Maybe the best thing to come out of this crisis is a chip in the armor for the privacy-over-everything crowd. This is a particular problem in the US where in t

Maybe the best thing to come out of this crisis is a chip in the armor for the privacy-over-everything crowd. This is a particular problem in the US where in the name of "freedom" people feel entitled to do whatever they want. I've come around to thinking that this is little more than a mass rationalization for selfishness and cruelty. I think back to things like the Trump administration separating children from parents in detention facilities, a measure so cruel that it was one of the few times such a policy of this government has been reversed. This has long term harm on children (seriously, google it) but yet it's justified by some out of a sense of fear that somehow these immigrants are criminals or just "stealing their jobs" or "jumping the queue" when most are just trying to escape pretty terrible situations. Honestly, I see more outrage over animal cruelty than I did from removing three year olds from their parents. In years passed, we as a society endured a lot when required. In the World Wars, there was rationing and a lot of sacrifice to support the war effort. But we've somehow transitioned into a society where we don't want to do anything for anyone. And we want to call that "liberty". What we have here is something that may help tracking contacts for a disease we need to fight. That seems like a good thing to me. I don't give an F that some privacy nut may think "but the government might use this to track us". Not every surface is a slippery slope. Just like we had curfews, rations, shortages, blackout blinds and so forth in WW2 and now we don't. Not everything has to get worse.