He Survived Coronavirus. He's Broke. but He Thinks America Is
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Sha’ban 8, 1441 AH Doha today 220 - 310 COVER STORY The other view He survived coronavirus. He’s broke. But he thinks America is overreacting. P4-5 BOLLYWOOD BACK PAGE We must have a mind ‘Introduce children to games of our own: Aahana. to develop key cognitive skills’. Page 14 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, April 1, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT SERIES TO BINGE WATCH ON NETFLIX PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.07am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.26am Zuhr (noon) 11.39am Asr (afternoon) 3.08pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.52pm Isha (night) 7.22pm USEFUL NUMBERS Gossip Girl (Leighton Meester) is the toast of the adolescent population DIRECTION: Stephanie Savage, Josh Schwartz of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, envied by her friends and the CAST: Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, adversary of many fellow rich girls. Chace Crawford, Kelly Rutherford, Ed Westwick Her ideal world begins to collapse, however, when her SYNOPSIS: Gossip Girl, a ruthless and mysterious ex-best friend, Serena Vander Woodsen (Blake Lively) freshly blogger reveals secrets about privileged teens living on the excluded from her previous boarding school, enrols at Blair’s Upper East Side of New York. The beautiful Blair Waldorf private school. 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Many employees with the ability to work remotely have found themselves working alongside their partner and/ or roommates for the first time, competing for limited space, internet connection and attention. I reached out to a few friends and experts for tips on how to navigate the sometimes-fun, sometimes- frustrating experience of co- working with significant others and roommates. Here is their advice: 1. Set clear boundaries Setting up crystal-clear expectations for the workday is crucial, according to Sharon Emek, the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of WAHVE, a ESTABLISHING CLEAR LINES: It’s important to establish a clear line between professional and personal life, even when both are taking place inside your home. service that matches companies looking for workers with specific etiquette and preferences. “For skills with experienced talent example, Kit is fine with people interested in working from home. talking on the phone in front of Emek specifically recommends her while she’s working. But I still setting boundaries around sometimes like to go to another workspace, explaining, “You space,” she explains. Others have to set up the rules. If I close recommend creating a shared the door to where I’m working, calendar for roommates to use to let then you cannot come in.” She one another know about conference advises that live-in partners and calls as far in advance as possible. roommates establish boundaries Bloom also advises that partners early on but remain open to and roommates invest in a quality redefining the rules as needed. “It’s microphone to limit the need to about being compassionate and speak loudly over calls. “Being able helpful,” she says. to have a directional microphone makes a big difference,” Bloom says. 2. Share your communal space 5. Take care of each other Working entirely from your Even if you have a secure job that bedroom can be a recipe for is possible to accomplish remotely, disaster. Nicholas Bloom, an working from home can put a strain economics professor at Stanford on anyone’s mental health. “Check University who has studied remote in on your roommate. Is there work, suggests that partners and anything you can do to help them?” roommates make an effort to share recommends Bloom. In addition communal space, so that one CHALLENGE: Another challenge that comes with sharing a home office is the inevitable noise disruptions when one to regularly touching base with person isn’t entirely relegated to or more roommates have to participate in conference calls. your partner or roommates, it can their room. “People find (working be a good idea to take some time to in their bedroom) depressing,” clear line between professional distracting co-workers in the office. 4. Be sound-conscious lighten the mood. says Bloom. He recommends that and personal life, even when “Respect when people are in the Another challenge that comes Jocelyn Coffin, a social media roommates create a schedule so both are taking place inside your zone,” she says. Emek cautions with sharing a home office is manager, and her partner found a that everyone gets a turn working home. Erica Hendry, a writer now against using work devices in areas the inevitable noise disruptions solution to the work-from-home in group areas. “One person gets working from home alongside two designated for personal time, like when one or more roommates blues: “Skye and I have been taking the living room in the morning, roommates in the midst of the your dinner table or bedroom. have to participate in conference dance breaks together every two one gets it in the afternoon,” he coronavirus crisis, recommends She explains, “Don’t bring any calls. Hendry, the writer working hours to keep things positive and explains. separating work and non-work time electronics to your bedroom. remotely with her roommates, light-hearted. We let Spotify pick and making a conscious effort to Don’t bring your iPhone to dinner,” suggests that everyone sharing the song and we dance for the entire 3. Protect your personal life avoid distracting your roommates, adding, “Make sure you do some a home workspace have a length of whatever it is.” It’s important to establish a the same way you would avoid family things together at night.” conversation about phone call – Los Angeles Times/TNS 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, April 1, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY The unimpressed As the virus spreads into rural and small-town America, significant numbers of Americans continue to dismiss calls for more aggressive social distancing and shutdowns. Media sensationalism and liberal fearmongering, they say, will destroy the economy I’m making zero dollars for the foreseeable future. A person who makes $50,000 or $60,000 a year just isn’t understanding ‘what this means — Joey Camp, cook $10.65 an hour at Waffle House small acts: greeting a server, sitting Public health officials say that suburbs have significantly more By Jenny Jarvie and has lived with friends since in a booth, perusing a menu. such doubters pose a major obstacle anxiety about Covid-19 than being evicted last year from Until now, Covid-19 has mostly to efforts to reduce the spread of the Republicans and residents of small his apartment. After leaving been experienced through the lens virus and prevent mass casualties. towns and rural areas. or three days, he was quarantine, he worked just one of metropolitan areas: Seattle, The coronavirus is at least 10 While Democratic strongholds hooked up to an oxygen shift before his boss cut his hours San Francisco, Los Angeles, New times deadlier than the flu and like California and New York have tube. For six days after because so few customers were York. But as the virus spreads into can be transmitted by people who banned public gatherings and that, he was cooped up in coming in. His other part-time gig, rural and small-town America, are infected but asymptomatic. closed restaurants, reaction to the a 26-foot RV in a special as a party bus driver, went away. significant numbers of Americans Even though many cases are mild, pandemic has been slower and more Fquarantine camp run by the state of ’“I’m making zero dollars for the continue to dismiss calls for more especially in the young, widespread uneven in Republican states, like Georgia.