Framing this as an either/or choice (surrender some privacy or the elderly die) is a reductio ad absurdum. There are easier and less blatantly intrusive ways o

Framing this as an either/or choice (surrender some privacy or the elderly die) is a reductio ad absurdum. There are easier and less blatantly intrusive ways of achieving 80% or 90% of the mitigation, like for example a combination of nonstop education of the public and issuing tickets for breaking social distancing rules as is being done in some places. After the 9/11 attacks, Americans passively accepted huge intrusions on privacy that have still not been rolled back, 19 years later. We should be very careful what we wish for. This tracking thing is a very slippery slope.