[loeg]

Urban American returned to normal a few months later than Rural America, but we're talking like, April 2022. SF is still suffering from some dynamics that started during COVID but it's not like there are still lockdowns or compulsory masking or anything like that.

[cptskippy]

I lived in Atlanta for most of my life and commuted downtown daily for over a decade. For unrelated reasons, I moved away in July of 2020 during the lockdown.

I returned this past week for work and the city certainly did not seem back to normal. The areas around Broad Street and the intersection of Baker and Peachtree are usually bustling during lunchtime, it was a ghost town.

If your definition of normal is not lockdowns or mask requires then yes we're back to normal, but in large cities it's a new normal and certainly not a pre-pandemic normal.

[umanwizard]

> we're talking like, April 2022

Masks were mandated on the subway in New York until September 2022. I'd consider this to not be "normality".

[loeg]

Sure, my figure comes from the west coast — NYC a few months later. I don’t think that detracts from the overall sentiment.

[umanwizard]

Fair enough.