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I get a similar feeling seeing posts like this. I did work from home briefly as I worked in IT for a bank, but as soon as that wasn't required, they had us coming back in.
I see posts like this and it makes it seem like there were many that stayed home for months. I don't even have a concept of how long the average person stayed home. Was it a weeks? months?
Not sure I am an average person (not in a bragging way -- literally don't know if this is average or not) but I think most of our company worked from home for about eighteen months, give or take.
This was in the UK, so maybe we had different rules and coverage.
Holy hell, yeah I didn't even realize some were sent home for longer than a year. Of course, it's almost needless to say but I'm in the US where they care (that we make them money).
I have a friend who worked at a gym when COVID happened, and they were closed for like 6 months or something, but what I saw was a lot of what I called "rolling lockdowns" - one town would go into quarantine for a few weeks as daily cases hit a certain point, but the town next to them would be business as usual. And then another town would do the same, rinse and repeat, but never a mass quarantine across the state.
The other thing I saw a lot of was wealthy people fleeing cities to get away from COVID (and bringing it with them) and buying property in vacation towns not built to be lived in year-round. It didn't take a full year for most to get bored of living there outside the vacation season and go back, but property values doubled during the craze and never really came back down. I think to this day, they're still roughly 50% above what they were before quarantine. And they were already too high for locals to afford.