One of the magic things about 2020 is people can believe in Open Borders and simultaneously insist that you should be confined at home for months on end, all in the same universe.
The secret to successful interaction is componentization. where each component preserves its internal integrity and deals with the outside through well defined and predictable interfaces. Without this nothing could long co-exist.
We may be creating a potential problem by destroying the privacy boundaries through database fusion and universal surveillance in the name of public health. Something about it will come back to bite us.
The only way the global loss of privacy is sustainable, as Scott Adams says, is if everyone loses his privacy. Radical transparency. Otherwise you create a situation where a very few have privacy and 99.9999% do not. That will lead to disaster.
We're creating another single point of failure and source of global risk by destroying privacy boundaries. People who say "don't worry" are the same ones who'll insist their whereabouts remain classified.
