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!
And if planes aren’t spreading WuFlu, why...? The bug’s not that contagious, HEPA filtration on planes...?
If it’s the HEPA filtration, biz and barbers alike can use that, can’t they, in close quarters...?
... South Dakota is doing great with no lockdown.
Low population density, low mobility, no rapid transit dependencies,
Yup - they will do ok
Eastern Seaboard Megapolis... not so much
I think the lockdown was necessary Until the Hydroxychloroquine treatment protocol became known. From that moment the lockdown became an exercise in economic self flagellation.
I thought that looked familiar. It’s over a month old. How’s his success rate now?
as supposedly “putting their own need to make money ahead of public health.”
Societies that cease to function are no longer Societies. Rather they are clumps of isolated helpless people.
During thw pneumonic plague of 1349 society continued to function. People changed what they did and how they did it according to what seemed to work but they pushed on as best they could or dared. Thats one of the aspects of the plague in London that is studied: How the society continued to function.
no, we’re not, unless you call a 95% drop still getting on planes. I guess what amazes me is that the one that tells the govt to go F themselves is a hair lady. What the hell have happened to men? The ones my grandfather’s age, who fought WWII and went through the depression would already have these mayors and governors hanging from bridges and lampposts, they would sure as hell go to work.
We have a much better idea now about to deal with this virus than we did 2 or 3 months ago.
Loads of people are in dire economic trouble right now. I know some, and I can only imagine how many others there are. The $1200 checks help, but that’s like treating a broken arm with a band-aid.
It’s time to open up and end these lockdowns ASAP, especially those that are looking like they will go on for months thanks to power-hungry blue state tin-pot tyrants.
And if there is, then the country will work together to handle it. It has already been demonstrated that we can produce plenty of PPE, ventilators, even hospital space and beds. 810,000 people were hospitalized with the flu in 2017-2018. Don’t tell me we can’t handle the “surge” if we reopen. That is just one among many lies being used to frighten everyone into compliance with these suicidal shutdowns.
For what it’s worth, Tom Hanks is diabetic and 63. Maybe his gripping account of this dreaded illness will give you some comfort:
"Speaking during a Sunday interview with National Defense Radio Show, Hanks, 63, said he had "some body aches and was very fatigued" during medical isolation in the air-pressurized room of an Australian hospital. Wilson, 63, his wife of 32 years, had more serious symptoms. 'Rita went through a tougher time than I did,' Hanks said. 'She had a much higher fever and she had some other symptoms. She lost her sense of taste and smell. She got absolutely no joy from food for a better part of three weeks.'
Not to make light of it, or to mock at-risk people for being concerned, but that doesn’t sound like much more than a cold or Flu. Lost her sense of taste and smell! Oh, the humanity! How many famous people under the age of 75 or so, have actually died of COVID? A few weeks ago, I was hearing about all sorts of celebs with COVID. Don’t recall hearing about ANY of them dying from it.
I thought that looked familiar. It’s over a month old. How’s his success rate now?
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Thats the question alright! Its only 5 weeks old and there’s no media coverage of it! They (the dems) are even muzzling a fellow dem state representative who’s life was saved by HCQ+ZP+Zinc and she thanked PDJT for pushing making the treatment so public. IMHO this topic needs to get pushed to the front of the public debate line now!
The problem I have with all of this is that it all has the stink of ChiCom propaganda to it, to me. That’s why the Media reports it, since they’re all in bed with the ChiComs who gave the world this virus.
The arguments suck. This is typical of ChiCom propaganda. I don’t think it’s just translation. The Chinese “leadership” is too closely related to Mao, and articulation of thought isn’t their strong suit.
Let’s drop the childish bridling at the term, “essential”, for instance. There is obviously more involved here, for those capable of thought. Not only are differing interactions of people more and less essential to their survival, they are also more and less contributory to the spread of disease. This can and should be taken into account in deciding how to respond to the spread of illness. We clearly need, for events of bio warfare like this, a system more flexible in regulating human interaction and the spread of a bio weapon. We did not have time to set this up for this attack, but less draconian limitation to only the “essential” should clearly be possible. Protocols could be identified to provide varying levels of security from the spread of disease based on varying human interaction and risk.
So, she tears up the notice in a Nancy Pelosi fit while she begrudges the dog groomer’s limited ability to do what she wants. She claims that she cannot see the difference in risk of the two different businesses. I think she’s full of crap, and a useful idiot for the China-owned MSM to enhance the spread of this bio weapon using ignorance.
To go back to the idiocy of this propaganda, I am continually amazed that these stories of “businesses” show asolutely no concern for employee health insurance in this. Similarly, there is no concern for the liability, whatsoever, that a business would face for infection and death which could be traced to the operation of that business. This childlike view of business operation does not pass the smell-test with me. Real businesses would recognize the risks of operation, and would not be so “Ra, ra” hell-bent on operation at any cost.
There is a rather blatant idiocy, also, in the cause-effect reversal which ocurrs in lockdown versus infection. The infection rate is low in areas which have not been placed in lockdown, because the lockdown is not being implemented with such low infection. The purported claim that not implementing the lockdown would produce the low infection numbers is the height of ChiCom propaganda idiocy.
Lastly, China must be purged from America’s economy. Every electric trimmer and plastic bottle her business uses. Every battery and light bulb.
That is, unless you just want more of this.
You’re not going to hear any of that in this kind of writing, either.
Absolutely
“What the hell have happened to men?”
Liberal schools & dominant man hating mothers is what happened to men.
Yeah but airlines demand that you wear mask. Personally I have no intention to fly anywhere
It’s laughable that you castigate businesses for not considering the impact on the Health Insurance Co. when businesses are reopened.
You seem to think a business can simply put everything on hold when it shuts down and just start up again whenever and pick up where they left off.
Doesn’t work that way. Bills must be paid, and who the HELL worries about the Health insurers? They CHOSE to be in the “insurance” business and by accepting payment from it’s clients promise to cover their expenses in exactly the situation we are in now.
You must be blind to not see what is being done here versus what SHOULD be done. Protect the people 60 yrs old and over because THAT is where 95% of the deaths are occurring. Ask them to self quarantine and at the first sign of infection treat them with what we now KNOW has a 90% plus chance of getting them thru it, Hydroxychloriquine +.
The overkill by gov’t is outrageous and if it isn’t the PERFECT example of the so called “cure” being worse than the disease then nothing is.
Amen!
And there's no shortage of people who are so confident in their opinions (=guesses) that they mistake them for facts.
When you get older you use the sense of smell. I will be 78 in August and my son teases me many times by saying. ‘You can’t smell anything anyway’
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