Have you ever thought seriously about what has been truly indispensable to you?
The two-year-long pandemic has trained people to tolerate the absence of facilities that used to be considered essential or to find alternatives to the activities they used to enjoy. Most people have now got used to living without fitness centres, sports venues, cinemas, concert halls, and even restaurants (after 6pm), but not hair salons!
Seeing the aggressive fifth wave of covid, Hong Kong Government panickedly added barbershops and hair salons in early February to the list of business venues that were ordered to close. But in less than a month, the government decided to allow barbershops and hair salons to reopen, after realizing the subtle but desperate need for getting a haircut by most people! Other businesses were jealous of such exclusive privilege to reopen.
The importance of barbershops and hair salons has obviously been underestimated or totally unnoticed. Only until now when Government ordered their closure that people seriously felt their vitality! On the day before closure, we saw long queues of people outside almost all QB House branches rushing to get a haircut, and on the first day of reopening, we again saw long queues of people fearing possible sudden reclosure of barbershops. What a phenomenon!
My 80-year-old father-in-law rushed to get his first jab of covid vaccine just for the sake of getting access to his favourite barbershop!
March 23, 2022
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