Buzzing

 I had to laugh when I read the Government announcement that they were planning an emergency test alert signal to be sent to all mobile phones. Apparently it was a loud buzz with a message flashing up on the screen. It was timed to happen at 3pm on Sunday. I didn't get one, where was mine. 😱

There has been a lot of speculation about what constitutes an emergency which is so serious that requires all of us to be ready for whatever might happen. A heavy downpour of  rain for instance, perhaps hit by lightening, or maybe an alien spaceship landing on our country and obliterating most of mankind. 

I see from the discussions that followed the test alert, that many people did not quite grasp the thinking behind the experiment. People were happy to report that they did indeed receive the buzz and the message, others were quite miffed that nothing came through on their phone. What a disappointment, all that build up for nothing. 

Some of us are one step ahead of the Government trickeries being foisted upon us. The Nudge Unit are playing a blinder by moving us along to the next so called pretend disaster. They have just wasted 2 million £'s on this test. 

The idea behind it was to test how compliant people would be in the face of some impending disaster. It was a data collection exercise, they need to know how much control they can muster, and the demographic location of all the phones capable of receiving the alerts. 

Project Fear has worked well up to now, they need to come up with new ideas of how to control the masses. I can't wait to see what they come up with next. 

Katie explains it better than I can. 

Toodle pip.   ilona