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My not very accurate memory is that at the beginning of the following week (beginning 2 March) a few people had started to be cautious about, say, going on the tube, and some events were being cancelled. By the end of that week people were much more nervous.
Yes, that's my experience too. We were talking about whether a work conference we were organising in the third week of March would go ahead on 2 March and some people thought it was ridiculous. I flew abroad on 2 March and there was no social distancing in evidence then in either country. Then back on 5 March and away that night at a work event and people did bring it up in conversation. But it wasn't a thing most people in my circles thought about much until early the next week with Nadine Dorries etc.
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That is Interesting.
Members of my family travelled to London from Luxembourg for a shopping trip 17 to 21 FEBRUARY. They were fearful and concerned about travelling on the underground and being in confined places like restaurants and the theatre.
In fact if it had not been preordered
they were seriously cancelling.
They travelled with ( pre ordered the week before) masks bought from a Luxembourg pharmacy that were then out of stock.
So some people were concerned about corona virus “very early” by some standards.