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Thesis 1: Differences in test strategy
The form and quantity of the test depends on how many infected people are identified. If you do a lot of testing, you will find more infected people. And: If a federal state does not do a lot of testing and the number of infected people is high, this is an indication of a large number of unreported cases, that is, many infected people who have not yet been discovered and therefore they can spread the virus. However, there are no figures on whether there is significantly less evidence in the country than in the cities (eg district numbers, converted to a certain number of inhabitants). At least it is not shown. Neither in AGES nor in the Ministry of Health. However, these figures would be necessary to make statements about whether it is necessary to take more precautions in the country. Vienna, which has long reported the daily number of new infections, likes to argue the following: they have always tried a lot, but they also accept moderately high numbers, but a “realistic infection process” has always been shown in numbers. Those who no longer test first-class contact persons, as is currently Upper Austria, will also keep their numbers low.
These 2: The political debate
Lots of people, little space. Vienna has long been the focus of the crisis, also in the political debate. The federal government wanted to “help” Vienna with the management of Corona, and even send in the armed forces, Vienna did not want them to help it. In Austria, the global pandemic turned into a “Viennese epidemic”, as they say in the Vienna City Hall. This could have led the Viennese to take overcoming the crisis more seriously, while in many parts of the country people believed they had a false sense of security.
