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Two days after the Bern cantonal government surprised Sport-Schweiz when it decided to allow up to 1,000 fans to enter the stadiums, Bern’s governing council and health director Pierre Alain Schnegg (58) and Marc Lüthi they met at the club at SRF on Tuesday night.
And the head of SCB is still in power, he attacked Schnegg on his second vote. The fact that the clubs were informed only five minutes before the announcement was “indecent and snobbish”, says Lüthi and rants further: “An elected representative of the government did not consider it necessary to talk to his people. That’s what bothers me! “Lüthi wants to go ahead and move on to contact tracing, but interviewer Barbara Lüthi cuts her off to give Schnegg a chance to respond.
The Bern health director tries to defend himself: “We have always communicated that the color of the traffic light system can also change.” Lüthi: “From yellow directly to red?” Schnegg says yes. The Berne governing council emphasizes that action must be taken now. “We only have a brief moment where we can still do something.”
“You didn’t understand what that means economically”
The situation was discussed last Friday. “We discussed whether to do it immediately or wait for the decision of the federal government,” says the man from the Jura of Bern. And he tells Lüthi: “And during the press conference, if you listened carefully, Federal Councilor Berset made it very clear that the epidemiological situation must be monitored by the different cantons. And then they have to make decisions. We did that. “
The exchange of blows between Lüthi and Schnegg continues. In the canton of Bern, one is certainly not at the top when it comes to crown cases, intervenes Lüthi. “I don’t want to be on top,” Schnegg stopped. And Lüthi: “That is clear. We understand each other on the matter! We do not understand each other on the subject. We do not understand each other in communication. He has not understood what that means economically. “
After the exchange of blows between Lüthi and Schnegg, the other first-rate guests, the director of the BAG, Anne Lévy, the epidemiologist Christian Althaus, the cantonal councilor and family doctor Antoine Chaix and the doctor of the canton of Aargau, Yvonne Hummel, they abandon the role of public. Lüthi receives understanding from all sides for his frustration, which, however, does not help him or professional sports. In the matter, Lüthi receives no support and little reason for hope for the sport.
“When does the traffic light turn a different color?”
Then Lüthi wants to hear from Schnegg in the next round: “When will the traffic light be in a different color again?” The SVP politician responds: “As soon as the exponential growth breaks and we return to a stable situation. When we get back to an acceptable number of cases. “Lüthi wants to know exactly:” What is acceptable? “Schnegg says:” At least three times the number of cases in a week. A five-fold increase is not acceptable. “
Lüthi continues to emphasize that sports clubs now need state aid because they lose their income. And he still has a question: “We knew in the summer that we had to come up with concepts. What have the cantons and the federal government done in terms of locating contacts? It doesn’t work anywhere. Nothing could have been easier than building a powerful contact tracing organization in the summer. Why was it not built? “Schnegg admits:” We certainly didn’t make it big enough. We planned with 80 contact tracers and added an outside company to give us room for maneuver. And today, with 200, 300, 400 cases a day, that team is not big enough. That’s why we hired more people. Nobody expected it to happen so fast. ”
Marc Lüthi has the last word: “What bothers me about the whole exercise is that the financial aspects receive very little light”.
Lüthi fought for his cause, he brought emotions to the SRF Club, but he is only the winner after the game in Biel, the SCB winning 4: 3 before the show airs.
