People like you should stop suggesting the whole time that if you're not in favour of fully opening up society it automatically means that one wants as little deaths as possible and a full lock-down. Such tiresome everlasting bull-shit in this topic.

The new Roche test looks promising...

MAY 3, 2020 / 1:12 PM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO
'ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche aims to more than double production of its new coronavirus antibody test to “significantly more than” 100 million tests a month by the end of the year, the company’s diagnostics unit head said on Sunday.

The Swiss company won U.S. emergency use approval for the test that relies on taking intravenous blood draws. Roche said its test has a specificity rate of more than 99.8% and sensitivity rate of 100%, figures indicating very few false-positive tests and no false negatives.'
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-r...-idUSKBN22F0G6

Well if you want to talk about Switzerland specifically then you might mention BAG, like worldometers, reported no deaths today and only 88 new cases.
I add pics and links to graphs and articles that illustrate and support my views to both add interest and credibility.

I will take your claim "other articles that would say the opposite" with a pinch of salt until you link to them so I can read them.

Are some people still rumbling about lock down and second/third wave?

Waiting on the first wave that never came we barely topped the numbers on a bad flu year...in the mean time a lot more people will be or were affected by the lock down

C'mon folks, with lock down officially over next week it's about time to stop the panic and continue your lifes without fear...

Next time you search for a blue zone parking in Zurich don't complain if you have to walk for 5 minutes...

SWISS is parking 7 of its jets in Amman, Jordan due to no parking space at ZRH (I imagine!)

https://www.20min.ch/fr/story/pourqu...e-365722169174

I hear ya!

It's the same with condoms by the way. They're a complete rip off!

Not a single pregnancy since I/we started using them!

The surfers code. Dont take the first wave of the set because the second is always bigger

Fear God, families and bunches of teens do need a place to hang out

In just 8 weeks barely topped the numbers on a bad flu year, disappointing!

Continue your lives without fear? But the coronavirus has not disappeared.

You are not being fair here, the warnings about that wave that would collapse hospitals were made mostly end of March and if I am not mistaken even right before Easter, with the current measures already in place. Definitely not before measures were applied.

If you'd be correctly you'd remember that we installed all the measurements to avoid the healthcare system from being overrun. So surely the warnings must have been from before the measurements.

unless he's trying not to get fired by Trump

shit, I hate intravenous

Well now they're saying Italy's borders are likely to stay closed for at least a year
We own a nice holiday apartment by the sea in Liguria and can't even get there!

Social distancing measures could be around for years.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/virus-o...ears-/45733710

Weird actually. We live on an overpopulated planet, yet the key long-term plan is focused on saving 1-2% of the population.

Killing the generations that already "produced" is not really going to help against overpopulation.

29.03.20, post #5601:

05.04.20, Alain Berset:
"Wir sind noch weit davon entfernt, die Lage unter Kontrolle zu haben"
"Erst wenn wir den Gipfel überschritten haben und die Fallzahlen sinken, werden wir in eine neue Phase übergehen können"

I am not criticising any of them, in fact what Kally said was unfortunatey very right: the number of deaths at the time was nothing compared to the figures now, and the peak in hospitalizations or ICU beds was reached on the 02.04. and 03.04. respectively. As for Berset, it is reasonable that on the 5th he still wanted to be cautious.

The measures where taken to flatten the curve, we wanted to flatten the curve to avoid hospitals being overrun. And those warnings of such wave were the cause of the measurements.

That you seem to think otherwise and even state that no warnings of overrun hospitals where given before we took measurements is utterly weird, that you think that what you posted supports your idea is even weirder.

IIRC ICU capacity in February was ~800 beds, with a relatively quick expansion to more than 1000. Some 2000 ICU beds are available today. The models predict that this capacity will be fully used if there's a next wave and if it has R0~1.5. Whether everything else would suffice remains to be seen, especially drugs needed for the ICUs.

March 13: Health system faces collapse like in Italy

March 9: Hospitals may collapse

Switzerland is opening - only the elderly remain isolated
The over 65-year-olds still have to wait for easing. Many withdraw and become lonely. Now they are resisting their exclusion. The people in elderly nursing homes are being imprisoned. Its called false imprisonment!!

https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/die-sch...t-592124565676

Tessin is the worst in this respect!! But again Tessin is anyhow out of touch with the world