Remaining closed put several tattoo shop at risk of never opening again. The tattoo industry is a major contributor to both the community and economy. We encounter infectious disease on a regular basis and utilize every safety precaution possible allowing us to reopen for private appointments only at the very least would be less of a rest then most of the business is open currently

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

I am a, Florida licensed stylist. I, like many are without work. I am self employed and many opptions do not aply to me and I am not alone.

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

Massage therapy is essential. Especially at this stressful time.

The need for spay/neuter is especially critical for cats. Every year thousands of kittens are born outside and many are rescued by humane societies and cats rescues. Many are not lucky enough to be rescued and become unfixed feral cats which can produce 3 or 4 litters per year with an average of 4 kittens per litter. We can stop this tsunami of kittens if we can get these clinics open and running by the end of this month. We need to reopen these clinics now.

We have a beautiful community. And we all pitch in to make it look gorgeous. Let’s have an area to enjoy. That section is a main reasons why we bought our home..

So many salon professionals depend on their income for food, shelter and utilities while many are getting no help from our state unemployment system.

Because tattoo artists are self employed. Because for a lot of them this is their only source of income. Because you have promised help and we are over a month into this with no help for the self employed. You are failing them and you need to help them out before they can no longer recover from this shutdown.

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Here in upstate we are much closer to Vermont or Mass then New York city. If these states open before us the survival of the beauty business in upstate NY is at risk. We are already facing a grave financial hardship.

The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk. Independent beauty professionals rely on the income from our clients. We are facing a grave financial hardship.