From this article,
https://www.kcra.com/article/newsom-first-covid-19-community-spread-case-traced-to-nail-salon/32421155 , linked in the OP article:
“I have dealt at a very close proximity with cashiers, with Walmart associates, with Costco and Sam's Club associates, with a Home Depot guy who helped me cut some wood. None of them had gloves; only some of them had masks,†said Fred Jones, public policy director and legal counsel for the Professional Beauty Federation of California.
“There's not going to be a salon in California, when we reopen, that doesn't have both. We are trained in this," he said.
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Those remarks drew a backlash from the beauty industry and leaders in the Vietnamese American community, who own the vast majority of nail salons in the state.
“We should be working together to bring back jobs and build our economy instead of using the nail salons as a scapegoat," Faith Bautista, chief executive of the National Asian American Coalition, said in a statement.
The first known case of community transmission of the virus in California was reported in Solano County in late February. County health spokeswoman Jayleen Richards declined Friday to say whether it was tied to a salon.
I still think it highly likely that Goobernor Nuisance was BSing in singling out nail salons. He should be forced, in court if necessary, to prove:
* The first known community spread happened at a nail salon;
* More community spreads have happened at nail salons than at other businesses with similar flow of clients.
While I agree with the spokesdude from the Professional Beauty Federation of California that Nuisance is not targeting Vietnamese-owned businesses, Nuisance probably didn't compile the lists of who opens when. I do think it possible that the person who recommended further delay for nail salons may have a "thing" about Vietnamese people.
BTW, the article I linked above is from KCRA, the NBC station in Sacramento, i.e. a local source.