# Is anyone else concerned with this new virus in China that is becoming a bigger problem every day?

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**Created:** [January 23, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-concerned-with-this-new-virus-in-china-that-is-becoming-a-bigger-problem-every-day/846841 "2020-01-23T12:42:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-concerned-with-this-new-virus-in-china-that-is-becoming-a-bigger-problem-every-day/846841/222 "2020-01-29T12:33:40Z")

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I’ve never been into handshaking, usually offering up a fist bump to someone who wants to shake. Lately I’ve been even more anti-handshaking. Shake my hand and I’m then going to wanna wash my hands.

So, yesterday I was already in a bad mood when a client at work _aggressively_ wanted to shake. I walk up to her while perusing some paperwork, and she _ **thrusts** _ out her hand, which I pointedly ignore.

I begin answering the question she needed answered, all the while ignoring the hand, which she _kept rigidly extended_. Eventually she said, “you’re not going to shake my hand?” By now I was kind of pissed off, so I answered, “extra quick on the uptake, today?!”

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