How an Anonymous Reporting System Made Yale a COVID ‘Surveillance State’

How an Anonymous Reporting System Made Yale a COVID ‘Surveillance State’
"Since the beginning of the pandemic, Yale University has required all students to mask indoors in public spaces. 

But it was 9:30 p.m on a Saturday night, and the library was deserted. 

With no one within at least 150 feet of him, a Yale senior decided to relax with a movie—and without a mask.
It got him reported to the school’s COVID hotline.

• According to the Yale senior, another student walked into the library and demanded he mask up. Since he didn’t have one on him, the senior said he would leave. As he was gathering his belongings, the other student pulled out her phone and began filming him. When the senior asked for her name, the student raised her middle finger and stormed off.

Two days later, he received a notice from the Yale administration that he had been reported for violating the school’s "Community Compact," a set of rules put in place to "promote the health and safety of all community members." 

...He was ultimately found guilty of a violation and threatened with a "public health withdrawal."...Read all.