[EAS] Cell Phone Warning Failure

[Richard_Rudman]

Bill's and my good friend Art understand the role of anther word in "milling". Art is also very much aware of the research housed at the Colorado State Natural Hazards Center on warnings. 

That word is "denial".

Credible quantities of peer-reviewed social science deals with trying to get a public at risk through the initial stages of a declared major emergency -- when they are in what amounts to a state of denial that contributes to milling.

I have mentioned this before, but for those interested now: http://www.start.umd.edu/people/dennis-mileti 

Making available to the public reinforcing messages that they and/or their property is in danger is done through repeating the warning action message at multiple times through multiple sources.

Multiple messages using different warning alert paths has the added advantage of compensating for inevitable failures in operations and technology we are all well acquainted with.

it also explains why some of us believe that we still need to preserve ancient technology "last ditch" warning paths using amplitude modulation in the AM broadcast band.

Why? Try accessing digital warnings by just turning on your AM/FM vehicle radio, or failing that, out of a piece of rock crystal, wire wrapped around a toilet paper tube, a homemade capacitor and an old high impedance earphone.

Richard Rudman

> On Jul 3, 2017, at 9:55 AM, Bill Ruck <ruck at lns.com> wrote:
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> My good friend Art said "That process is sufficiently well recognized that it has a name in social science... it's called "milling" and it has to do with the social construction of the meaning of an alert."