Emergency siren

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www.gov.uk/alerts

So on 23rd April there will be a test of an emergency siren. This can be national or local and can be used to alert to inform the population of emergency situations such as severe flooding, fires or weather. It will come to ones mobile.

Maybe im being a little suspicious but i hardly think these emergency situations are relevant to most people locally unless the government are using these as a reason to implement such a system in case of severe national emergency such as war.

This is a strange example as we already have communication in place between schools and parents.

I do need to add though, it's not the actual information I'm opting out of. It's the method. I don't care that the government can send things to my phone, i do care about how it's done. The invasive nature of a siren on my phone at any time is simply something that will make my situation worse, so I have opted out, and that's ok.

Heh I do love the British in general and their suspicious nature to anything new. Properly tickles me

When they say siren, what do they actually mean , what sort of noise will it be and will it still work if your phone is on silent ?
I can't imagine it will sound like an air raid siren and will probably be only slightly more annoying than a lot of peoples ring tones ?

Had a listen online and it sounded a bit like an alarm clock I had as a teenager ?

How would you cope in a building with a fire alarm, i.e. offices, shopping centres, hospitals, etc. Avoidance is not the answer. The entire point of the proposed system is that it will only activate VERY occasionally when there's a real risk of danger. People are warned in advance about the practices so they can make themselves prepared, a bit like routine weekly fire alarm practices when people know they're about to happen.

How would you cope in a building with a fire alarm, i.e. offices, shopping centres, hospitals, etc.

How would I or how do I? Be due obviously there is risk of these things happening anytime. I think you are minimising my trips outside. Hyper vigilance and fear doesn't leave me, you have no idea what it is like to live like this clearly, but tbh there are far bigger fears in the outside world for me. I do however get to minimise all of that and do my level best to feel safe in my own home. If that means turning off the potential for an intrusive alarm I don't think that's at all unreasonable.

Avoidance is not the answer.

You are not qualified to comment on what 'the answer' is for me. Opting out of this is a very simple choice for me, and it minimises hyper vigilance in my own home. Until you are a qualified psychiatrist who had sat down and spoken to me for hours and understand my situation the decent thing would be to accept what i say, about meds. Don't have the bare nerve to tell me what the answer is.

It doesn't matter how many times I explain it though. Only once on these thread has someone actually said they understand my point. It takes a bigger person to do so, the majority just come right back at my with some 'that's not the answer' bollocks

Accept what I say about ME, not meds

These buildings usually have set times of day/week when it's fire alarms and tend to warn visitors that they're about to run alarm tests. I stick my headphones on to take the sound of it down to a bearable level, or if it's a particularly rotten alarm - I time arriving just after the weekly alarm test is going to go off.

Don't lecture me on how to cope with my own diagnosed conditions. I have a hypersensitivity to sounds I can't control as an element of my autism - or do you just want me locked up in an old style lunatic asylum to keep me from inconveniencing your world view?

My youngest child also gets very distressed by unexpected noise - I'll be disabling it on the phones in the household as well, or requesting DH has his phone out of the room (no biggie - he usually can't find wherever he's put the damned thing) if he suddenly develops a need to keep it enabled.

Not tarting up aging tower blocks with shitty flammable cladding might have done more to support saving lives in Grenfell - but that costs money and can't be used to try to be an internet tough guy.

It wasn’t as loud as the Canadian alert. That is really loud and went off when I was in Vancouver last summer as there was a real shooting somewhere nearby! It was so
loud it made me jump 6ft!!

I have 3 phones this weekend as I’m on-call. Two alarmed a couple of minutes before 3pm and my iphone at 3pm.

It needs to be louder.