This evening I am, once again, at home by myself, as my wife, Frau Dr. K is at the local hospital making sick children better. To further the funk that I feel, Switzerland is in the midst of its second national lockdown which started just the week before Christmas.
The darker the region, the more cases therein. Granted this second lockdown is not as extreme as our first lockdown 17 March — 3 May nor as restrictive as the regulations by our neighbours Austria and Germany, but still what activities that might give me incentive to go to St.
Gallen cinemas, bars, restaurants are all denied to me at this time. As of 19 December , there have been 1,, confirmed casesm 1,, recoveries, 33, deaths. Corona virus cases Covid cases in Germany. On this day in Felix Manz became the first casualty of the edict making adult baptism punishable by drowning and the first Swiss Anabaptist to be martyred at the hands of magisterial Protestants.
A Reformed minister went along, seeking to silence him, and hoping to give him an opportunity to recant. The King walked up the steps to his rooms at the Trianon, where he found he was bleeding seriously. As of 10 April , there have been 2,, confirmed cases, , recoveries, 64, deaths. Oh, to be in Harbin, China, equidistant from both the Russian and North Korean borders, to attend the largest ice and snow festival in the world!
The festival is probably cancelled and I am not certain whether I could fly there even if I wanted to because of either Swiss restrictions or Chinese restrictions.
