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Gov Emergency Alert Conspiracy Theory.

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Gundy Fri 24-Mar-23 13:41:52

Your sweet lady friend could be lonely, those types are vulnerable and can easily get caught up believing RUBBISH.

People worldwide are scared that things have changed (not always for better), strong voices emerge and get their messages amplified, people get confused and lose their nuts.

Stick to brave, courageous moral (and not angry!) leaders who hang on to democracy and fairness. Don’t believe everything out there. Stay the course.

volver3 Fri 24-Mar-23 13:30:10

I've opted out Galaxy. I don't need the additional stress!!

Galaxy Fri 24-Mar-23 13:27:40

This is a fault in my character I admit, but I dont like being made to do things in general, unless it's the law, so I will opt out. Its utterly immature and irrational but certainly nothing to do with conspiracy theories.

Skye17 Fri 24-Mar-23 13:19:59

M0nica

^It's a shame that anyone questioning what they're told is seen as "stupid " or "not much going on in their life ".^

It is not the questioning that is the problem, I hope most of us are doing it all the time. It is the unsupported, unreasonable and irrational conclusions some people reach that are stupid.

People can and will differ, but arguments need to be well supported and able to stand up to close scrutiny.

👏🏻👏🏻

volver3 Fri 24-Mar-23 13:16:14

gangstergranny

This is my own private device which I pay for, how can the government control it?

Are you online?

(Well, you must be, daft question volver...)

How do you think they send you adverts that are targeted at you?

I don't think this is a conspiracy, by the way. It's just an emergency alert.

MerylStreep Fri 24-Mar-23 13:15:58

gangstergranny

This is my own private device which I pay for, how can the government control it?

Seriously 😂
If you were still using an old Nokia I could understand that opinion, but not now with our Smartphones.

gangstergranny Fri 24-Mar-23 13:10:19

This is my own private device which I pay for, how can the government control it?

Grantanow Fri 24-Mar-23 12:03:06

Brainless nonsense to be ignored.

Galaxy Fri 24-Mar-23 11:53:39

What's the success rate of that?

EEJit Fri 24-Mar-23 11:46:20

Now we need an Amber Alert system for missing people similar to the US system

M0nica Wed 22-Mar-23 19:27:49

It's a shame that anyone questioning what they're told is seen as "stupid " or "not much going on in their life ".

It is not the questioning that is the problem, I hope most of us are doing it all the time. It is the unsupported, unreasonable and irrational conclusions some people reach that are stupid.

People can and will differ, but arguments need to be well supported and able to stand up to close scrutiny.

Nantotwo Wed 22-Mar-23 19:24:24

Thanks M0nica, it was indeed about the conspiracy theory rather than the alert....its just the first one I've seen about the alert and was very unconvincing if they wanted to persuade anyone

GrannyGravy13 Wed 22-Mar-23 16:23:49

It isn’t the Government that is sending the Alert to your phone it is your service provider…

Caramelkeg Wed 22-Mar-23 16:18:01

It's a shame that anyone questioning what they're told is seen as "stupid " or "not much going on in their life ".

Jaxjacky Wed 22-Mar-23 16:06:18

I know of someone whose Facebook page is lauding Putin ‘he’s killing all the paedophiles’, weird and wacky.
I won’t be disabling anything on my phone.

M0nica Wed 22-Mar-23 15:44:51

Slightly different topic to other thread.More about conspiract theories.

It does rather illustrate just how stupid most conspiracy theorists are. All this alert is, is a modern rerun of the old fashioned Civil Defence siren system.

Instead of a banshee wail spreading everywhere from sirens, an electronic banshee wail will reach all 3G/5G mobile phones. How anything like that can mark any kind of 'Great reset' is unclear. Apart from anything else for all banks to fail, all governments would have to totally collapse at the same time.

Sorry, pull the other leg, it has bells on.

FannyCornforth Wed 22-Mar-23 02:02:43

Hi, here’s the previous thread about this, lots of people have given their views
www.gransnet.com/forums/news_and_politics/1322313-Emergency-Alert

Nantotwo Wed 22-Mar-23 00:07:50

The first conspiracy theory regarding the new government severe event alerts appeared on my Facebook feed today. It was posted by a friend who is a Covid denyer and moreover is a QAnon type theorist and often posts things saying Wake Up People!. This lady is very sweet and kind but I think has little going on in her life and has been drawn to this. I'm always willing to hear both sides but this particular rant that was posted was a guy saying its the government's way of testing the populations compliance and once you get this alert (on 23rd April), if you don't hit REPLY, your phone is disabled until you do. He goes on to say that your number has been supplied to the government illegally by your provider. The chap also said this has never been done elsewhere. I've looked into this on various sites, and you don't hit reply. You hit OK to clear it....but its true that functionality is affected until you do that. Its not true that it's not been used elsewhere as several countries use the same or similar. No one has been given your number, phone masts just send out a message and if you have a 4 or 5 g phone, you will receive the alert. The conspiracy theory is it will be used to tell everyone that all the banks have crashed, The Great Reset. The government say its for emergency services and government alerts such as wildfires. We for several years have received flood alerts so I expect its something similar but I'm sure we signed up for that. On this alarm, you need to go into settings and disable. I don't believe the conspiracy theory, but not sure how I feel about the forced nature of the alerts....me and the mister feel its more likely being brought online due to world events. I was just wondering how many Gransnetters will keep them and how many will disable them? www.gov.uk/alerts