[EAS] Fire

[Dave Kline]

Well said Art.
I do agree with the things you said.

It would seem to me then, that on one level, society expects us to respond a certain way, even in emergency situations.
While on another level society knows that we will probably not do the things that make the most sense for ourselves or others.
You have addressed my first question by acknowledging the fact that we, myself included, do not usually respond to these events with forethought and reason. After all we are human... to err and all.

So then why is it that we are forced to live with a warning system where we are expected to act like an extension of that system? We are human, as you point out. To that I will add, we are also not machines.

The mechanism of our warning systems seem to lose us in our human frailties and failings.
I used to think there was nothing wrong with the EAS on a systemic level. I believed it was the people who failed to properly implement the systems that caused the problems. Perhaps I looked at it the wrong way. Perhaps our warning systems should be designed with an awareness of the human condition. 

Perhaps psychologists and behavior specialists should be designing these systems instead of technicians and politicians. I do not intend to make a likable comparison between the technical and the political. There is no more greater dichotomy, in my mind, than these two groups. Perhaps we are just not suited to work together to solve these problems. Once we have the right groups working on it, it may actually be able to work in a way that will help the human component better help themselves. 

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Dave Kline   UNO-TV/Mav Radio/KVNO
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On Sep 27, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:

>Dave,

>People are human, and we know a few things about humans.