So it came out this morning (having seen this on N-TV news) that there is political chatter about MASSIVE Corona testing coming (at least in discussion).
The aim?
It would not matter if you flew into Germany, drove into Germany, or rode the railway system into Germany....you'd be halted at some point in the process, and Covid-19-tested.
Bavaria's Premier-President....Markus Soder (now chief candidate for the CDU's replacement for Merkel) is now chatting about this idea of mass testing.
How this would work? Unknown, and it's probably three months away from some serious effort.
The airport testing is being worked out presently and most of the airports will be functional for tests within days. But having a testing center along railway entry points in the country, or road-entry points? You would be talking about a serious amount of infrastructure effort, and literally hundreds of 'stations' to accomplish this.
Who would pay for this? Unknown. The general idea of airport testing has been laid out for the government or health insurance companies to cover. But if you were talking about some station in Kiefersfelden (below Munich) having 3k cars a day cross over the border, and you'd stop each one, and commit to a test? Just having the personnel to run all of these airport, railway or road-entry points? You'd be committing to some manpower deal of a 20k people.....to make it work.
Then the question would come up.....would they halt you at the border and refuse you entry.....sending you back into Austria or Poland, but they could refuse you entry and just stick you into some no-man's land because you don't hold their citizenship either.
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