First of all, I'm not a public health official and I'm not an ethicist. I believe the quote was about witnessing mass wrongdoings, such as the ArriveCAN app. I cannot speak to whether or not the ArriveCAN app was tied to any kind of quarantine or other public health practice, but I think that saying that we have mismanagement of government such as the ArriveCAN app seems prejudicial and I'm not speaking to the effects on citizens as part of travel.
I would say that very few people seem to be comparing the costs that we're talking about today to the costs of shutting down a border entirely, the costs of letting a virus burn through our population, or the costs of face-to-face interactions at a time when we had very little science on what was happening, but I can't speak to the matter of your question itself.