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by barbazoo 390 days ago
Except it’ll fail and a kid will die. Please keep physically blocking off pools.
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Eh, I don't think anyone is saying they are going to stop blocking off pools...

I had a friend that almost lost his kid with a pool with a self closing gate, an object happened to get caught in the latch when someone was leaving the pool and their 2 year old capitalized on this to almost get themselves killed. They had to perform CPR and rush to the hospital.

A backup system that could alert is just another layer of the security onion.