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And if they do call and it's an emergency they'll leave a message anyway
They'll call twice.
Calling me twice in a row without good reason guarantees war, because I assume you're literally dying.
Hopefully it's not an actual emergency that requires immediate answer
If it's an actual emergency, call 911.
If it doesn't need 911, society needs to accept that people are sometimes just not immediately available and be accommodating.
I will answer my phone if one of a handful of people call me if at all possible, but sometimes it just isn't in the cards. It's convenient to take care of seemingly urgent matters that way, but it's not the end of the world if it has to wait a bit for someone to be actually available.
The world survived for centuries without the ability to immediately get a hold of everyone at a moment's notice.
Sucks if someone needs some urgent info from you, like a blood type or whatever for emergency contact reasons and they could have it, but you don't like to answer the phone.
Nobody was saying you have to always immediately answer your phone. Just that there's situations where a phone call is better than sending a text.
Can't speak to the 'or whatever' as there may be things I know that are truly urgently needed, but blood type isn't really an example of a phone type emergency.
Ambulances frequently don't even carry blood, and when they do, they usually have a small amount of O blood. The question of blood type doesn't even come into play. Similarly at the hospital, while they may prefer to match blood type, they will use O blood at least in the short term, with a blood typing test being a matter of a couple of minutes to get the information directly instead of relying on pulling up and using the emergency contact information. This is assuming their medical record doesn't just already have the information.
As said, I try to be available, but it's largely ruined by the volume of bullshit calls making it impossible to be at the beck and call of any random caller while also living a vaguely sane lifestyle. So I'll usually send to voicemail unless it's someone I actually recognize that I know will only call over an urgent matter.
I've had an emergency call to ask about blood type, since I was the emergency contact. I'm sure there's other urgent situations too where a call is needeed.