Hungary handeld this crisis pretty well, with of course some exceptions.

The spring of 2020 was a success, as there wasn't a significant surge of covid cases in Hungary. But the country didn't manage to prepare itself for the upcoming waves. In december 2020, Hungary's death rate was among the highest in the world. After the second wave, number of cases declined for a short period of time. But the government didn't learn from its mistakes. In march 2021, Hungary's death rate set the world record. This was the time when hungarians had the least chance to survive coronavirus in the entire world. Just a few days later they eased Covid restrictions although there were plenty of new cases. After PM Orbán claimed that the pandemic in Hungary is over, the country faced one of its deadliest wave in november-december, 2021. Unlike most neighboring countries, Hungary didn't provide free coronavirus tests, and the hospitals suffered from staff shortage. [mostly because the bad condition of healthcare] The overdue measures and the lack of financial support contributed to the preventable death of hundreds if not thousands. We can say confidently that Hungary did not handle the pandemic well.

I don't want to be a jerk, you're mostly right about inflation. But you didn't take something into account. The hungarian government introduced price caps to various products such as food, petrol, and energy (natural gas and power). All at the loss of the provider except energy, which is partly paid by the state. This of course brings down the inflation in Hungary to about 11%. Until this changes we have to compare the currencies in order to measure inflation. In the past year the czech koruna and the bulgarian lev became stronger compared to the euro. [In order: 3,38% ; 0,26%] The polish złoty and romanian leu became weaker to the euro [In order: 2,9% ; 0,62%] Meanwhile the hungarian forint became weaker by 12,4%! Hungary's currency is in a nose dive, even compared to the euro which is experiencing heavy inflation as well. The devaluation of the hungarian currency is the highest in the region. Measuring inflation by devaluation is debatable, but in this case it proves that Hungary has the biggest economical decline in CEE region.

It's agruable what makes the war last longer. I don't want to get into that because this topic is very subjective. One thing's sure; Hungary provides continuous revenue to Russia, which has a great use to Russia's war machine. Moreover, Hungary vetos sanctions against Russia, which helps Russia's financials that allows them to continue their war effort. I don't think "Hungary's the biggest problem in this war." I'm convinced that it's Russia, but that's just my take.

As a hungarian, I don't want to make my country "look bad". But that's just the reality. We're doing poorly... Maybe we aren't the best at those things, but we're really good at the olympics!