I think argument is correct wrt current crisis. But 1) can it be cobbled together quickly enough to be effective in time? And 2) how could the privacy genie ever go back in the bottle? We Need A Massive Surveillance Program https://idlewords.com/2020/03/we_need_a_massive_surveillance_program.htm …
Cobbling it together would be easy. And there is no bottle. The privacy genie has not been seen for a number of years.