CAN I GET A HAIRCUT? “It is a small point, but every time you see a well-coiffed journalist or politician on television, you should ask: why is it that he can get a haircut, and I can’t? Nothing exposes the class divide like an ‘emergency.’”

I got my hair cut on Thursday at the Boardroom in Fort Worth. The stylists wear masks and gloves; masks are optional for customers, but the receptionist takes the temperature of each customer as he walks in with an electronic forehead thermometer, and then instructs him to wash his hands in the lobby restroom. The leather sofa in the lobby has a “Social Distancing: Please Do Not Sit Here” sign on the middle section. (I’m paraphrasing the text from memory.) One of the two leather wingback chairs on the opposite side of the lobby has the same message. Every other barber chair had the same sign as well. Driving through the streets of Fort Worth, I would say about forty percent of the people out and about were wearing masks.