The way that contact tracing works, they could use a pandemic as an excuse to round up “enemies of the state” and nobody would be the wiser.
In contract tracing, they find and isolate EVERYBODY who was on a given bus, airplane, train car for a given trip, etc.
IOW, masked “medical teams” backed by LEOs will be making stops across America, picking up “people who may have been in contact with” an ebola victim.
What a perfect cover for picking up “Enemies of the State” for a one-way ride to a “special” isolation center, where nobody ever leaves.
With thousands dying in a real pandemic, and tens of thousands rounded up, who will miss a few key “bitter clingers?”
And in a panic, there are no rules. There are no Constitution. There is no Habeas Corpus. This no right to an attorney.
America has been under "soft tyranny" for about a decade - with an exponential increase of the tyrannical side since Obama took over.
I believe it would take very, very little to swing America over to "hard tyranny." Very little.