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Pre-pandemic, ball pits were a thing.
Filled with colorful plastic balls and teeming with kids, they were a staple of fast-food play areas, birthday parties and fun centers. Hip Instagrammable versions popped up in New York and London. In 2016, Tampaâs own Amalie Arena, where the Lightning play hockey, attracted more than 100,000 people who frolicked and belly-flopped in a sea of 1.2 million white balls.
Then came our battle against the insidious spread of the coronavirus, and ball pits filled with humans seemed a spectacularly bad idea. They largely shut down.
Now, as we slowly emerge, restaurants and fun centers are presumably weighing their options. The state of Massachusetts has even officially listed ball pits as one of their businesses slated to re-open in August.