[kijin]

Here's a less dystopian variation of your idea.

Everyone has access to those swabs, either for free, included with their health insurance plan, or at a marginal cost. It's not mandatory to use it every day, but there are incentives such as automatic sick pay and discounts on health insurance. On the other hand, there will be serious legal consequences if you test positive, decide to go to work anyway, and end up infecting other people. If it was your employer who told you to come in, your employer bears those consequences instead.

Money speaks louder than common sense. One of the reasons law exists is to tweak the incentive structure so that they align better with common sense.

[scotty79]

I think a lot of people would opt in to this testing just to get a chance of paid free day.