February 22, 2021
You have just sat down at your regular hairdresser’s chair and shown them a picture of what kind of mullet you want. You two are getting pretty comfortable after a few sessions together, so the conversation is free-flowing and you feel like you can talk about nearly anything.
But an issue has come up: Your hairdresser feels the same way. As they whip their shears around your head, they start talking about their thoughts on the COVID-19 vaccine and not in a way that makes you feel great about being there with them.
So what now? What is the smoothest path to take to get out of this conversation and into your new mullet? The Chronicle reached out to experts to figure out how to turn a conversation with your hair stylist or any other acquaintance from hostile to apolitical.
Even though many of us have spent the last year far apart, this global Covid pandemic we re living through has raised its own set of social distance-related etiquette concerns. From the nuances of written correspondence to propriety around digital video communication, and even pet behaviour in public changes in how we re used to interacting with other people have created new rules of engagement.
Besides the obvious guidelines wear a mask; avoid shaking hands; stand over there; avoid gathering in groups; remember that not all disabilities are visible we wanted to find out from etiquette experts what some
non-obvious coronavirus-era etiquette rules they might recommend are.
Why good manners are more important than ever during pandemic travel
By The Washington Post
By Christopher Elliott
After a recent flight from Los Angeles to San Diego, Rosalinda Randall found herself wondering why travellers have lost their manners during the pandemic.
Randall was in the second-to-last row of the aircraft as she waited to disembark. The passenger seated behind her jumped ahead, blocking her as he grabbed his luggage from the overhead compartment. He wanted his bag, and he wanted it now, Randall remembers. Being last, there would have been plenty of time for him to retrieve his bag.