With all the bans b/c of the coronavirus, what about barbershops and hair salons?

[no_hypocrisy]

Will they be allowed to remain opened?

[Baitball Blogger]

1. This is important. My husband wants to get a haircut and I told him he should stay home.

I am currently looking for a bowl that's big enough to fit on his head.

[TEB]

3. Now this is love

[Cousin Dupree]

5. Chuckle chuckle

[ProfessorGAC]

2. I Don't See How

I thought of that this morning
I wear my hair long in a slicked back pony so not getting it trimmed is not a thing.
My wife goes way more often than me, which is why it came to mind.
It's impossible to do social distancing for the stylist. Nobody has arms that long!

[MissMillie]

4. Now, I guess would be the time to invest here:

[Jersey Devil]

6. I am overdue for a haircut

I always seem to wait a bit too long and was going to get a haircut this week, but I am putting it off, trimmed the hair growing over my ears with my electric shaver (clipper attachment) until we get some break in the spread of Covid 19. A barber shop must be a breeding place for the virus much like a gym.

[nolabear]

7. Not in WA. Inslee closed them yesterday.

[Chainfire]

8. Why would you risk your health for a haircut?

On a similar subject, my son is in a partnership in a very successful tattoo shop. He and his partner decided to shut down without any input from the government. Both owners are young and healthy but they decided not continue operations. Amazingly, he told me that the last couple of weeks that business was booming. The business is in a college town where classes were suspended, and kids avoiding travel were flocking in for body art....Go figure.

[3Hotdogs]

9. First of all, you are sitting on a chair, waiting for the person in front of you to finish...

That person got touched when the cloth and neck tissue were installed. The comb was sterilized but not the electric razor.

10 peeps are in the room, also waiting for their turn.

Social Distancing? It ain't in the barber shop.

[HAB911]

10. canceled my appt for next week

I think I'll have a few drinks and let my wife cut mine

[femmedem]

11. Fortunately these days you can learn how to anything online including cutting hair passably well.

Your wife can probably find a tutorial on cutting a hairstyle similar to yours on Youtube.

And if not, maybe we can buoy each other's spirits by sharing hilarious photos of ourselves with our crooked bangs.

(Seriously, though, I feel badly for all the professionals out there who will be losing income for months.)

[HAB911]

17. Me too

Same woman has cut my hair for 35 years and this will be a first for us.

On a lighter note, I did cut my wife's bangs once, with pinking shears no less, after several margaritas

[boston bean]

12. Ayup.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213078349

[MoonRiver]

13. I have an appt. next week and I WILL be going, unless they shut down.

Besides my stylist there are never many people in the salon, and the stations are far apart.

[Sherman A1]

14. Hope to get a haircut today

as I have been putting it off. I will do it along with other errands.

[DeminPennswoods]

16. Gov Wolf had hair salons on his list of business

that should close. But I think it really depends what kind of salon it is. There's big commercial places like SportClips or Great Clips with a lot chairs and might a room full of people waiting. Then there's the small stylist who might work out of his or her home and where hair is by appt only.

[essme]

18. How about a pay in advance program to help them during the crisis?

If it costs $20 to get your hair cut why not front pay it now, then have it done in the summer with a $20 coupon/voucher?

If I had a business like that I would probably try to get that going.

[Tink41]

19. Why?

Is your appearance worth it? Considering you may be confined to your home for months? No one will see you. I need my snow tires taken off, just bought them. Decided the risk to my health is worth more than 500 to replace the set. It can wait. I can't imagine putting other's lives at risk to get a haircut. I wouldn't do that to someone. Things have changed.

[Igel]

22. Most aren't going to be confined to their homes for months.

If so, we'd all starve and nobody would be there to retrieve the corpses.

Even in China, in Wuhan, a reasonable number of peoples still reported for work. Otherwise there'd be no police or doctors/health workers, nobody would be trucking in and delivering food.

All the quarantines have holes in their coverage. Even now in mostly locked-down areas, you still go to work. One person interviewed said how strict the quarantine was and how people were confined to their homes for days (so far). And then continued to say if you were stopped by the police you had document why you were out--going to the store for food, walking the dog, seeking medical care or going to the pharmacy, going to work. ... I mean, how many people ever have to do one of those things, esp. "work". Oh, the agony of being cooped up like that, just home, grocery store, work. (Come to think of it, by that standard I've been quarantined pretty much for, well, since graduating college.)

Closing restaurants doesn't just keep people from congregating there. It also keeps those workers from being there. (Yeah, sure, that Italian place that doesn't do take out is going to have a roaring take-out business. Not. The food service workers most likely to still be employed will be at low-end eateries.)

[Tink41]

23. HUH??

Your reply makes no sense to what I said.

[mcar]

20. I got a haircut yesterday

I was way overdue. But it'll be the last for at least a couple months.

[gibraltar72]

21. Takeout only.