HA....I have been refusing to shake hands for a year....people think I’m weird....but, geez...how better to spread colds, etc...
“If a hand is soiled, and I touched your hand, then both of us would go away with that contamination
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Thanks for posting those links. I hate handshaking. Yes, I know it is an important ritual for men, and I understand that it has ancient roots in trust for men.
But I am a woman who grew up in a time when handshaking was not something that women did. So I am most uncomfortable with it on that level and because of the concern about germs.
I love it when the doctor uses the same stethoscope from patient to patient, you would thing they’d invent germ/virus covers for it....germ/virus carrier deluxe. Same goes for the BP machine, especially if it is done by the same machine for all patients. Not room by room.