Sadly, effective response to infectious disease throughout history have all added to the authoritarian toolbox to necessarily limit individual freedom because w

Sadly, effective response to infectious disease throughout history have all added to the authoritarian toolbox to necessarily limit individual freedom because we know individual responsibility does not scale. While individual irresponsibly at scale has calamitous consequences in context of infectious disease. Cordon sanitaire / quarantines in response to disease outbreaks have been the impetus for consolidation of government power. Historically this has been coarse geographic control where regions are locked down or movement of people is restricted for months to years - 160 years between Austria and Ottoman empire. Much like the total shutdown of countries we're seeing now that refuse to adopt more granular control enabled by surveillance technology. Sacrificing privacy to manage individual affects on collective risk is going to be an inevitable component of modern life moving forward if we want to return to any semblance of the old "normal". A normal where most people did not care much about privacy either.