That's outrageous! We got a refund from our YMCA membership for the months our local Y was forced to shut down because of the COVID lockdown (from mid-March through June 20th).
I was back in the lap pool on June 20th, the day our Y reopened.
This is in The People's Republik of Connecticut. I guess we're not the worst Blue State after all...
Our gym hasn’t been charging members since the shutdown. It was the community pool in a nearby subdivision that was officially open but effectively closed, because you never knew if you could get in.