You're advocating creating policy based on emotion, not numbers. That is what I mean by creating policy in the heat of the crisis—the argument goes that it's better to do something than nothing, so we just throw surveillance at the wall and hope it reduces the number of tragedies.

I'm not advocating doing nothing, but I am advocating against arguments in favor of surveillance that lean heavily into emotions surrounding anecdotes and ignore questions of actual incidence rates, causality, and efficacy of the proposed solutions.