Gov Emergency Alert Conspiracy Theory.

I am very happy to have an alarm system like this. I live in a flood prone area and although I do get flood warnings. To know that a general warning would go out if flooding started would be very useful.

As I said no different to those old Civil Defence sirens. We used to live near Broadmoor and if any one escaped from there, a siren would go off. I think the siren is no more and a system not dissimalar to this is used to alert people to an escape.

It is merely using modern technology . Back in pre-technology dates people used to light huge beacons to raise alarms for potential national emergencies: invasions like the Armada and other armed incursions.

As I understand it, it’s a one-off alert, which you can switch off permanently. They have it in, I think, France. While I don’t think this is a sinister plot, always wise to question authorities and their motives. They don’t always have the ordinary person’s interests at heart. Vis some of the bills Tories are bringing in to shut down protests and aspects of press reporting.

It's not a high pitched siren type of noise - more a mid range sort of ring tone. It's designed to draw your attention to the message not scare the pants off you!!

As I said no different to those old Civil Defence sirens. We used to live near Broadmoor and if any one escaped from there, a siren would go off. I think the siren is no more and a system not dissimalar to this is used to alert people to an escape.
We were house hunting in a village near there and were told about the siren system - didn't they have a test siren warning once a week?

Do you think it might be to warn us if the barking mad Putin sets off a nuclear attack? Give us a chance to get home to family?
Because to warn a whole nation, the mobile phone is the nearest thing to almost total coverage that we have…
Tell me I’m completely wrong please….

I dont think you'll have time to go anywhere if Putin sets of nukes.O corse our great and good .Politicians and royals will be safe they all have bunkers ..but the rest of us dont count in their lives so we can just fry like the good people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...innocents murdered even though their Emperor had surrendered .

I have found them useful. It went off and marked our address as an incident recently so we returned home and found our silly young neighbour putting out a fire next to our backyard fence. Someone had reported it, thankfully. You get to choose the range here so I asked for 10 kms which I may change down to 5 because I am not that interested in floods/ fires/ incidents that far away.

By the way, he is silly because he lit it in the first place, a habit of his.

Janiepops

Do you think it might be to warn us if the barking mad Putin sets off a nuclear attack? Give us a chance to get home to family?
Because to warn a whole nation, the mobile phone is the nearest thing to almost total coverage that we have…
Tell me I’m completely wrong please….

That was the first thing I thought of, Janiepops World events seem to be changing very quickly - and not in a good way!

I will delete any government messages just like I did when the Covid app and NHS app appeared on my phone. Too much state control and Covid was definitely NO accident.

My immediate thought was also a nuclear alert.

songstress60 You will not receive messages. Your phone will just ring. It is simply the 21st century update on the old-fashioned Civil Defence siren. It will warn you of any emergency from floods to, as spottybook suggests a nuclear emergency.

It is then your choice to ignore it or find out what the emergency is.

I find it incredulous that anyone believes our current government is capable of organising anything beyond a simple test. They are in no way competent enough to organise anything on the scale of the supposed conspiracy theories.

I'm in favour of the test, having a relative whose life was saved when an alert was given in another country. Some people died but my relative was able to get to a place of safety.

Where I grew up we had frequent warning sirens. For all the people worried about anxiety etc, using a phone system is just a modern day equivalent of something that many of us lived with for years.

Further back, huge bonfires would be lit. A quick alert on your phone is far better for the environment and will reach more people.

We live in such safe and stress free times now, I think people have lost sight of what actual danger is. No worry about Vikings landing at night, no worry about a French or Spanish invasion, no worries about when the next plague would appear (Covid was far less serious). We have the science and technology to predict extreme weather events and many former fatal illnesses can be easily cured. It's actually a very cushy life we lead nowadays.

For those worried that the alert will keep on deafening them until they click "OK", or that their details have been revealed by their provider, the Govt page www.gov.uk/alerts says that "The sound and vibration will last for about 10 seconds."
and
"The government does not need to know your phone number or location to send you an alert."

It also says a lot more about the alerts, and is worth reading. It is always best to go to the horse's mouth and not rely on information passed on like Chinese Whispers.
www.gov.uk/alerts

Well said Elegran

I was in a train crossing the US, and my phone told me there was a tornado warning. It had got quite dark suddenly, but sadly there no sign of the tornado. I think it’s a good system, how else would the public be alerted in an emergency?

It's a good idea and I'm amazed how people let their imaginations go into overdrive so easily.