We were around London Heathrow almost a year ago. We'd booked into a hotel before a flight and a man in a tin hat came out of a booth when we arrived.
He told us the hotel was closed and that we should go along the road to another one. I should have noticed that the windows to the hotel were boarded up.
In truth, I'd gone to the wrong Holiday Inn.
He handed me a piece of paper, which explained that the original hotel had been taken over by the NHS/Public Health England as was to be used as an isolation location for people suspected of carrying COVID-19 to the UK.
I remember thinking at the time it was like something out of the X-Files.
Contextually, it was ahead of a lockdown or even general awareness of the COVID pandemic.
What happened to those early preparations?
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