Via Instapundit:

Australia Traded Away Too Much Liberty

And the government of South Australia, one of the country’s six states, developed and is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in the free world to enforce its quarantine rules. People in South Australia will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person. “We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,”

Note that the “people” referred to in the first sentence are those under home quarantine. But that’s not just people confirmed to have the virus (and oddly, “the virus” doesn’t include hepatitis or HIV) , it’s apparently anyone who has traveled beyond the borders of not just Australia, but the state of South Australia.

You know the authoritarians are salivating over the  possibilities of instituting such nonsense here in the US. I live on the border of two states; tens of thousands of people cross that border every day for work and school and shopping. Imagine if every crossing involved “papers please” and quarantines.

And so long as we’re on the topic of the Commie Cough, behold the Biden Bump: