In the 1918 flu pandemic, not wearing a mask was illegal in some parts of America. What changed?

When the novel coronavirus pandemic hit Asia, people across the region were quick to wear masks, with some places like Taiwan and the Philippines even making them mandatory in certain scenarios.

But in the West, mask adoption has been far slower, with England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, for example, going so far as to claim mask-wearing is unnecessary. Yet it hasn't always been the case that mask-wearing is an Asian proclivity.

Weird you don’t like masks

ChrisCuomo 500,000 Americans were killed by this flu.

BGHeaven And how did that work out?

ChrisCuomo Not true-my grandmother lived through that pandemic and no one had masks except for Drs and health care! She lost her 1st husband in 3 days

ChrisCuomo And they still didn’t help the spread. The pbs documentary informs that these masks were akin to wearing chicken wire to keep out dust.

Wow

ElementsMatter

In 1918, the United States had a President.

This should have been sent 2 month ago

SpeakerShinjini They did so because scientists in America had found that the Spanish Flu had mutated. They did autopsies to find out exactly what it was doing to the lungs. People died with lungs full of blood, it was horrendous, fearful and spread extensively. But humanity survived.

ltgrusselhonore GovPritzker it’s time to consider this 👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾

Yet its legal to talked about people behind their backs with media exploitation apparently

Guess America had a better leader back then - Trump makes everything a reality show where Trump really does not care about anything but himself.

Someone needs (at least try) to tell Trump it was 1918 not 1917.

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I am saddened how CNN and other major news organizations followed the government talking point of not wearing masks. The media’s role present the truth. All reports and studies show that masks have great effects in preventing and/or reducing disease and viruses.

So where did all the masks go then?

Oh look we are dumber than 100 years ago in many ways

Do you know what year it is CNN

But let’s release criminals from jail to help the Obama shadow government turn this country into a dump for a power grab

Oh ya CNN that’s your fever dream. Scary everyone. You should all be in jail for what you are triggering in this country. Why don’t you run stories on the effect of zinc on these viruses? Nope, it’s just ‘US order 100,000 body bags’ and woke MD thirsty for follows. disgraceful.

From history I heard it was the Spanish Epidemic which took unreal many lives. I did not know about the masks. Smart people back then.

They have masks, but they are not social distancing?

Mask friendly countries: VIETNAM: 239 Infected - 0 Dead HK: 845 Infected - 4 Dead TAIWAN: 348 Infected - 5 Dead SINGAPORE: 1,114 Infected - 6 Dead CAMBODIA: 114 Infected - 0 Dead USA: 277,522 INFECTED - 7,403 DEAD you decide

A lot of good it did ...millions died

Cuomo and Baldwin already infected. Was it that the Network didn't sensitize her staff enough? Who knows the amount of spread going on within the office. This should worry you more

In the 1918 flu pandemic, those who didn’t wear masks were regarded as illegal at some states in the US. It was more strict and stringent than now.

Trump says nobody could have seen this coming. Well apparently Trump has zero knowledge of history and for some reason his cellphone has Twitter but not Google. Sad. Kakistocracy TrumpVirus

Some guys mislead people intentionally

你们不用戴的，有优越的文化和自由护体

Better times

And that flu is now so called „Spain flu“ which is the result of fake news from USA’s and UK‘s governments.

But now we cannot buy masks easily How silly

but in 2020 they stole 200000 mask from Germany, and they have the rights to do such act!!!

just like voodoo started in Europe and was exported to Africa

I have problem with wearing a mask but how do we get them?

Great documentary of oral history.

Research finds large drops from coughs fall within a meter aka social distancing.Finer aspiration droplets travel further and suspend longer aka wear a mask. Drops get onto surfaces, to hands to mouth, nose, eyes, aka wear gloves or wipes to touch things outside.

Why are we going backwards... In the 20s and 30s people also have better senses for fashion, wears gloves and hats, put efforts into fancy updos.... Not anymore.

Democrats used to go full-face back in the day...🤔

We were smarter then.

Herd_Mutiny. JustLike1918 2 horrific pandemics, 1918/19 & 2019/20 Similarities: No vaccine, no effective drug therapy. Social distancing advocated, initially ignored. Main differences: 1918: No antigen or antibody testing available. No GPS tech Conclusion. TEST & TRACE

We need hats like that again.

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