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The Salzburg Festival ends this Sunday with a concert by Kirill Petrenko on the podium of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Not only music lovers know: when the festival is working (and luckily it was working), it is summer, when the last note has faded, meteorologically fall begins. Break out your tents, go back to your own four walls, and along the way (if the hassle from a traffic jam doesn’t outweigh the problem) check out the last few weeks. Was it as nice as expected? Or worse than feared? The balance is different for everyone, but let’s try to learn some lessons from the Corona summer.
First is the question that looms above all: Have we used the time wisely to be well prepared for the fall? There are doubts about this. The corona traffic light will not come on until next Friday, three days before school begins. Then you will find out what level of warning applies to the respective residential district, and no one knows what that means in the future. Flexibility is important in times like these, but wouldn’t you have had to develop or communicate clear models? One might get the impression that most people (politicians and voters) were happy to have a few weeks to take a deep breath and not have to deal with the virus all the time. Hopefully he won’t get revenge.
Definitely a lesson: that even in extreme situations there are sacred cows in Austria that you cannot take away, for example alcohol. People put up with the fact that they are not allowed to go to the stores or see their parents; a ban on alcohol at night on the street (as in Munich, for example, so that the party atmosphere does not overflow) is out of the question. Checking in at bars is also taboo for us – you can still pip anonymously.
Another intuition is well known and deeply Austrian: the mixture of the will to revolt and the precise fulfillment of the decrees. He wants clear guidelines and authorities, if only to be outraged by them. A little groan is probably also possible in Corona times.
Also to be noted: the thoughtless lack of understanding by parts of the older generation towards the young; adherence to federalism (what rules exist and how they are implemented are decided by the states); the eternal and prejudiced conflict between Vienna and the federal states, which can escalate at any moment; the desire for regionality, combined with the risk of provinciality. And the most important lesson: in an emergency, factual politics immediately becomes party politics. This virus cannot be defeated.
