Can Dr Jenny Harries accept her lockdown mistake?

Next time there’s a pandemic, the advice of Dr Jenny Harries will be crucial. She runs the UK Health Security Agency, set up during Covid to replace the much-maligned Public Health England. In her interview with the Telegraph there seemed to be a penny-dropping moment where she suggested that Britain may be more like Sweden next time:

What we saw with Omicron and later waves of the pandemic, and even now, is that people are good at watching the data and they will take action themselves. You can see it in footfall going down. People actually start to manage their own socialisation, and the [viral] waves flatten off and come down.

She missed a crucial point here: it wasn’t just after Omicron. Brits locked themselves down from the offset, in wave one, long before lockdown was needlessly imposed – a common-sense solution. And something that the modellers failed to take into account. This crucial, demonstrable fact disproves lockdown theory, hastily assembled by Professor Neil Ferguson and exported – to disastrous effect – worldwide.