The Premonition: A Pandemic Story Highlight

“What I really wanted was for it not to be enforced,” said Charity. “I wanted it to say, ‘We’re not going to come rescue you. You are going to rescue yourselves.’ ” The local dashboards would allow everyone to see who in their neighborhood had been infected, who had gone to the hospital for it, and who had died. “It’s radical accountability,” said Charity. “Government has a role, but its role is to empower the grass roots by giving them data.”