Hungarians don't panic
I received the above cartoon from an unknown correspondent by mail. It says: "This is absolutely not so funny!" Understand?!"
On a different note:
Most Hungarians don't panic despite the fact that the Avian Flu virus has been detected in some dead birds in the country.
Népszabadság Online, the online edition of the country's leading political daily newspaper has been conducting an online poll among its readers, and the results show that only less than every second respondent is to some extent scared because of the bird flu. The majority, or 55,8 percent of the respondents stated that they do not have fears, "because this is an artificially generated hysteria".
8,1 percent said that they were scared very much; 36,1 per cent stated that they had moderate fears.
This is the second such poll in this theme conducted by Népszabadság Online; they have asked their readers almost the same questions end of November last year. Then 59,4 percent thought that this was an artificial hysteria; 6,8 per cent had serious and 27,7 per cent moderate fears. Interestingly 6,1 per cent answered that they had no fears at all, because "the flu won't reach us".
So it is clear that the number of those Hungarians who have an intense fear has increased by 1,3 points, while the number of people with moderate fears has gone up by more than 8 points. I should say that this is normal.
These polls are, of course not representative and they reflect the feelings only of the respondents of Népszabadság Online, the majority of whose readers have a higher than average education and income.
If you would like to take part in such a poll you can do it right on this page; on the right. Have fun, wash your hands regularly, if you don't have to, do not get in close contact with birds, and, please don't panic.

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