>Who was shaming children? local parents? government officials? I didn't see any of this shaming. In fact, where I live, more children were at the parks.

They are somewhere in Canada. Regulations and attitudes differ depending on the location and phase of the pandemic.

>The City of Ottawa said Tuesday that an Orléans man confronted by a bylaw officer while kicking a soccer ball with his four-year-old autistic son in an empty field was given a warning, but not fined $700.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/orleans-man-stung-...

Seems like parks being closed happened in the US too.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/closing-p...

I hope people aren't forgetting what we went through and how the public and officials reacted to it. It would be hard to improve unless we remember what happened.