Four women succeed where United Kingdom stumbled
London: They just wanted to help. But they created a movement. Four women from London’s Hackney Wick neighbourhood responded to the coronavirus pandemic by organizing volunteers who so far have churned out more than 3,800 sets of scrubs for health care workers after Britain’s National Health Service was unable to provide enough of the pajama-like garments.
More importantly, they helped organize a nation, putting together a template for making basic personal protection equipment, or PPE, with organizational ideas and a pattern for the scrubs so others could do the same. Now some 70 “Scrub Hubs? with more than 2,200 volunteers are busily sewing away from Scotland to Wales. “Very quickly, we discovered that Hackney was not just the (only) place where PPE was needed,” said one organizer, Brooke Dennis, 33.
“It was needed all across the land.” The story of how four women used social media to create and deliver desperately needed medical supplies around the U.K. began with a request from a single doctor: I need scrubs to do my job. Can anyone help? That surprised charity worker Maya Ilany, 29. The idea that the NHS might not have enough of something so basic startled her. She googled the doctor. “I thought: It’s a joke,” she recalled.
It wasn’t. Medical staff across the world have struggled to obtain enough personal protective equipment, including face shields, gloves and masks, to protect themselves from the virus as they work to save lives. (AP)
Dubai woman receives giant fake Apple AirPods from Amazon
Dubai: In a shock of her life, an online shopper in Dubai was left stunned when she ordered fake wireless Apple AirPods from Amazon, and received the device which was even bigger that her head in size.
In a Twitter post, the Dubai user by the name of @Al33rzay said that when she opened the package, the fake AirPods left her speechless
“So today I received my airpods from Amazon. God these are huge,” she tweeted.
“I got the AirPods from Amazon last month. I knew they were fake because Amazon sells weird stuff, and it wasn’t expensive. I was shocked not going to lie, but we move on,” she added.
According to a report in New York Post, the lady spent nearly $62 for the fake AirPods, which normally retail for more than three times the price.
Her post featureing a photo of the giant AirPods received more than 72,000 retweets.
Most users compared the fake airpods with a hairdryer.
“Most of you saying it’s hairdryer. But I say it’s ‘eardryer,'” she said.
Amazon did not comment on her tweet or the report but the tweet was deleted later, saying it contains “potentially sensitive content”. (IANS)