Now they concern themselves with how many people froze to death last winter. An entire mythology has been created around the issue: the government is hiding the facts, but they, the heroes, went to court and “sued for the information” so everyone can see how people freeze to death in this dictatorship. Every group has its own mythology – some are heroic, some are just Battles of Frogs and Mice. We simply call the latter ones deplorable fools.
An opposition site shouts in its title “After a long legal battle, we now finally know, how many froze to death in the country”. And they also reveal the number that between October 15, 2016 and March 1, 2017, 180 people froze to death. So this is the big news the authorities – clearly intent on freezing people to death – has been trying to hide all along.
All is fine and well, but digging into our memory chest we find that on April 13, 2017 another oracular site already published an article titled “By the end of March, 203 people froze to death in Hungary”. So what exactly was there to sue for, when said article already gave the number more than a year ago?
I think I’m beginning to understand. First, we publish the unequivocal news that so many people froze to death. Then we just wait for a year, start blaming the government for trying to obfuscate and then sue them to release the very same data we already published more than a year previously.
Also, another oracular news site looked into the statistics, which showed that from a low of 50 people frozen to death every winter in the 1970s, the number has been creeping up steadily to peak at 316 in 2003.
These figures disprove the underlying assumption that under the Orbán Governments the country freezes to death and is warm and cosy at other times. No matter. Next spring they will give us the casualties of the 2018 winter, subsequently sue for the same data to be released again. But we should accommodate them as we clearly understand that these wretched people also need something with which to occupy themselves.
