Well....yes. Since early November.
This topic got brought up via NDR (regional public news from the NW of Germany).
We are up to around 80-odd days where beauty-shops and barber-shops have been shutdown.
What the NDR journalists dug up....via the union folks for hair-cutters....a fair amount of black-market business is being conducted.
Mobile hair-cutting operations are now running in various areas....strictly illegal of course.
Chief reason? Well....it goes to customers asking for the service, and the extremely low amount of state-aid provided to the hair-cutter crowd.
It reached a stage this week....that the state guild association up in Schleswig-Holstein (way far northern state of Germany) started sending posters out to shut-down hairdressing/barber shops suggesting that people NOT be engaged in illegal hair activities.
I know....you probably are amused and grinning over this waste of time and effort.....asking if the shops are closed down....why any idiot would put up the crazy poster?
Relief coming in February? There seems to be some element of the German population who believes that things will open up at that point. I have my doubts and think it's more likely to stay closed to Easter (4 April), and approximately one-quarter of the German population will have at least two illegal hair-cuts between early December and Easter.
The rest of Germany? Those who were legal (like myself) and avoided illegal hair-cuts? Well...by mid-April when they probably reopen, it'll be impossible to get a hair-cut until mid-May, and it'll be seven months of zero hair-cuts, and with self-cutting....my hair style will be pretty crappy.
No comments:
Post a Comment