From her photo in The Baltimore Sun, Gayle Westmoreland strikes you as a fairly regular woman. But she is on a crusade to replace a handlshake with a nod as a greeting. Calling handshaking both intrusive and unsanitary, Westmoreland's crusade strikes a germophobe as a good idea, but strikes me as more than a little prissy.
Is a handshake unsanitary? Perhaps, since you don't know where other people's hands have been. But since if you are that concerned about it, you can carry a bottle of Purell (as I did reguarly when working on campaigns for both me and the candidate), it seems that not shaking hands is a step too far.
While the CDC does admit that handshaking can help spread disease in some cases, casual, every day handshaking is not only a corner stone of business, but I believe it can actually help a person build a better immunity so long as they take care to wash their hands.
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