Call me a luddite but would turning off the phone / pulling out the battery be the solution?
Then of course lots of furious lobbying at the next election to amend the scope an intrusiveness of alerts.
I don' t have the option of turning off the phone - I'm on call for work and have elderly parents. I SHOULD have the option to choose who can ring through a do not disturb option, the Canadian government had that option taken away from me. They had the wireless companies disable functionality on smart phones. That is want I'm rallying against, the it is government over-reach. And it's not even effective - some sound sleepers slept through it or heard it, wondered what the noise was and rolled over. It's the light or poor sleepers like me that ended up awake for several hours.
And an unexpected phone alert is not the same as a fire hall siren - people who buy houses across from a fire hall/hospital/police station or under an airport flight pattern should expect noise - the house was priced accordingly.
And my original estimate of people affected was probably very low, it went out over a 500-1000 mile radius in the most populated area of Canada.
I am happy to get all the frickin' alerts they want to send me while I'm awake, but if I've put my phone on DND, I'm going to do fuck all, so I want them to fuck off. I am not a child hating selfish prick who doesn't deserve to live in society, I am a realistic human being who knows what I will and won't do.