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KeythKatz t1_ixyw5kk wrote

Reply to comment by Gabbstah in S.Korea's new COVID-19 cases in 50,000 range amid winter resurgence worries by 4inalfantasy

I was just in Korea for a few weeks, I hate how emergency mobile alert broadcasts were abused daily or every few hours just to tell people how many local cases there were.

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Leading-Two5757 t1_ixzb22w wrote

And now you’re reading headlines about a surge in cases. Almost as if they saw an emergency coming.

How dare they use an emergency system to portray a coming emergency. Shame on them.

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KeythKatz t1_ixzg806 wrote

A surge in cases is no longer an emergency as in 2020. Is using an emergency system to basically broadcast regular news, causing some to turn off the alerts entirely, in a locality where storms and tsunamis matter, not counter to the point of having an emergency system? The broadcasts weren't even large numbers, more like "there were 8 cases in your neighbourhood yesterday" and "here is your nearest vaccination center", as 2 separate alerts.

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