Rise of those infected in Rimavská Sobota: Is the opposition’s protest to blame? Experts are clear – Topky.sk

Analysts from the Data without Pathos project pointed out that in the 7 days to October 25, the increase in PCR tests in Rimavská Sobota was 67 percent. At the same time, however, they also pointed out that in another 36 districts the increase was even higher during the same period and the average is also higher.

“All districts were 68 percent, which is 1 percent more than in Rimavská Sobota. Rimavská Sobota finished in 37th place in the charts,” pointed out. According to them, it is very difficult to state that any specific event in the exterior is responsible for the increase in a specific district. Especially if the participants were not just from the district where it took place.

The truth is that Rimavská Sobota was at very low numbers a week ago and was in 35th place out of all 72 districts. In a week, however, it even managed to fall in this charts, as it was overtaken by other districts.

“Its neighbors Lučenec and Poltár grew by 103 percent and 183 percent, which is significantly more than Rimavská Sobota. Lučenec to higher numbers, Poltár to low numbers. Another neighbor Revúca has minimal growth and minimal numbers – as without a pandemic,” analysts pointed out. They marked Topoľčany as a recorder, who went 4 times in 7 days and 10 times in 14 days.

Source: TASR – Ján Krošlák

“It’s promising to choose an event and attribute its concrete impact to a pandemic. But it doesn’t have to be, and most likely isn’t, even in this case. There have been a lot of mass matches in football and even hockey and indoors in recent weeks.” commented.

“We are apolitical in our evaluations, we want the best possible representation of reality. We may not succeed, we are also mistaken, but let’s avoid obvious untruths together. It’s not beneficial. There is already enough fear.” they would.

Source: TASR – Ján Krošlák

In their status on the social network, they also emphasized that their role was to draw attention to hoaxes, or to obvious lies or unlikely, albeit pleasing, statements.

Several well-known faces of the party, including Chairman Robert Fico, took part in the anti-government protest held on October 17, organized by the Smer-SD party. They talked about rising energy prices, the destruction of the welfare and the rule of law or the need for early elections. The event was attended by about 4,000 people.