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Originally Posted by woob
OK so 3 days out of 50 days (arbitrary number based on you saying less than two months) people were woken up. What's the issue? In any given week I might get woken up by:
a) my dog needs to go out
b) one of my kids gets sick in bed or has a bad dream, etc.
c) my partner accidentally wakes me up going to the washroom
d) some loud noise outside or such
e) some weather related event (loud wind, hard rain, thunder)
In every instance I either roll over and go back to sleep or I deal with whatever woke me up and then go back to sleep.
I think the problem that people who complain have with this system, is they likely view it as a controllable item that's waking them up, rather than an uncontrollable (like most of my examples above) item. I would suggest those people switch their mindset and view this as an uncontrollable event and maybe that'll help them be less of a dirtbag, since they can't understand the real reason behind these alerts.
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going with Chemgears example, it's been once every three weeks recently.
in which only one time it seems was when most people would be sleeping. it could be another 2-3 months without the amber alert being used again. but even if it happens tomorrow, so what?
he keeps going with the mocking "think of the children" when as transplant said, it's totally appropriate to be thinking of and trying to help that one specific child.
could they make some programming changes to make it less "bothersome"? probably. but I don't care if they do. it's child abduction * emergency alert, where all 4 major activation criteria have been met.
*(or adult with a proven mental or physical disability, but I don't think one in Canada has happened for an adult yet)