Day 35 and how things will change, or not

Of the things that have changed/are changing in the way we conduct our daily lives, what will change back and what may stay changed?

I do like that stores are more often closed on Sunday. I like that stores have reduced hours of opening. Yes, 9-5 workers need to have 5-9 shopping but, see below.

Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who CAN work from home, CONTINUE to work from home? If nothing else, this pandemic has proven to big corporations that work-from-home and flex-time can still be profitable. Managers don't really need to see your body in a chair in your cubical to be sure that you are working; all they need to see is the bottom line. Did the work get done? Was it done on time? Was it done correctly? Then, HOW and WHERE it got done is moot.

A side benefit would be a reduction in the number of cars on the road at "rush hour". If you only go into the office on Tuesday and Friday afternoons from noon to 4; and Jim and Sally only go into the office on Wednesdays and Thursdays between 10 and 5; and Frank and Joe are there Monday from 8 to noon, think of all the cars that are NOT on the road. Corporations could save on real estate as well: you and Sally and Joe share one office space; Jim and Frank share their space with Mary.

The same goes for school. If students can learn the material, and finish their assignments at home, on their own flexible time, what does it matter if they did it at 8 am in a school building or at 8 pm at home? And class sizes could be wonderfully reduced by having students in the building only 3 days a week, for 3-4 months at a time. A different cohort of students attend in-person classes for a different 3-4 months. Perhaps the cohorts overlap for a month or 2, then overlap with a different cohort for the other half of their time. The possibilities are myriad.

Perhaps, the Western world will no longer have a stigma around wearing a mask in public when one is ill. Perhaps, the Western world will no longer have a fetish around shaking hands, hugging, kissing mere acquaintances, touching strangers.

What else could change?