You don't need a pass to eat if a restaurant has an outside terrace in Italy. Is it the same from Monday in CH ?

People are WFH and there’s no international travel, nearly all company funded events has stopped.

Unless I misunderstood, I think he wants to get shot outside (indoor terraces, really?) and I fully support his last wishes, free choice for everybody etc. etc.

Unfortunately there are many ignorant people around i.e those that neither bother to inform themselves of the current situation, nor are willing to take measures to tackle it.

I believe thatI am not alone in thinking, that these people should be exiled to a field, living in tents, and living off their own produce.

I've had my own business for 6 years now and since the corona hysteria started my turnover for 2020 increased 300%. I've been really lucky my business niche to be one to strive during lockdowns and restricted travels, if somebody should complain, I should be the last person I basically didn't stop working during the lockdown in CH and I travelled extensevely even to the UK in March/April when the borders were still open and people were affraid to touch a door handle

My real life experience shows me that this is not the case for many businessses especially in the restaurant sector and most of them are on the verge of bankruptcy.

Even though indirectly and directly my business got an enourmous boost because of the covid measures I will always condem them as dangerous towards the general population.

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"FAQ is not binding."

In another thread you said you were moving from the UK, where the vaccines are totally free and you can even get them at walk in centres. Something doesn’t stack up.

What exactly doesn't stack up ? I moved 2 months ago. I'm not planning on going to the UK twice to get shots and quarantine for 20 days.

Each Canton's guidance would need to be checked. Here's the guidance for Basel-Stadt for example:


https://www.coronavirus.bs.ch/verans...eistungen.html
Gastronomie

Für Restaurations-, Bar- und Clubbetriebe, in denen die Konsumation vor Ort erfolgt, gilt Folgendes:

• Die Betriebe müssen bei Personen ab 16 Jahren den Zugang zu Innenbereichen auf Personen mit einem Zertifikat beschränken.
• Den Zugang zu Aussenbereichen können die Betriebe für Personen ab 16 Jahren auf Personen mit einem Zertifikat beschränken; sieht ein Betrieb im Aussenbereich keine Beschränkung des Zugangs vor, so muss zwischen den Gästegruppen entweder der erforderliche Abstand eingehalten oder müssen wirksame Abschrankungen angebracht werden. Die Gästegruppen sollten sich aber nicht durchmischen.

Quick translation:

No mention about toilets, which is an important ommision.



The restaurants and bars can restrict access to the outside areas to those with injection or test certificate (keeping in mind how complicated the implementation is for small businesses, if they try to track per person instead of broadly). If they don't choose to implement that, they have to either implement distancing between the groups of guests, or ut up barriers between groups of guests.

Thanks! That's helpful.

Luckily weather in Lugano is much better than elsewhere in Swiss.

Means I can keep enjoying my overpriced lunches.

If the worst happens, can always cross into Italy. Theyve had explosion in number of Sushi restaurants in last 2 years and I'm up for Asian food recently

It's not your freedoms being limited, it's actually freedom of gastro industry to serve whoever they want. They are the real victims and will take the hit.


Last year, during the lockdown, I've discovered new hobby - cooking. Never done before by myself to that extent, but started then and was having friends over on weekly basis. Then we made it a tradition, every week someone else was hosting and cooking for the whole group. We switched back to going out to the restaurants when reopened from practical reasons, but now already scheduled Friday evening rotas again.
Only one person from my group is not vaccinated (medical reasons), but none of us is willing to support this vax apartheid, so we revert back to meeting in our homes

If you allow your physical integrity to be violated through coercion you are not free by definition.

No surprises here.

Your queen was castrating males just 60 years ago for being openly gay, and I bet the likes of you were saying exactly the same words back then

But you don‘t cry about not having the flu shot either. So like schoggiwhatever said, no one cries about the flu shot.

Not only, no.


A library is a place some of our most needy go to for shelter, conversation, warmth, internet access, a place to sit and rest, a place to put heavy bags full of personal belongings down, and/or information. Many of our most needy will now not have access to libraries, and have no means of receiving the injection or testing, even if they wanted to.

Because I don't have to take it? I never have.

If coercion is attempted for taking the flu shot I'll react the same.

So you ignored the regulations, well done.

And what brings you to that conclusion?

Only one fold inside the brain

Well, I believe that most “thinking” people have been vaccinated.

Unfortunately there are the “others” in Switzerland, that enjoy the drama of this pandemic. We used to say that “they belong in “Burgholzli”.

Open worldometer coronavirus and type Sweden mate, you will be unpleasantly surprised