'People need mountains': Swiss ski resorts buck Alpine lockdowns

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Blue skies over the Matterhorn drew skiers and snowboarders to Zermatt on Saturday, as well as police to break up crowds, as Switzerland's modest coronavirus restrictions allowed near-normal operations while other Alpine resorts keep their lifts shut.

ZERMATT, Switzerland - Blue skies over the Matterhorn drew skiers and snowboarders to Zermatt on Saturday, as well as police to break up crowds, as Switzerland’s modest coronavirus restrictions allowed near-normal operations while other Alpine resorts keep their lifts shut.

“If it’s open, I’ll definitely ski,” said Swede Max Ahlstedt, on the glacier where Zermatt offers year-round skiing. “You just have to ... accept wearing a mask.” Some Swiss resorts, including Davos to the northwest, boast of “cold-fogging” equipment to blast the interiors of gondolas and “kill 99.9% of viruses, bacteria and spores in a minute”.

 

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but do mountains need people? stay home & healthy.

People need coffins

One of (if not) the worst bugs my entire family caught was at a ski resort. I think we were in the lodge a grand total of ONCE. No thanks....

Exactly mountains not ski resorts

Honestly skiing sounds fine if you can follow all the guidelines. The problem with that is well...people following guidelines.

skiing is an outdoor social distanced activity. If measures taken on lifts lines & cleaning. Keep em open

Great. The first 5 cases in my city all returned from skiing trips to Italy. Let's do that again!

People need a vaccine, assholes.

People need to stay the fuck home

It's like a millionaire chicken pox party.

Good idea! Your hospitals are out of ICUs beds. You're thinking of preventing covid skeptics from having access to ICUs, by law. Why not open a few ski resorts?!?!

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And at the same time Swiss finance minister: I made the decision weighing commodities, health vs economy. And I am happy with the choices we made. 3575 people died of Covid 19 in Switzerland 😔🇨🇭

I need food and shelter, thanks.

Yes, we do.

Well the mountains aren't going anywhere are they? Selfish idiots, just stoppit for 1 year ffs!

I live in the French alps, haute savoie, 30 km from the Swiss border. Covid is hitting us hard, and our neighbors are doing fuck all... And we die.

Not in my part of the world. Here people need food & security...

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