When the 'geniuses' dreamed up the mandatory Covid-19 tests at the Frankfurt Airport....they were second group, which lays out this curious mess that has developed.
Two small companies opened private testing around six weeks ago at the Frankfurt Airport....outside of the 'secure' zone of Terminal One (remember Terminal Two is still shut down. They were designed more so.....for people leaving the country to have a certificate to make the receiving country 'happy'.
Their business plan made sense.
About three weeks ago, when the mandated situation came along to test all Germans coming back from a 'hot-zone'.....a 3rd testing structure had to be added.
Naturally, you'd think about this and say if it's mandatory....it needs to be within the secure zone, so you exit a plane and after you hit the border-control folks....there would be this check-point where they'd ask where you came from, and then send you to the test-site (a meter away), or let you pass by.
Well....NO, that's not how this was organized....the mandatory test site is way outside of the secure zone.
So this whole thing came up now as a debate topic for German politicians.
They want the police involved, monitoring the arrivals, and it should all be 'secure'. They also say that the testing site has to be in the secure area of the airport. The odds that people are bypassing the current set-up? No one can say. Germans are usually hyped-up to follow the law.
The problem here, if you sit and think about it.....the same issue occurs along the border. You could have 300 cars a day returning from Turkey, and crossing the border daily into Germany. By the current mandate.....they are supposed to pull off upon crossing the border and submit the occupants of the car for a test. If you used a country road to cross from Austria into Bavaria....say at 5 AM? The odds are that no testing site would be there to greet you.
As each day passes, Covid-19 consumes more and more political discussions, and makes life just a little bit more complicated. It wouldn't surprise me in six months if people were getting tested an average of dozen times a month.
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