I wouldn’t mind getting the Amber or even Silver alerts if the damned things were silent. Nearly everyone checks their phone every few hours while awake. They don’t need to be audible. Particularly when the alert is from some place over 400 miles away and the abduction happened an hour ago.
The blue alerts can fuck right off. They aren’t local enough to be useful. Our local PD/city has text alerts for traffic, extreme weather, gas leaks, and SWAT incidents. These are opt-in and can be silenced. I do not need to know a cop in Wichita was injured 2 hours ago when it takes 6 hours to drive from there.
I’m not sure how, but I do get the tornado alerts even tho all the color ones are turned off.
