10 Million Free Rides/Deliveries to Organisations for Healthcare Workers, Seniors, People in Need @ Uber (Registration Required)

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Taegukgi on 05/04/2020 - 13:33 uber.com (2624 clicks)
Last edited 12/04/2020 - 15:16 by 2 other users

Similar deal to this one where registration is required by someone on behalf of the organisation.

Form to be completed (source: http://t.uber.com/impact2020)

Eligible organisations -

• Healthcare / Health System
• Senior Care
• Frontline non-profit
• Food Bank
• Government agency
• Religious institution
• Academic Institution

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Today, we’re committing to provide 10 million rides and food deliveries to healthcare workers, seniors, and people in need, free of charge.

We’ve already started, with free rides to help healthcare workers get to their jobs, and free meals to help keep them going.

This is just the beginning.

We’re ready to work with more cities, food banks, hospitals and others around the world to move whatever matters most to them. Organizations, healthcare providers and governmental entities looking for support with rides or food deliveries can submit their request directly through this form.

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  18 on 05/04/2020 - 13:48

  +14

  The risks of catching covid-19 through uber seems to be very high - closed space, hard to sanitise 100% after every passenger, a lot of different passengers and in this scenario, a lot of healthcare workers. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-01/the-horror-of-passing…

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    UrbanLegend on 05/04/2020 - 13:59

    +1

    Some simple precautions like wearing masks inside the vehicle, not touching anything, sanitising after leaving the vehicle etc. should be enough. I wish people would apply common sense more, panic less.

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      arcticmonkey on 05/04/2020 - 14:05

      +7

      "Not touching anything".

      You may be able to jump through the car window, put your seatbelt on with invisible hands, crouch down in the back to avoid touching the seat and jump back out the window but not everyone is as flexible as you.

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        UrbanLegend on 05/04/2020 - 14:07

        +2

        Use your brains. "Not touching" means not touching the buttons, knobs etc. or minimising as much as possible. It doesn't mean jumping through windows.

        Curious, what sort of healthcare worker are you?

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          sheepdog on 05/04/2020 - 14:15

          +2

          @UrbanLegend: Well, a way to achieve this would be if drivers opened door for passengers or wiped down handles between passengers but I doubt this is going to happen. Door handles are hot spots that are recommended to be regularly sanitised.

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    bargain ben on 05/04/2020 - 20:56

    +1

    The risks on public transport are far greater

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  BuyLowLetsGo on 05/04/2020 - 13:49

  +2

  OP, is there an official news or statement page from Uber?

  I'm wary of a direct link to google sheets collecting personal info…

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    Taegukgi on 05/04/2020 - 13:52

    +1

    The OP link is from the Uber newsroom. As for the Google form, I'm not sure why they used this.

    I found from this article that registrations can also be emailed to [email protected].

    There is also this tweet from the Uber CEO with the same email address.

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      R3XNebular on 05/04/2020 - 14:28

      +1

      I sent an email on behalf of my organisation. Received the email below.

      Thank you so much for getting in touch with Uber about our efforts to help communities around the world during the coronavirus pandemic.

      In order to help us expedite relief efforts to the most urgent needs, please fill out the form at t.uber.com/impact2020 requesting more detailed information.

      If you are an individual requesting free rides or meals, please contact your organization about the program and ask them to apply through the form. We unfortunately cannot accept individual requests at this time.

      Thank you for everything you do.
      The Uber Impact Team

      Now that link t.uber.com/impact2020 redirects to that google form. So seems legit.

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    Ultraman on 05/04/2020 - 14:16

    I wouldn't like to put my personal deets in, but this is for organisations.

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  iamhurtin on 05/04/2020 - 17:30

  +3

  Talk about double standards.

  When I offer free moustache rides to people I get arrested

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    huu on 05/04/2020 - 19:42

    -1

    You get arrested because they didn’t take the offer, Mr Weinstein.

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      ozbjunkie on 06/04/2020 - 19:23

      No I think that was for conditional moustache rides, this gentleman is offering free moustache rides, no strings.

      I'll take 2 please.

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    MementoMori on 07/04/2020 - 12:45

    "I do! I do!"

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  n00dler on 05/04/2020 - 17:39

  As previously said, this is for organisations. I got pretty excited cause I had a seizure - this means I cannot drive for 6 months. It now takes me 1hr 40min each way to get to one of the hospitals I work at by public transport which is tough.

  Hopefully QLD health passes these discounted rides to healthcare workers (and others affected / in need!)

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  AssociatedEl Draino @ Uber on 06/04/2020 - 16:07

  +1

  I’m an Uber driver - I think it’s a dumb idea. I’ve stopped driving because of the risk

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  Geekomatic on 06/04/2020 - 18:41

  Covid-19 is air-borne for hours….Unless the driver Glen-20's the car between passengers, including spraying the handles & seat-belt, I see using Uber as being as bad as taking the bus.

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  MementoMori on 07/04/2020 - 12:46

  It seems you can only register an organisation.

  If you work for such an organisation, how do I claim the benefit?

  Note - like many organisations, mine is really unorganised. You'd think they'd do an organisation wide mass email but there are so many departments and so on I don't think it's possible. Not to mention, which department in a big organisation would deal with this? HR?