The gubbamint needs moar time to go over the absolute windfall mountain of Dna evidence that fell into their hands. Matters of Nat Sec. Since when was a person who is sick by no fault of their own a Nat Sec concern? As one victim among many to be tracked in a pandemic, maybe now identifiable in absence of ID, but not in a general criminal or more nefarious terrorist-type of criminal and they have no probable cause to think you, a person infected with C19 is involved in a criminal act. So why invoke anti-terrorism laws to retain your sick self's dna? Fingerprints are used to connect suspects to crime scenes. The use of terrorism laws in this case is very interesting. Are they looking at the spreading of one's own infected DNA is a possible act of criminal intent or just taking advantage of the above-mentioned windfall of dna evidence?
Just saw a story about US police agencies finally going thru old dna rape kits to prosecute the criminals.
Unrelated, but beings to mind all those "unprosecuted" rioting cases in the US. How do you get people unafraid to get arrested and have their picture taken to be entered into the US criminal database? How do you make them less shy? More emboldened, unafraid to be arrested, like their friends who were arrested and released. "There, that wasn't so bad, was it? Kinda fun right? You're the next Rosa Parks, a freedom rider." So anyway, now we've got a lot of their pics (and fingerlrints) to compare with surveillance pics and crime scenes.