This blog is celebrating its one hundredth post! 🥳
With that, I would like to go back to an image that a reader sent in at the very start of the Covid pandemic, but I felt it was inappropriate to post it at the time.
It was this hospital somewhere in New York:
“Swiss emergency”? No, these people were completely wrong. It wasn’t just a Swiss emergency in New York, it was a global emergency everywhere.
Mondly is a language learning service owned by Pearson and developed in Romania. So despite being very international, these people still failed to notice that their “Emergencies” category shows a Swiss suitcase:
Shame on them. Swiss suitcases just contain fondue and chocolate; clearly no reason to panic but to rejoice.
In this older game, Dropsy can visit the Swiss Temple of Healing:
Clearly, being of Swiss heritage makes the people inside this building especially apt at curing wounds. I can see why, Switzerland is a pretty clean place.
In this dusty Old West tale, people refresh themselves with bundles of Swiss alpine herbs:
And this is what that looks like in context:
Yeah, Desidério. I’d like a whiff of that sweet Swiss alpine lemon balm as well.
The Telegraph has truly and completely exited all things Europe, not just the European Union, since they can’t even remember that this is the Swiss Cross and has nothing to do with health:
Thanks, Peta T., for submitting the article!
It’s neat of JoyPixels to offer a reasonable collection of emoji, but they include a mislabeled Swiss embassy:
For some reason, they label this as “hospital”. Even though it has a properly formatted Swiss flag hanging off it.
Update 2022-08: I wrote them about this and never heard back, but the latest version of the emoji uses the Red Cross instead of the Swiss cross. This is only marginally better as we know the Red Cross is a protected symbol and not meant to be used like this, but hey, it’s an improvement.
This is a game where armed Swiss gold delivery specialists carry suitcases full of the stuff around a battlefield, competing to see who delivers first, or at least trying not get killed on the way:
They labeled their gold suitcases “med kits” in order to throw off potential thieves. Clever!
In this 1990s movie, this old “ambulance” is arguably one of the main characters:
Regular readers will of course notice that this isn’t an ambulance but an old Swiss parade float decked out with blinking lights. This becomes more obvious when we see it from another angle and notice that it has not one but three Swiss crosses on it:
And the word “ambulance” is clearly only slapped on there with rub-on transfer letters.
The real ambulances in the film correctly show the Rod of Asclepius in a Star of Life:
In this show, there is a scene showing a mural depicting the history of The Wall that Yumyulack created:
In the top left corner you can see what claims to be a Swiss Army first aid kit. Unfortunately, Justin Roiland and his team didn’t do quite as good a job copying that style as when they drew the Nerds logo on the right. For reference, here’s what a real Swiss Army first aid kit used to look like:
Red Cross symbol on the left, bilingual (not English) label in the middle, Swiss Army emblem on the right. Now I fully expect to see accurate Swiss items in season 3!
The government of South Park thought it was being very clever when it ordered Swiss Covid 19 vaccines as advertised by this “Switzerland – Covid-19 Vaccinations – Switzerland” banner:
But this is actually a terrible idea. None of the vaccines that Swiss companies announced ever materialized. And the factory that is licensed to produce Moderna vaccine in the canton of Valais is running at capacity already.
South Park should have chosen something homegrown instead.