“This whole thing started in the state of California, the first community spread, in a nail salon,”in his daily media briefing on COVID-19 in Sacramento, after being asked why personal services, such as nail salons, should stay closed even as the state starts to slowly open businesses.Soon, the beauty school owner was connecting with Christie Nguyen, his friend and fellow nail salon operator. She, too, was taken aback by the governor’s words.
“It’s just baffling to know why he would come out and say that,” she added. “It could be misleading to the public when we are allowed to open again since everyone’s afraid of COVID.”In his Thursday remarks, the governor did not identify the nail salon in question or offer evidence to support his assertion.
Science has shown there are many ways that the virus can be contracted, he said, adding that “from a cultural lens, speaking out of context leads to an atmosphere where we can’t trust each other.”California is home to 11,000 nail salons, with 80% owned by Vietnamese Americans, Tam Nguyen said. The governor also said on Friday that his remarks were “not a statement to be extrapolated as an indictment, quite the contrary, of an industry I deeply respect.”“We’re trying to do everything we can to accommodate the needs of every industry, including the nail salon industry, to make sure we do it in a safe and responsible way,” Newsom said.
“What he said is inconsistent with who he is and his record,” she continued. “His administration is filled with immigrants and refugees, and he has proven that he welcomes everyone.”Nancy Rodriquez Holberg, an aesthetician and instructor who works with Tam Nguyen at Advance Beauty College, said the school is “doing everything we can in the past to be safe and in the future to be even safer.”
and operate a single-use method of disposing many manicure and pedicure supplies right after servicing each client. “PPE [protective personal equipment] is a new term to many in society, but we’ve always known it and have plenty of it available for our techs.”project, donating more than 120,000 medical-grade masks, 300,000 gloves and tens of thousands of other protective personal equipment to healthcare workers and front-line workers.
Funny, not I've never been to a salon where the stylists wore masks. Gloves only when they were coloring hair, but that's it.
this is incredibly racist. my parents are asian american and have lost a tremendous amount of customers due to accusations from strangers. Shame on you for posting this race-baiting article
Generally....
Wouldn't have anything to do with this now would it?🤔
Newsom wouldn’t name the nail salon and didn’t provide evidence yet he might’ve just killed an entire industry of hard-working people that used masks and gloves *before* Rona made it cool...but at least he’s keeping us safe at home under house arrest! Great job Governor!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
GuiltyHonkey Democrat Newsom is a pathological liar and a racist. He knows nail salons are overwhelmingly owned by and employ large numbers of Asians. He's a hater, a bigot, and conveniently refuses to disclose his 'source.' theirrules
Bunch of BS. Let’s get this stuff open with regulations. There are unregulated speakeasy salons all over.
Never had a manicure from anyone wearing mask and gloves.
Yes nail salon's.. I think this was as stupid as it comes. These facilities already wear mask because of chemical vape moron's. Unbelievable that looks and sounds very rascist.
GuiltyHonkey Screw the Covid story, how about that manicurist? 😍🥰😍
TexasLiberty15 Newsom is a political TYRANT who just wants MORE CONTROL over your daily lives.
Not the customers
This article holds little concern at this point, our main focus should be finding a reliable treatment and possibly a cure.
This is all lies...the mask is nothing other than silence and control!!! NO NO NO!!!!!!
He heard it from a friend who, heard from a friend who, heard it from a another. 🎶
They could have gotten it before work
Hmmm, you have to touch the other human to do their nails. Just going to put that out there...
No one coughs ?
No bras from the looks of it ..im thinking of getting a manicure
sounds to me that GavinNewsom is targeting a minority group Asians w/ no evidence? would he say this to a business popular w/ black people?
Air circulation from clients no wearing masks...
Just like Trump, Newsom making stupid statements and now people are going to be hurt
no be small thing🙄🙄
Newsom needs to stop grandstanding. Just offer data, not junk science conclusions.
FUCK their investment. WHAT IDIOT opens a NAIL SALON in the HEIGHT of COVID19? YES, let's have hand to sharp tool to common surface touches when ONLY .14% of the US population has EVEN BEEN TESTED! My DOCTOR is doing TeleMedicine - but THEIR BUSINESS must make MONEY. GreedyIDIOTS
Are people in LA really that stupid?
Nail salons tend to employee Asian ladies who have been enslaved. Could have been one way that it was brought to the country. Human smuggling
Are you really surprised?
People in California voted this guy in? You deserve him!
Where is the proof?
Mr. Newsom: The virus spread through the Wuhan virology lab.
Stunner
I BELIEVE IT. I HAVE SEEN HOW CARELESS THEY ARE WITH SANITATION OF TOOLS. Not all but through years some.
They may have been the first identified but considering we didn’t have enough tests in the beginning how do they really know it started there?
Everyone going to have to pay for the spread of this virus but China! 🤣
I believe it. They are SO RUDE to customers anyways . karma
Ok.
I’m pretty sure that sporting events and Kobe memorial didn’t help either.
hi. newsom didnt just ‘say so’ ffs. he doesn’t ‘just say’ anything. he has something called EVIDENCE. also there’s SCIENCE. jfc. who writes these tweet headlines? always shade/blame. newsom is doing a famtastic job during this hell. shut up.
Wow!
It spread through gas station pumps and atm machines as well.
Adios
That's not all they should be in fear of. The civil litigation will be massive.