Greg Abbott earlier this month announced a series of orders intended to restart the state economy, but salons and dine-in restaurant service are not yet allowed. Several supporters came to the salon, including a man carrying a long gun he made into a pole for a Texas flag with a coiled snake on it reading "Don't Tread on Me."īartender Britney Mathis cuts limes at Federal American Grill in Houston on Friday. She had two stylists and a nail technician on duty, a fraction of her normal staff. In Dallas, hair salon owner Shelley Luther was issued a citation at midday but she refused to close her business. Some businesses defy Texas orderĪ handful of Texas businesses reopened Friday in defiance of state guidance in the fight against the coronavirus, which allows retailers to offer "to go" service but leaves other restrictions in place.
"It's obviously extremely stupid and I'm simultaneously exhausted and so angry I can barely see straight," Thomas, 40, said in a phone interview. She had no plans to change that now just because of Kemp's decision. Meanwhile, Nikki Thomas is overdue for a visit to her hair stylist, but she's barely ventured outside her house in the six weeks since she's been working from home. coronavirus death occurred weeks earlier than thought in California Over the past five weeks, roughly 26 million people have filed for jobless aid, or about 1 in 6 U.S. On Friday, Trump signed a $484 billion US bill to aid employers and hospitals under stress from the pandemic - the latest federal effort to help keep afloat businesses that have had to close or scale down. Kemp's timeline to restart the economy proved too ambitious even for Trump, who said he disagrees with the fellow Republican's plan. Brian Kemp's assurance that hospital visits and new cases have levelled off enough for barbers, tattoo artists, massage therapists and personal trainers to return to work with restrictions. With deaths and infections still rising in Georgia, many business owners planned to stay closed despite Gov.
"We just said we can live in fear for a long time or we can trust that everything is going to be OK." Georgia deaths, infections still rising "We're super excited about going back, but we have caught a little flak from people who say it's too early," Amy Pembrook said. (Matt Barnard/Tulsa World via AP)Īmy Pembrook and her husband, Mike, reopened their hair salon in the northwest Oklahoma town of Fairview after it had been shuttered for about a month. Their economies have been battered by weeks of quarantine-fueled job losses and soaring unemployment claims, yet health officials warn that lifting stay-at-home orders now could spark a resurgence of COVID-19.ĭuring a White House press briefing Friday, President Donald Trump spoke optimistically of the economy but also asked people to continue social distancing and using face coverings.Įmmy Homer, right, gets a pedicure from Thuy Ho at BA Nail & Spa in Broken Arrow, Okla., on Friday. as other governors wrestle with conflicting priorities.
Similar scenarios have been playing out worldwide and will soon proliferate in the U.S. Though limited in scope, and subject to social-distancing restrictions, the reopenings marked a symbolic milestone in the debate raging in the United States - and the world - as to how quickly political leaders should lift economically damaging lockdown orders. Some Alaska municipalities chose to maintain stricter rules. Republican governors in Georgia and Oklahoma allowed salons, spas and barbershops to reopen, while Alaska opened the way for restaurants to resume dine-in service and retail shops and other businesses to open their doors, all with limitations. death toll from the coronavirus soared past 50,000, Georgia, Oklahoma and Alaska began loosening lockdown orders Friday on their pandemic-wounded businesses, despite warnings from health experts that the gradual steps toward normalcy might be happening too soon.
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