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Is the handshake ready to bow out?

25 July 2020

8:45 PM

25 July 2020

8:45 PM

Freemasons beware – the traditional handshake may be the latest victim of the coronavirus, cancelled in our post-pandemic quest for a sanitised contactless future.

According to testimony before the science and technology select committee, in the interests of public health, the good old-fashioned grip and grin should be replaced with the chaste but benign Japanese tradition of bowing.

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