The EU has been working hard on idea of a Covid vaccination 'slip' (digital in nature) that you'd haul around on your smart-phone. They've been busy the past week or two....hyping up all their fine work and accomplishments.
I brought up to the German wife, and asked....what if you don't have a smart-phone? This got this stupid look but she readily agreed....probably 10-percent of German society doesn't have a smart-phone.
I looked it up. Statista says that 60.74 million Germans in 2020....had smart-phones. Total population of Germany? 83-million.
You can walk into any immigration or refugee center, and 99-percent have a smart-phone. You can step on a city bus at 7:15 AM, and find that 99-percent of the kids are chatting or texting on their smart-phones. You can ask most housewives shopping, and 99-percent of them have a smart-phone.
Now, if you asked about the old-style flip-phones or the plain 20-Euro cheapo phones, I'd take a guess that another 5 million Germans have that type (particularly the over 65-age group, and the non-technical types).
Last year, for some news documentary piece, they interviewed a 40-year old German who had no carry-around phone at all....refusing the technology and feeling more comfortable without connectivity. He admitted the laptop at home, but simply noted that life was pretty simple without the carry-around phone.
So all this effort by the EU for a digital slip that would be on your smart-phone....might not resolve everything? It's probably around 10-percent of Germans who just don't fit into the EU profile.
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