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“We didn’t really notice any difference before closing.”
Anyone who utters such a phrase, in the first place, does not even know how lucky they are, and in the second place, they probably live in the country.
My father said it, almost as a greeting, when we were unpacking the car and moving our luggage to my grandmother’s empty apartment.
I have spent the last two weeks here with my wife and son. That is possible now, in home office times.
Here, this is a small community in the Salzburg Flachgau region. Spar, church, industrial park. 6,000 inhabitants. Y: no crown. At least not in public life, at least not compared to Vienna. If you don’t read the newspaper or watch television, Corona is simply not present here.
The Kirchenwirt in the village has only eaten lunch for years, the shoe store that once existed was relocated 20 years ago, and the gas station has long since switched to self-service. In the middle there are meadows, cows, cars.
So what has changed?
“You may see more people walking,” says my father.
Maybe that’s the difference with the city. Anyone who walks along Mariahilfer Strasse these days will have their first depressive episode at the latest in Neubaugasse, with so many shops closed that they have already passed.
But the parks are crowded. Here in the field, I no longer have to drag my two-year-old from strange kids because he wants to give them his bitten pretzel.
Infected land
In the top 10 of the most affected districts in Austria, there are mainly small municipalities. There is not a single city with more than 10,000 inhabitants among them. In 14th place comes Innsbruck, the first largest city (see graph).
