A lot of us could use some help right now. Whether we’ve been shut up in our homes or had to go to work despite the pandemic, we’re all worried about the fact that we’re going to have to get used to a new normal.

Grandma Terry is here to help though – along with The Beatles.

In the quest to find some uplifting news as well as thank the helpers among us, a video taken by her granddaughter Amy Szabo and uploaded for Facebook by Geri Weis-Corbley is going viral, having been viewed over 15,000 times in just two weeks!

We all know the song in the background – the Fab Four’s classic “Help!” – and indeed, now our lives have “changed in oh so many ways.”

Why the Beatles?

“She just likes the Beatles, cause who doesn’t?” Szabo, told the website Good News Network.

Fair enough.

But it’s ironic to hear it echo out as Grandma Terry, whose real name is Teresa Provo, sews face masks.

Provo herself doesn’t seem to need much help – she’s one of the hearty ones who buckles down and gets to work in a time of crisis. But she’s also 89 and lives in Chicago, where the disease has spread quite rapidly in recent weeks and a stay-at-home order is in effect and will likely need to be extended well into May to keep people safe.

It would be dangerous for her to have company or leave her home, but her television and computer games have kept her occupied – although, perhaps, not as much as her trusty sewing machine.

Provo is determined to do that she can to keep people safe, and her first thought upon hearing about the novel coronavirus pandemic was the safety of her loved ones.

Her first action? Grab as much fabric as she could.

With the bolts of novelty fabric stacked up bearing everything from Chicago sports logos to children’s designs, she sewed a mask for all 50 of her family and closest friends. Then she mailed them out to her family and friends in Chicago, as well as Wisconsin, Florida, Minnesota, and California.

She tried to make sure each one was personalized with a favorite team or a pretty pattern and even included a note of encouragement in every package, according to the Good News Network.

The website also said she lives in a nursing community with over 600 residents. So the next challenge was to make masks for her neighbors.

She enlisted the help of her chapter of the Red Hat Society, an international women’s social society for women over 50. You may have seen groups of women in their red hats at the theatre or restaurants – it’s a wonderful way to give women a sense of community. That’s something we all benefit from, but especially older men and women who have higher rates of disease and even death when they don’t have solid social connections in their later years.

Provo’s social circle pulled through – in fact they joined her in making over 600 fabric masks for every single resident.

“It took us two weeks, but we get ‘em done,” she said. “I’m still working on some.”

That’s a lot of sewing!

While we may not be required to wear masks by federal or even state authorities in the coming weeks and months, certain business such as grocery stores – and even Costco – have begun to insist that every customer wear a face covering if they want to enter.

No one is enjoying this and, in the words of the Beatles, most of us “never needed anybody’s help in any way.”

Alas, “now these days are gone, [we’re] not so self-assured…”

Hopefully, most of us will do what’s right, not only for our own safety but that of others like Grandma Terry.

Be sure to scroll down below to see the sweet video of Teresa Provo doing her part to keep people safe.

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Source: Geri Weis-Corbley via Facebook, Good News Network, Chicago Tribune, Red Hat Society, National Institute on Aging, Vox, USA Today