The Photograph That Brought an End to 1918's Mask Mandate During Spanish Flu

Townhall ^ | 08/24/2021 | Leah Barkoukis

[HKMk23]

“... not only tolerate it but excuse it.”

..and positively EXCORIATE anyone who won’t join their holy clique.

[MercyFlush]

It looks like we’ve reached herd stupidity.

[crz]

And they died by the hundreds of thousands from it.

One of my aunts included.

They had NO IDEA how to handle it. Big strapping healthy men went to bed at night feeling well and were dead by the next day.

Imagine the panic something like that would cause these days.

[Vendome]

The public was willing to endure inconvenience, but not hypocrisy.

Which is the point...

Gavin, you miserable slut...

[kalee]

Later

[SlipperySlope99]

[ETCM]

I can hope, but yeah, I’m not optimistic. And the dems have supermajorities, so they can over ride any vetoes. The main accomplishment would be killing Newsom’s future hopes for the White House. Just a year ago, he was their golden boy.

[doorgunner69]

So, where is this photograph?

[Verginius Rufus]

The Spanish flu epidemic tended to hit young adults more than children or old people. A second cousin once removed had two sisters who died from the Spanish flu a few days apart--he told me the story of their deaths. The figures they give for the death toll are an underestimate because I don't think they include those who died in early 1920.

Crowding young men into military bases for training before shipping them off to fight in World War I caused the flu to spread but Wilson was intent on getting US troops into the war as fast as possible.

[ealgeone]

and from Fouzi, poolosi, chuckie boy, and on and on and on.

[DFG]

See post 12.

[DFG]

Correction. See post 18.

[Jane Long]

Those cloth mask were probably easier to breath through.

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And, still just as ineffective as they are, today.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

You lowball with your 25% of freepers number.

It’s more like 35 - 40%.

The damn commies need to be banned.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

[joma89]

Agreed! People today are so much weaker than their forebearers and give into tyranny so quickly and with little to no fight.

[Carriage Hill]

Well put.

[Jane Long]

Yup.

Wonder who the guy is, in back, moving people out of the way of pic.

[lightman]

George Carlin “Fear of Germs”:

https://www.lingq.com/en/learn-english-online/courses/87644/george-carlin-fear-of-germs-235986/

[JstABrdPstr]

Those that don’t learn from history are bound to repeat it. We are living proof of that right now.