Even if someone was anuss (a person under duress) and couldn’t shave before the holiday because of circumstances, he cannot shave on Chol HaMoed (intermediate days of the festival). Even if somebody was sick and couldn’t shave because of that, he still isn’t permitted to shave on Chol HaMoed.
But let’s say the guy was busy. He lost an object before the holiday and spent the whole Erev Yom Tov (eve of the festival) running around looking for it. Or let’s say the barber lost an object before Chol HaMoed, before Yom Tov (holiday), and therefore nobody can get a haircut because the barber is running around looking for his lost object and he couldn’t shave. And when he came, the barber was looking for his lost object, and he couldn’t shave.
Obviously, in the Mishnah, which we’re going to read later on, you have to hit that, because these anussim (people under duress) that we’re going to discuss later on are public knowledge. Everybody knows that these people were in circumstances where they couldn’t shave beforehand. But if a guy loses an object, does everybody know that the reason he’s shaving on Chol HaMoed is that he was busy on Erev HaChag (eve of the festival), looking for his lost object? That’s not publicly known.
If you allow them, they’re going to come to me, even in a case where there’s no ones (circumstances beyond one’s control), and he’ll tell the one who’s sick the reason why a person who’s sick doesn’t take a haircut: they say that when you take a haircut while you’re sick, it makes you—brings the sickness on more. Even the brother. Yeah. It’s not an ones. It’s not an ones. That’s not such an ones. You can really shave when you’re sick. But the person says, “I don’t want to become sicker.” That’s not an ones enough to allow you to shave on Chol HaMoed as well.