This episode is brought to you by Slack. With Slack, you can bring all your people and

tools together in one place. It's your digital HQ where you can increase productivity,

enable flexibility and automate workflows. Plus, Slack is full of game-changing features

like huddles for quick check-ins or Slack Connect, which helps you connect with partners

inside and outside of your company. Slack, where the future works. Get started at

Slack.com slash DHQ. The 570 days of masks, social distancing, bankrupt businesses,

canceled holidays and injection mandates have been bad. I do not mean to downplay them.

In the United States, the public health dictatorship has been onerous, but relative to some other

parts of the world, we've actually gotten off easy. If you want to know how far the

lives are willing to take these lockdown measures, just take a look at Australia, where one

state in Australia is pairing mandatory selfies with facial recognition software to make

sure you never leave your home. Today, the call has gone out to everyone

in home quarantine in Victoria to take part of our pilot program and what that means

is that they will receive random phone calls and they have to answer within five minutes

with a selfie sent to this app, which will then geo-track where that person is and to

make sure that they are who they say they are as well. If they don't answer within that

five-minute period, that's when health offices come knocking.

I did not believe that was a real clip when I saw it. I actually had to look it up to

find the news story to see that that is real. Victoria, in Australia, is actually doing

this. They obviously want to spread it out much wider than just this test program. Once

a penal colony, always a penal colony and it's not just Australia. Just this week, Dr.

Fauci and the CDC have made clear that the only thing preventing these sorts of measures

...