[In_Iowa_not_from]

(Masks) Why do so many Americans seem to have an issue with them?

Emory University Global Health and Law Professor Polly Price says the situation in America now mirrors what happened during the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak.

At the time, the US Surgeon General advised everyone to make and wear their own mask - just as instructions are now on the Centers for Disease Control’s website, guides were sent to newspapers.

“It was up to state and local governments whether they were going to require their populations to do it - not all did,” she says.

Some cities levied fines for people not wearing them.

“There were very few court challenges, but they generally upheld the authority of local governments to have face mask ordinances,” Prof Price says.

“We do have a long tradition of individual rights, so even during the Spanish flu people would sue about the schools [being] closed. Or restaurants and bars were closed and people would sue about that and they routinely lost.”

In the same way that protesters have argued the lockdowns infringe their rights, much of the anti-mask rhetoric seems to come from the same well - American resistance to government mandates.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52540015

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

I oppose the damn mask because I feel like I am walking the streets of China all of our citizens running around in masks, aside the fact that I had to put a mask on today in Costco to enter the store I touched my face constantly with that stinking mask on !!!