Monday, May 25, 2020 Shawwal 2, 1441 AH Doha today 280 - 380 COVER Free, in death STORY Faye Brown sought freedom from prison. Ultimately, nothing but the coronavirus could get her out. P4-5 HOLLYWOOD BACK PAGE Del Rey wants freedom of Take care, expression without judgement. caregivers. Page 15 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Monday, May 25, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT SERIES TO BINGE WATCH ON NETFLIX PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.17am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.46am Zuhr (noon) 11.32am Asr (afternoon) 2.57pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.18pm Isha (night) 7.48pm 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, Chace adversary of many fellow rich girls. 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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Monday, May 25, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY How much protection do face masks offer against Covid? Face masks combined with other preventive measures, such as frequent hand-washing and social distancing, help slow the spread of the disease an face masks help cloth masks and N95 masks have prevent the spread of different purposes, both are intended coronavirus disease 2019 to slow the spread of Covid-19. A (Covid-19)? cloth mask is worn to help protect Yes, face masks others in case the wearer has the Ccombined with other preventive virus. An N95 mask helps protect the measures, such as frequent hand- wearer from getting the virus from washing and social distancing, help others. slow the spread of the disease. Countries that required face So why weren’t face masks masks, testing, isolation and social recommended at the start of the distancing early in the pandemic pandemic? At that time, experts seem to have had some success didn’t yet know the extent to which slowing the disease’s spread. people with Covid-19 could spread Common sense also suggests that the virus before symptoms appeared. some protection is better than Nor was it known that some people none. But wearing a cloth face have Covid-19 but don’t have mask will lose any value unless it’s any symptoms. Both groups can combined with frequent hand- unknowingly spread the virus to washing and social distancing. others. Cloth masks are cheap and These discoveries led the Centres simple to make. Instructions are for Disease Control and Prevention Surgical mask easy to find online. Masks can be (CDC) to do an about-face on made from common materials, such face masks. The CDC updated its as sheets made of tightly woven guidance to recommend widespread cotton. The CDC website offers use of simple cloth face coverings directions for no-sew masks made to help prevent transmission of from bandannas and T-shirts. Covid-19 by people who have the Cloth masks should include virus but don’t know it. multiple layers of fabric. Some public health groups argue that masks should be reserved for How to wear a cloth face mask healthcare providers and point to Cloth face masks should be worn the critical shortage of surgical in public settings where social masks and N95 masks. The CDC distancing measures are difficult to acknowledged this concern when maintain, such as in grocery stores, it recommended cloth masks for especially in areas of significant the public and not the surgical and community-based transmission. N95 masks needed by health care Here are a few pointers for putting providers. on and taking off a cloth mask: 1. Place your mask over your How do the different types of mouth and nose. masks work? 2. Tie it behind your head or use ear loops and make sure it’s snug. Surgical masks: N95 mask 3. Don’t touch your mask while Also called a medical mask, a wearing it. surgical mask is a loose-fitting 4. If you accidentally touch your disposable mask that protects the mask, wash or sanitise your hands. wearer’s nose and mouth from 5. Remove the mask by untying it contact with droplets, splashes or lifting off the ear loops without and sprays that may contain germs. touching the front of the mask or A surgical mask also filters out your face. large particles in the air. Surgical 6. Wash your hands immediately masks may protect others by after removing your mask. reducing exposure to the saliva and 7. Regularly wash your mask respiratory secretions of the mask with soap and water in the washing wearer. machine. It’s fine to launder it with At this time, the Food and other clothes. Drug Administration has not approved any type of surgical mask Finally, here are a few face mask specifically for protection against precautions: the Covid-19 virus, but these masks 1. Don’t put masks on anyone may provide some protection when who has trouble breathing, or is N95 masks are not available. unconscious or otherwise unable to Cloth mask remove the mask without help. N95 masks 2. Don’t put masks on children Actually a type of respirator, an particles. The name indicates are intended to be disposable. Cloth masks under 2 years of age. N95 mask offers more protection that the mask is designed to However, researchers are testing While surgical and N95 masks are 3. Don’t use face masks as a than a surgical mask does because block 95% of very small particles. ways to disinfect N95 masks so in short supply, cloth masks are more substitute for social distancing. – it can filter out both large and small Like surgical masks, N95 masks they can be reused. accessible and reusable. Although Mayo Clinic News Network/TNS 4 GULF TIMES Monday, May 25, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Twist of fate In a classic example of being at the wrong place at the wrong time, Faye Brown found her life upended on a murder charge she came to resent. She came this close to being released in 2009 but the court overruled. Coronavirus finally let the soul out 44 years later It was that one time in your life when you feel like you’re finally getting ready to live your life again — Faye Brown, convict who turned to teaching, working as a hairstylist after ‘ being denied a second chance ’ SO NEAR....YET SO FAR: Faye Brown, centre, listens as special deputy Attorney General Tiare Smiley questions North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women superintendent, Kenneth Royster during a hearing in a Wake County courtroom on December 11, 2009. “Like most of my fellow North By Josh Shaffer Carolinians, I believe life should mean life, and even if a aye Brown was a quiet, stoic woman who rose each morning in life sentence is defined as 80 a Raleigh prison, pulled on a pair of dress slacks and walked out years, getting out after only the gates to catch a city bus — her Froutine for years. 35 is simply unacceptable” At age 67, she had earned enough trust to work each day as a teacher and hair stylist at Sherill’s school of cosmetology, carrying a — Ex-Governor Beverly Perdue pair of scissors though she was serving a life sentence for murder and bank robbery. At the end of each day, she caught the bus back to prison, where the younger inmates Monday, May 25, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY considered her a grandmother — an “She didn’t show a lot of emotion,” older, wiser prisoner who loved Cowart recalled.