I felt terrible for my child that graduated high school in the class of 2020. Graduation was getting your diploma on the courthouse steps with 5 minutes between each graduate while all the families sat in their cars and watched.
That must have brutal to watch and endure. Sorry you had to go through that.
We escaped largely unscathed. Our youngest was 29 at the time. I was retired. My wife’s job at the school district went remote (San Fran Peninsula). Newsom said he was going to shut down all traffic on the interstate highways (!) so my wife said “Screw that, I’m outta here.” She grabbed our dog, hopped into her car, and drove to our North Idaho place. She left CA for good! Had a couple of business trips back here, but became a true Idahoan where we are still immune to insanity.
I spend some time at our place in CA every winter to get more sunshine, but arriving here and still seeing mask requirements all over the place just nauseates me.