FREE Established 1961 Friday ISSUE NO: 18429 RAMADAN 25, 1442 AH FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2021 Fajr 03:34 Shurooq 05:02 Dhuhr 11:45 Asr 15:20 Maghrib 18:28 Isha 19:53 COVID fight gets a boost, US backs vaccine patent waiver See Page 10 2 Friday Local Friday, May 7, 2021 PHOTO OF THE DAY Colorful tassels hanging at a shop in Souq Al-Mubarakiya. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat The Other Virus and its Variant our minds. We stop trusting experts or anyone, for that in a pandemic, let us repeat, it is fatal. It is understandable IN MY VIEW matter. We deny everything unless it comes from our own to be afraid. The whole world has been shaken by this virus. mind. And we self-appoint our mind as intelligent, aware, But for us to tell people the virus is not that dangerous or, and the main source of all our information-even though FNI at worst, doesn’t exist, or that the vaccine is unnecessary is By Nejoud Al-Yagout and COI both originate in the mind. What results is that all downright cruel. To tell people that if they take the vaccine reason has been taken over and we become vulnerable to they will become hypnotized by the government and killed
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