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The number of cases is increasing and the cantons take turns tightening anti-crown measures. Zurich does not panic. OK so.
The district president Silvia Steiner (cvp.) Wants to end the “blind flight”.
Mobile phones vibrate. Push messages follow push messages: “Solothurn bans major events”, “Bern closes bars and clubs”, “Basel tightens the screw”, “curfew at 10 pm in the Jura”, “Vaud: no private meetings of more than ten people “. In between, updates on new case numbers in Switzerland, meanwhile, in the upper four-digit range.
It’s hard to keep a cool head in such a charged environment. The cantonal government of Zurich did it anyway. And this despite the fact that the media and political pressure to act has increased enormously in recent days. At the moment, the governing council is not taking hasty additional measures in the fight against the virus. He announced it on Friday.
Such a decision is unpopular and difficult to convey in the current heated climate, but it was still the correct one. The governing council does not excessively restrict economic and social life. Above all, it does not fall into a “frenzy”, as security director Mario Fehr (sp.) Put it.
The Federal Council recently adopted stricter measures. Many of them were already in force in the Canton of Zurich. Now it is a question of checking the effectiveness of the new rules, before new restrictions are imposed. A “blind flight”, as the district president Silvia Steiner (cvp.) Said, It does not serve anyone. For more clarity, testing capabilities need to be expanded further and processes need to be improved.
Tracking the chains of infection is still important, even if this becomes very difficult with the current high number of cases. Both contact tracing and testing infrastructure did not increase over time in Zurich. That would have been more important in Corona’s relatively quiet summer than over-restricting the business with a mask requirement that was still not very useful at the time.
It is true that important events will continue to be allowed for the time being. No one in the canton of Zurich has been shown to be infected at such a major event. This is thanks to well-developed and controlled protection concepts. In either case, consistent execution remains critical. What good are the stricter rules if they are not controlled by the authorities and do not have the support of the population due to the high level of exposure?
It is not so clear why the clubs in Zurich remain open. Earlier in the week they almost pleaded for a forced shutdown. Of course, with the second reason being financially compensated. The clubs’ proposal to temporarily convert their operations into test centers should at least be seriously considered. It is also important to be aware of the situation in hospitals. Here the situation is still “good”, according to the governing council.
Not everything is catastrophically bad. The fact that the government says this, do not panic and try to make decisions based on facts even in the current phase speaks for them.
