Posted on 08/24/2021 1:11:01 PM PDT by DFG
Mask mandates in America didn’t start with the coronavirus pandemic. During the Spanish flu of 1918, government officials ordered similar edicts, their media and nonprofit lackeys shamed the resistant, and health agents in some cases went to fatal extremes to punish the noncompliant, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson reported Monday during his monologue.
At the height of the worst pandemic in American history – the Spanish flu of 1918 – cities across the country did something, modern America would find familiar. They issued mandatory mask mandates and punished anyone who didn't comply. "The man or woman or child who will not wear a mask now is a dangerous slacker," read a typical announcement from the Red Cross.
The city of San Francisco, took the rules so seriously that a city health agent shot a man who refused to wear a mask – he hit the two bystanders who happened to be standing behind the man. That seemed a bit much to some people, but many others went along with it. They were afraid of the virus. They wanted to do their part to stop it. Most of all, they trusted their leaders. If their leaders put a mandate in place, they assumed it was for a good reason and they wanted to help. (Fox News)
But then something happened that shook the American public from their blind obedience. A photograph surfaced from a boxing match in San Francisco. Among those attending were several high-ranking public officials—all unmasked.
“The photograph went national. Americans were shocked to discover that the people making and enforcing the rules had no intention of following those rules,” Carlson said. “Mask mandates across the country ended shortly after. The public was willing to endure inconvenience, but not hypocrisy.”
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“... not only tolerate it but excuse it.”
..and positively EXCORIATE anyone who won’t join their holy clique.
It looks like we’ve reached herd stupidity.
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.
The public was willing to endure inconvenience, but not hypocrisy.
Which is the point...
Gavin, you miserable slut...
Later
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.
So, where is this photograph?
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.
and from Fouzi, poolosi, chuckie boy, and on and on and on.
See post 12.
Correction. See post 18.
Those cloth mask were probably easier to breath through.
And, still just as ineffective as they are, today.
You lowball with your 25% of freepers number.
It’s more like 35 - 40%.
The damn commies need to be banned.
Agreed! People today are so much weaker than their forebearers and give into tyranny so quickly and with little to no fight.
Well put.
Yup.
Wonder who the guy is, in back, moving people out of the way of pic.
George Carlin “Fear of Germs”:
https://www.lingq.com/en/learn-english-online/courses/87644/george-carlin-fear-of-germs-235986/
Those that don’t learn from history are bound to repeat it. We are living proof of that right now.
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