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California barber responds to new COVID lockdown order from Gov. Gavin Newsom: We're going to stay open

2020-07-16 | 🔗
Barbershop owner Juan Desmarais defied California's first coronavirus lockdown.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
My friends, the Broadway producer whats, going to happen to Broadway when we come back physical, physical Tucker good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight, im Brian called me to Tucker, dubbed him, the creepy lawyer and right now, Cpl will be but first major sacrifices during the coronavirus, lock stones, businesses by the way were destroyed. Unemployment record high still had one point three million today and now, after months of restrictions, the virus is back and politicians want to do the exact same thing again. So the sectors that were closing stay. Why do restaurants, wineries, museums and bars to outdoor activities to the extent possible
now with counties on the monitoring list? We have this list. Fitness, centers places of worship, offices for noncritical sectors, critical care services, including hair salons, barber shops and indoor malls at the news. Is they have the full screen built already from a month ago? So with so much shutdown fatigue, will people actually obey the second wave of shutdown? Some business owners like Barber Shop owner Wanda, Mias didnt, want to debate the first wave. I read something where my producer said: I dont care. If I get it meaning Covid 19, do you still feel that way? Absolutely a lot of us are going to get it most likely. We are not going to die. We have 99 point something percent of living. If we contract it or not,
hang on Juan. Let me jump in. Neither of us are doctors, there are numbers being thrown out, ive had it and it was not fun. Thats easy one of them is still getting paid. We saw that interview and weve invited him want to defend his position. The cops came in here today and to give us a cease and desist order from the city. Are you going to abide by it? Definitely im not. I will continue to work and stay open. My barbers will continue to serve the community. Do I expect them to come and dislike me absolutely. They said they were going to theres no plan in place, so im just going to be the scapegoat for the city it. So here we go again facing a second round of shutdowns.
The man that you just saw Juan demerits joins us now. The news is especially distressing for business owners like you, what are you going to do? We will stay open and continue to serve our community. We will not be bullied or live in fear and we are going to continue on. We are not going to let this stop us. Will your customers come? We are booked solid. We are the busiest shop in town we have people coming from all over the state and even out of the state we are booked and its not slowing down Juan since you went back online against the law and then they released you to do this. How many of your clients and customers tested positive for the coronavirus? As far as I know, none no one has ever come in and told us. None of my barbers have tested positive. My self hasnt tested positive and none of my family members have tested positive.
These tests are just going to confuse everyone, especially for the fact that the tests are proving that the death rate is going down at a great rate, theres, absolutely no reason to keep shutting down our economy, shutting down our state or shutting down. Brian, this, if California had two thousand and eleven new cases coming in the past week, what else do you want them to do? If you test more, there will be more positive cases, thats a statistic fact: no one is arguing that, but its not detrimental to our health. It hasnt been detrimental to the death rate. We have lived with TB and whooping cough and flu for our entire lives that never shut down a nation before and there is no reason to shut it down now. The only reason that Gavin Newsom is doing this is because
he enjoys the power and he will continue to flex it as much as he can hey Juan. How much does Gavin Newsom get paid if theres a shutdown, I believe the same amount? How much do you get paid? We get paid, nothing theres, no unemployment for us, theres, no ppp in line for us all. These big major corporations are getting paid and little corporations and small businesses. They want us to break our backs and not get paid and step away from what we do. Unfortunately, there is no good leadership and either of the parties, including the Republican Party. I feel like right now. The only one using any type of common sense is President Trump and his White House staff and unfortunately, for us hes not around here, so we are going to stay open over the last five months, ive had a chance to talk to a lot of small business
people between paying your rent and paying utilities between paying more employees, taking care of business and workers. Comp you have your hands full every day. All you want is a chance to be successful. How does it feel that someone is robbing you of that chance and telling you? You are selfish for fighting to make a living, listen im, not going to be bullied by anyone, including Governor Newsom, all of our senators and congressmen that are unwilling to make a stand on this. I tell them im not asking for a penny im, not asking for a handout, and I will continue to charge on and im not going to be bullied, thats, not the american way. I hear you Juan best of luck. We are going to track you. I know you will stay safe because if you are not and.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-20.