Covid-2019 - 2021-09-01

A shocking story in "Recommended Reading" from "The Atlantic". Australia embraces its history as a penal colony with an app that randomly pings citizens day or night, forcing them to biometrically identify themselves and be geo-located, facing arrest if they are not in compliance with mandated quarantine orders. And for all that, it's not even working: having once been celebrated as one of the countries that "got it right," Australia is one of the only in the world now where cases are at all-time highs.