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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
unrelated, I'm probably not fully understanding the issue people can have with having their sleep interrupted.
I can fall asleep at the drop off a hat.
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Not unrelated at all. If I get woken up in the middle of the night, I can sometimes spend hours trying to go back to sleep. Especially if I'm more than 3 hours into the sleep. That's the reason I live deep in the burbs, and also why I moved within my community- to get away from Stoney. For me that is why I'd like things like AAs to follow my DND settings. Something that is putting the entire area in danger like a wildfire, tornado, or sour gas leak (each far more likely than the previous nuclear meteorites) should still sound.
So that's why I'd like to have levels of alerts, and have the "not impacting 1000s of people" alerts follow the DND rules.
Prior to cell phones, we had TV alerts that would only appear if you were watching TV, and if something really bad like a tornado was coming, the air raid siren would go off. The main reasons why a cell system was needed is we got rid of the air raid sirens, and fewer people watch live TV or radio.
I don't want to just switch off my phone in case of a family emergency. All of my friends' kids have my number, and vice versa. And in the past I have had an emergency late night call from a friend's kid. Actually twice in the last 15 years; now that I think about it.
However on the flip side- "3 hours of sleep Ken" is far more likely to be in a car crash the next morning than if I had 6 hours.
I will agree that wanting some teaks to the system is a tiny bit selfish. But I don't think it make Sliver, myself et al monsters. However I also contend that I have made the people close to me a little safer. Same with Sliver and his mom. She may not want to (in her mind) abuse the 911 system because she doesn't feel right, but would be comfortable calling her favourite son.