On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 10:41:24AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 01:24:58PM +0100, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: > > 2) The S. Korean model, which is testing lots of people and > > quarantine only for those that don't pass the test. > > In the S. Korean model, quaranteen officers have significant powers to > make sure individuals who have tested positive to stay sequesters. > They also have the power to use individuals' cell phone location > history to track people's past locations via GPS to find other people > who may have interacted with the infected individual, and who should > therefore, be tested, and possibly, quaranteened. > > I doubt this would work in even in the United States, where the > population at large seem to be much more accepting of government > surveillance in the name of National Security. However, in Europe, > and especially countries like Germany, who have a much greater fear of > government surveillance (perhaps because of the experience of the > Stasi in East Germany), I very much doubt the full South Korean model > would fly at all. In the U.S. the local governments used to have a great deal of lattitude constitutionally and statutorilly. Compulsory vaccination and quarantines used to be a thing Stateside. Now maybe not so much, and though most Americans accept subtle surveillance, we don't like overt surveillance. We still don't have anything like a national ID document as in pretty much the rest of the world. But when the brown stuff hits the moving blades, you never know what a population might accept. With any luck we won't find out anytime soon! Nico --
