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The crown federal task force would like a step-by-step plan with predefined measures, and it meets resistance.
The situation of the crown has changed rapidly in recent weeks, the number of cases has increased considerably. However, the federal government and the cantons took a long time to impose new measures. That does not have to be the case, says the Corona Task Force and proposes a step-by-step plan that provides predefined measures according to the situation of the epidemic.
Prevent the “storm”
Some countries already have such systems. For example, a kind of traffic light that jumps from green to orange and red when the number of cases reaches certain values. Some countries also combine these traffic light levels with specific measures, such as a general mask requirement.
The crown federal task force believes that Switzerland also needs that stoplight, combined with previously defined measures. «Federal President Sommaruga spoke of a ‘Gstürm’. You can prevent that from happening, ”says Taskforce member Matthias Egger.
With a traffic light system, the measures would not have to be discussed first if the numbers were to increase. Because they are already fixed in the plan and the public and companies know from the beginning what to expect.
See the holistic picture
Thomas Steffen, a cantonal doctor from Basel-Stadt and a member of the board of the Cantonal Doctors Association, does not believe in such an action plan.
“We try to see the picture in a holistic way and adapt the measures to this holistic vision. And you can’t really put that on the traffic lights, “he said yesterday at the federal press conference. No one would have understood it if the measures had already been tightened in summer due to a system of traffic lights.
Egger, a member of the task force and an epidemiologist, sees it differently. “That statement surprised me a bit. Because we actually missed it during the summer to keep the mattress we deserved. “
“We already spent it in the summer and then in the fall we became very vulnerable to the great second wave that we are experiencing.” So: Better to tighten up the measures a bit earlier than experience the big shock later, Egger says.
Conversations have already taken place
However, Stefan Kuster from the Federal Office of Public Health also rejected a predefined plan of measures at yesterday’s press conference.
Egger of the Task Force thinks it’s “amazing.” Discussions have already taken place with the BAG about such a plan: “In fact, it was decided there that it would be carried out.” The “Gstürm” is not over yet.
