"Now the "evidence" shows us the pandemic is worsening, the Tory Government will stop the furlough scheme."

Don't you fall for it as well BT, the 'evidence' shows us no such thing. Of course the government and media try to make sure you don't know this, Glum and Glummer will happily compare the figures to Spring, they won't compare them to last autumn though, and this is why.....

"England typically experiences a sharp increase in emergency admissions for respiratory conditions from September through November, followed by an even bigger spike in December, before beginning to drop off again in the new year. How does 2020 compare with this?

October 2016 had around 24,500 admissions, which is an average of 790 per day. Covid admissions this month up to the 18th are 10,503 with 13 days to go. The month started at around 370 per day and reached about 800 as of October 18th, so is currently running about average.

In other words, so far as we can tell from data in the public domain there is nothing unusual about the current October rise in respiratory disease-related hospital admissions. We can expect them to keep on rising and then to peak in December, although we don’t yet know if COVID-19 will fizzle out during the winter, to be replaced by other viruses."


Just another day October day in the office for the NHS, nothing exceptional at all, but they won't tell you that.