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How to disable emergency government alerts on your mobile phone

Android users (may be somewhat different on different makes of phone).

iPhone users.

Because if the Covid years have proven anything, only a crazed conspiracy theorist would believe governments would think nothing of using heightened fear to induce mass formation psychosis, thereby hugely increasing its power over every aspect of life, right?

I predict it will eventually be illegal to turn off such ‘warnings’ and phone makers will make it impossible, but then I am just a crazed conspiracy theorist 😉

11 comments to How to disable emergency government alerts on your mobile phone

  • Snorri Godhi

    But then, if you are the kind of person who would turn off government alerts, you are not the kind of person who needs to turn them off in the first place.

  • Jim

    Of course you could always use a ‘brick’ phone………..

  • bobby b

    I want them on so that I will know when everyone around me is going to go nuts, and why.

    More nuts than usual, I mean.

  • john in cheshire

    Mine is switched off and I had to redo it two days ago but I found it had switched on again.
    It’s going to be interesting today at 3pm. I’ll be out at that time just watching and listening.

  • rhoda klapp

    We had it in Texas, it went off once in two years with a useful tornado warning. You can’t see them coming in the dark. No need to be paranoid, you can ignore it and if the panicky authorities use it too often it will be ignored. The problem is the people in charge, not the possibly useful phone alarm.

  • jgh

    My phone is G3. I’m safe for now.

  • Degsy b

    When are they sending the ‘all clear’ so we can leave the shelter of the dining table. I forgot to put a bucket there and due to my age, I am desperate to get to the toilet.

  • Tiriazzo

    RE “mass formation psychosis”

    The official framing of the mass formation (or mass psychosis) “phenomenon” is misleading and wrong in terms of what the whole true reality is. The false hope-addicted psychologists and their acolytes want you to believe this is “just some temporary occasional” madness by the masses when it is but a spike of a CHRONIC madness going on for aeons with “civilized” people — The 2 married Human pink elephants in the room

    One of these mainstream psychologists who have been spreading this whitewashed reality, Dr. Desmet, also fails to see that the PLANNED Covid Psyop is a TOTALLY deliberate ploy because he doesn’t think (after more than 1 year, 2 years, even 3 years, into this total PLANNED scam!) it’s ALL intentionally sinister as he stated in a prior podcast (this makes him witting or unwitting controlled opposition).

    In the May of 2022 podcast with James Corbett he stated that “some people tend to overestimate the degree of planning and intentions” (behind the COUNTLESS, VERIFIABLE, FULLY INTENTIONAL, FULLY PLANNED atrocities by the ruling tribe of psychopaths over the last century alone) and see all of it as being PLANNED which Desmet called “an extreme position” … Sound logical thinking is “extreme” and therefore false and sick in his demented delusional view!

    This all means Desmet is ALSO a member of the masses of lunatics, an ACTIVE CARD-CARRYING MEMBER of mass formation!

    The ruling gang of criminals pulled of the Covid Scam globally via its WHO institution because almost all nations belong to it. If you’re in the US go to sovereigntycoalition and sign the American Sovereignty Declaration to #ExitTheWHO and follow their prompts to contact your representatives and tell them to work for their constituents instead of the mega psychopaths in power.

  • Paul Marks

    I was out of the country when this “alert” was done.

    I do have a mobile phone – but I do not own it, it belongs to the council and is necessary for my council computer to work at home. At least that is the theory – as I could not get my council computer to work at home this morning. Still I had to go into the offices anyway (for meetings) so I did the council computer work in a council office – which is logical enough.

  • Rob Fisher

    I honestly think nothing more nefarious than this will come of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert

    (Though that is quite bad enough)

  • X Trapnel

    @jgh – The joke goes that the reason these notifications only go out to 4G and 5G phones is that the government doesn’t need anyone who’s got a 2G burner to survive a disaster. Another reason to get one while I still can.