🚨 Emergency Alerts test Sunday 7 September at 3pm 🚨

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  • onlymeagain
    onlymeagain Online Community Member Posts: 237 Empowering

    I lose concentration really easily. At 3pm I was sat with my phone waiting. At 3:01pm when it went off I'd forgotten all about it and it made me jump.

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 14,971 Championing

    mine went off

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 4,024 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I was expecting this and it still made me jump out of my skin when it went off! 😅

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,027 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1065753#Comment_1065753

    Can you imagine the conspiracy theories if they did? Plenty of people already think the government have the resources to be watching their every move! 😄

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,027 Championing

    Mine went off at 3.01 on a fairly old smartphone. Phone was in my pocket at the time and I barely heard it! Just felt it vibrate against my leg while I was doing another task. I am currently deaf on that side due to a recurring ear issue but still expected it to be louder. Didn't make me jump or anything. There was also a voice saying something but I couldn't make any words out from my pocket.

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 6,670 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Mine wasn't very loud either, I was expecting it to be much louder. But like a couple of you, it still made me jump.

    And I clicked OK to stop the alarm before I'd properly read the message that goes with it, so I don't know how useful that would be in a real emergency!

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,830 Championing
    edited September 9
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1066057#Comment_1066057

    Well - the government are currently deciding whether to make, carrying ID compulsory - in light of the immigrant problem - so it would not take much more to add a tracking chip to any ID card …

    Just a thought !

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,027 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1066214#Comment_1066214

    True. But they would need massive server rooms to process the location data for 70 million people all at the same time and they don't have the resources for that.

    Honestly though, the government don't care about you. They don't care about me. They don't care about 99% of people in the UK…

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 2,954 Championing

    Mine never went off.

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 3,362 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1066219#Comment_1066219

    It's hard for them to think about us, when burying their snouts in the trough. 🐽

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