On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 2:58 PM, Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote:
> The Disability Advocacy Community has been extensively involved with > CMAS/WEA since President Bush signed the WARN Act, passed by a republican > house and republican senate, in 2006. > > The dozens of disability groups helped design the sound and vibration > cadence (which is different than EAS), and the policies for alerting. > > Nation-wide testing (EAS) has been conducted since 2011. And nation-wide > testing (WEA) since 2014. National tests were conducted almost every > between 2011 and 2020, suspended during the pandemic. > > The national tests are announced at least 60 days in advance by the FCC > and FEMA. News media have multiple stories. Most state and many local > goverments also had notifications. > > If you haven't been involved with the disability community for a decade, > and your school office didn't notify special education teachers about the > news releases and government advance notifications, perhaps that's room for > improvement with local school communications. Fire drills, tornado drills, > etc. often involve loud sounds and flashing lights. > Fine! In that case I *demand* that we stop having fires and tornados and similar. It's super-disruptive to have to go and hide in my basement *every single time* there is a tornado, or pull over every time a fire engine comes barreling down the road…. and those sirens!... and the flashy lights! Wake up people, fire truck and police sirens are *specifically designed* to disrupt! It's all part of their plan to, erm…. well, something something…. Ok, now that we have reached the absurdum part of reductio ad absurdum can we get back to network engineering? W