To some extent it’s protected here. For example in Valais, a ski school must have 20% patent instructors on the hill at any one time & you can only work as independent with a Swiss patent. But it doesn’t have the same problem as France & Italy. Brits are unlikely to get work permits in future if not already resident here though, despite qualifications.

However you dress it up, the ESF in France are well know for wanting rid of British instructors, Brexit (combined with Covid) has made this easier (lucky for them after last years court rulings). Don’t need to add to the reasons.

Are you certain they weren’t just running away?

Ah the Wengen Downhill Only Club - but yes, Leave UK campaingner, Wiggy von Trapp Wigmore did run away at Christmas.

The Brits copied the peasants who used skiing as a mode of transport- and turned it into a sport instead.

Do you think we could take the ski discussion elsewhere and keep this thread for COVID?
Please.

Agreed- but the original post about skiing was definitely related to Covid and stupid skiers.

Eastern European Front News: CZ Salvation Army is worried about homeless population, 1/5 could freeze to death, SA fears subzero temps more than Covid.

Actors are interviewed for media, a lot of them retrained - I read an interview with an actor turned public bus driver, he said he's fullfilling his childhood dream, he was very positive. Gov wants to reopen theaters at some point but starting at 20% capacity, the theaters want at least 50% audience allowed. I know it is a big struggle now here for actors, musicians, artists and other independent performers. We haven't sung nor played for eons.

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The Swedish prime minister said Thursday COVID infections continue at a serious level.
"The recommendation for the use of protective masks in public transport will be in force until spring,"
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Thats incorrect, the peasants did not ask for the mountain railway to run up the mountain so they could just ski down as a sport & NOT a mode of transport.

I remain skeptical that having a negative test prior to travel actually means anything or truly offers any level of "protection". But it's becoming the norm all over the planet.

All of the people who flew on chartered jets to the Australian Open had to have a negative test prior to boarding the plane. Yet now dozens are in quarantine after people from those flights have subsequently tested positive.

I'm also struggling with why tests are so bloody expensive here. Tourist destinations such as Sri Lanka are testing people for roughly 40 USD per test. The Swiss are charging 180 Francs for the same thing. You can do the home test for 162 I think, but you also have to give away a truckton of personal information.

I still don’t think it really belonged in this thread.

Since it related to stupid Brit skiers I think the Brits in Verbier thread would have been the best place for it.

700% of deaths among elders due to Covid-19 can be overcome with Vitamin
D3. Read:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...rid=1061620018

That's not what the article says. Emphasis mine. Lowering risk doesn't mean you overcome death.

Mercola?? You cite ****ing mercola as evidence, i’m all for cancel culture in this case, big pharma might be bad, but mercola is worse, we have to force companies to be responsible and get called communists, but if that pile of con artists is the alternative, call me komrade

Tthis is how we got to a bunch of yahoos trying to destroy democracy, we all think, ah ha, yeah, we can reason with them, but they stepped of planet rational decades ago and now sites just share their links like it’s equivalent to reality

If 100% of deaths were overcome with Vitamin D3 then no elders would have died, so what on earth does 700% mean?

Resurrection, obviously.

Not clicking only due to 7 fold increase in elders overcoming death. Shoddy

Scepticism about vaccinated people still being potential carriers of the virus.

BBC News - Vaccinated people may still spread the virus, says Van-Tam

CHF 25 around here.

Tom

Sky says lets make a TV drama out of the first wave of the Pandemic to hit the UK, starring Kenneth
Branagh as Boris Johnson.

New Sky TV drama, This Sceptered Isle