Comment on AusAlert emergency warning test: What you need to know and how to prepare

• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  People tend to panic over things that are new. I expect most of the panic is people contemplating what could happen though, and the reality is not going to be particularly dramatic.

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• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Every month? I think Isn’t that super annoying?
  What if there were a genuine emergency on the first Monday of the month? A lot of people would dismiss the alert assuming it’s routine and not even read it. That’s if they hadn’t outright disabled the alert in the first place because of spam.

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  • runwaylights@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The test is set to a default time, between 12:00 and 12:05. It’s a leftover from the world war, so we have a national air raid alarm that was implemented in 1954 and gets tested every first Monday of the month around 12:00. The NL-alert coincides with that. You get used to it and it’s very weird if you don’t hear the alarm and you realise its the fist Monday of the month

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• nevetsg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A safety phone could be a secret phone held by someone in a domestic abuse situation. They wouldn’t want it discovered.

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