Yes your editor has heard from many local personal care businesses....the hair stylists, the barbers, the manicurists and skin care specialists....
And if not allowed to re-open soon, some will not be returning...even though it has been acknowledged that we "flattened the curve"---the alleged goal---quite some time ago....and so, by special request:
We cosmetologists need Andrew Cuomo’s help, not his smirks By Candice Rios May 5, 2020 | 8:19pm
Judging by your giggling about my line of work, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, I know you think I’m just a dumb hairdresser. Through that smirk, you repeatedly point out how “nonessential” hair salons and barbershops are. You giggled during a news conference about how a haircut done from 6 feet away would end up looking.
Yet as an industry, we are trained and educated on infection control and standard precautions. A lot of us paid for that education through state and federal student loans — with interest.
While we do work in salons, spas and barbershops, we also work in schools, photo studios, retail outlets, theaters, film and television — including shows like your kid brother’s, where he daily sings your praises.
We are making plans and accommodations for additional precautions. The Professional Beauty Association has outlined extensive new sanitation practices, including limiting the number of people who can come into the salon at once.
We are going much further than many other private-economy employees, including grocery-store cashiers and bank tellers. And let’s not even talk about the NYPD officers I recently saw congregating as a group — six of them, to be exact — in front of a COVID-19 testing site in The Bronx, none of them wearing protective gear or even remotely following precautions.
By the way, I’d also like to know, since your curled mane seem to look neat, tidy and a bit darker than usual — who is doing your hair?
READ THE REST AT https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/we-cosmetologists-need-andrew-cuomos-help-not-his-smirks/
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