We need to go back to work

Physical health by way of indoor/outdoor exercise and recreation is essential to keeping people physically and mentally well.

To relieve the financial burden this has created on small business such as ourselves. We need to be looked at as essential not just for us but our clients well being and mental health we provide.

It is the survival of independent artists. As a small business, we are all at risk of financial hardship. Each artist is trained, and have proper knowledge of CPR, BBP, and First Aid and already practice the proper sanitation and safety methods of those that is used in and health care or hospitals. It would help us all, in such trying times. Thank you!

The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk. We are facing a grave financial hardship. As well as men and women(clients) feeling good about themselves and a reprieve from depression and desperation.

A majority of these people are SELF EMPLOYED . Sole proprietors that own their own shop and this is their job and only source of income ! They have bills to pay and families to support. They can not continue to go without making money. They are not Eligible for the same benefits as those who make a steady paycheck signed by a company or corporation. They are essential to the MENTAL HEALTH of their clients. They are more than just someone who plays with hair. They are therapists and wear many hats ! Put them back to work !

The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk. We are facing a grave financial hardship.

Ever since COVID-19 it has been affecting us in major ways and forcing people to make tough decisions for their families. We are going through financial hardship. we were promised bail outs through small business loans or grants. Yet the government has made the stipulations on these grants nearly impossible for our type of business to qualify for the loan to become a grant. Most tattoo shops if not all tattoo shops have been/ will be denied . We have no help when we have been promised help. The Quarantine was implemented to flatten the curve of the spread of COVID-19 to assure that hospitals were not overwhelmed all the once in to help prevent such a rapid spread . The numbers of infected people is on the decline . We tattoo artists are trained and certified in blood-borne pathogen‘s and cross-contamination as well as many other medical safety and sterility procedures we are just as safe if not safer than most hospitals. tattoo shops are very clean we take this serious this is our livelihood if we do not return back to work by May 1st many small businesses will be lost . We will not be able to pay our bills, rents/mortgages, Insurances, we have the very potentially of losing everything. We still have to pay our mortgages/ rents and phone bills and gas and electric none of this has stopped for us . Yes, we can postpone them, but they’re not going away! Some of us can still sustain for a while, but that doesn’t mean that we are doing OK this is how we pay our bills this is how we feed our families and we are not getting any help from anyone, nor are we asking for it. We just want to be allowed to return to work in a safe manor

The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk. We are facing a grave financial hardship. Most of our licensed individuals are considered 1099 and are being denied unemployment and are not qualifying for SBA loans in NC.

The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk. We are facing grave financial hardship. It imperative that salons and spas are reinstated. Most of this industry is self-employed, in order to feed our families, pay our bills, and generally survive we need to work. We are not given Paid Time Off or Insurance Benefits.

For most of us, as bar and restaurant owners, our entire life's work is on the line. It's time to flatten the economic curve and get Iowans back to work and get our kids back to school. It's time to end the fear and end the hysteria. We are supposed to be a free state, a free nation. We want to put common sense back in place. Focus our time and money on protecting the vulnerable residents of our State and let the rest of us go back to work. WE ARE ESSENTIAL!

The survival of the independent beauty professionals are at risk. We are facing a grave financial hardship.