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It’s not hoarding which will get the UK through coronavirus – it’s little acts of kindness NewsColony IT’S the little acts of ­kindness that count. The notes under the door offering shopping runs to the ­supermarket or chemist. The calls, texts and emails from old friends and close family, of course, but — more touchingly — the unsolicited inquiries from colleagues and even passers-by asking if I’m OK. 4 The outbreak of coronavirus has seen people across the UK react very differently Along with millions of others in my age group, I am experiencing that heart-warming melting of British reserve and a blossoming of dormant good-natured decency. Outside London, this sort of basic social interchange is everyday stuff. But it comes as an agreeable shock in a city of perpetual rush-hour and citizens conditioned to avoid eye contact, still less pass the time of day. I live in a London apartment block. In normal times, everyone is busy, at work all day. We rarely see even the love...