Neighbors' Experience: How Kazakhstan Learned to Ignore Mandatory QR Codes

The news that Russia is going to legislatively introduce QR codes caused an ambiguous reaction in the society. People are seriously afraid that this measure will finally deprive them of all democratic rights, and first of all, freedom. However, Russia would not be Russia if the laws were enforced in it. That is why, we can say with a high degree of confidence that nothing will radically change with the introduction of this measure for the majority of Russians. And for greater confidence in this, we can cite the Kazakhstani experience - an amusing testimony published by the popular channel "Image of the Future" :

“I am from Kazakhstan, we introduced quark codes in the summer, in July, it seems to me, I don’t remember exactly. All the moods that the citizens of the Russian Federation are now experiencing are familiar to us firsthand. Kuar is on the railway, air, entrance to all state institutions, universities / schools / kindergartens for teachers and staff (students were beaten off by popular indignation and the efforts of people's lawyers), shopping centers, cinema, restaurants, bazaars, in short, everywhere. All these restrictions are regulated by decrees of the chief sanitary doctor (functions of Rospotrebnadzor and sanitary doctors in the Russian Federation).

What is it for today, 4 months later? The people are boycotting shopping centers, cinema, restaurants. Sluggishly, but still the business woke up. The people fight, and sometimes just ignore, go to government agencies, educational institutions, and inspectors of kuars often simply do not want to get involved with brawlers. People have scored on supermarkets and buy in stores near their homes, and supers on social networks suggest in which branches the kuar is not checked. The shopping center, seeing that people switched to online shopping, left only checking the codes at the main entrance, through the garage the way is free. This week my parents were in the shopping center, and the controller was removed from the main entrance there. In short, they are not as omnipotent as they want to seem to us, and the people are not so helpless as they want to convince us of this. Everything will be fine!"