Pandemic-Era Heroes: San Gabriel Valley’s Henry Miao donated thousands of masks to frontline workers

Pandemic-Era Heroes

  • Name: Henry Miao
  • Hometown: Walnut
  • Role: Owner of Henrial
  • Quote: “His distribution truly helped,” West Covina Mayor Letty Lopez-Viado said of Miao. “People couldn’t get one single mask. It bought time for others to make more masks. We were able to distribute to the community. Our city got masks when other cities didn’t have any.”

Latest installment in a series of stories about people who have made a big difference in the community during a time framed by the coronavirus pandemic


Henry Miao, who owns a clothing company called Henrial, donated 10,000 masks that were distributed to Emanate Health’s Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina in March.

A month later, he donated another 5,000 masks to the city of West Covina that were distributed to frontline healthcare workers in the community. Miao hasn’t stopped donating masks and essential equipment for those working on the front lines during the pandemic. His donations have gone to school districts, small businesses, nursing homes, workers at City Hall and people throughout the community.

Miao estimates that his company has donated more than a half million masks to West Covina and neighboring cities.

“His distribution truly helped,” West Covina Mayor Letty Lopez-Viado said. “People couldn’t get one single mask. It bought time for others to make more masks. We were able to distribute to the community. Our city got masks when other cities didn’t have any.”

He was recognized by the West Covina City Council in December for his efforts. Until the pandemic is over, Miao said he will continue to provide what he can to keep his community safe.

“When the coronavirus started, the people were very, very scared,” Miao said. “Now they seem more relaxed. They don’t know what happened. When I started the donations, no one can buy anything here from anywhere.”

Supplies were scarce at the beginning of the pandemic. Masks in particular were hard to find in March and April. Miao said he contacted then-Mayor Tony Wu and asked him if he needed masks. Wu accepted the offer, gratefully and happily.

Wu said Miao not only filled a need for masks and personal protective equipment, he provided child-sized masks for the community.

“I was amazed. Children sized masks are very difficult to get,” Wu said. “Adult size is easier. Children size, you need a special make. He provided 10,000, so we provided all this to the school districts. He’s a nice guy, very nice.”

Those donations turned into mask sales for his company. He estimates his company, which is based in Walnut, has sold between 60 million and 70 million masks during the pandemic.

Lopez-Viado said in times of need, for example, during a pandemic, people show their true colors. Instead of hoarding supplies or making it more difficult for people to have access to safety equipment, Miao made it easy.

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“He was very generous and to start the mask donation movement, I think that was the best thing,” Lopez-Viado said. “Any time there is a need and somebody is able to provide for that need that becomes the most important thing.”

Miao, 47, was born in China and moved to California eight years ago. For a time he worked in Europe and spent eight years, from 1989 to 1997, in Poland. He speaks five languages — English, Chinese, Polish, Russian and German — and has worked in the clothing business for nearly 30 years.

Lopez-Viado said because of Miao and his company, West Covina avoided a mask shortage when other cities across the country were struggling to provide members of their communities with basic equipment.

“For him to start the mask donation movement, that was the biggest thing because others followed,” Lopez-Viado said. “We didn’t have to have a shortage in our city.”

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Benson’s research became a 20-year project of studying tummo and other advanced techniques while he also taught at the Harvard Medical School and served as president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute in Boston, where he believes the study of meditation can “uncover capacities that will help us to better treat stress-related illnesses.” The claims of monks who practice tummo have been substantiated in Benson’s work, showing, he says, “what advanced forms of meditation can do to help the mind control physical processes once thought to be uncontrollable.” Source: How Tibetan Monks Use Meditation to Raise Their Peripheral Body Temperature 16-17 Degrees | Open Culture

Russia vaccinates more than 1 million people against the coronavirus with ‘Sputnik V’ — Meduza – (just 134.4 million more to go)

More than one million people in Russia have been vaccinated against the coronavirus with “Sputnik V,” the vaccine’s developers announced on Twitter on Wednesday, January 6.

Source: Russia vaccinates more than 1 million people against the coronavirus with ‘Sputnik V’ — Meduza

6th Day of January – Fatcowco – 1947 – The first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket

1947 – The first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket

A round-the-world ticket (also known as round-the-world fare or RTW ticket in short) is a product that enables travellers to fly around the world for a relatively low price.

On 6th January, 1947 Pan American World Airways becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world airline flight.

Source: 6th Day of January – Fatcowco

Origin of Jury – English History

A hot controversy has been waged as to whether Alfred is entitled to the honour of introducing the practice of trial by jury into England, but, in fact, the jury appears to have been an institution of progressive growth, and its principle may be traced to the earliest Anglo-Saxon times. One of the judicial customs of the Saxons was that a man might be cleared of the accusation of certain crimes, if an appointed number of persons came forward and swore that they believed him innocent of the allegation. These men were literally jurators, who swore to a veredictum, who so far determined the facts of the case as to acquit the person in whose favour they swore. Such an oath, and such an acquittal, is a jury in its earliest and rudest shape, and it is remarkable that for accusations of any consequence among the Saxons of the Continent, twelve jurators were the number required for an acquittal. Thus for the wound of a noble, which produced blood, or disclosed the bone, or broke a limb, or if one seized another by the hair, or threw him into the water, in these and some other cases twelve jurators were required.

 In the treaty between Alfred and Guthrun, more lights appear, “If any accuse the king’s thane of manslaughter, if he dares absolve himself, let him do it by twelve king’s thanes. If the accused be less than a king’s thane, let him absolve himself by eleven of his equals, and one king’s thane.” Here the number of twelve, and the principle of the peers, both appear to us…

Source: Origin of Jury – English History

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Life is not a Game

Life is not a game
Where you win or lose.
Life is a journey
Where you can walk or run at your own pace;
Where you can experience
stumbling down and rising up;
Where you can be sneered at or cheered up.
Life is a journey
Where you and you alone will travel.
At some points, people will join you
Then they will leave you
And you will be on your own again.
Your journey is a given.
How you travel it is up to you.
You can make it miserable or enjoyable.
But you have to travel it.
You cannot avoid it
Nor can you let another person travel it for you.
Don’t be afraid and never give up.
At the end of the journey, you will look back and say:
“Thank you God for the journey. You designed perfectly just for me.”

Source: Life is not a Game – PeoPlaid

Bold leadership needed to loosen Ohio’s COVID-19 vise: Matthew Wellington and Ryan Marino – cleveland.com

Many public officials cite economic concerns as the reason to not take more drastic action, but many top economists argue that the long-term health of our economy is tied to suppressing the virus. A pandemic with a longer duration or more dire effects will only prolong economic damage. The only way to get the economy back on track is to get the pandemic under control. The key message from our public officials should be that, unless you’re an essential worker — a health care worker, a grocery clerk, a food bank worker, etc. — the best thing you can do for society right now is to stay home. Federal lawmakers should pass legislation that gives Americans the financial, medical and emotional support they need to do so — so we can control the pandemic and get back to normal more quickly. Waiting to take bold action until hospitals fill up even more would be a waste of human life, especially with the prospect of widely available vaccines so close on the horizon. Our public officials should pull the wool from their eyes and take necessary steps to save lives now.

Source: Bold leadership needed to loosen Ohio’s COVID-19 vise: Matthew Wellington and Ryan Marino – cleveland.com

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