All of Graubünden is testing for Corona in schools. Except for Zernez, where the president of the school board causes delight and horror at the same time with a comparison of tooth decay.
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–A student at the Protestant Middle School in Schiers sticks a tube for the rapid antigen test
Photo: Gian Ehrenzeller (Keystone)
Rand 1,600 people live in the remote village of Zernez in the wide valley floor of the Engadine. Most speak Romansh and are called ils magliachognas, too Deutsch «Dog eater». The village is currently not doing this because of its somewhat bizarre nicknamess Headlines.
It is sind dthe coronavirus and how to fight it, the helped the village to unwanted fame at 1474 meters. «The President of the Graubünden school board compares Corona with tooth decay», headlined «Look» and «20 Minutes» last week. In the meantime, Beat Schärer has become cautious when journalists knock on his door. The school president of the community likes to make phone callse Zernez no longer, he only gives his age about himself, is is 59. Schärer is very surprised at the violent reactions to a corresponding written request. But he would do the dentist comparison again: «Definitely.» Although this is overrated and twisted in publicorden you are.
The controversial dentist comparison
What happened in the mountain village? The school board, under the aegis of Schärer, informed the parents about two weeks ago that the Zernez community would not take part in the canton-wide corona tests. The school tests are voluntary in the canton of Graubünden, around 95 percent participate, according to the cantonal education department. School doctors complained in a letter to the editor that they were not heard. Teachers and parents were concerned. The Zernez school president wrote this in am Email among other things: «To keep your teeth healthy, do you also go to the dentist every week for a check-up?»
“Healthy children who still carry the virus will hardly pass it on to school because they are healthy.”
In a detailed interview with the «Engadiner Post» Schärer explains his considerations, which show that the matter had been widely discussed in advance. On the other hand, his idiosyncratic interpretation of the risk of infection shimmers through: «Healthy children who still carry the virus will hardly pass it on to school because they are healthyind.» That lasts scientific knowledge did not stand: Children and adults are very contagious at this stage.
But with his views he enthused many readers in the comment columns. There were many «Bravo, Mr. Schärer». One reader is delighted with the courage of the school president: «If only a lot more people in Iyour position along with ITheir common sense too Ihad courage, then we would not find ourselves in this sad, irrational fearful time.»
Don’t listen to all scientists
Schärer considers himself sensible and courageous, as he explains in his email correspondence with this newspaper: After all, it takes courage to get involved with the mainstream. And you don’t have to listen to all scientists, especially not to those the «talk about the mill of corona madness». Would he consider himself Corona-Scalled keptiker? His answer is as clear as his adherence to the decision made: «Corona-Skeptiker? Just because I don’t let all nonsense be tied up on my nose? No.»
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