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PTON stock has doubled since COVID.

Lulu bought Mirror

We saw MAU higher than New Years during peak COVID (health and fitness app) and our peers said the same.

Can’t buy weights to save your life.

Question is what happens after reopen?

I'm outside the US in a place with no community transmission for about two months. When gyms reopened, at first it was slow, but when everything reopened without any new cases, everyone went a bit crazy (people are hitting the gyms a lot). It's still crazy. People I saw who were a bit overweight before lockdown lost weight. Same with myself - gained weight during lockdown - lost it 2 weeks after everything reopened since now life was fun again. I imagine that people are going to go pretty hard with socializing, travel, live music, etc. when/if Covid is contained.

Gyms have reopened in Chicago in the last ~month. I'd say even today it's about 25-30% full compared to what it typically would be. I know gyms have been open in other places a lot longer, can't speak to that.

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