Amber Alert tests emergency messaging, May 15
After Monday’s experience with the new province-wide alert system delivered through personal devices, I am convinced this is a significant, negative intrusion that must be changed immediately.
The frequency of missing children, impending tornadoes or other calamity are too low to justify delivering this screaming banshee into our private and work environments. This is not London during the Blitz; it is Ontario. Let us show some dignity in the face of adversity.
Quietly send me a text message regarding an alert. My personal device will alert me in the manner, and at the volume, that I can control. I will read the message and decide whether it is relevant to me and whether I can be of some assistance.
Wallace Rendell, Belleville, Ont.
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