I've been doing my own hair since first COVID lockdown. Had a go when everything was shut, realised I could do an half decent job, so not been to a barber since.
I think we'll all find that a lot of these barber shops will close in the next year or two. Hair today, gone tomorrow.
That article is just baseless speculation from a source that clearly leans that way. "It is feared" and "could be" are used in the first two paragraphs. Bilge.