Posted on 05/03/2020 4:40:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the eyes of many, Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther has become the latest face of justified resistance against governmental tyranny for her steadfast refusal to back down on keeping her business open despite the prospect of going to jail.
Luther’s Salon a la Mode opened for business last Friday, then promptly got slapped with a court order to close because of coronavirus restrictions. Instead of meekly complying, as most others doubtless would have, Luther stood outside her salon and literally ripped the thing to shreds. Indeed, it was a moment that would have made Patrick Henry proud. (I’m also pretty sure it would have made another person with the surname “Luther” proud too.) The salon owner told media she has “had enough” of stupid, nonsensical restrictions on her livelihood and that of her employees, and is more than willing to go to jail to make her point.
“Essential, non-essential,” Luther said. “That’s ridiculous what has been deemed essential and non-essential because right now the pet groomer next door has been essential this whole time. So pets can get their hair done but someone can’t walk in my salon and get their hair cut? So why is a pet getting essentials?”
Good on her. The continued enforced closure of hairdressers, barbershops, salons, and the like are one of the most ridiculous in a sea of ridiculous aspects of the current coronavirus lockdown insanity. Turns out, while the generally solid GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has finally signed off on allowing some types of businesses to open, salons and barbershops inexplicably aren’t yet among them. They are “nonessential,” don’t you know, and the people who work in them apparently don’t deserve the same chance to feed their families that others do.
Insisting that salons are still not “safe,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins ripped Luther and other like-minded business owners as supposedly “putting their own need to make money ahead of public health.”
But Luther disagrees: “It’s pretty ridiculous to think that our place would be unsafe. The second part of that is we’re all grown adults. We decide where we want to go and if someone does not want to come in the salon, I respect that decision.”
Truly, is there any logical reason to think salons and barbershops are any less safe than most any other public place, particularly if owners and employees utilize masks, gloves, and regularly sanitize between customers?
Another business owner, California barbershop operator Juan Desmarais, received what Tucker Carlson called a “self-righteous scolding” from CNN’s Brooke Baldwin for his decision to open up his shop. Despite the California government’s anti-Constitutional power grabs, Desmarais intends to try to make a living for his employees and his family, insisting that he is more than capable of ensuring proper sanitation measures are in place to prevent the spread of the virus.
Here in Tennessee, Governor Bill Lee also excluded such businesses from his initial reopening phase. However, he relented under pressure and is allowing them to open up this coming Wednesday. My sister, the owner of a high-end salon in east Tennessee, was more than a little frustrated and might have even considered going the Luther route, until Lee changed his mind.
“We can control contamination much better than a restaurant,” she told me. “You can’t eat with a mask on. In a salon, you can be one on one. You are not touching other clients in between. The stylist and the client can have a mask on when cutting or color is being applied.”
Her reopening plan is probably not unlike those of other hair shop owners:
“Our plan is to keep the door locked and allow only one person in per stylist,” she said. “Clients will wait in their cars, not the waiting area. Further, our front desk person will use an infrared thermometer to check temperatures before anyone is allowed inside. Sterilize each workspace, then change gloves and wash hands between clients. No magazines, no handing drinks out. Provide masks for those that do not have them.”
Sounds pretty safe to me. Safer, in fact, than Walmarts, price clubs, home improvement retailers and grocery stores across the country have been the entire course of this ridiculous lockdown. Our leaders, for some odd reason, have decided that it’s better to crowd everybody into a few specific locations rather than spread things out and trust informed, adult humans to be responsible. While they pay lip service to “science,” these morons refuse to listen to it when it gets in the way of their inane power trips.
The actual “science,” as Copenhagen Consensus Center president Bjorn Lomborg explains, tells us that the only thing forever lockdowns are efficient at is destroying economies. "You can't have a strong lockdown forever,” he said. “If you look at what most epidemiologists tell you to do, is to flatten the curve so that your health system can handle this and that's what Sweden has been doing."
Isn’t that what we were told in the beginning, before the goalposts moved? Despite near-universal world condemnation, Sweden did it, and they are now well on their way to the only thing that can ultimately stop this virus - herd immunity. They showed, conclusively, that the curve can be flattened with minimal impact to the lives and livelihoods of ordinary citizens. Salons and barbershops in many states across America are about to show it too, and it can’t come a moment too soon for a certain columnist in need of a serious haircut!
Turnabout is fair play, right Nance?
Let's hope and pray that there isn't a resurgence when the country reopens.
Remember though the principle behind Civil Disobedience
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)
... Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.... where the State places those who are not with her, but against her,—the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.... Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.
Yeah and “Those who insist it was NECESSARY don’t actually know. That’s just an opinion...a guess.
Goes both ways ... the phony “Experts” were just making guestamates themselves. But anyone with an IQ greater than their shoe size knows this was not about stopping a virus ... it was about taking down Trump ... period!
— Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Everyone should watch the video at the following link in IMHO. Dr. Zelenko is at ground zero in NYC treating the worst of the worst. Listen to what he has to say about CV-19 and healthy people for a few minutes on from where it starts at 27:40.
https://youtu.be/1TJdjhd_XG8?t=1657
Forcing people to stay home and/or not allow them to open a business is anti constitutional is it not? These are ordinances not laws. Does anyone know the constitutional amendment that covers this?
The Trump haters were of course using this crisis to bring down Trump. But there is still more to the crisis that just that.
The virus is real.
The President would not have taken the actions he did if this was just a "takedown Trump" operation.
As President of the South Georgia Low IQ Club, I am quite confident in saying that this situation is a great unknown. The President did the best he could with the information he had at hand.
‘Those who insist it was unnecessary don’t actually know. That’s just an opinion...a guess.’
problem is, because the authorities will not inform us of exactly what the population of infected is, what age, what prior physical conditions, or where the infection was centralized (hospitals and assisted care facilities, huge surprise), we go about doing such useless and irrelevant things such as wearing useless masks which will not prevent anyone from getting sick, and staying away from outdoor environments, such as beaches and parks, so that sunshine and fresh air may not work its well known effect upon maladies, and in so doing, weaken our own bodily defenses...that is why we very highly suspect that the lockdowns were in fact the wrong thing to do...
There will a resurgence. Then what? How do people develop immunity if they’re never exposed? Also, there will be a resurgence of flu.
‘The President would not have taken the actions he did if this was just a “takedown Trump” operation.’
no, of course not; yet, I highly suspect that if a democrat were up for re-election, the media would be highlighting the fact that negative test results far outnumber the positives, and that the recovery rate far exceeds the death rate...
We’re still getting on planes, aren’t we?
Why can we get on a plane, but not sit in a barber’s chair?
The lockdown decision was made because it was thought better to err of the side of caution than run the risk of the virus turning into a wildfire.
A wildfire would have ended the Trump Presidency.
I’ve got it! Let’s start up a flying barber service!
Bwah hah hah hah hah!
This was NEVER about public health.
‘Now I understand why over a hundred countries locked down most of the world population.’
over a hundred countries locked down for the same reason that the US did; out of unbridled panic, and the fear engendered by lack of information...and so that they would not overwhelm their abilities to respond...
a well thought out and thoroughly deliberated response it was not...
This is an opportunity for the left to dictate and demand thier agenda be followed
The "opening up" is a kind of probing of the defenses of the enemy.
If there is a resurgence in locales that ignore all social distancing, etc. rules, but not in those that do, we have a clear understanding of how to deal with the virus.
We all need to remember that this is virgin territory. We--the country and the world--haven't been here before (at least not in our life times).
We are writing the rules as we go.
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