Governments have cast vast digital nets to track the spread of COVID-19. Privacy advocates around the world have sounded the alarm. Some of the current technology tracking proposals lack evidence to prove effective or require a degree of mass adoption that no country has proved possible. The tech-focused solutions cannot alone fill severe physical gaps, including lacking personal protective equipment for medical professionals, non-existent universal testing, and a potentially fatal selection of intensive care unit beds left to survive a country-wide outbreak.”]