Meanwhile, Swiss government seems to have shifted tactics to just announcing decisions and then leaving it to an unspecified somebody else to figure out how to make them work.
For example, it was announced that starting april, each citizen has a right to 5 free self-tests a month. That seemed one of the more sensible ideas recently, after all if people could test themselves at home with little hassle a lot could be done to reduce the spread.
However, apothecaries are highly confused, since they have not yet received neither instructions about the procedure to claim refunds for those tests from the government, nor which tests exactly would be covered by that policy, nor do they have any idea where on earth the tests are supposed to come from, because they don't have any and can't get any.
You can go to the government website for guidance about how to get tested if you suspect you might have been infected, but when you try to follow that advice, you very quickly come to the realisation that it's pretty much impossible to get tested unless you have symptoms, and even then you might have to wait a while. They managed to make a complete mess out of things over the last 6 months, and the weird thing is that they're screwing up the easy parts the most.
I mean, sure, there's complaints about policy decisions on social distancing, lockdown rules etc, but then again it's almost impossible to get those right. But this stuff you can get right, and so far it looks like the idea is that "somebody else will take care of that, and we don't care who".
There were some testing centres in population hotspots. The government has announced that they are changing their strategy to more closely involve local doctors. So the testing centers are being shut down next month. Local doctors have no idea yet how exactly they're going to be involved in any future strategy, though.
Vaccine rollout has been a joke too. Government is almost bragging about how "39% of the most vulenarable group has already been vaccinated". This is bloody switzerland! If you're lucky that number boils down to a 5-digit figure!
For example, it was announced that starting april, each citizen has a right to 5 free self-tests a month. That seemed one of the more sensible ideas recently, after all if people could test themselves at home with little hassle a lot could be done to reduce the spread.
However, apothecaries are highly confused, since they have not yet received neither instructions about the procedure to claim refunds for those tests from the government, nor which tests exactly would be covered by that policy, nor do they have any idea where on earth the tests are supposed to come from, because they don't have any and can't get any.
You can go to the government website for guidance about how to get tested if you suspect you might have been infected, but when you try to follow that advice, you very quickly come to the realisation that it's pretty much impossible to get tested unless you have symptoms, and even then you might have to wait a while. They managed to make a complete mess out of things over the last 6 months, and the weird thing is that they're screwing up the easy parts the most.
I mean, sure, there's complaints about policy decisions on social distancing, lockdown rules etc, but then again it's almost impossible to get those right. But this stuff you can get right, and so far it looks like the idea is that "somebody else will take care of that, and we don't care who".
There were some testing centres in population hotspots. The government has announced that they are changing their strategy to more closely involve local doctors. So the testing centers are being shut down next month. Local doctors have no idea yet how exactly they're going to be involved in any future strategy, though.
Vaccine rollout has been a joke too. Government is almost bragging about how "39% of the most vulenarable group has already been vaccinated". This is bloody switzerland! If you're lucky that number boils down to a 5-digit figure!