It is a typical Friday afternoon at Vienna-Schwechat Airport. Numerous holidaymakers are waiting at the gates for their weekend vacation, business travelers for their flights home. Almost without exception, the passengers are wearing masks, although not all of them are wearing the FFP2 masks prescribed by the Austrian government. But then the travelers disembark from a plane coming from Cologne/Bonn via a gangway. The "mask picture" changes suddenly, because the vast majority of passengers coming from Germany remove their mouth and nose protection immediately after leaving the jetway. Only a few had worn the FFP2 mask prescribed by Austria, and even if they did: It felt like 90 percent had removed the obviously unpleasant part from their faces. The result is astonished looks from the departing passengers waiting to board. Of course, a young lady took the initiative and loudly pointed out to the travelers coming from Cologne/Bonn that FFP2 masks are mandatory here at the airport in Vienna. Only a very few people did this result in putting their surgical mask back on (almost no one had an FFP2). The vast majority ignored the advice and continued on their way to baggage claim without a mask. Police officers who were on a routine patrol were also not interested in the Cologne passengers without masks. One man, however, felt he had to lecture the young lady. Masks are now only required on airplanes, not in terminals. Karl Lauterbach had abolished this. He was German and the German regulations applied to him. A heated discussion developed about the fact that Austria is an independent country and that one should