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DER SPIEGEL:
»The German government's corona warning app is celebrating its birthday. It has been in operation for a year now and the application was not exactly a successful project from the start. We now want to ask in Hamburg: What do people think of the app and do they still use it? "
"Do you know what's celebrating its first birthday this week?"
Passers-by in Hamburg:
"First birthday?" "I have no idea." "My nephew?" "A Corona summer."
DER SPIEGEL:
“Definitely the right direction. The federal government's corona warning app. "
Passers-by in Hamburg
? "People ... Jo, and" "Yes, yes, now that you mention it, I remember." "Gosh, that I would not have thought of. I do have it. But I didn't know that they'd been around for so long. " " Oh, look at the ones that we all loaded up and then thrown down again. "
DER SPIEGEL:
"Is that the case with you?"
Passer-by:
"Yes."
DER SPIEGEL:
"Did you install it?"
Passers-by in Hamburg:
»No, not at the moment. I had it, but not anymore. ” “ I didn't want another app that tracks what I'm doing. ” “ I've never used it. ” “ Yes, I have it and I'll look it up too. ” "Occasionally I have to be reminded, but I actually check it out almost every day."
DER SPIEGEL:
"Did you install it?"
Passer-by:
“Yes. But that doesn't do much here in Hamburg. "
DER SPIEGEL:
"Why not?"
Passer-by:
"Because they all want the Luca app here."
DER SPIEGEL:
"If you have to check in somewhere, in a restaurant or something, how do you do it?"
Passers-by in Hamburg:
"With the Luca app." "Can you even use the Corona warning app for scanning and such?"
DER SPIEGEL:
"In the meantime, yes."
Passers-by in Hamburg:
"Oh." "So mostly via the Luca app."
DER SPIEGEL:
"But also via the Corona warning app?"
Passers-by in Hamburg:
“That rarely happens. Most actually work with the Luca app. In other words, relatively exclusive. ” “ I won't leave until everything is ready for me not to go through all this effort. ”
DER SPIEGEL:
"Have you had a crazy experience or a risky contact?"
Passers-by in Hamburg:
»Yes. The record was a year ago when I had, I think, twelve encounters, but without any high risk. But that was a moment when I thought: Oh, now it's getting serious. " " Then I heard something like this: someone lived at a bus stop and always had rashes. I've heard things like that. "
DER SPIEGEL:
“It was also a very expensive project. One speaks of almost 70 million euros. Do you think it was still important to do that. And how useful is this app? "
Passers-by in Hamburg:
»I find them very useful. I was glad I had something to hold on to a bit. ” “ But I think that's too expensive, definitely. ” “ I guess the money could certainly have been used more sensibly or differently with others Measures. ” “ And now I would say in retrospect: Maybe it wasn't so necessary because this new app was also made and it wasn't used at all. ” “ I think it could have been gotten cheaper, I think beautiful."
DER SPIEGEL:
»The Corona app is now just a year old and has had to take so much, a lot of criticism. What do you wish the app for its birthday? «
Passers-by in Hamburg:
"Yes, of course I wish her many users, no question." "Perhaps I wish her to pick us up again somehow that we all quickly threw her out again." "I want the app that it can become a constant companion in spite of the critics. Above all, now also as proof of vaccination. ” “ That Corona is going away and that you no longer need such apps. That would be stupid for the app itself. ” “ But I don't think it'll work anytime soon. We will definitely celebrate our second birthday. "
