"Ban on handshakes may help"

I totally agree our society should ban handshakes.  But they won't do it until they understand the threat and then it will be too late.  I have to "maintain" at work in the meantime.  And by that, I mean before BF goes H2H.  At that point I will suddenly announce to my boss via a voicemail that I will need to take a leave of absence.  If that's ok, then great.  After it's over, if the company is still there, maybe I'll have a job.  I'm not really counting on that.  Right now, and if it never happens, I need the paycheck for preps, or normal life, it it continues to be normal.  That is actually what I have come to think of it as.  So, for now, before there are any sustained outbreaks that I think could affect me, I will shake hands at work, so that I am not considered some rude crazy woman, and then I will go discreetly wash my hands.  And I will continue to use paper towels to open doors, and I have already gotten over who sees me do it.