How does one social distance while getting a manicure or haircut?

[tulipsandroses]

I have always enjoyed my monthly mani/pedi. It was always my little treat to myself. I won't be going near one for the foreseeable future. Brian Kemp seems to think its possible to social distance while getting your hair or nails done?

[brooklynite]

1. Consider that you don't social distance from your doctor...

...Presumably staff will be expected to wear masks and gloves.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Going to the doctor isn't usually optional or a luxury. Getting your nails done is.

And I would expect a doctor's office to be more knowledgeable about hygiene and disinfecting and better equipped for it.

[Initech]

21. I can't exactly go see my dermatologist or ENT wearing a face mask.

I wonder how that is going to work.

[tulipsandroses]

12. Does not seem to be set rules there re: masks and gloves

Kemp has said for them to wear masks and gloves "when appropriate". When seeing my healthcare provider, he or she will probably not be standing over me or touching me for an hour without PPE. I'm also able to do telemed with my provider if I am not going in for a full physical or anything that does not need for him/her to touch me.

[LanternWaste]

29. Is anyone arguing that consideration?

Or (presumably) just another irrelevancy?

[essme]

46. Well I see a doc (or NP) once or twice annually. I get my hair cut 4 to 6 times a year.

When I see my doc we are alone in the room. When I get my hair cut there can be 10 or 2 people in the same room and in a chair next to me. I also presume that a clinic has more safety built in than a supercuts.

Not sure which equivalency we are using on this one?

[dawg day]

2. Massage parlors too

It's like Kemp decided to choose the businesses that require the most personal contact.

Bowling alleys! Tattoo parlors!

He's really going for the "essential" businesses.

[lame54]

33. Can lead to an unhappy ending

[gratuitous]

37. Not so much essential businesses as expendable workers

Notice how doctors and lawyers offices didn't make the list of essential businesses in Georgia? Banks didn't either. Almost as if Gov. Kemp was trying to winnow the voting population again, like he did when he trimmed the voter rolls so favorably for his election last year.

[tulipsandroses]

40. That is a very good point!

No disrespect to hairstylists, barbers and nail techs. But these are not essential businesses. It is a shame that big businesses were allowed to gobble up the money for small businesses. These are the types of businesses that should have been first in line so they can stay closed until we stem the tide. He also has not set out any rules about how this should be done.

Like someone else mentioned in this thread, limiting the # of customers allowed, sanitizing everything after each customer. No set rules at all.

You may be on to something about him wanting to purge voters.

[Ohiogal]

3. I spoke with my hairdresser last week

Just to touch base with her. She thought that in Ohio they won’t be opening up hair salons until June or July, for the exact reasons you mentioned. She said even then, they will probably require all stylists and customers to wear masks or else no service. For the life of me, I don’t understand how you can cut someone’s hair and practice social distancing at the same time, either. AND having a hair cut isn’t worth the risk of getting the virus!

[redstatebluegirl]

10. Not to mention getting a color.

When I get a color it takes 3 hours (I get highlights). I have always colored because my husband is 12 years younger and I am a little sensitive but I am more than prepared to see what I look like with gray hair. It will be silver according to my hairdresser, so I may like it who knows. Not worth dying that is for sure. I sent my hairdresser some money last week, I feel for her.

[bdamomma]

39. Oh that's a nice

gesture of sending some money to your hairdresser. Very nice. She must have appreciated that.

[redstatebluegirl]

47. I know things are tough for her.

We are both still working for now. She has kids and her husband works in the oil fields, it is going to be tough on them.

[samplegirl]

15. We have all skipped

haircuts. We aren’t going to die. I am staying in just so I can keep Bob in food during his chemo. Food delivery into my garage.

[Ohiogal]

19. Please tell Bob

We’re all pulling for him.

And thank you for being such a good friend to him.

[mercuryblues]

4. or in a movie theater

a restaurant, kids on a swing set at the park, gas station, festival, concerts on the green, boat landings, fishing spots, and so on...

[rustysgurl]

5. I too have enjoyed a mani/pedi ...

Before this all started I was always concerned that equipment (chairs, footbaths, etc., were properly sanitized). Now I am assuming that they won't be, so will not be getting one anytime soon.

[LAS14]

6. My immediate reaction also. nt

[Igel]

8. Masks. Lots of alcohol.

For wiping, not drinking.

For fun, put up a plexiglass shield for the manicure. Welder's mask for the haircut.


Just after the ban went into effect in one city, the mayor there had her hair trimmed. She said as justification that she took her personal grooming very seriously. If she could do it, the response went, why can't everybody else? It was a minor scandal, but quieted down since the agitprop would have been against somebody we're pro. And she had lots of defenders, since the only reason people could see for objecting was race, sexual orientation, gender, and partisanship. Not the fact that she ordered hair salons/barbershops closed then turned around and did what she forbad others' doing.

