It's highly likely that all of our democracies will become survaillence states within the next year. What now?

[beantaco]

I just posted about Japan in another thread. It could be both legal constraints and (like you suggest) lack of know-how.

@beantaco

I invite people with good knowledge of Japan to correct me, but IIRC Japan is one country, maybe the only country, that didn’t have a single COVID lockdown, the government citing “it would violate human rights.” Similarly, some of the nasty bullshit the West is currently attempting to impose worldwide may never eventuate in Japan on the same basis.