It's interesting that the behavior that most of us are being encouraged/forced to do during this pandemic is to sit on the couch and binge on technology in what would otherwise be seriously unhealthy.

As difficult as it seems in some places, it's actually just making people do what we would prefer to do anyway. I'd rather work at home, kids would rather miss school. Netflix, Facebook and Amazon are welcome addictions, and ordinarily we have to work very hard to stay active and not give into those vices.

An interesting premise for fiction would be if there was a mysterious pathogen that forced the OPPOSITE behavior.

Imagine, if you will, a deadly virus that can only pass from person-to-person through screens and other digital media. The only way to be safe is to shut off the TV, close the laptop, put away your iPhone, and go the fuck outside!

It would be MUCH harder to get universal compliance with THAT one. Seems far fetched, since biological threats just don't work that way. But sitting on the couch and being isolated, stressed, and sedentary DO put us all at higher risk for heart disease, which silently kills over 500,000 fat Americans like myself annually, which is about the scale we're looking at here, depending on the model.