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Digital contact tracing appears as an ideal solution to tackle long-term economic damage due to necessary lockdown measures during a pandemic. This essay shows that the challenge of balancing citizen's health and a functioning society is not just coming up today. Commercial centres were already in the Middle Ages worried about their economic prosperity and adopted isolation measures. Although there are much more data available today, pandemic preparedness remains constrained by temporal and spatial realities, thus limiting public health management to the national state. Based on the examples of China and Switzerland, we elaborate on how individual and collective needs can be balanced differently regarding the implementation of a digital contact tracing system. While China's Health Code App is close to social surveillance, Switzerland has turned away from Europe to develop its own Swiss solution due to disagreement about data protection. It becomes clear that the attempts to properly balance public health and economic prosperity during a pandemic must be constantly readjusted and cannot simply be delegated to a digital technology.

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Digital risk distribution and COVID-19: How contact tracing is promoted as a solution to equilibrate public health and economic prosperity during pandemics