[Fiendish Thingy]

9. You don't

That’s why, in most responsible communities, these businesses are closed.

[lagomorph777]

44. +1

[roamer65]

11. By cutting your own hair.

Like I did last night.

A butch is way easier than I thought.

Short hair is gonna be back in vogue.

[Maeve]

26. I helped trim Hubby's hair last week

At least it has time to grow back...

[roamer65]

35. I figured the same.

Now I have clippers it won’t get that long again, though.

[lagomorph777]

45. Flobee.

Mine has saved me piles of $$$ and it's the first haircut my spouse hasn't complained about. Seems I'm a better hairdresser than the pros.

[MerryBlooms]

13. The list of businesses he's opening is bizarre and impossible

to follow social distancing guidelines. I guess they hope for the best, but prepare for the worst? I fear for the people who are high risk and who are trying to protect themselves and others... Having your governor undermine and completely undercut all your efforts must be disheartening and frightening.

[Ohiogal]

20. Bowling alleys?

You stick your hand down into the balls that hundreds of others have used ... wear the shoes a hundred others have worn ... I never thought that was sanitary even before all this happened.

And gyms! People sweating and breathing hard all over the place? Yuk!

[unblock]

14. very long clippers

[Hugin]

16. I guess they look very much like the IHOP "All you can eat" flatware...

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Or A Stylist With REALLY Long Arms

Don't know how those long armed stylists walk without tripping over their own forearms!

[bdamomma]

17. Brian Kemp

is showing his stupidity. There is no other way for your barber/stylist to cut your hair, unless you cut it yourself. In this occupation there is close contact.

[mucifer]

18. Mayor Lightfoot here in Chicago got in a lot of trouble in the media for getting a haircut

and that's with gloves and masks.

Scissors and a nail clipper are your best bet to be safe.

[CTyankee]

24. Our nearby podiatrist does our toenails and it's covered by Medicare!

Of course, you don't get the foot massage and footbath. You are out of there in just a few minutes!

[shanti]

34. Do they have to be long and thickened for the podiatrist to do them?

Mother has dementia and is 88. Recently, her toenails have begun to look like raptor claws. She has them cut at the podiatrist too. Is this something that's common as one ages?

[CTyankee]

41. IDK, but my guess is that comes with age. I know mine are fierce and so are hubby's

I can't even get them cut using a clipper. It's not sharp enough and I'm not strong enough!

However, I'm waiting out for the nail salon if things don't improve soon!

Sheesh. Something else to put on my list to blame Trump for...

[northoftheborder]

22. I can do without a haircut, even though -

I am beginning to look like Beethoven's sister. It doesn't matter since I'm not going anywhere. But I cannot reach my feet to do even a nail cut - - which I'll need in a few weeks.

I went for my eye treatments yesterday to retinal physician. All the staff and the doctor in the office had on masks, and they allowed only one person in waiting room at a time. After checking in, we went back to car. I was wearing a mask; I only saw four other patients in my visit there over an hour's time; two of those were wearing masks, two weren't. We're in a closed down suburban county with only 14 cases of Covid.

[RobinA]

23. I Am Pretty Unconvinced

that masks do much, so I will be dying my own hair until I can go to the salon without a mask. Plus. I don't want my hair cut with a mask on. And you certainly can't have your hair dyed with a mask on. I hope there will be some salons left when we can take the masks off.

[CTyankee]

42. Our salons are closed by order of the governor. So we're SOL...

[In_The_Wind]

25. Wear a mask.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. I See That Coming

Nearly everywhere.
Conditional reopenings. Can open, must have masks, gloves, limit the # of customers at one time, sanitize between each customer...
The governors in even the strictest states understand that people are getting itchy and total absence of amenities is multiplying stress. I think they'll come up with a plan to step into this logically, as safely as they can.

[In_The_Wind]

32. Yes, I believe they are working on a plan like you've suggested.

[smirkymonkey]

28. Do it yourself.

It's not that hard. Besides, who is going to see you anyway? Is it really that important? I know it's not for you, but that idiot Kemp seems to think it's worth risking your life for. Don't listen to him.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

31. Robots with side grinders and hedge trimmers.

Seriously, I can't see how this can be done without high risk to the employees. There will be an extreme surge of business for a while, which will make it worse.

Let's remember these employees would be doing these tasks for at least 8 or 10 hours a day, which makes their odds of being exposed very high and it also makes their chances of becoming careless high as well from fatigue.


KY............... ..........

[SeattleVet]

36. This will keep them 6 feet away.

I wouldn't want to be among their first customers, though, until they got the hang of using this!

[DesertRat]

38. This hairdresser found a solution

[lagomorph777]

43. Flobee and a nail clipper.

Seriously? Mani/Pedi? Come on.

[spanone]

48. ...or a massage?