But, I am definitely not returning to "normal" pre Covid behavior.
What would this look like, in practice? Of course on a macro scale we'll see changes like increasing adoption and acceptance of remote work/meetings, but in terms of individual behavior what can or should change?
I assume 10 years from now (barring another pandemic) we won't all be wearing masks and gloves all the time or strictly maintaining a six-foot distance from all other people, but offhand I see myself maintaining a few habits to varying degrees of strictness:
* Consistently washing my hands after touching mail or packages
* Letting packages sit by the front door for a day or two before bringing them further inside and opening them
* Pressing crosswalk buttons with my elbow
* Flushing non-automatic public toilets/urinals with my foot and opening/closing restroom doors with my foot, my elbow, or my hand and a paper towel
* Immediately showering and changing after being in public
* Wiping down groceries before putting them away
* If I need to go out in public while sick for whatever reason, wearing an N95/equivalent mask (not that I had a habit of going out while sick to begin with / I can't specifically recall having ever done so, but if I had ever needed to it certainly wouldn't have occurred to me or struck me as socially acceptable to put on a mask)
* When I return to the gym, consistently wearing gloves (I bought a bunch of full-fingered workout gloves and did this for a week or two last year just before everything shut down, and resumed the habit at home after a sliver of metal broke off of one of my dumbbell handles and got stuck in my finger)
* Maybe continuing to wear gloves while in public in general, or even just semi-regularly using hand sanitizer
Your list is a lot like mine. Giving the basics a higher priority for the longer term, and teaching these to young ones, along with appropriate norms are how I intend on playing it all going forward.
What would this look like, in practice? Of course on a macro scale we'll see changes like increasing adoption and acceptance of remote work/meetings, but in terms of individual behavior what can or should change?
I assume 10 years from now (barring another pandemic) we won't all be wearing masks and gloves all the time or strictly maintaining a six-foot distance from all other people, but offhand I see myself maintaining a few habits to varying degrees of strictness:
* Consistently washing my hands after touching mail or packages
* Letting packages sit by the front door for a day or two before bringing them further inside and opening them
* Pressing crosswalk buttons with my elbow
* Flushing non-automatic public toilets/urinals with my foot and opening/closing restroom doors with my foot, my elbow, or my hand and a paper towel
* Immediately showering and changing after being in public
* Wiping down groceries before putting them away
* If I need to go out in public while sick for whatever reason, wearing an N95/equivalent mask (not that I had a habit of going out while sick to begin with / I can't specifically recall having ever done so, but if I had ever needed to it certainly wouldn't have occurred to me or struck me as socially acceptable to put on a mask)
* When I return to the gym, consistently wearing gloves (I bought a bunch of full-fingered workout gloves and did this for a week or two last year just before everything shut down, and resumed the habit at home after a sliver of metal broke off of one of my dumbbell handles and got stuck in my finger)
* Maybe continuing to wear gloves while in public in general, or even just semi-regularly using hand sanitizer