Green pass for those infected with corona, old online pages: O du digitales Österreich
Corona has made us all more digital, no question about it. We identify ourselves with our digital Green Pass when entering the cinema and the inn. We confer with work colleagues and separate family members via video, we order the Christmas presents online and throw the money down the throat of the wholesaler Amazon. And yet there are small, analogous villages in the state of Austria where one wonders why that has to be. Would you like three examples?
1. Green passport for the infected
It is well known that anyone who is infected with Corona has to be in quarantine and isolate themselves for at least five, maybe even up to 14 days. The only exit is the approved drive to the official test road, not even a lonely walk in the forest is allowed. To the great astonishment, however, the Green Pass, so to speak the entrance ticket to everything and everyone, is still valid and shines in green splendor. Now 99 percent of the citizens are obediently obedient to the authorities and don’t go anywhere anyway, but one or the other super spreaders with a tendency to cheat could have been fished out with it. Again and again we have to report infected disco visitors. And the interface between the official separation notice and the Green Pass would have been programmed by an IT student in his free period.
2. QR code – what exactly is it for?
Only a few seem to have understood what exactly the QR code on the Green Pass is for. You can simply scan it and thus prevent misuse. In many other countries this is done meticulously. Perhaps you could have put a photo on the Green Pass, then you wouldn’t have to pull out your ID. But hand on heart: How often has your passport been compared with your photo ID? Most of the time, a waiter fumbles with his fingers on someone else’s cell phone that he used to grab another cell phone a minute ago. Recently, the 2-G verification is also to be checked in retail, but interestingly only when paying at the checkout. Because the virus certainly does not jump over when probing the goods, but only after the purchase has been made on the way out of the shop.
3. Warning, this page is not up-to-date
3. It was only on Friday that the government decreed that people without a booster shot had to show a PCR test when entering Austria. The experienced border guard would therefore like to check on the Internet whether one can digitally register and upload the passport before entering the country. Then everything would go a little faster. On the corresponding page oesterreich.gv.at it says: “Attention! The information on this page is currently out of date. The page is (!) Currently updated and corrected online soon ”.
O you digital Austria.
PS: The contact tracing, the issuing of notices, the various registration procedures for vaccination and testing work extremely well. That too has to be said once.