So interesting announcement at work today...they're offering "active assailant training" to prepare us for an intruder at work type of situation. Without doxxing myself, I've worked for this company for quite some time and we've never had such an offering before. This is no small company (American, but global).
They cite that cases are rising, and that 80% of these situations unfold at work. The announcement also states that people are stressed with the current situation (working from home, adapting to life changes from COVID) essentially implying that one of our co-workers could go off the deep end and come in guns-a-blazing.
My theory: it all seems to me that they're building a narrative for some sort of false flag mass shooting to happen that'll be blamed on a crazy Trump supporter who couldn't take COVID/Biden or something along those lines.
Eyes peeled!
You're not going to learn squat by taking a course online. You only learn stuff like this through drills and practice. It has to be muscle memory and instinctive when the time comes to use it, not to mention it needs to be a team effort, which you won't get by doing it online. Sounds to me like someone needs to check off a box somewhere.
Exactly.