UK: my wife handled a baby bat a couple of weeks ago that was found in a airbnb/hotel in the Lake District. No bites from it.
This popped up in her newsfeed last night..... she is now at the hospital getting rabies shots (no symptoms luckily). The medical staff are treating it very seriously!
It is not about "protecting the kids". This statement is attached to every process that the government wants to roll out that is normally unacceptable to the population.
It is about monitoring and identifying all members of the public - "prove that you are over 16" creates a profile about you that they can track and use.
I have a G6 uk licence that I took after being almost busted for CBs (in the old days) and all my radios have been packed up and in the garage for decades. Computers/BBS/Internet took over. I enjoyed the tech side of the hobby rather than the convo.
Maybe the CEOs do not realise that their workers are achieving great productivity, completing their tasks in 1 hour instead of 8, and spending time on the beach, rather than at their desks?