Only essential shops open (but I think they’ll remove the opening hours restrictions), 5 people max, work from home mandatory (which is a much stronger language than previously), masks mandatory at work if there’s more than one person in the same area.
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At least this time it seems like they’re trying to be ahead of the curve. One striking thing they mentioned is that while the overall number may look good (even decreasing in some cantons), if you slice by variant there’s an ongoing exponential: the British variant cases are doubling every one or two weeks.
So while that increase is not visible in the global number of infections, if you don’t do something now, by the time it gets visible in the top line numbers (e.g. they become >10% of total infections), it might be already too late to contain it.
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Since I work from home for almost a year now, do my family members need wear masks too because it’s “at work” xD
EDIT: What I really don’t get is why they don’t close the ski ressorts too, sure nobody gets infected in the open space but you could also argue about that for small stores with only a handful of visitors… Also who had the brilliant idea to let British tourists into Switzerland during an ongoing Pandemic where UK was hit almost as bad as Switzerland…
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The authority who decides to close the ski resorts has to pay for it. Nobody seems to be ready for it as of now.
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In the meantime the SNB is making millions.
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Ski and schools are the blindspots of the current measures.
I think you could make schools safer by mandating masks for the smaller children and homeschooling or halve classes.
Halve classes are quite effective, you can expect a ~70% reduction in transmission with it.
Barber shops stay open. 
In March they had to close.
It‘s not a lockdown. One can leave home for non-essential reasons. Stupid media just use lockdown, and even hard lockdown. Ask for example France, Spain and Argentina what a hard lockdown is. It‘s a shutdown or slowdown.
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Glina,
Do you know what had happened recently to TUI, suddenly in my DEGIRO account two days ago a warrant appeared and now it has become again a share named TUI AG BZR.
Thanks for sharing knowledge.
Cheers!
They annouced a rights issue. As a shareholder, you can sign up to buy additional shares at EUR 1.05. I’d buy that :-). Similar situation happened with Rolls Royce (rights at 32p per share, current price is 110p).
Thanks @glina. But I am a bit confused. At the moment I have like below in my portfolio, shall I do anything else to get the rights? The first one TUI AGI = DE000TUAG000
Thanks for your support 
I think you’ll get a message from IB with instructions and a reminder on how to access the corporate action.
Thanks! I am currently trading in DEGIRO and yes I got an email. My difficulty is to understand what’s the meaning of what’s happening with TUI. Why do I have at the moment 2 different shares and what means what they are offering me to do. Thanks again for the help!
One is the rights issue, other is the remaining stock. You can buy additional shares (I think it’s 25 shares at 1.05 EUR for 29 owned at the time of corporate action). I’m not sure if you are allowed to sell your rights on Degiro if you don’t want to participate in the new issuance. It was possible on IBKR. Try googling for it. You should be able to subscribe for the discounted shares and if I were you I’d buy as many as allowed (you will of course need additional capital for that).
Thanks. I have already subscribed to the maximum. Does this mean one of 2 lines of TUI will dissappear and by the end of January 22nd I will have one line for TUI?
Yes, you will only have one position in TUI at the end of this. Be ready for some rollercoaster in prices.
I’m reading more and more mentions of reinfections (as well as anecdotal evidence), I hope people who had it in the past don’t assume they’re immune now.
I think that they are assuming this because it seems to be the case as said by recently studies. I’ve got it at the end of october and I’m persuaded that I’m immunitized against it.
However, I don’t know if I’m immunitized against the variant so i’m sticking with the rules (social distances, masks, and clean my hand).
Thinking that you have superpowers because you were infected is totally stupid…
So at yesterday’s press conference (14.1) they at last gave a number = 66’000 have been vaccinated in total (by what date is unclear, let’s assume 13.1.)
That’s about 0.8%.
The first delivery was 100’000 doses in December (with more soon), so it’s not that the available doses are limiting at the moment.
Not too impressive for a small country and behind most other European countries.
Out of interest (to see queues and how fast they are moving) I went past the main Vaccination Centre in Basel Stadt on Tuesday at 13:30. Big Emptiness / No-one about and a big sign saying “we re-open at 14:00”.
66k or 70k a day may be possible (doubt it resp. very ambitious) if supply lasts. As long as there are not enough doses available, I don‘t see the point in discussing the max. number.
The doses that get delivered are distributed among the cantons and I would assume used up rather quickly. To show that one could vaccine 66k or 70k people a day would require that many doses available & those people actually lining up „chinese-style“ in the vaccination centers.
Let‘s be more patient until more doses are delivered.