[heurifk]

Your overthinking it, imagining that a large part of the population wants to be Jason Bourne. It doesn't matter if 1% will evade this (you and your friends).

But you show exactly the bigger problem: the West is so individualistic, that it will rather have millions of deaths and economic collapse than a bit of privacy infringement over a number of months, again, everybody viewing himself as some sort of secret agent that the government is out to get at all costs.

Asian countries on the other hand understand that some time you need to make some real sacrifices yourself for the greater good.

[atoav]

I grew up in the alps on the countryside and I am thinking about people like my neighbour and my father. Other than them I do understand the reasoning behind contact tracing, while they don't. If they were forced to use such an app they would work against it just out of defiance. And they are by no means special people. They have no idea about computers, they are more or less center conservative or center left.

Especially in the german speaking parts of Europe the scepticism towards government data collection has historical roots that I probably don't have to elaborate on, with people who died from said collection still in living memory. While safety is a fundamental right, it doesn't outweight all the other fundamental rights automatically. These rights need to be balanced even (and especially) in times of crisis.

I think the right way here would be to follow the CCC recommendations, and make it about a voluntary utilitaristic action, rather than enforcing it from the top down. People have to want to do it, just like they did in China. How you will get them there is different in Europe however.