Dear fellow citizens! For his part, those who do not cooperate do not have much legal basis for "pintering" - do they?
Trampling on the tracks, next to a well-functioning traffic light barrier (and semi-barrier) - "it's disgraceful that the trains are late on yet another line, the prime minister should leave!" . Life expectancy is not increasing at a sufficient rate - "dirty Fidesz, and if I'm already commenting, then:
Péter, please do something against mandatory screening tests, the dictatorship won't force me to do that!".
Eighth graders perform more and more disgracefully in reading comprehension - "typical! Ministry of Education, but immediately! and at the same time, we demand that smartphones be put back in the hands of children during school hours, because even though in the envied Netherlands, for example, there has been an improvement in focus and ability to concentrate in secondary schools that apply the ban, we do not read or interpret such news and studies, we only monomaniacally repeat that even in Hungarian lessons digital education is the first!".
It's really amazing how eagerly the Hungarian likes to wave the Midwestern standard when setting expectations, and how massively he loses sight of it when it comes to his own attitude.
Eurostat 's latest report, in 2022 (as in previous years), the highest proportion of people died in railway accidents in Hungary throughout the EU - a total of 75 people;
of which zero passengers, two railway workers, but 44 people who (not with suicidal intent) were unauthorized on the tracks or in their immediate vicinity
(including people running with earphones in their ears or young people taking selfies on top of the train), as well as 29 people who were hit by a train at a railway crossing (see last Monday's accidents or, for example, the prosecutor's indictment the other day regarding a case in February when the driver of a pickup truck - next to with his mother and minor child - he drove in front of a passenger train without slowing down while the light barrier was flashing red; luckily they all survived).
You can't even say that the state is at fault, because it doesn't even put a (semi) barrier next to the traffic light at every crossing:
every year more than 800 crash bars are broken by various vehicles because they are in the road when the road user is in a HURRY.
I myself would be happy if more trains moved at two or three hundred speeds through the Hungarian countryside - but with such traffic morale, even a solid FLIRT is a ready-made execution tool. The purchase of vehicles could also proceed more rapidly - but how cost-effective immediate help would be, if at least the traffic of the existing rolling stock was not hindered by reckless drivers (or sometimes cyclists and pedestrians), committing the offense of disrupting a public interest operation.
"In the past 16 years, there has been no fatal accident at a railway crossing due to the fault of the railway," MÁV pointed out again, on August 11, drawing special attention to the re-increasing number of accidents at railway crossings; since then, from Kismórágy to Balatonszemes to Cegléd, we have recorded more and more victims.
As well as the newer train drivers who can go to post-trauma interventional therapy.
Due to the various accidents, traffic was suspended on the Bátaszék–Dombóvár line (the Bzmot also derailed during the collision), on the Budapest–Debrecen–Záhony and Budapest–Cegléd–Szeged lines, a track had to be closed, and on the South Balaton section, traffic was suspended the holiday homes (several times) with several hours of travel time extension; but there were similar disruptions on the Budapest–Székesfehérvár–Tapolca line and also towards Vác–Szob.
It should really be tried, as an experiment, that for just one month all road users carefully approach the railway tracks, temporarily abandoning the use of the "I'll cross" strategy.
I wonder if this kind of civil obedience movement could bring about a noticeable change in itself.
And then we could continue this experiment to other sectors as well, including healthcare (not that compliance with the KRESZ does not entail an increase in life expectancy and the release of surgical capacities). Although the numbers are improving somewhat, within the European Union, most people still die from colon cancer, which otherwise develops slowly, in Hungary - and at the same time, among the countries examined, Hungary has the least number of participants in the relevant screening.
While the Hungarian sighs that the Czech state spends much more on health care, we do not pay attention to the fact that the Czech woman makes the effort and gets tired of cervical cancer screening.
In the adoringly admired Scandinavians, around 80 percent of citizens comply with the call and check themselves regularly; perhaps it would be worthwhile to try out what the Hungarian health care would be able to do if this level of attention was ensured from the patient side.
It's not the best counter-argument, let's not joke, you don't even get an appointment with the doctor, plus the examination is painful and anyway, the tubes in the hospital are rusty: in recent months, two hundred thousand people were mailed the documents required for home self-sampling and return as part of the colon screening program package, in the hope that roughly two-thirds of them will use the convenient, discreet and, of course, free option -
however, in the end, only 40 percent submitted a sample.
You didn't even have to approach a single health care facility, you could have done the procedure at any time, but no.
I admit that there are nicer things to do than peeing on the toilet bowl - for example, how much more delicious is it to print vomit-stool emojis under the Facebook posts that many scroll through even during lunch! – but let's admit it: in case of dire need, for lack of a better option, the patient can bring toilet paper to the hospital, but the state, on the other hand, can hardly present a stool sample on behalf of its citizens.
For his part, those who do not cooperate do not have many legal grounds for stalking.
But similarly, you are looking in the wrong place for those who, at the beginning of the school year, give parents the task of reporting on the Internet if there are problems with the appearance and/or equipment of a school. The results of the competence measurements show exactly how high-profile this issue is compared to other factors: the best results are often delivered by schools in the worst condition - among these institutions, the Budapest high schools are overrepresented.
They beat the national average of schools in excellent condition by up to 200-250 points.
The existence of the language lab also seems irrelevant from the point of view of the students' English skills - on the other hand, a student who has his own books at home scores an average of 150 points in language and math, and 200 points in reading comprehension by the 10th grade.
Therefore, a competent opposition politician would certainly not have the school's plasterwork photographed with the mothers, but would do all he could to promote reading at home -
but as no such competent challenger is on the horizon at the moment, there is ample room for the government and any patron to step into the cause themselves. It is possible that a better type of Adventure-Game-Risk interactive gateway drug could make leisure reading an exciting alternative to TikTok here and there; but certainly any expert could come up with better suggestions.
In the end, however, the citizen would have to give himself up here as well: if a narrow two-thirds of Hungarians read at least one small book a year and set an example, we would already catch up to Austria in this field.
You don't have to wait that long, you could even try this right away.
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