Good question.
The answer is maybe.
The pandemic has taught us many things about how sloppy we have been as adults, despite how we learned hygienic and sanitary practices throughout life.
Prior to the pandemic, here is what I knew for a long time:
The value of hand sanitizer (so important when dealing with dirty drunk and smoke addled gamblers while working in a casino cashier cage and dealing with their nasty dollars)
The value of hand washing (this is obvious..and your hands can smell good)
The value of making sure to use antibacterial soap ( some are just perfumed chemicals)
The value of showering daily and especially after work or a workout
The value of gloves for food preparation ( at 7-eleven alone, just to give someone a hot dog, the true procedure, which I followed to the letter was: wash hands, sanitize hands, put on gloves, get bun out of bag, put on paper tray, rinse tongs, dry tongs, get hot dog, put in bun, put paper tray in wrapper...it's very sanitary...not every clerk does every step)
I knew a clerk at a 7-eleven in California in my neighborhood who used to wear gloves during his shift...i thought that was safe
The value of a mask, especially when sick...a good portion of our Japanese and sometimes Chinese or Korean students would wear a mask if they had a cold or flu and would be on campus that day. Covid wasn't even around, but they knew the practice from home.
The value of cleaning a workstation...at a workplace years ago, we used to have to take cotton balls and isopropyl alcohol and clean our workstation before we started.
This was in 2002.
Distancing: I've always wanted my space; i dislike closeness
Then, new factors came in:
The advent of hospital grade cleaners (quaternary ammonium)
Liners in masks as needed
Keeping people home who had symptoms
Quarantining classes for a few days based on exposure
Social distancing at work
Avoiding hugging, shaking hands and all too close behaviors that could transmit an illness
So yes, in general, after writing this out, it all seems like common sense for a safe society.
I am re-examining my list and it seems suitable.
Why would we NOT live this way?