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The cantonal league caused surprising situations in the Basel region during the Corona crisis.
Some sports companies in Basel-Stadt reacted very quickly to the announced partial closure and moved their offer to the Basel area on short notice. The Grand Councilor of the SP, Jean-Luc Perret of Basel-Stadt, also experienced this last Friday. After training, the fitness trainer gave him the gym schedule in Frenkendorf in Basel. The reason for the change of location: Due to the continuous increase in the numbers of Corona, all sports facilities as well as bars and restaurants in Basel-Stadt must remain in Basel-Stadt as of Monday.
In fact, it would be a convenient alternative to switch to Frenkendorf for training, which is only ten minutes by train from Basel. Perret believes this is counterproductive to contain the corona virus. “In the end, twice as many people train in Frenkendorf than before and, in the worst case, they infect each other.”
However, since this weekend, many Basel sports clubs have been thinking of moving their training a few more kilometers to the Basel area. The swimming club of both Basel, for example, has been swimming in Basel-Stadt for a long time and strength training takes place in a gym in the Basel area. “In the current situation, that’s fortunate for us,” says sports director Beat Hugenschmidt.
Critical voices of politics are getting stronger
Partial stop in Basel-Stadt, open restaurants and sports facilities in Basel-Landschaft – Basel National Councilor Christoph Eymann (LDP) is upset: “It must not be that the situation in the two Basles is so divergent.” After all, it is impossible to credibly explain to someone why one pub across the street is open and the other on the opposite side is open. “We are a common economic area and common solutions must be found,” says Eymann.
There are several reasons why the two Basles go their separate ways when it comes to control measures, as research from the Regional Journal Basel shows:
- Personal: While Basel health director Lukas Engelberger (CVP) is known for preferring to tighten screws too much rather than too little, one could almost say the opposite of Basel health director Thomas Weber (SVP). Furthermore, Engelberger, who is currently also the Director of the Federal Conference of Health Directors, is under particular observation and wants to set a good example in this situation.
- Financially: In Basel-Stadt, people want and can afford a partial closure and the corresponding support money for troubled companies. In the economically worst part of Basel, people avoid such horrible expenses.
The great difference in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus is all the more incomprehensible since the situation in the two Basles is not so different. The R-value has been hovering a little over one in both cantons in recent weeks. Furthermore, an equally large proportion of the corona tests carried out in Basel-Stadt as in Baselland are positive, that is to say, just under 20 percent.
A look at the number of cases in the various districts of Baselland also shows that there is no deep crown gap between the cantons. The differences are significantly larger between the rural area of Upper Basel and the more urban area of Lower Basel.
Also, when it comes to treating corona patients, the two Basles work together more closely than any other canton in Switzerland. For example, two people from the city are currently being treated in an intensive care unit in the Basel area and four from the Basel area in Basel.
For the councilor of the SP, Sarah Wyss, president of the Health Commission, the pandemic is an example of how federalism is reaching its limits, especially in the health sector. “We need health regions where everyone is going in the same direction,” says Wyss. A finding that the bourgeois national councilor Christoph Eymann also shares.
