Midwest Chick's Place

I got an Emergency Public Safety Alert on my phone this afternoon.  The emergency?  There’s a vaccine clinic open near me from 9-5 daily.  It’s not that a tanker truck overturned and is putting out poisonous fumes near my dwelling or that zombies have now assembled and are going for brains.  

FEMA, who is in charge of this system defines a Public Safety Alert as:

Public Safety Alerts contain information about a threat that may not be imminent or after an imminent threat has occurred.  Public safety alerts are less severe than imminent threat alerts.

Pretty sure a vaccine clinic being open does not qualify as an emergency of any kind.  Pretty sure this was a misuse of the system.

Pretty sure this pissed me off royally.  

So I call the county EMS guy.  He got the alert too and doesn’t know where it came from.  

I call the county health department.  They say it came from the county next door.

I call DHM/EMS in the county next door.  They say that the state of Indiana put it out.

I call Indiana DHS.  They didn’t do it.  They think the Dept of Health has access.

I call the Indiana Dept of Health.  They transfer me to their communication director.  Left message.  I call back and leave a message for the Public Affairs director also.

All that stupid does is makes me turn off my alerts.  So now I won’t know about the tankers or the zombies.

Calling FEMA tomorrow to file a complaint.

ETA:  The FEMA guy in Chicago thinks that taking it further would be a no-go.  From his tone, FEMA is firmly with the vaccination push and no one would probably think that it was an inappropriate use of the Emergency System.