Haircut!

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12 weeks (or thereabouts) without a haircut?!

What blinding realisations are popping into your head?

Are hairdressers closing? Have an apt for Wednesday...

Tbh I haven't had a hair cut since October 2018 so this doesn't overly bother me.

I'm mostly realising it's going to be ages before I can have pasta again as the bloody shops never have any

I have an appointment booked for Friday! I’m hoping they will still be open! I have bought hair dye just incase!

What part of avoid unnecessary social interaction don’t you understand? A hair appointment is not necessary. You’ve already bought hair dye. Do it yourself and get a grip.

I have an appointment this week. There will be at most 4 people in the salon. I assume the hairdresser will be annoyed if people cancel given its her livelihood. During the day I am still going to work and seeing around 180 children and a couple of dozen adults. It's hard to see how the hairdressers is worse than that. I certainly wouldn't make an appointment but if they are open and I'm showing no symptoms I think I will go.

1995 was the last time I went for a haircut so I think I will manage

I get your point though OP, are people really still going for a haircut?

@Minesabecks yes definitely more important to support someone livelihood than someone’s actual life.

How do you plan to enforce the social distancing rule with the person doing your hair? Or you just don’t care about following government advice that has been set down? Your hair is more important?

If nobody is going to be going out does it really matter? Just let it grow. I feel sorry for hairdressers though and everyone else whose business is affected

You don't think that supporting someone's livelihood is supporting their life? You don't think that some people and their families are really going to struggle if they don't get paid for months? There's more than the virus at play here.

I repeat, I am going to work everyday at the government's request, with zero distancing and looking after your children. To be at the hairdressers is as risky as meeting up in a room with three friends, or a shop with three people in it. Of course hair isn't as important as life. If my hairdresser is unwell or wishes to cancel that's great actually. But I don't plan to screw her over otherwise. When Boris tells me not to go to work I will not sit in a room with three people. I am certainly not going to pubs or cinemas or the gym and have no longer an Easter holiday planned.
I feel I am missing something obvious about the vitriol here, but it's not coming.

I was due to go Weds but bought some dye Sat in case.
As much as I don't want grey roots, I won't be honouring my appointment now.
The salon has lots of pensioners and I wouldn't put it past them to be there and I won't be responsible for potentially spreading at the salon!

My hairdresser is open and sent me a reminder text this evening for my appointment tomorrow.

Not all small businesses can just cut off their income flow like that for a significant period.

I've just checked her website. Lots of stuff about hand washing and disinfectant and how they won't work if ill - clearly they are taking the risk.

If my hairdresser closes, I'll wear glamorously tied head scarfs or a hat at a jaunty angle. I'm going to shake up my outfits just for the sheer hell of it. 👒

@Minesabecks let me break it down for you so you can understand what you’re missing.

Scenario 1: you got to hairdresser, someone in salon gets Coronavirus. You get Coronavirus. You go into work, you spread it all around, you go home. You give it to your family members. They spread it around and so on.

Scenario 2: you get a grip. You cancel your haircut. Someone who doesn’t and goes get the virus. ALL the people you would have gone on to infect are not involved as are you.

It’s this concept called social distancing. And it’s this government policy they announced today about reducing UNNECESSARY social interaction. I’m sure you can see a rerun of it on sky news if you’re interested in learning more.

Did you rub some bleach in your eyes today? Can you manage not to do other dangerous things without someone specifically telling you not to?

I’m sorry you have to go to work. hopefully that will change soon. But two wrongs don’t make a right.

When the schools finally close, I'm planning on wearing pyjamas for 12 weeks.

This is why we need to be on lockdown now. Anything that is not essential needs to be shut. The government should arrange to protect peoples livelihoods, like other countries are doing.

Hmm, I've got an appointment this week and, until about 18:00 this evening, was planning on going as want to support hairdresser and may not get another chance for a while. Now I'm thinking I should cancel and pay her anyway.

Honestly aspoonful you are not adding anything to what I've heard already. The minute I have a symptom I will self isolate. The minute a shop worker or hairdresser or my children's childminder has a symptom I hope they will self isolate too. We are not socialising in groups.
I am happy with this level of interaction. If it was a larger salon maybe I would think differently.

But thanks for the patronising post by the way, it helped massively in making my mind up.

Oh sorry. I didn’t realise you knew all this and were purposely planing to not do your part to minimise the spread and were actively avoiding following government advice because you want to get a haircut. I suppose you can’t reason with stupid.

Let’s hope you’re not one of those asymptomatic people eh! Or let’s hope no one planning to go to the salon the same time as you has a symptom but thinks sure it’s probably nothing. Look at you happy to take all these risks of infecting everyone around you for a haircut. Enjoy!

Sorry so I would be to blame but the the other people at the hairdressers wouldn't, or the hairdresser herself? I'm not following the logic.
But look this is an emotive time and I've no desire to continue slinging mud back and forth on a forum (albeit a nicely social-distanced one). And I know what you are posting comes from a good place.

I've been colouring my hair for years, maybe 4 months isolation is the right time to give up and accept the grey

I’ve got a haircut tomorrow and I am going. Have cancelled social plans for the foreseeable except for dinner out on Sunday.

Boris has absolutely screwed small businesses owners by doing this and I don’t particularly feel like being complicit in it. If it’s that necessary to do then fine, do it and compel these places to shut and allow them to claim and/or compensate appropriately. Don’t put them in this awful position.

I'm going Wednesday

My hairdresser needs the money

And I work in a fucking school with hundreds of snotty little disease ridden kids 🤷‍♀️