Time.news – “Ski resorts must be opened only to vaccinated people following the model of Austria. Yes to the green pass but not with the swab and vaccine even for children. I defend the winter season: last year in Switzerland the lifts opened did not lighten but not even aggravate the situation. “Thus in an interview with the Time.news, Valeria Ghezzi, president of the National Association of Cable Car Operators (Anef) on the season winter in Italy which in most of the districts should start between the weekend of 26-27 November and that of 4-5 December to reach full operation for the Immaculate Conception.
Where you can already ski
“In this period in Italy there are plants open unlike last year which were all closed. Now you can ski in Cervinia, in Val Senales and on Col Gallina above Cortina d’Ampezzo – says Ghezzi – In my opinion the green pass should enter the information if a person is vaccinated and its expiration date but today these data do not appear on the first screen of the application “.
The knots of the norm
Another critical issue is that relating to the control of the green pass. “The current rule is impossible to put into practice in the ski lift sector“, affirms Ghezzi who warns,” the ski slopes are not like going to the cinema or to a stadium where there is a control gate but they are free and who and how will check the passes? “.
Ghezzi asks questions, “with the cold the mobile phones are unloaded, the piece of paper with the snow crumpled and then, in which place are the passes checked? At the parking lots? At the tills? At the start of the lift? The risk of long queues and crowds would be very high “.
If the ski season actually begins, Ghezzi is fairly confident but cautious and awaits. “Now the infections are rising and this is not a good sign. The government must tell us how to proceed with the checks: I can only say that another canceled season would definitively kill the mountain economy which, on the other hand, must be safeguarded for everything that revolves around “.
“The vaccinated cannot pay for the unvaccinated minority because, if this were the case, the message would pass that the unvaccinated is right and it would not be right to beat people who try to work – says the president of Anef -. I am not yet aware of any ski lifts closures but the risk is there. Before closing a plant or an area, the public administration would intervene. “On the refreshments promised by the government, Ghezzi says,” there are not yet, there is a promise, we hope it will be kept “.
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