Here's a reality check, with hospital admissions allegedly going through the roof, some journos have been trying find out what admissions normally run at in October, when the flu season kicks in, but have been having difficulty finding the relevant stats. One journo was even unkind enough to suggest that perhaps they had disappeared because the government had something to hide, but I can't believe that.

However one intrepid journo did manage to unearth a graph showing admission rates in autumn from 2010/11 to 2015/6. The October figures ranged from around 18,000 in 2010 to around 24.500 in 2016. Up to October 27th this year the figure is 19,915, so with four days to go, and with admissions running at about 1,200 a day, it's looking like the total this year will be around 24,000, roughly the same as 2016 then.

You can see why the government and the mad SAGE scientists, Dumb and Dumber, don't want these figures in the public domain can't you, doesn't exactly fit in with their narrative that the NHS is going to be over-run does it.