The hairdressers in the district no longer want to keep their feet still.
They have sophisticated hygiene concepts, the need for a haircut or fresh highlights is huge for most of them.
The hairdressers want to fight with various campaigns that they can reopen their shops.
County - Numerous industries are affected by the effects of the Corona lockdown: the hospitality industry, retailers, numerous service companies.
But it hits the hairdressers particularly hard.
If the lockdown really did end on February 14th - which is still a long way off - then they weren't allowed to open their stores for ten weeks.
"During this time, the companies are completely without income," says the managing director of the Oberland District Craftsmen's Association, Roland Streim, in an interview with the local newspaper.
"The restaurateurs can at least do the to-go business, the retailers have the opportunity to make at least some sales through Click & Collect," he explains.
“But a hairdresser cannot do a to-go business.” Sure, loyal customers will pick up one or two tints or a can of hairspray at the hairdresser's - but that is not the case in view of the immense costs that companies have to shoulder weight.
The lease is due, even if the employees are on short-time work, the salary must first be advanced by the hairdressers.
Over the past few months, it has been a painful experience that the government has to wait too long for money.
Some companies have meanwhile already given up on the sails: "But these were usually companies whose bosses were about to retire and simply preferred to retire in view of the corona pandemic," said Streim.
However, it is impossible to say whether and when the first hairdressers, for which this does not apply, will have to give up.
"But in conversations with those affected, you can tell that the situation is serious." In addition, the hairdressing trade is "the only full craft that is not allowed to work."
On Friday yesterday, Bavaria's hairdressers pointed out in what hopeless situation they are with a nationwide campaign.
With the motto “We leave the lights on”, the closed salons remained lit for 24 hours.
“For entrepreneurs in the hairdressing trade, the current programs ultimately do not provide any help for a decent survival in the crisis.
As those who have been successful up to now, all they have left is basic security as a lifeline, ”said the state guild master Petra Zander about the background to the campaign.
“We are fighting for our existence and want to work.
We have been closed for five weeks and have not yet received a cent. "
The general secretary of the Free Voters in the state parliament, Susann Enders, meanwhile, after a conversation with master hairdresser Jörg Mengel, warns of growing illegal employment in this area.
Mengel rejects illegal work in principle.
“The current legal regulation makes people ask their hairdressers about illegal work.
In the bathrooms, where no functioning hygiene concept is implemented, the risk of infection is enormous, ”he is quoted as saying.
Ender says he agrees: Corona is a serious threat, she emphasizes.
Wrong decisions put people's lives at risk.
As a health politician, in this case, however, she lacks the benefit to contain the infection process.
The measure to close hairdressing salons is disproportionate to the effects.
“A law is not there to seek the best secret routes to circumvent it.
I would much prefer a haircut under the prerequisites of a decent hygiene concept with FFP 2 mask compulsory in the salon than the thought that hairdressers across Bavaria are secretly out and about in 10 different private households every day. " Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söders claimed in a government statement that "hairdressers are also systemically relevant".