<p>I had forgotten about the germ thing, but when my son auditioned for the college he now attends, it was December and he was still recovering from the flu (day 4) and was so worried about that…Then at the very beginning of the info session, the department chair made a joke about “virtual handshakes” (or something like that) and made it clear that it was nothing personal, they just needed not to swap germs!</p>