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Editorial: Can we at least agree to not shake on it?

It's been about nine months since most of us last clasped hands with a friend, a colleague at work or a new acquaintance lest we spread the new coronavirus. There haven't been many opportunities to shake hands while we've huddled at home more; when we have encountered people, it's been at a maybe-safe distance or on the other side of plexiglass. The business meetings where we once might have measured each other's grip have moved online.

As the pandemic was beginning, we wondered whether the handshake would disappear

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