Posted on 08/09/2021 4:05:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai
As the pandemic took hold, a Kansas City-area meeting and event planning business began hawking “I Shake Hands” stickers to help ease awkward social encounters.
“We didn’t want the sticker to say, ‘We Don’t Shake Hands’ because that is kind of off-putting,” said John DeLeon, vice president of operations and sales at MTI Events, adding that the idea was that anti-shakers could simply choose not to wear one of the stickers. “But if someone had the sticker on in that group, then that was the indication that it was OK.”
Now, as workers return to the office, friends reunite and more church services shift from Zoom to in person, this exact question is befuddling growing numbers of people: to shake or not to shake?
The handshake has been around for centuries. A widely held belief is that it originated to prove to someone that a person was offering peace and not holding a hidden weapon. But hands can be germy — coated with fecal matter and E. coli.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, cautioned last year, “I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you.” …
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People want to live forever, I suppose.
Personally, I think having a natural immune system, strengthened over time by exposure to other humans and ordinary germs is not a bad thing. We should not be delicate china dolls who have never had the sniffles. I am not afraid of illness. I am not afraid of death.
I’m seeing a lot more hand shaking lately.
I shake hands, with a firm but not crushing grip. Look them in the eye as you shake. That’s how I was raised, that’s how I live my life. Though I do have this one coworker who is hooked on high fives as a greeting...
Other than a brief time in 2020, handshaking never stopped from me.
It’s part of doing business.
Seemed pointless not to do it.
I would never shake hands with Fau-xi.
Just put on a latex glove first.
Oh, fer Pete’s sake.
Shake hands. Wash yer paws.
And folks have no prob clutching their filthy cell phones...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, cautioned last year, “I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you.”
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The obnoxious garden gnome doesn’t have an unexpressed thought. The sign of a narcissist.
I’ve been shaking hands with lots of people since this pandemic started. In my neighborhood wants people are away from prying eyes they don’t really care.
How about wringing necks? Surely there are a few people who are interested in wringing Fauxi’s.
And folks have no prob clutching their filthy cell phones...
do not recall that I have ever let anyone else touch my cell phone.
“If you feel compelled to grab part of my body and shake it before you can even be friendly, you’ve got far worse problems than you think I have.”
- The Wizard of Speed and Time
Your average dollar bill, gas pump handle, and high-traffic stair bannister are 100X more germy than the average person’s hand. Just wash your hands after being in public contact, people. It’s not rocket surgery.
Can we do the “Biden Handshake?” You know, the one where you don’t grab them by the hand....
Fist bumps are for sissies. Don’t even get me started on the effeminate elbow bump.
Men shake hands. So do strong women.
The powers that be want to redefine everything that makes us human.
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