Death tolls due to natural disasters they can’t prepare for

Well they can, they choose not to.

And death tolls due to school shootings the cops wait outside for.

I vented on a local Facebook group when that happened. Saying that the continued police abuse of the emergency alert system would quickly cause the alerts to mean nothing. I frequently also got amber alerts for the opposite end of the state, well over twelve hours away.

To say that my concern was an unpopular opinion would be a massive understatement. People were downright hostile. A lot of locals could never fathom that what I was saying was true. And they used all the four letter words to tell me so. A sheriff's deputy called me a godless cop hater and a disgusting person.

Fortunately that particular cop is unemployed for abusing his power and some domestic abuse allegations. Oh and trying to fight his neighbor while in uniform.

And and I'm still right. They abused the alert system so much it is useless. And children and the elderly and innocent paid that price with their lives.

Last year we had heavy rain. Every time the flash flood advisory was extended, a new "wake the dead" alert went out. These alerts ignored my phone's audio settings and were very loud.

After around the 7th alarm between, iirc, 3 pm and 10 pm I disabled the alerts. I was too on edge by the idea of another alarm to fall asleep.

I'm not sure I turned those alarms back on.

There’s a blue alert? Jfc. It’s pathetic that they think we care.

Where I live, we've gotten alerts at 2 or 3 am because someone shot at police in a completely different city an hour or two away.

Missing kid in a silver Nissan Altima!

Yeah I see dozens of them every time I go out, if I'm actually looking and not focusing on navigatiting. But I also don't go out often enough for it to matter, even if it happened anywhere near me.

Besides, most of those events are just one of the divorced parents taking the kid without permission, or overrunning weekend visitation, and are resolved within a few hours.