February 29th: Someone in Seattle dies of COVID-19. That same day, I get sick with a really bad cough. I smartly stay home.
By Tuesday, I’m in a self-imposed quarantine. On Wednesday, I cut my finger and realize I don’t have any bandaids left. Like most people, I don’t regularly call my neighbors. I can’t go knocking on their doors and risk exposing them to whatever I did or didn’t have.
I looked on the Hey Mayo App, but unfortunately, my neighbors don’t know about it just yet. I didn’t even know about it until three weeks ago, right before my quarantine.
With Mayo, we can help our neighbor without the fear of breaking an invisible six-foot barrier. Maybe you’ve hoarded too much toilet paper and want to relieve the guilt by sharing. Or you need a dose of socialization and want someone to join you on their balcony for a distant game of heads up. Send a message on Mayo. Let’s make helping each other just a little bit easier.
Mayo is unique, hyper-local, and impromptu. Mayo works by broadcasting to people in the same space, in the moment, so you can actually get helped instantly.
I could have asked somebody to drop a single bandaid under my door. Instead, I used toilet paper to cover my wound. I just needed a #littlehelp.
My finger recovered, but those 1000 applications of hand-sanitizer sure would have stung a lot less with a bandaid. I didn’t have the coronavirus. But I probably should have rethought my toilet paper strategy.
Three weeks ago, I was going to soccer games, concerts, and happy hours. In the new normal, I’m watching Miley Cyrus’s bedroom talk show, Chrissy Teigen cook, and Jai Wolf DJ’ing with a cat. We’ve all learned a phrase called social distancing, we practice the six-foot rule, and toilet paper and hand-sanitizer are worth more than most stocks. And we’ve realized world leaders are just as confused as the rest of us. Mayo is built for the new normal.
But everyone still just needs a little help sometimes. Especially now. We’re all in this together; separately.
So how do we make this work? Mayo is here to help us help each other:
Download the app (it’s simple, no sign-up)
Keep the app on your phone
When you need a #littlehelp, send a message
We’ll let you know when someone else needs help
The more of us who join Mayo, the more people who can help. When I walked through the figurative doors of Mayo three weeks ago, I didn’t know how much the world would need Mayo today.
I can’t promise you’ll get an answer every time, but I can promise that if you’re nearby and ask for a bandaid, I have plenty now.
