Nearly all of Britain was in a serious political lockdown over Christmas because of COVID-19 and of course, as we reported earlier, police actually arrested a woman who went into her local hospital and videoed the empty wards which everyone thought were full of people with COVID. READ: Woman Arrested for Sharing Video of ‘Empty’ Hospital in England

Well, a Freedom of Information request reveals on how overrun the hospitals were in the island nation during 2020 as compared to previous years:

It took a Freedom of Information request but @Covid19DataUK acquired 2017-2019 averages for England hospitalizations.

2020 had 18% fewer hospitalizations than prior years.

All around the world, using hospital data without context of prior years is just a fear generating lie. pic.twitter.com/DJDpqhIQuw

— Yinon Weiss (@yinonw) December 31, 2020

Not sure if the individual releasing this data has been arrested yet, but like Weiss said releasing hospital data, without putting it in the context of previous years, is a game being played around the world. READ: Johns Hopkins retracts report finding COVID death count ‘not alarming’

The UK newspaper, the Daily Mail, also published a chart comparing 2020 hospital bed occupation rates with 2019.

So is this a medical pandemic or a political one?