Our editor bkollmeyer lives in Spain, which she describes 'like a box, tightly shut for seven weeks, that is allowing in more light by the day.' She writes about the easing of the lockdown and the mixed emotions that come with it.
MADRID — Still wary of public transportation, I walked nearly 2 miles to get my hair cut last weekend. On the way, I saw lots of people standing in line — waiting to buy groceries, to buy fish or fruit at the tiny shops that can only hold one or two people at a time, to buy bread at a bakery.
Beaches have been only for exercise in Spain, with plenty of restrictions expected for summer. In much of the U.S. the beaches look pretty full and mostly rule-free these days. Hair salons opened earlier this month here, and it wasn’t hard to get an appointment at mine, where the co-owner is feeling relief and fear these days. Relief because, after seven weeks, he is back to cutting hair and earning a living. Fear because he can only have half the number of clients in the shop at one time — just five. He’s haunted by one forecast that sees 30% of salons in Spain not surviving the pandemic fallout.
“My objective is to stay healthy. If I am sick I put myself at risk, my workers, my clients,” says Depret, who goes nowhere but from home to work and back. They are happy to see clients, but stories of hardship abound. Depret tells of one “desperate” man who recently reopened his shoe store and had to buy summer styles even as he is stuck with unsold winter stock. He has 30 customers a day, as opposed to a prepandemic 100. And they aren’t buying.
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