The COVID-19 pandemic had the world in its grip from its first appearance at the end of 2019 in the Chinese province of Hubei (Pollak et al. 2020a) until May 2023, when the WHO no longer classified the pandemic as an international health emergency (Willems 2023). Internationally and nationally, different measures were taken to combat the pandemic, leading to controversies about the right way. In Austria, there were hard and light lockdowns, face masks, social distancing rules, 2G and 3G rules, Green Pass, home office, homeschooling, traffic light system, step plan, quarantine, vaccination obligation, and others. Since guidelines were used either in parallel or overlapping and were lifted and later reinstated due to improvements in the situation, it is not always possible to assign the measures in time retrospectively. The following is a brief chronology of the pandemic in Austria to provide insight into the events, so that the findings in the following chapters are clearer. It should be mentioned that the events presented do not claim to be complete, but the focus is on those aspects that serve the understanding of the empirical findings from the “PARS” project and thus make decisions and feelings in the case studies more comprehensible. A detailed list can be taken from the Corona Blog of the University of Vienna from the project “Austrian Corona Panel Project” (Kittel et al. 2020), which the selected excerpts from the overall chronology refer to.