I'm extremely well-read in the period in question. No magazine article, novel or movie from 1918 showed average people wearing face masks. No President wore them. No singer wore them. No movie star.
I've read Jack London, Edith Wharton, Kathleen Norris, William Dean Howells. T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner, Dorothy Parker, and so forth.
Not one mention.
The reality is: SOME people, within a two block radius of a hospital wore them for 20 minutes on one afternoon in New York's lower East Side. That's it.
It was not a wide custom. Nor was it mandated anywhere.
This was the time-period of Prohibition. THAT'S what it's remembered for. If you took a time machine back there and asked where all the masks were, the people would look at you like you were fucking crazy.
The upshot: You're being lied to about history. They're creating a fake precedent. There WAS NO GLOBAL SHUTDOWN in 1918. There was no widespread use of face masks. There was no shutdowns of churches, restaurants or concerts.
I'm extremely well-read in the period in question. No magazine article, novel or movie from 1918 showed average people wearing face masks. No President wore them. No singer wore them. No movie star.
I've read Jack London, Edith Wharton, Kathleen Norris, William Dean Howells. T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner, Dorothy Parker, and so forth.
Not one mention.
The reality is: SOME people, within a two block radius of a hospital wore them for 20 minutes on one afternoon in New York's lower East Side. That's it.
It was not a wide custom. Nor was it mandated anywhere.
This was the time-period of Prohibition. THAT'S what it's remembered for. If you took a time machine back there and asked where all the masks were, the people would look at you like you were fucking crazy.
The upshot: You're being lied to about history. They're creating a fake precedent. There WAS NO GLOBAL SHUTDOWN in 1918. There was no widespread use of face masks. There was no shutdowns of churches, restaurants or concerts.