Imagine an ambulance parked outside underneath your bedroom window. On a Saturday morning. With the siren blasting. And not stopping.
We experienced just that this Saturday morning in Shanghai. Except it wasn’t an ambulance with a broken siren outside the bedroom window. Rather, they were air raid sirens. To warn the Chinese of an oncoming aerial attack.
Of course there was no actual attack coming. But after some googling for information, it turned out that the sirens were partly a memorial and partly a drill. It was a memorial for when the Japanese attacked in 1949. It was also “educational” so that citizens could familiarize themselves with the different alarms, in case there was an invasion on Chinese soil --
- an attack is on the way!
- the attack has begun!
- danger has passed!
One problem, all the alarms sounded the same to me. Another problem, there was no broadcast of what we are supposed to do or where we are supposed to go if there was a real attack. A flaw in the plan?
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