Becky Goodwin was on “pins and needles all week.”
The owner of Tula Organic Salon & Spa in Squirrel Hill was worried about Gov. Tom Wolf ordering another shutdown.
Goodwin’s business, along with other salons and barber shops in the state, was ordered closed for three months between March and June. She dreaded the thought of going through it all again.
But on Thursday afternoon, while the governor was ordering the closure of restaurants, bars and high school sports until Jan. 4, he gave her and other salon owners a reprieve.
Why would hair-cutting joints be allowed to remain open? State officials presented Meda Higa, an assistant professor of biology at York College. She referenced a case study of hair salons where masking kept people from contracting the coronavirus by stylists who had tested positive for covid-19.