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.
Mike Harding said
07:17 PM May 25, 2021
Possum3 wrote:
maybe if every one did download and use it, it may have saved a life.
Or maybe it killed lots of people as it was wasting the time of the contract tracers on false positives?
It was crap, it was ill conceived by people who did not understand what they were doing and someone should be held to account.
Read my comments on that thread.
Corndoggy said
07:30 PM May 25, 2021
Don't get me started. I'm so angry at the moment over this episode.
-- Edited by Corndoggy on Tuesday 25th of May 2021 07:31:46 PM
Greg 1 said
08:07 PM May 25, 2021
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.
Craig1 said
08:16 PM May 25, 2021
It cant be any good, as no politician has claimed any credit for it. We do have it, lucky here almost no need for it, touch wood.
FMC said
08:02 AM May 26, 2021
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.
Santa said
09:05 AM May 26, 2021
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.
Time to wake up.
bgt said
09:26 AM May 26, 2021
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.
Grandad5 said
09:47 AM May 26, 2021
I was going to post here but changed my mind. No need.
Everybody?......Please go read Santa's post again.
Jim
Mike Harding said
10:48 AM May 26, 2021
FMC, Santa, bgt & Grandad5
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.
bgt said
10:56 AM May 26, 2021
Mike I realise what your post was about. But like most threads they tend to go in another direction.
The questions come back to - Would you give the government, any government, the responsibility to design anything?
FMC said
01:11 PM May 27, 2021
I missed your previous comments GURU sorry for that I just hope we can all move forward.
Cheers
Mike Harding said
02:43 PM May 27, 2021
FMC wrote:
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.
dogbox said
04:04 PM May 27, 2021
Mike Harding wrote:
FMC, Santa, bgt & Grandad5
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
I think I can, and damn well shall, say: "I told you so":
Covid 19 Bluetooth tracing app
Or maybe it killed lots of people as it was wasting the time of the contract tracers on false positives?
It was crap, it was ill conceived by people who did not understand what they were doing and someone should be held to account.
Read my comments on that thread.
Don't get me started. I'm so angry at the moment over this episode.
-- Edited by Corndoggy on Tuesday 25th of May 2021 07:31:46 PM
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.
Time to wake up.
Everybody?......Please go read Santa's post again.
Jim
FMC, Santa, bgt & Grandad5
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 questions come back to - Would you give the government, any government, the responsibility to design anything?
Cheers
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.
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