For all of the "leaders" who are ignoring guidance to reduce the force to mission essential activities, i have one simple question:

Have you thought about what you're gonna say to the family of the soldier, your soldier, who dies because they just *had* to get a haircut?

Are you going to say they died honorably? Are you going to look that family in the eyes and tell them that you did everything to protect their son or daughter from harm? Are you going to say their life was worth an OER bullet point?

Maybe you think you won't have to face that because you don't understand how contact tracing works.

Here's how it goes:
When someone is confirmed infected, their movements will be traced with as much scrutiny as possible in order to inform the public about who needs to be tested

So when they investigate and see a cluster of infections because some squad leader set up a barbershop, even though he cleaned his clippers...he still coughed or sneezed or even just breathed within 6 feet of his squad.

That's how this spreads.

So then maybe it took...idk let's be modest and say 5 days for symptoms to present and maybe 2 days to get tested/traced. (This is being kind, it can take 2 weeks to present while still spreading).

That SQD mostly stays indoors, they're good soldiers, but....

These guys or girls still have families or have to go to the DFAC or PX. And each of them comes into contact with at least 3 people over those 5 days.

Now w/ social distancing maybe they don't spread it.

But it can hang in the air for hours and on surfaces for days.

So if you want to know why it matters that soldiers not focus on 670-1 compliance during a pandemic:

It's because compliance kills. That each infected can spread to on avg 3 other people. That hurts readiness a lot more than slightly out of regs haircuts.