Georgia reopens hair salons and gyms, offering a preview of life after lockdown
MARIETTA, Ga. - Before 8 a.m., the women wearing masks and bandanas began to line up gingerly outside the Three-13 Salon, Spa and Boutique, taking care to keep a 6-foot distance.
In the middle of a deadly viral pandemic, some needed trims and root touch-ups. Others craved pedicures, blowouts and face waxes.
Outside the double glass doors, an employee took their temperatures with an infrared thermometer, asked if they had had a cough or fever, and then handed them a small sticker with a red check mark.
As Georgia became the first state Friday to reopen a broad swath of businesses - lifting restrictions on gyms, barber shops, hair and nail salons, tattoo parlors and bowling alleys after a month-long shutdown to halt the spread of the COVID-19 virus - the move did
