10 Jan. 2021 18:51 o’clock
The Corona measures lead many small businesses and self-employed people into an existential crisis. While some are resorting to dramatic measures to stabilize their financial situation, others are demanding more government aid.
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The Usedom hairdresser Bianca Orpel will reopen her business on Monday, despite the nationwide lockdown, like that Ostsee-Zeitung reported. She justified this step by saying that she had “nothing more to lose”. Without work, she is “no longer a person”. The Zinnowitz master hairdresser does not know how to bridge the next few months financially. She is “completely penniless”. She doesn’t get a loan and doesn’t even know how to pay the school fees for her son.
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Orpel does not deny that the corona pandemic exists and thus distances itself from certain circles who fundamentally deny the pandemic. The self-employed refers to the fact that she has tried to meet all Corona requirements. Her own daughter works in the hospital and sees how bad the situation is.
She referred to the contradictions of the corona policy:
“Everywhere in the big stores where hundreds of people shop, the security measures have been reduced. Unlike in the spring, I hardly see any security and the dispensers for disinfectants are often empty.”
On the other hand, hairdressers strictly adhered to the Corona rules.
Their financial hardship despite government aid is due to the fact that they can only be used for business expenses (e.g. shop rent), but not for private needs, e.g. food or school fees:
“Up until now everything was still going on and if I had been allowed to work again on January 11th, everything would have been fine, the appointment book is full. But I have no reserves for anything after that.”
Therefore, it will be forced to reopen on Monday. Your customer book is also full of appointments.
Other shop owners are also faced with similar problems. They try to draw attention to their plight. Some call for the same rules to be applied to retailers as to the hospitality industry. These can apply to state aid for 75 percent of the turnover for the same month last year.
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