Hungary PM Orbán makes extraordinary COVID-19 announcement
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has made an extraordinary announcement on Wednesday regarding the coronavirus and the measures adopted to fight its spread. Unfortunately, we don’t know what he was talking about because he chose to go live on Facebook - not public television or public radio! -, only the live feed had no sound.
His countenance suggests he has not delivered good news. Maybe he felt ashamed for starting the live feed some 20 minutes later than he said he would. Who knows?
We’ll have to wait a bit longer for him to appear on public television.
However, some other highly important information was shared on the news programme of M1, namely that the number of religious programmes will be increased. Thank God!
At 15:48 an anchor on public televison (operating on HUF 85 billion of taxpayer money in 2020) explained that too many people (hundreds of thousands) clicked on Orbán's Facebook page that crashed as a result and that is why there was no sound.
The link to the 'silent movie' has been removed since and only its promo is visible.
Update: Shortly before 4 P.M. the video was uploaded to Orbán's Facebook page - with sound!
Update 2: The video (with sound) was uploaded to Orbán's FB page. Here's what he has announced:
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