There is an app for that. But is there an aptitude for trust?

Here's where the trust deficit bites.

We'd all love to kill the pandemic, as demonstrated by the relative seamlessness of the Australian people's communal agreement to stay away from each other.

We've cheerfully enough given up our freedom of movement and association, not to mention such sacred pursuits as smashed avo and the footy.

So, in that context, it wouldn't feel like a huge ask to temporarily plug our mobiles into a national database so the medical authorities can encircle and contain each coronavirus flareup in real time, whack-a-mole style.

Right?

The conditions of willing acceptance are further enhanced by the fact that much of the population has become comfortable with a fully online life, using technology for the first time ever as a tool to make things actually better.