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Originally Posted by Acey
So am I. This alert system has tiers of alerts that Alberta has elected not to use, instead sending out presidential alerts for everything instead.
We simply want the implementation to better, which in turn makes it more effective. Including actual usual information in the alert is a component of that, as just said by Locke. It is for that reason that I use the AEA app and have disabled the alerts which, on my device, simply blast a tornado siren and provide no information.
Again, the only fallacy here is equating the desire for a better system with a "lack of empathy".
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I don’t mean to suggest everyone in the debate for changing the system lacks empathy so I take your point. And I cannot argue with the idea that the alert lacking info can be a problem (though the more info the automated voice has to read off the longer the alert so maybe that’s a factor they are trying to manage). But I am saying there is another fallacy which is that the system is definitively improved if it goes out to less people or is on a simple opt out or turn off system.
By the nature of the emergency an abducted child on the move can be hundreds of kilometres away in a short period of time and in any direction. A material witness can not know they witnessed anything until they find out about the emergency. I am not sure how your improvements can account for that.
And keep in mind I am not saying it’s not a blunt imperfect tool. I am saying it is exactly that but there is a reason why it might not make sense to go to great lengths to change that.