The coronavirus pandemic did not deter the Swiss from sending echo yodels through their mountain valleys, yet a concert attended by another 600 people would have made a canton a European viral hotspot.
On the occasion of yodel last September in the rural canton of Schwyz, those who were provided were invited to a social distance, but dressed in a mask was not obligatory.
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“We can’t do anything about what happened to this yodels organization. We discovered nine days after the performances that several other people in the organization were infected,” the organizer of the Beat Hegner occasion told state broadcaster RTS.
Today, the pandemic has spread throughout the region, with 1,238 cases just 500 by mid-September.
On Wednesday, another 94 people tested positive, twice as good as the day before.
The crowded cantonal hospital asked others to start dressing in masks and meetings.
“There is an incredibly high rate of positive testing. We have 30 consistent cents to 50 consistent with pennies,” said hospital leader Franziska Foellmi.
“It’s time for us to react. The explosion in the schwyz issue is one of the worst in Europe,” medical director Reto Nueesch posted online.
The cantonal government has intensified infection measures, making it mandatory to mask more than 50 people in all public and personal demonstrations and in conditions where distance cannot be maintained.
But other people can still pass without covering their nose and mouth.
Switzerland is not the only country that practices yodel, a centuries-old taste to make a song in which the performer temporarily moves from one poster to another.
It is also practiced in the Austrian Tyrol region and in the variant bureaucracy through the mountains of Central Europe, from Poland to Romania.
Like archery, wrestling and alpine games, yodel has been one of the building blocks of a non-unusual identity among the culturally disparate regions of Switzerland since the 19th century.
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