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Yep. COVID surprisingly ended up increasing the usage of Airbnb amongst my circles. My entire Insta/Twitter timeline is full of people who wanted to take advantage of the remote work situation and travel, but didn't want to stay in hotels due to a perceived risk of COVID, so they chose Airbnbs.

And then of course they also posted a lot of pics of said Airbnb on their timelines, which basically became advertisements encouraging other people to do the same...



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