WEEK 2 - Where are we going from Here - To Power

Hungarian President Victor Orban's Power Grab to Fight the Virus.Some Fear Other Motives.

(Picture Wikimedia Commons) Prime Minister Viktor Orban can now rule by decree. Doctors worry he won’t use that power to improve the country’s coronavirus response. "New restrictions on journalism that the government deems fake and harmful to the coronavirus response have made it harder to research the scale of the pandemic in Hungary. Many doctors are now reluctant to speak out publicly about specific problems, individual hospitals have been barred from releasing information, and journalists are warier of publishing it.But beneath the veil of silence, there are indications that the situation may be graver than records show. The coronavirus may have begun to spread through the Hungarian population nearly a month ago, in a process technically known as community transmission, according to a secret readout written by a foreign diplomat who had been briefed in early March by the country director for the World Health Organization, Dr. Ledia Lazeri. The readout was later obtained by The New York Times." New York Times April 5, 2020