Beard Liberation Front
25th February
Contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett 07803 167266
Medic who shaved Michael Rosen’s beard had full support of the Beard Liberation Front
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that the medic who shaved Beard of the Year Michael Rosen’s beard when he was hospitalised with COVID in the Spring of 2020 had its full support and operated within recognised BLF guidelines
While the BLF recognises that some people grow and shave their beards on a frequent basis based on personal choice a different framework applies to consistent beard wearers. Here genuine reasons for shaving the beard are limited. These include:
Medical reasons: where shaving the beard is essential for clinical reasons. Michael Rosen’s medic is fully covered under this exception
Heat: very hot weather may exceptionally be a reason to shave the beard. The principle was demonstrated by Karl Marx who when in Algiers in 1882 had his beard shaved as the temperature reached 30C.
Corrupted Follicles: on occasion substances may enter the beard which make it sticky and cause the hairs to tangle together. Usually judicious pruning will solve the problem but if the situation is serious there may be no choice but to shave the beard.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, the medic who shaved Michael Rosen’s beard allowed him to go and in the Beard of the Year 2020 and 2021 Awards the first person ever to win consecutive titles
Michael Rosen’s tweet on his beard shaving
Fletty, today I met the man (nurse) who shaved my beard off when I was in the coma. I said you had exonerated him on the grounds of the fact he was creating an antiseptic environment for the tracheostomy.
Oh! But what about fire fighters who have to be clean shaven to wear breathing apparatus? Can that be an exception?