There is something different about Melbourne’s current lockdown, with Covid-19 finding a new “soul destroying” way to ruin the livelihoods of small business owners.
The once-bustling precinct of Chapel Street in the heart of the city has been turned into a ghost town.
Melbourne went into its sixth lockdown on August 5 after health authorities detected the Delta strain of coronavirus out in the community. “As soon as there’s a lockdown, I have to go to my diary and write to all those people and cancel all their details, then I have to assure them I’ll give them their money,” Mr Kasteel said.“Normally I get a 50 per cent response back, people rescheduling, but after this lockdown I got zero.External photo of the entrance of Miss Kuku at 105 Chapel St, Prahran.
“You’re going to be bankrupt really quickly. It might take you six months to hit bankruptcy. You might be able to pay your bills for now but it gets harder.” “It’s all your regular beauty services complemented alongside a fully licenced bar with wine, and cocktails and we were about to release a caviar service before this lockdown,” she said.
She added its been particularly “emotionally hard” for her 23 staff members, many of who are young single females, and she is concerned about the incorrect messages they are bombarded about the Covid-19 vaccines on social media. Ms Landsdown, who has had her first jab, predicts things won’t be easy when they open up either as she expects a divide between people who are vaccinated and those who aren’t.
Sophia Harris is the project manager of the Melbourne branches of Pinot and Picasso, a popular business where people drink wine and paint.“I deal with rescheduling everyone and now it’s even worse,” she told news.com.au.“There are some people that have rescheduled four times and they’re over it now.”
“We were still trying to get the name out there, we didn’t have many people coming,” he told news.com.au.
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