For A Covid Test, How Long Would I Wait?

 Over the past six weeks....there's been nightly news pieces done by ARD/ZDF (public TV in Germany).....over Covid, and they generally feature 3 standard video 'shots'.

Shot #1: at least three people getting jabbed up in the arm.....sometimes old folks, but lately, it's been adolescent kids.  

Shot #2: nurses filling up the syringes.  

Shot #3: long (extra long) lines of people at test centers.  We aren't talking about 10 or even 20.....but some of these lines get to sixty-to-eighty people.

I sat there and asked my German wife....if she had symptom and had the 'pass' from the doctor for the test.....how big a line was she willing to 'stand' (considering she should be feeling kinda sick already from Covid)?  She responded five-to-six people.....beyond that, she'd refuse to test.

I have more patience than my wife.  I'd be willing to stand there with a dozen folks in line.  The idea of twenty or even fifty folks in front of me?  No.....I'd go home.

I live in a village on the outskirts of Wiesbaden.....which has it's own commercial center for tests.  The modular building operation?  Originally, for the first 18 months....was run by some Turkish gal (we can call her 'Ece' (meaning queen)).  Ece ran a smooth operation and could run through twenty people in one hour with no problems.  I will admit, I thought Ece was making a ton of money because she had a fully loaded brand new Audi A4, with the six-star paint job by the 8th month of operation.

Lately, it's been some 18-year old Turkish kid, who is ultra-polite and working hard for his customers.  

In the 40-odd times I've been there for a Covid test....the most people in front of me has been around six.  When I left the test center one day.....there was some Turkish wedding group that arrived, and there must have been fifty-odd people standing there to be tested for the wedding.  

My question for this waiting business....is it really good or healthy for a sick Covid guy (say sixty years old) to be standing there in freezing temperatures....for 75 minutes....to wait for a test?