GREELEY, Colo. (Reuters) – Royal Rose is resuming her Colorado tattoo studio next week after closing a month earlier, not since she wishes to but because the costs are accumulating and she states she has no choice.
Johanna Ramirez operates in her supermarket in Fort Lupton, Colorado, where she is concerned that not enough consumers are taking precautions, like wearing masks, to stop the spread of the coronavirus illness (COVID-19), April 23,2020 REUTERS/Keith Coffman
” I would stay at home if the federal government encouraged that, however they’re not, they’re saying ‘Hey, the best thing to do is go back to work, despite the fact that it might be risky,'” stated Rose, 39, sitting inside her salon in a wood-sided building on a leafy street in the farming and oil town of Greeley.
Colorado is among the first wave of U.S. states starting an experiment to reopen economies without the screening and contact-tracing infrastructure health specialists say is needed to prevent a revival of the coronavirus, with lives in the balance.
” I feel like we are like test dummies that they’re learning off of,” said Mary Ramirez, a Greeley beauty parlor owner who will not be reopening next week as she believes, like Rose, there is inadequate security guidance and preparation.
Colorado’s Democratic Guv Jared Polis gave the green light for retail curbside pickup to begin on Monday. Hairdresser, hair salons and tattoo parlors can open next Friday. Stores, dining establishments and movie theaters will follow.
Greeley’s Republican-controlled Weld County Commission, which has long sparred with Polis over public law, went an action even more, talking services they could reopen on Monday. The city and county of Denver, on the other hand, extended stay-at-home o