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As I write this message, I am watching the Edmonds-Kingston ferry emerge from a fogbank as it approaches the Edmonds terminal.

Emerging from the uncertainty of the more than two-year fog of COVID, the true toll is coming into focus. Even if you were able to achieve the principal objective to avoid infection, for many of us, a host of other challenges have been growing under the surface – isolation, depression and decline in physical activity.

A University of Michigan team surveyed more than 2,000 American adults ages 50-80 in early 2021 asking about their activity levels (regardless of CO...