Thai Chana app

[handdrummer]

I just scribble some letters and make up a number.

[Big Boy]

I repeat - unfit for purpose

[handdrummer]

I repeat - unfit for purpose

Be grateful, it's just a dry run for larger surveillance, Ala China. If they never get it right, we'll all be better off.

[HHTel]

I must have pressed a wrong button at some time as the app doesn't seem to work anymore. However, I just point the phone at the QR code on entry and again on exit. The 'security' around just assume that I know what I'm doing. Nobody checks.

[Big Boy]

You've gone native then - they are as well scrapping it. Think of all the (non) enforcers who could be given proper work, how much electricity could be saved, and how many rain forests might survive as a result. The way so many are abusing it.................... I've already said it enough times.

[buksida]

People are abusing it because they don't appreciate being tracked, traced, and monitored by a regime they clearly don't trust. Good on 'em I say.

[Big Boy]

No problem with that, but why flog a dead horse? It was never fit for purpose, and abuse was inevitable.

To create a system to such a loose spec was crazy.

[dtaai-maai]

It was never fit for purpose, and abuse was inevitable.

Where have I seen that comment before? Oh yes, on this thread, at least a dozen times. Can't we just accept that as a given and move on to something useful?

[Big Boy]

No, because it winds me every time I see it being abused, and it is nigh on impossible to ignore.

[Edit] I don't care if somebody wants to track me as I travel daily to the Lake at Khao Tao, or visiting Tesco most days - I have nothing to hide. What bothers me is being forced to jump through stupid hoops that are totally meaningless. If they want to know where I am, providing it serves a purpose, I'll happily tell them - they'll get fed up with it before I do. But being slave to a useless piece of crap is serving no purpose whatsoever, other than to wind people up.

[buksida]

Most of us just walk past it or write some bs, can't see why that is so difficult to do.

As with most things here, the system was designed to provide extra work for a few people and inconvenience a load more. Without a central database relaying all information back to the endpoints in real-time, and measures to prevent overcrowding at those locations being taken in real-time, the entire thing is a complete waste of space.

[Nereus]

Most of us just walk past it or write some bs, can't see why that is so difficult to do.

As with most things here, the system was designed to provide extra work for a few people and inconvenience a load more. Without a central database relaying all information back to the endpoints in real-time, and measures to prevent overcrowding at those locations being taken in real-time, the entire thing is a complete waste of space.

It is not much different to the BS they came up with about reporting 24 hours, or travelling to another province. Just ignore the idiots and it will go away!

[Big Boy]

It riles me because whatever you do, you are performing some sort of dance to keep the top knobs amused, whilst achieving nothing e.g.:

• Deliberately staying away from shops to avoid it.

• Sneaking in to avoid it.

• Writing some crap, where you could just as easily have written something meaningful just to be able to boast you're a bad boy.

Whatever, we are all performing one dance or another for no benefit.

The programmer's spec should have ensured bullets 2 and 3 were not possible, and if they were serious, it should not have been made public until correct.

[HHTel]

I was talking to the girl taking the paper entries yesterday. I asked what happens to these lists. Are they collected? "Nobody collects them. We just keep them".

[buksida]

Whatever, we are all performing one dance or another for no benefit.

It's called living in Thailand mate! Keep dancing, things are only going to get worse under the current regime ...

Not much of a dancer myself so I prefer this approach:

Just ignore the idiots and it will go away!

[caller]

Well, I got so fed up of it today, that when I got to the entrance of yet another shop faced with waves of QR codes blocking the entrance, I gave up and did a U-turn.

My last day in BKK and I started by deciding to visit Emporium / Emquartier today to look for books, look at watches and to visit my bank. Thinking travel by taxi would be safer than BTS, I quickly found a taxi and it was only as we moved off that I noticed the driver wasn't wearing a mask - WTF!

At Emporium, I passed the temperature test and liberally splashed sanitiser all over as I headed into the store, when I was suddenly called back, with someone running after me, literally, as I had completely forgotten about the QR test. So after aimlessly fiddling around with my phone for a bit, I was finally admitted. I went to the Watch gallery and the QR Code wasn't manned and was simply ignored. Omega had nothing to scan and in Jim Thomson, a single code and bottle of sanitiser was unmanned and ignored. I followed a gaggle of Thai's out of the store where I had entered and as they ignored the codes and book, so did I.

Over to Emquartier, I got my phone out and pointed and walked on. Temperature test not needed as I still had a sticker on from Emporium. Went to Starbucks for a cuppa and nothing needed there. This is a huge shop limited to a maximum of 15 customers. Absolutely nuts. It was more shut than open. At the Tudor store, no code requirements but at the Kinokuniya bookshop, it was like Fort Knox! Two entrances closed leaving just one heavily fortified entrance to face. Today I was Micky Mouse. And on it went until I could face no more. When I left I just walked out the store without completing any requirements.

I stopped at the local Villa Market on the way back and no codes in use there.