alerts-to-the-people-it-would-like-to-save/

 

[mikem]

Alternatively those receiving the message may panic, leaving those who don't to carry on...

 

[ZombieCake]

Nope, nothing at all received. Why don't they just stick air raid sirens on masts with red flashing lights on around the UK for issuing warnings?

 

[Speleofish]

Or they could ring the church bells

 

[Frog2]

Or they could ring the church bells

Light the beacons.

 

[Jim MacPherson]

Light the beacons.

Except in Bannau Brycheniog as small particles are bad for that part of Wales/Cymru, will they ban dragons as well? 🐲

Jim

 

[shotlighter]

Light the beacons.

Ah, call the beacon lighter Min.

 

[amw]

The alert can be disabled.

 

[ChrisJC]

The alert can be disabled.

I can't find any alert / emergency related setting on my Android 9 phone. And I did not get the message. Perhaps I am one of the unwanted...

Chris.

 

[tomferry]

They cannot use sirens that Costs electric, Money we don’t have anymore since we give it to everyone.

 

[alanw]

Or they could ring the church bells

I can remember maroons being set of to summon the lifeboat crew.

Maroon (rocket) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Maroons were also intended to be used by the British Civil Defense or Royal Observer Corps in the event of a nuclear attack

 

[kay]

I can't find any alert / emergency related setting on my Android 9 phone. And I did not get the message. Perhaps I am one of the unwanted...

Chris.

I think you have to be Android 11+ If you can't get the alert, you wouldn't need anything to switch it off.

 

[andywebman]

The BBC's coverage ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-65330397 ) suggests some people got it early, some people got it several times and loads of folk didn't get anything.

As a tax payer, I hope the software company in America which sold the system to our government aren't going to get paid for it. Or at least not until they get it to work properly.

Company belongs to the father of Sunak's wife. Keep it in the family!

 

[Flotsam]

I can remember maroons being set of to summon the lifeboat crew.

Maroon (rocket) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Maroons were also intended to be used by the British Civil Defense or Royal Observer Corps in the event of a nuclear attack

Maroons ceased to be used by the RNLI some years ago due to an injury or death caused by crew using one.

 

[ZombieCake]

There's got to be some scope for some juicy conspiracy theories: If Covid had parallels with the film 'Contagion', then how about this one with tenuous parallels with 'When Worlds Collide'. Elon Musk seems very busy testing his Starships that can seat 100 people - hiding in plain sight. Meanwhile the Illuminati are sending out test messages to all phones to tell people what to do in an emergency. Nasa have also been quiet on the impending Planet X collision front. So when the next alerts go off telling people to take cover due to 'a storm approaching' the Illuminati will secretly run to the Starships...

 

[ChrisB]

So when the next alerts go off telling people to take cover due to 'a storm approaching' the Illuminati will secretly run to the Starships...

But that's only because they never listened to H2G2 and don't know what "B Ark" means.

 

[alanw]

"B Ark"

I have seen neither hide nor hair of a telephone sanitiser for years. Have they already all left?

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Yes, they're just getting things spick and span ready for the arrival of the others.

 

[Laurie]

Mine happened

 

[mikem]

What, your telephone was sanitised...?