augieray, I'm shocked by just how “back to normal” we are, even as #COVID19 still mutates and spreads. For years during the pandemic, I tracked throughput at TSA checkpoints as one measure of activity.
In 2019, the peak day saw 2,882,915 travelers pass through checkpoints and a yearlong average of 2,308,559. This year, our peak day saw 2,884,783 and the average is 2,340,173.
It shouldn't surprise me. I mean, I've traveled (but I was masked, unlike 90%+ of my fellow travelers.) https://www.tsa.gov/travel/passenger-volumes