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.