Can CoronaVirus Improve US Quality of Life?

My husband was in China for SARS and Avian flu. He said all the gyms, clubs, community centers were closed. There were police outside the grocery stores taking people’s temperature. No one allowed inside with a fever.
He said a lot of people lost their jobs; homelessness increased. Many people couldn’t pay mortgages and committed suicide. He also says I’m naively optimistic.
But I wonder if there isn’t a silver lining in this cloud. We have a lot of technologies we have been experimenting with, but haven’t yet brought online.
We telework, but have only exploited that option to about 10% or 20% of its potential. And teleworking has so many advantages, including reduced pollution and greenhouse gas emissions due to lack of physical transportation. In major cities, the majority of people spend an hour on average just getting to or from work. All that time could be put to better use and the reduction in fossil fuels could be great.
People driving to work every day to stare at a computer screen for 8 hours is idiotic. Oh, but the meetings! Yes, those can be done online too. Our problem is a human bum in every chair is the way we’ve always done it. Maybe it’s time to do it differently to the improvement of quality of life for Dilbertville dwellers everywhere.
We have self-driving electric cars, but haven’t yet authorized them on the roads. Maybe if we trade out our taxis with people for taxis without people and create some kind of automatic sterilization process, we could get electric self-driving cars on the roads sooner.
Doctors can and probably should videoconference patients at home. I can certainly have the same conversation with my doctor via video conference that I had yesterday when she suspected I had strep, but determined it was just post nasal drip from seasonal allergies. I can dial in by videoconference, talk; she can order tests and I can go to a local kiosk for vitals and test. She can call me back and tell me her diagnosis, order prescriptions online and CVS delivers meds to my door.
We can shop online even more than we already do. Someone commented on one of my FB posts that we should all handle packages delivered to our homes with plastic gloves, but the truth of the matter is, most packages are mostly handled by robotic machines. There is one guy or gal who actually brings it to your door, but the number of human hands that is involved is remarkably few compared with going into a major supermarket. Amazon’s fulfillment warehouses are a marvel of modern technology with relatively few humans in sight. Items are pulled off the shelves, boxed, labelled and sent out without touching a human.
More online customized classes not only at the university level, but for high school, middle school and elementary school too. Yes, students need socialization, but much of school time is sitting silently in a chair which is hardly a social experience. My daughter’s piano teacher offers online piano classes for times when students or more often parents are unable to attend class. I doubt we’ll find any replacement for gymnastics, Tae Kwon Do or pony riding classes, but those are fun enough to warrant attending in person anyway.
My hope is that coronavirus creates a new standard for the use of the new technologies we have, but haven’t actually leveraged.