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"Salons And Barbershops Across America Are About To Show How
Unnecessary This Lockdown Was" -- Scott Morefield at Townhall :
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?
. . .
The full article is here.
It’s frightening to think that going to work or getting your hair cut is now civil
disobedience.
RELATED: Tyler O'Neil at PJ Media:
Early estimates of the COVID-19
death rate, cited to justify the lockdowns, have proven far too pessimistic. In
March, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated
a 3.4 percent fatality rate and Dr. Anthony Fauci estimated that
the fatality rate of the coronavirus was about 2 percent. As PJ
Media’s Matt Margolis reported, at least five studies have placed the death
rate below 1 percent, confirming President Donald Trump’s hunch.
Recent studies have found that far
more people than expected have COVID-19 antibodies — meaning the virus has
spread faster than previously thought, but also proving that it is far less
deadly than previously thought.
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