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The buffet offers Braumeister ham and Mutschli cheese, with crispy hash browns. The epidemic can ravage the valleys, but the »Zmorge« – Schwyzerdütsch for: Breakfast – in the restaurant at the top of Säntis is abundant.
Guests look at their dishes here, 2502 meters above sea level, through panoramic windows on the snow-capped peaks. Rock formations in six different countries can be seen from the Säntis when visibility is good – the view stretches across Switzerland to Germany, Austria, France, Italy and Liechtenstein.
In each of the five neighboring countries, the crown numbers are worrying. In almost all, with the exception of Liechtenstein, public life is subject to drastic restrictions even in the run-up to Christmas. Many Italians were not even allowed to leave their place of residence for weeks. Restaurants and bars are closed in Austria and Germany. In France, the promised easing was again postponed on short notice.
More recently, a Swiss died from the corona virus every 18 minutes.
Little or none of this applies in Switzerland, although the number of new infections here is three times higher than in France and twice as high as in Germany. More recently, a Swiss person died from the corona virus every 18 minutes. The nurses in the valley are “at the limit of their strength,” report the newspapers displayed in the restaurant on the summit. The heads of five university hospitals warned of a “collapse of the health system” in a letter to Health Minister Alain Berset on Sunday.
