a fb friend posted this...
A reporter in named Wayne Baker messaged me asking 3 questions
1. How has the pandemic affected your business?
2. What do you think of the speaker apparently violating the facemask rules?
3. Wha do you think would happen to your business if you violated the rules?
My response is as follows:
Hi Wayne when you ask me how this pandemic has affected my business. It is really hard for me to separate my business from my family, faith and personal life. I created this business with the help of my family. Many sacrifices. My children and my husband spending less time with me. My parents helped out as much as they could even leveraging their home and property against my new salon building bought 2 years ago this coming March. My husband and I put everything we had into creating this salon with the help of God. I worked very hard to achieve the American dream. To not have to be reliant on the government. I was having one of the best years I had ever had in 5.5 years. I was even in the process of trying to hire someone to work with me because I couldn't keep up with the amount of people wanting appointments.
Pandemic hits. My husband is a concrete foreman and here in Wisconsin you don't do flat work in March. So, he was laid off which happens every year to people in that industry. At that time of the year I am the bread winner of the family. The one who sustains us in every area. I thought 2 weeks to "flatten the curve," ok we can survive 2 weeks. It won't be good but we won't lose everything.
Then, the governor pushes it out and pushes it out. Praying lots and lots of praying. Looking at the possibility of losing everything we've built. Working hard just as anyone who wants to live the American Dream should.
The "help" for small business was a joke. And many others feel this same way. Some people came out smelling like roses, others not so much. Business is definitely not the same as pre pandemic. I have a fraction of the appointments and definitely a fraction of the big ticket services.
Then you have the insanity of schools wanting to do virtual. We have created a society where most of the time both parents HAVE to work. And what happens when both parents work? They spend and have bills as if both work. So, to then tell them that they need to figure out how to pay bills while one parent is forced to stay home and essentially homeschool their children is absolutely insane.How ludicrous, while, all this time YMCA programs, Boys and girls club, Camps, and daycares have all been running successfully, without any major issues.
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