CALGARY Karine Betts was enjoying an early afternoon with her children at her rural home on Friday when suddenly her phone sounded off with an emergency alert. “My kids were terrified,” she said. “I read the message and instantly I was just livid because my kids were upset and I had to tell them it was the exact same thing we’ve been hearing for the past 13 months.” Betts, like hundreds of thousands of others, received the same emergency alert message shortly before 5 p.m. Friday, to inform Albertans of the latest COVID-19 restrictions. The rural Albertan resident of Lake Isle called the message ‘fear-mongering’ and said it was a ‘gross misuse’ of the broadcast system.