Poll: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones

Did you receive the Alert?

  • Yes

    Votes: 137 55.7%

  • No

    Votes: 109 44.3%
  • Total voters
    246
My biggest fear is that some people don’t pay attention to the news ( like my mum ) and they will get a sudden text message saying we are all going to die

And seeing she lived through the Cuban missile and the Cold War she’s going to go bat…. Mud
 
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She will have a heart attack he she gets ( she is on her way to 70 ). Thank you mr government for trying to kill my mother

Serously I wonder how many old people are going to be caught out because of this
 
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delta0 said:
I get these alerts all the time in S.Korea. Usually messages like the air is really dry so be careful outside as it can damage your throat or there’s lots of rain so watch out for flooding.
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more importantly do they bother you?
Are they useful sometimes?
Do we here in the UK need to be petrified like some posters are in this thread :)
 
Just turn off her phone and buy a new one, problem solved.

*Not actual advice, just turn it off in the settings... assuming it's not bypassed.
 
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Spannerhead said:
She will have a heart attack he she gets ( she is on her way to 70 ). Thank you mr government for trying to kill my mother

Serously I wonder how many old people are going to be caught out because of this
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In the event of a nuclear attack the UK not being able to warn their population to seek shelter would probably kill several million people. Someone being in their 60's isn't even very old by the way.
 
Roar87 said:
In the event of a nuclear attack the UK not being able to warn their population to seek shelter would probably kill several million people. Someone being in their 60's isn't even very old by the way.
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Shelter where? Anyone out in the country is fine for a few days before they realise the supply chain is destroyed and the police are unlikely to function, any city dwellers will have varying degrees of much more problematic concerns.
 
StriderX said:
Shelter where? Anyone out in the country is fine for a few days before they realise the supply chain is destroyed and the police are unlikely to function, any city dwellers will have varying degrees of much more problematic concerns.
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There's a lot of non-fatal and fatal injuries that can be avoided by simply not being stood outside or close to windows, this isn't really a point of debate. Obviously if you're close to the initial blast zone then unless you're underground you're pretty screwed.
 
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Roar87 said:
In the event of a nuclear attack the UK not being able to warn their population to seek shelter would probably kill several million people. Someone being in their 60's isn't even very old by the way.
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I'm not sure exactly how?

I hate to say it but there isn't much you can really do, the old hide under the table thing from the 60's doesn't really work lol.
 
BUDFORCE said:
I'm not sure exactly how?

I hate to say it but there isn't much you can really do, the old hide under the table thing from the 60's doesn't really work lol.
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Surviving a nuclear attack ain't going to be pretty, even for those prepared never mind those not... but if you are outside the immediate lethal blast pressure/thermal radiation range then the old advice for duck and cover and protecting yourself from fallout works (sort of). But in a full scale attack that is only the beginnings of your problems when what is left of society falls apart.

EDIT: In this day and age a nuclear attack is primarily going after infrastructure not killing people - power stations, ports, military installations, transport/logistics hubs, internet/data centres, etc. etc. outside of the population centres and within a few miles of airbases, etc. most people will survive, at least initially, precipitating a vast humanitarian crisis.
 
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I experienced this for the first time in South Korea 4ish years ago.

Wandering around Seoul and all of a sudden getting some message all in Korean flashing up on your phone you couldn’t decipher I thought the North had hit the big red button or something! :cry:

Think I translated it afterwards as it was just notifying me of a fire a few blocks away!
 
Roar87 said:
In the event of a nuclear attack the UK not being able to warn their population to seek shelter would probably kill several million people. Someone being in their 60's isn't even very old by the way.
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It depends on their lifestyle. See photos on a FB group of people pointing/got compo face in local papers. Some of them are "Great Grandmother, Carol, 62" and Carol looks about 22 years older than my dad and he's 74.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
more importantly do they bother you?
Are they useful sometimes?
Do we here in the UK need to be petrified like some posters are in this thread :)
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It’s something that you get used to very quickly. I think there’s situations that it could be important. Such as if there’s a terrorist incident they could tell people to stay away from an area. If a main road near you has flooded from the weather it could be useful. I think we will react weirdly/negatively at first as it seems intrusive to have the phone blaring and be told information that is usually not important except for a smaller group that may be affected but eventually we will just get used to it.
 
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I'm sure people would get used to it, but the amount of things we've gotten used to over the last few decades has become dangerously out of control to the point that the notion of privacy seems to have disappeared from the vocabulary.
 
No idea what people are getting paranoid/excited about with these alerts. The amount of conspiracy theorists in this country is bonkers. They've been used in other countries like the USA for longer than I can remember. IIRC we were going to have them in the UK a long time ago but the government didn't want to stump up the money for it. I've had them when travelling in the US, I was in Palm Springs and it was a warning about a sand storm. The only vaugely plausible conspiracy I've heard about these alerts is that they have finally decided to implement it because of what's going on in Ukraine, but I highly suspect there's absolutely no truth to that either...
 
Spannerhead said:
My biggest fear is that some people don’t pay attention to the news ( like my mum ) and they will get a sudden text message saying we are all going to die

And seeing she lived through the Cuban missile and the Cold War she’s going to go bat…. Mud
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I don't care if it's sudden or they pre-warn me. I've slowly come to realise that you are indeed just better to face your fears and these alerts are part of that. So when that text message does come through, and I see the price, I see the case dimension requirements, I see the card sag warning, I already know the 4090ti isn't for me.
 
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