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Thoroughly washing hands regularly is one of the one behavior I kept after the pandemic.

I'm aware that fomites are not the main cause (or even a cause at all) that the disease spreads. Nevertheless, proper hand hygiene seems to be a good idea to me.

Same here. I now wash my hands, every time I come home.

I think Fauci said that he hoped that COVID would stop "the barbaric practice of shaking hands."

Yeeeahhh... I don't think that's happening.

In some Asian countries, people bow, or clasp their own hands in greeting and/or respect.

Though the more you live in a sterile environment the less your immune system learns to fight pathogens and you may pay it dearly later on.

Isn't an ocular patdown sufficient for threat assessment Mac?

But how would you judge a MANs character by the firmness of his handshake then?

You can find out a lot about a person with a UFIA.