Oklahoma nail salon worker tests positive days after reopening

[Tanuki]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/other/oklahoma-nail-salon-worker-contracted-the-coronavirus-shortly-after-the-business-reopened/ar-BB146BJU?ocid=msedgdhp&li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=NL_ENUS_D1_20200519_4_3

"The Nailspot opened its doors for the first time in weeks on May 5. Just over a week later, the beauty parlor in northeast Oklahoma is closing them again after an employee was infected with the coronavirus.

"We have received a positive COVID-19 test from a staff member who was in the salon on May 5-7," the Bartlesville shop announced in a May 13 post on Facebook. "If you were in the salon on these days you could have been potentially exposed."
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Washington County Health Department recommends that any customer that was in the salon during this time self-isolate for 14 days and if symptoms arise to contact Washington County Health Dept for further information and instruction," the salon wrote in its Facebook post. Nailspot plans to reopen on May 26.
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The guidelines do not call for either employees or customers to wear masks, suggesting only that employees consider wearing them "if the customer requests."...(more)

[louis-t]

1. Who could have seen that coming?

[Brainfodder]

29. It just defies logic and reasoning, oh my gosh, how could this happen?

[SoonerPride]

2. Kick and rec

[struggle4progress]

3. "Let us do your coughin nails!"

[Doremus]

10. Ha!

well done

[Squinch]

4. "... and then they'll tell two friends, and so on and so on and so on..."

[global1]

5. A Good Practice To Implement When A Business....

like a beauty parlor, barber shop, tatoo parlor, etc re-opens is to have a log book on a daily basis of the people that enter that business. Then if someone tests positive - one could check the log book for the other people that frequented the business that day - to be able to contact them and inform them of their exposure. Kind of a form of contact tracing.

[fescuerescue]

22. A lawyer would tell you otherwise

Since that would create proof for lawsuits purposes.

Kinda sucky but that's the nature of liability laws.

[Tipperary]

26. I think all such businesses have appointment books.

I would assume so anyway.

[louis-t]

32. Yeah, yeah, that would be the least they could do.

After exposing their clients to a deadly disease.

[SheltieLover]

6. Well

Getting nails done, IMO, is hardly essential.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. This will kill business

It's almost completely ignored now, but a few weeks ago at the White House, business leaders and economists released a statement that said the interests of the economy and interests of health were not at odds. Shutting down was what was best for the economy.

These businesses who have this happen are going to close for good, that salon's brand is dead, when they do reopen no one will go there.

[theaocp]

21. Yea, that was my fear.

Take any restaurant. CV19 shows up there. Who wants to volunteer to go back? Not many would be my guess, MAGAts nonwithstanding.

[Johnny2X2X]

23. Imagine a hotel has an outbreak

Their brand could be crushed nationwide.

[louis-t]

33. Cruise ships should all be bankrupt.

They've always recovered from the incidents with mass outbreaks of bacterial contamination. I doubt I will ever take a cruise.

[cos dem]

8. I used to live in Bartlesville

Not at all surprised.

[Delmette2.0]

19. So did i.

I was there from '75 to '86. I don't miss B'ville or Ok la.

[RAB910]

9. Public health professional here

In my opinion, you need to have the following for hair, nails, barbers, etc

The employee needs to have a face shield and a KN95 mask

The customer needs a minimum of a face covering (hold it in place when the needed)


Anything less than that is inviting trouble.

[blogslut]

18. Also, the silence from state Cosmetology/Barber boards is deafening

I have yet to hear a peep from any of those entities, from any of these states that are allowing the re-opening of hair/manicure salons and barber shops.

[RAB910]

20. Silence would be a good idea at the places

Talking sheds more virus

[crickets]

11. smh - That didn't take long. nt

[gratuitous]

13. Not long at all

In fact, quite a bit shorter time than the best estimates on the incubation period for the virus. Which may mean that the salon worker was infected asymptomatically for a week or so before the salon re-opened. And, that's the catch of the Covid-19 pandemic: You can be infected and shedding the virus to all those around you for a couple of weeks before you show symptoms.

[tanyev]

12. Their French nails are to die for!

[lindysalsagal]

14. Weeks. Right on schedule.

[Volaris]

35. This exactly. And in 2 more weeks, every county that has stupidly let these businesses reopen,

Are gonna have no choice but to report the spike in cases, and shut it all down again.

[Demsrule86]

15. I have to admit...I don't do my own nails and ours opened on Monday...one of the first in...lots of

precautions (pedicure). They have liners for the basins and scrum the basin and throw away the plastic lines after each use.
They also have plexi screens up...very well done. Now I will be good for a while...everyone is a mask and gloves including customers who have to wait outside social distancing or they won't be allowed in.

[Behind the Aegis]

16. Located near Chik-Fil-A and Hobby Lobby.

They are literally all in a row. Hmmm....

[dreamland]

17. Darling, didn't you know? "Those nails were just to die for".

I'm sure they tip her well for it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. FREEDUMB!!!!!!!

[llmart]

25. I have absolutely no idea how I've managed to live to 71 years old...

without ever having my nails done.

[Tipperary]

27. I have never had mine done either.

My nails are perfectly neat, clean and trimmed. Mom taught me at an early age.

[llmart]

28. Mine too.

I keep them short and neat and no one would ever look at my nails and think they were unsightly. I've never understood paying someone to take care of my nails. But then, I'm pretty frugal.

[Tipperary]

31. I just would not like being that close someone I do not know for that long, even pre-pandemic.

I do not even like going for a haircut, and now that I have learned I can do it myself, I doubt I will ever do that again. But no, never got the mani/pedi thing, though I have a couple friends who are obsessive about it.

[GulfCoast66]

34. Totally off subject, but a confession.

I work with my hands a lot even though I’m a manager. I cut and clean my nails regularly but they are nothing to write home about.

Before the pandemic my wife and had reached the point where we could travel outside of the country yearly.

We get to the airport early and both have manicures. Of course I don’t have my nails painted, but they really clean them up and apply a coat to strengthen them. It is really an enjoyable process. Kind of a splurge. And believe me, none of my friends would believe it. And none will ever know!!

But opening them now with no required PPE is crazy.

[Initech]

30. What could go wrong?