The government who cried ‘Wolf’

Why I’ll be turning off the emergency text alert today.

Emergencies.

They’re just not what they used to be, are they?

You know……..Urgent.

Events the ambulances, cops and fire service attend.

Matters of life and death.

The problem is, when you over use language or use it inappropriately then said word or phrase loses impetus. It no longer wields the shock value it once had.

And I feel this way about ‘emergency’ and ‘crisis’.

Take for example the ‘climate emergency’.

I’m still waking up every morning, y’know?

If like me, you grew up with AIDS icebergs, ozone layer nightmares and threats of nuclear war, you’ll have rightly learned to trill “la la la la laaaa” loudly over the top.

Because otherwise you’d have gone insane.

This brings me to today’s “Emergency text” drill.

If I trusted ‘them’ to only tell me of genuine imminent concerns, and not fuck up, I might have it.

But it’s like trusting Frank Spencer to change your light bulb, isn’t it?

You just know it ain’t gonna end well.

In 2018, residents of Hawaii were alerted by such a service that there was an incoming ballistic missile and they should seek shelter.  People said their final goodbyes to their loved ones. Upon hearing the news, one man had a heart attack.

Except it wasn’t true.

Thirty eight minutes later they were told this was an error.

Just some dude pressing the wrong button. Shit happens, right?

One minute you’re putting an extra sugar in Sharon’s coffee, next you’re telling the population of an entire state they’re probably gonna die…..

Still, I’m sure ‘lessons have been learned’, hey?

There’s also the massive potential for them to ‘over tell’ us stuff, because they already do.

We now live in a world where even a hot day has become newsworthy.

In a scary way.

Sunny weather used to be cause for celebration. These days you can’t turn your telly on without warnings to “Stay indoors”.

Like I’m Larry the fucking Labrador.

Your government wants to screw you.

You may have worked this out already.

But it’s not your pants it wants to get inside.

It’s your thoughts, and your phone is the easiest way of achieving this.

And once they’re in your phone, before you know it, you’ve inadvertently taken out a subscription to doom-monger’s daily.

We know what it was like during Scamdemic, fending off texts about jabs left, right and centre.

The good news is that many people have seen through this latest psy op for what it is.

There are viral posts telling people to turn off the alert and many have already done so.

Rishi and co, you’ve done this to yourselves.

Perhaps you need reminding of the story of “The Boy who cried Wolf”.

You’ve told us too many lies already.

Frightened us too many times.

You can’t be trusted.

And we’ve come to realise that the real wolf at the door, the real ‘emergency’ on our hands is to get rid of corrupt politicians and antiquated systems.

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