Texas salon owner rips cease-and-desist letter in protest of stay-at-home order

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A salon owner in Texas tore to pieces a cease-and-desist letter she received from a Dallas County judge telling her to close her business after she reopened her shop in defiance of stay-at-home orders.

According to a local CBS station, Shelley Luther, the owner of Dallas-based Salon A la Mode, received the letter from Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins on Friday. The move by Jenkins came after Luther had reopened her shop despite stay-at-home orders mandating nonessential businesses close temporarily during the coronavirus pandemic.

But that didn't stop Luther from ripping the paper to pieces during a demonstration held near the Frisco City Hall over the weekend where protesters called for state officials to reopen nonessential businesses after weeks of closure during the pandemic.

"Our salon and other small businesses were closed down on Mar. 22, and we have not had any income since," she said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-salon-owner-rips-cease-and-desist-letter-in-protest-of-stay-at-home-order/ar-BB13eWDl?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=NL_ENUS_D1_20200427_9_2

[TruckFump]

1. So, dead people are better?

Who knew?

[kacekwl]

2. So if these folks who don't want to stay home they can get jobs

working in grocery stores, fast food restaurants, shopping and delivery services to get some income and satisfy their need to get out among the world. Also stick it to the lefty commies. Grab your bootstraps people.

[napi21]

3. It doesn't say if she had any customers. After she opened her salon, did people come back? I live

in Ga. and our Gov. lifted the stay-at-home order, but very few customers are going back. Other than the barber shops, all I saw on the news was a bowling alley that had one guy bowling & that was the owner! People are still afraid to go out & Ga. hasn't had a reduced # of new cases, they're not doing wide spread testing & they doesn't have any program to do contact follow up. Just curious if Tx. reacted the same way.

[tanyev]

4. Oh, yes. They had chairs set up outside with several feet between them

and on the news story I saw there were several people waiting. I think the majority of people are going to be more cautious, but all the people who agree with with this lady are going to be drawn like moths to a flame.

[Wolves ov Siberia]

5. you'd be surprised

There were a lot of people out. The city of Colleyville reopened (following specific guidelines) but there were two hour waits for tables on the patio. People are amazing for lack of a better word. No one pays attention to what the experts say. Everything is a political issue to them. It is going to take a bunch of people getting sick and dying that they know personally for the seriousness to sink in. Our country is sick mentally, physically, and intellectually.

[SoonerPride]

6. Welcome to DU!

[Blue_true]

10. Honestly. If the anti-government types get sick, I could care less

if they infect only people that think like them. But that won't happen, that is why the rest of society request that they think of something other than THEIR rights. One reality is that in a society, all of us give up rights daily to participate in society

[Delphinus]

11. You said it!

Our country is sick mentally, physically, and intellectually.

And, welcome to DU!

[Dem2]

7. I stopped going to the gym and restaurants 2 weeks before our state's order

As noted anecdotally above, there will be people who will chance it. I guess we'll see. It won't be me.

[lpbk2713]

8. OxyRush would be proud.

But that doesn't count for shit.

[Lars39]

9. Yank her license if she continues to open.

[Victor_c3]

12. I understand her pain. The bailout money went to the wrong businesses

Instead of bailing out corporations that continue to act irresponsibly, small businesses like these should have gotten a healthy stimulus.

My parents own and run a small restaurant, it’s been open longer than I’ve been alive. They’re hurting really bad too.

However, defying the quarantine is pure idiotic and destructive to us as all. More instances like this are going to happen the longer this drags out. More needs to be done for the little guys to ease the pain of an extended quarantine.