Yep we downloaded it - didn't cost us anything, whether it ever did any body any good, don't care - It is all part of being a good citizen and attempting to help - maybe if every one did download and use it, it may have saved a life.
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The Fed Govt one is so power hungry it was flattening my phone battery each day so I got rid of it.
The WA Govt uses one that uses a Q code so you log in to each business premises that you visit. Bit of a pain but not a big deal really and the app isn't running all the time, so use that one instead.
If you want to enjoy the lifestyle that you had prior to COVID, then it is every citizens moral obligation to use the COVID tracking app. like we have in South Australia and get vaccinated. No vaccination no travel full stop, stay home.
For heavens sake! what a load of paranoid rubbish.
Australians are becoming more like Americans by the day, seems like we cant wait to adopt the latest conspiracy theory, reminds me of the reds under the bed fears back in the 1950's.
Most people using the internet are sharing mountains of traceable information daily, however when it comes to an application with the potential to help get on top of the Covid issues we are facing, as well as potentially saving lives they scream blue bloody murder.
SA started using QR codes in Dec 2020, no one has yet been visited by the secret police.
The QR check in requirement is a valuable tool designed to help contain the spread of the virus.
Unfortunately it requires the cooperation of the entire population, sadly there are a percentage of selfish types among us who are simply not inclined to do the right thing, and of course they are the very people who scream loudest and demand immediate assistance when something goes wrong.
I'll wager they are the same group who refuse to be vaccinated.
There is a anti drink driving campaign in SA at the moment accusing drink drivers of being selfish pricks, the anti QR coders and anti vaxxers should be given the same label.
I agree with SANTA. Every time you use your phone you are giving data to who knows who. Every time you go online your data is traceable. Heck even the navigation system in you car is leaving data for others to read.
You don't seem to understand what this thread is about and are posting against claims no one is making.
If you read and understand my comments in the original thread of one year past you will note that I claimed then that this stupid mobile phone Bluetooth thing could never work because of the nature of radio wave propagation. Clearly the government has finally realised the basic and inherent problem with the design and has quietly dropped the whole thing. Had they taken the trouble to ask someone who actually *understands* these things they would not have wasted $2M on development and God knows how much on advertising and sending contract tracers down blind holes. Someone should be held accountable for such an incompetent decision.
The QA code thing is quite different and seems be be a positive way of doing things.
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I missed your previous comments GURU sorry for that I just hope we can all move forward.
We can only do that if we acknowledge our mistakes so that we gain the knowledge not to make them again. I'm still waiting for anyone in government to say this Bluetooth thing was total bollocks and they got it wrong.
Sorry, but my humility force field is not working today.
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"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken"
Oliver Cromwell, 3rd August 1650 - in a letter to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland
You don't seem to understand what this thread is about and are posting against claims no one is making.
If you read and understand my comments in the original thread of one year past you will note that I claimed then that this stupid mobile phone Bluetooth thing could never work because of the nature of radio wave propagation. Clearly the government has finally realised the basic and inherent problem with the design and has quietly dropped the whole thing. Had they taken the trouble to ask someone who actually *understands* these things they would not have wasted $2M on development and God knows how much on advertising and sending contract tracers down blind holes. Someone should be held accountable for such an incompetent decision.
The QA code thing is quite different and seems be be a positive way of doing things.
the QA code thingy will only be effective if people use it ,i don't see a lot of people scanning into places and no one seem to be enforcing it are we becoming to complacent
