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Nationwide test of Wireless Emergency Alert system could test people’s patience – or help rebuild public trust in the system (or cause a run on tin foil)
The Conversation ^ | October 3, 2023 | Hamilton Bean, Elizabeth Ellcessor

Posted on 10/03/2023 7:16:49 PM PDT by DoodleBob

The Wireless Emergency Alert system is scheduled to have its third nationwide test on Oct. 4, 2023. The Wireless Emergency Alert system is a public safety system that allows authorities to alert people via their mobile devices of dangerous weather, missing children and other situations requiring public attention

Similar tests in 2018 and 2021 caused a degree of public confusion and resistance. In addition, there was confusion around the first test of the U.K. system in April 2023, and an outcry surrounding accidental alert messages such as those sent in Hawaii in January 2018 and in Florida in April 2023.

The federal government lists five types of emergency alerts: National (formerly labeled Presidential), Imminent Threat, Public Safety, America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response (Amber), and Opt-in Test Messages. You can opt out of any except National Alerts, which are reserved for national emergencies. The Oct. 4 test is a National Alert.

We are a media studies researcher and a communications researcher who study emergency alert systems. We believe that concerns about previous tests raise two questions: Is public trust in emergency alerting eroding? And how might the upcoming test rebuild it?

…Over-alerting is a common fear in emergency management circles because it can lead people to ignore alerts and not take needed action…

When the origin of an alert is unclear, or the recipient perceives it to have a political bias counter to their own views, people may become confused or resistant to the message. Prior tests and use of the Wireless Emergency Alert system have indicated strong anti-authority attitudes, particularly following the much-derided 2018 test of what was then called the Presidential Alert message class. There are already conspiracy theories online about the upcoming test.

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When this happened in 2018, the left was paranoid about Trump doing something. The lawsuit against Mr Trump and FEMA administrator Brock Long said the system was a "violation of Americans' first and fourth Amendment rights to be free from government-compelled listening, as well as warrantless, non-consensual trespass into and seizure of their cellular devices".

My fav theory is that the system test on Oct. 4 will send a signal to cell phones nationwide in order to activate nanoparticles such as graphene oxide that have been introduced into people’s bodies.

I bet come tomorrow evening, we will all still be posting like nothing happened.

1 posted on 10/03/2023 7:16:49 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

Russia tested their system today. No, I’m not making any connections.


2 posted on 10/03/2023 7:19:13 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: DoodleBob

Rebuild my trust in government by having the government invade my phone and be able to locate me at a moment’s notice.


3 posted on 10/03/2023 7:21:40 PM PDT by Jonty30 (It never rains in sunny Alberta. It always rains in rainy Alberta.)
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To: Huskrrrr

I thought Russia ran a nuclear bomb simulation with the citizenry.

I’m sure there were cranks over there fretting about WW3. Prolly selling freeze-dried food as well.


4 posted on 10/03/2023 7:22:56 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Jonty30

>>Rebuild my trust in government by having the government invade my phone and be able to locate me at a moment’s notice.
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Now you too can be Chinese!


5 posted on 10/03/2023 7:23:02 PM PDT by Kalamata (President Trump, the ONLY candidate who is NOT OWNED by the Deep State.)
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To: Huskrrrr

The US test has been planned for months.

I cannot believe the number of people losing their shift over this. It’s just a test.


6 posted on 10/03/2023 7:27:37 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: DoodleBob

This is it! Q has risen!
Prepare for Deep State arrests!


7 posted on 10/03/2023 7:29:16 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (NO WHITE GUILT - ABSOLUTELY NONE)
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To: DoodleBob

Stocked up on tin foil yesterday at Costco...


8 posted on 10/03/2023 7:30:47 PM PDT by eyeamok
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So in order to aid in the alarm test, will fire alarms require being pulled wherever you/they are or is that delegated to CONgress critters at 20 past 2:00 eastern? Dingaling! I will ensure my phone is on silence.

😳


9 posted on 10/03/2023 7:32:06 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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One of the metrics being tested is in light of recent events how many of us will momentarily unplug from the system under the possibility that it’s another depopulation tactic, no matter how far fetched it may seem. Yes, that is being tested. Will you leave your phone on? Will you wear a mask again? Will you accept CBDC attached to your phone? Will you accept mandatory phone ownership for social credit tracking? You are being tested. Now.


10 posted on 10/03/2023 7:32:36 PM PDT by conservativeimage (Divorce the Deep State Peacefully: Become a State National - tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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I’ve warned my doctors’ and dentist’s offices about this over the last month. Imagine being in the dentist’s chair with the drill going and every cell phone in the building starts blaring. Also told the school I sub at.

While at the vet’s I told them as well and dog handler’s response was, “There’ll be a lot of contraband phones in prisons discovered.” I didn’t ask her how or why that was her first thought.


11 posted on 10/03/2023 7:32:44 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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I didn’t get the clot shot, so they can test all they want.


12 posted on 10/03/2023 7:32:49 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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Yes, the folks are losing faith in government.


13 posted on 10/03/2023 7:34:24 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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To: Vermont Lt
It’s just a test


14 posted on 10/03/2023 7:34:46 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: roving

Lol…is this emergency test supposed to activate jabs, too?


15 posted on 10/03/2023 7:34:59 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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Re: Your embedded link to Sky News…

I have a bigger problem with the forced application of the China Virus 2019 tracking app that was installed to ALL our USA smart phones in July 2020.

16 posted on 10/03/2023 7:35:26 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: DoodleBob

“Rub your belly with linseed oil
Wrap your head in aluminum foil”

Steve Allen’s “Very Square Dance”

https://archive.org/details/78_very-square-dance_steve-allen-steve-allen-dick-jacobs_gbia0264440a


17 posted on 10/03/2023 7:35:38 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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Oct 4, “Videodrome Day”

The mechanism is all self-contained. You won’t have to do anything now but hallucinate.


18 posted on 10/03/2023 7:35:46 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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Nationwide test of Wireless Emergency Alert system could test people’s patience – or help rebuild public trust in the system (or cause a run on tin foil)

It will do the first thing and it won't do the second thing. It might do the third thing.
19 posted on 10/03/2023 7:36:32 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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I miss the siren tests of the past, I liked those.


20 posted on 10/03/2023 7:36:53 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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