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The Bundesbern is raising the Corona alarm, but the mills of federalism are grinding slowly and official channels are long. The cantons hesitate to take stricter crown protection measures and just want to wait for the next Federal Council meeting on Wednesday. Meanwhile, individual members of the task force can no longer help but criticize the slowness of politicians and authorities.
Martin Ackermann, head of the federal scientific working group Covid, presented cautious criticism to the media on Friday. Every day counts. Now it is necessary to act immediately. With that, Ackermann spoke diplomatically. Waiting until next Wednesday does not have that long, it is said now from the working group.
On Twitter, working group member Christian Althaus, professor of epidemiology at the University of Bern, criticizes the “pointless waiting”. In a retweet to Federal Council spokesman André Simonazzi (52), Althaus emphasizes that it takes at least two weeks before the effect of a measure can be seen. You won’t see anything next Wednesday anyway.
“Political failure of Switzerland”
The numbers have been increasing for weeks, but “there are no responsibilities at any level.” Althaus speaks of the “total political failure of Switzerland”. He mentions the Zurich judicial director, Jacqueline Fehr (57), as an “amateur epidemiologist”, whose critical attitude towards the measures has proven to be of little help in containing the crisis in time.
Not enough for that Althaus takes other authorities to the car: “What is the Federal Commission for the Preparation and Management of a Pandemic really doing?” Asks the expert of the federal working group laconically, and means in one another tweet: “It’s five to twelve and wash your hands!” For four weeks, the number of cases has doubled every week. He and other experts had warned from the start. “But the politicians preferred to muzzle the scientists in the summer.”
Althaus also wonders about the Minister of Justice, Karin Keller-Sutter (56), who, according to the “Tages-Anzeiger”, first wants to know what costs the individual blocking variants cause: “Um, wouldn’t the Federal Council have six months to prepare these bills? “
Support from another expert from the working group
The epidemiologist Althaus receives help from another member of the task force: Nicola Low, an epidemiologist at the University of Bern. Althaus had warned, and no one listened to him: “If the words about Covid-19 from eight months ago are as relevant as these, we have not learned anything. Thank you Christian Althaus ».
To the speech of Health Minister Alain Berset (48) and Lukas Engelberger (45), the president of the Conference of Cantonal Directors of Health, Low tweeted: “The number of cases increased exponentially in the summer. Now they are increasing exponentially because then we did not act.
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