International Train Passengers Being Reviewed?

Well, this is what N-TV said about an incident over the weekend.

Austria halted a Brenner Pass train exiting Italy.  They came onboard and did a medical check of passengers. 

Two women had a slightly elevated fever and a cough.  No one says the nationality of the two.  The 'audit' people alerted on the two. 

Tests were done, while forcing the train to sit there.  Around four to five hours later.....the tests say no virus (probably just plain regular flu).  Then they allowed the train to proceed on.

Likely to be a regular event?  This is the problem that no one has openly discussed in Germany or the EU.

If you counted all the cross-border train trips on an average day, it's probably up to around a thousand.  Stopping a ICE-train (the high speed railway)?  People pay a significant amount of money to ride the train, and adding four hours onto it....won't be accepted that easily.

The other problem I see.....if you halted a train with 90 seats occupied in a car, and two folks get identified as having a fever and cough.....do you seriously think that 88 other folks on that car, or 300 additional passengers on the train....will just sit there for four hours, waiting on this stupid test to come back?  I'd be the first guy off that train, and walking away.

Tests being done at airports?  Not yet, but I can imagine within three weeks.....we will be at that stage, and it'll freak out passengers. 

Applying self-quarantine rules?  Watch production cycles slow down rapidly.  Ask the your local McDonalds manager how he can manage a 9-man shift, with only three people showing up.  Ask the Bahn railway folks how they can handle 30-percent of their personnel on some self-quarantine situation.  Ask the ARD nightly news folks how they'd handle the schedule with 50-percent of their folks on some self-quarantined situation. 

I see a bigger mess coming by mid-April.