According to Orbán, who criticizes the defense is attacking the professionals

“When you question the accuracy of an epidemiological decision on how and how to test, you are not attacking the government because it is not the government that decides. But they attack epidemiologists and physicians who otherwise constantly analyze data, develop procedures, and then make decisions for us. So the attack on the tests, the comments on the tests, are in fact an attack on epidemiologists. “

Viktor Viktor Orbán told members of the opposition in his parliamentary response on Monday. However, government experts have been criticizing the defense, including the evidence, for some time.

• Beatrix of Russia, an epidemiologist at the Ministry of Innovation and Technology, recently said that due to procedural and capacity restrictions, we conducted very little tests to identify those infected. This is demonstrated by the increasing proportion of positives in tests, well above the five percent recommended by the WHO.
• According to Ferenc Jakab, director of the government-created coronavirus research group, “we are hurtling towards our loss like a fast train.” He warned earlier this month, “if everything continues like this and more serious action is not taken,” the number of infections will increase dramatically. He also said that we have reached the end of our testing capabilities.
• Mathematician Gergely Röst, who also did analysis for the government, said in late August that the testing system and contact research were too slow.

Until now, the government has not relied on experts but on the decision of the people and the national consultation on defense. So did Secretary of State Balázs Orbán, who, faced with criticism from Ferenc Jakab, said that “there were such disturbances in connection with the first wave.”

In our previous article, a member of an expert group close to the government described the relationship between epidemiologists and the government as something that has become cynical, sometimes with experts smiling at meetings of operational tribunals.

At one point in his September opening speech, Viktor Orbán also stabbed them with the question, “It’s a matter of taste who believes in doctors and mathematicians.”