If it's ineffective it will be dropped.
I'm not really fussed if someone gets to check my naked body. They'll see so many a day it'll be as exciting to them as it is to a doctor. Skin is skin - I wouldn't walk naked down the High Stree - and no-one would want me to - but I wouldn't feel violated by this any more than an X-Ray (suggested as two polar opposites).
I think it's sad that in the UK and the US (and probably eslewhere, I just don't know enough to comment) short-term knee-jerk reactions are all. Spend millions on detection, cut spending on prevention. But of course in both countries there's teh cry of, "Why should we help him? I didn't get that!"
Whichever progressive programme it refers to. People with a little bit more always resent those with less who get help. The response is always, "If I didn't work/ was a Muslim/ was black/ was an immigranthad too many kids/ didn't get married/ didn't have a car/ wasn't an addict [etc etc] I'd be much better off."
Put the money into proper schemes to integrate.
They might not work completely, but they are less invasive. And after all, this alienates far more people.
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