Commentary Freedom-loving people all over the world are aghast at the strict lockdowns and other actions being taken by Australian states in a misguided effort to achieve “Zero COVID.” Australian state governments are all in on “zero COVID-19,” mandating masks, social distancing, quarantines, contact tracing, and vaccine passports until around 75 percent of their citizens are fully vaccinated. The latest example of authoritarian control in the name of public health and safety is the state government of South Australia’s requirement to use a new quarantine app that uses geolocation and face recognition technology to enable the authorities to monitor and control the movements of individual citizens, as previously reported by The Epoch Times here. “Zero COVID” is a policy aimed at totally eliminating the virus that causes COVID-19. This is a political policy, not one based on science, as no virus has ever been totally eradicated through human intervention. Viruses and …