As Lockdown restrictions are eased across the UK, Professors Koch & Jackson begin to  wind down the Living thru Lockdown podcast. In this episode they think about some of the negative  aspects of the lockdown, and try to see what things we got wrong when responding to the advice we received. In the UK we panic-bought and cleared supermarket shelves of basic products. meanwhile, the US saw record levels of firearms sales because of the pandemic. What areas did we 'fail' at as citizens.

Did we over-trust the advice of the government and scientific advisors? Were we too trusting and not as critical as we should have been? Did we understand the messaging we were being given? Were we guilty of seeing Covid-19 as a "foreign problem" like we did with SARS, and reacting far too slowly?  We perhaps all cherry-picked the differing and contradictory advice that suited our own agendas.

In the early stages of the lockdown, large-scale horse racing meetings and rock concerts still went ahead, leading to suer-spreaders and hot-spots of covid infection. Much discussion was made of "herd immunity".  In the early-days of the pandemic, our covid-secure behaviour was not as good as it should have been, but that began to change once we acquired the worst Covid-19-mortality rate in Europe.