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On Wednesday, the Federal Council will adopt measures against Covid-19. With this in mind, there was an ultrashort consultation between the cantons. AZ has the Aargau statement signed by Director of Health Jean-Pierre Gallati at the Directors of Health Conference (GDK).
He says: “If the Federal Council, like the GDK board of directors, thought that several cantons are no longer capable of making the necessary and correct decisions, it would have to reorder the extraordinary situation. The events of the past week confirm this. “
Strict with alcohol, more complacent with the mask.
The Aargau calls for a ban on the sale of alcohol in restaurants “across the street” and in stores between 8 pm and 5 am Especially on weekend nights, there are large concentrations of adolescents and young people in the city centers, “which are uninhibited by alcohol and do not comply with Covid regulations.”
In public space, a mask requirement should only apply, according to Aargauer’s statement, “if the required distance of 1.5 meters is not maintained during long-term contact.” The mask requirement described in this way should generally apply in public spaces, even outside the settlement area. Gallati gives an example of a group in the forest that walks and does not keep their distance. Then they also have to wear masks.
Many quarantine cases due to bars and clubs
If you do it that way, you don’t need to specify what counts as a settlement area. Also, biking or jogging in general is not subject to the mask requirement. Even in rigid France, with the mask requirement in Paris (as well as Brussels) already in place at the end of August, cyclists and runners are deliberately exempted from this because they are prevented from breathing: “And those who do not live at the end of the settlement have to trot through the settlement first, and that does not work with a mask. “
Furthermore, Aargau wants the operation of bars and clubs to be banned, the furniture of which consists of counters and standing tables, and where it is therefore clear that mandatory seating allocation cannot be implemented. It has been shown that there is a high risk of infection in such establishments. Gallati: “Bars and clubs tend to cause a very high number of quarantine cases, which places an excessive burden on contact tracing.” Incidentally, it would be unfair to set barriers so high for bars and clubs that this industry can no longer be operated profitably, they say.
Many cloth masks do not offer enough protection for other people and for you, it is said. Therefore, clear specifications about the quality of the masks should be included in the explanations.
Better a fine than a sanction?
The statement also indicates that the consistent execution of the appropriate measures to aggravate the situation presupposes that in case of non-compliance with the measures, criminal sanctions are foreseen and that the criminal response to non-compliance follows the misconduct. This immediacy only occurs if the offense can be punished with a fine.
A sanction order, which, due to the system, can only be issued days or weeks after the offense, is, as regards compliance with the measure, ineffective. According to current regulations, failure to comply with the measures is only partially punishable. The Aargau requests that the existing gaps be closed: In addition, it is requesting the reintroduction of the sanctioning instrument for fines.
The Berne draft provides a maximum limit of 50 people for public events. Political assemblies of the legislature at the federal, cantonal and communal levels are excluded from this. The Aargau requests, Gallati writes, “that the parliaments and assemblies of those who have the right to vote of the state ecclesiastical corporations may meet.”
According to the will of Aargau, the current regulation that restricts the number of people in large events will be maintained. The regime, which has been in force since 1 October, has “proven its worth in all cantons, and there have been no proven infections with the new corona virus in Aargau.”
What about the masks at school?
If the Aargau has its way, the following should apply: The mandatory use of masks should also apply in schools and other educational and care facilities. Children up to 12 years old (kindergarten and primary school), as well as specific settings (eg dyslexia lessons, individual nurseries) should be excluded.
However, adults in compulsory school and secondary level II schools and children in secondary level I must wear a mask if Aargau has his way. “Situations where wearing a mask makes teaching very difficult” should be excluded.
