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Austria had gained a time advantage in the spring. Had she been smarter, she would not have reveled in past success after the lockdown.
Austria did not like to be without arguments at the “Alliance of Smart Countries” in the spring. So those who cracked down on the Covid 19 virus early on.
Today there is little evidence of this intelligence: Israel disappears in a second blockade; in the Czech Republic, the numbers are skyrocketing. And also in Austria the situation has gotten so bad that several countries have issued travel warnings. It is particularly painful that Germany has now blacklisted Tirol as well. Unlike Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, the people of Berlin are of the opinion that the virus arrives not only by car, but also by gondola.
Austria had gained a time advantage in the spring. If she had been smarter, she would not have reveled in past success after the lockdown, but she would have prepared for the future – with united and consistent testing strategies and, most of all, effective contact tracing. Perhaps the stop corona app still comes alive. Because it’s smarter than the mountains of paper you work with today.
(“Die Presse”, print edition, 27.09.2020)
