28 April 2020

Sports glasses for the Covid-19 test teams of the Austrian Red Cross

At the end of last year, Fashion.at collected some pieces for a style preview 2020 sports activities and nutrition (article) with reference to the interest of users on the topic sport and the importance of statistics for the editorial selection. Now some months after the article was published, the world has totally changed. It seems as if editorial decisions of fashion magazines are impacted more by statistical numbers of the coronavirus pandemic than the interest of users respectively media performance related numbers.

Today is a historical date in Austria! The government presented the latest statistics which show a positive trend of increasingly less infections per day. The strategies of Covid-19 measures were obviously successful and larger stores, shopping malls, schools,... can open successively. Selected containment strategies - such as that restaurants have to be closed until mid-May, hotels until the end of May, events like the Formula 1 happen again with some restrictions in early July - have to be continued through the next weeks, months. The results of the ongoing Covid-19 tests are crucial for current and future decisions for returning to normality. (Until today on 28 April (13:00:00), 239.578 tests were carried out; source: Official coronavirus statistics of Austria.)

Back to the mentioned article from the end of 2019. Part of the 2020 sports activities & nutrition article were sports glasses by evil eye. The Austrian brand belongs to Silhouette International which donated recently 20.000 evil eye glasses to the Austrian Red Cross for being used by the mobile sampling teams and at the Covid-19 drive-in test stations. The selected eyewear models epyx-x and epyx-y are strongly curvated, very light and have clear lenses with anti-fog equipment.

Images (from left): Evil eye Brand Director Susanna Kumpfmüller of Silhouette International and Dr. Aichinger Walter, President of Red Cross Upper Austria. Photo: OÖKR/Affenzeller.