Published in Sept 11, 2015 before Covid-19 so no modern political bias.
I have te o questions for you. One, what percentage of Americans died from Spanish Flu? Two, how long were masks required in San Francisco during that outbreak.
The answer to those two questions reveals the insanity of current “public health” mandates.
People do not realize that a big part of the Chinese Exclusion Acts was fear of disease, carried by the poorest of Chinese immigrants.
Modern leftists have bashed the British in Hong Kong for having areas, particularly in the “Peak” residential area of Hong Kong, that banned Chinese from the area. The reason? Throughout the late 18th century through the 1920’s, Hong Kong regularly suffered cholera and typhus epidemics, brought by the many dirt-poor immigrants fleeing war and chaos in China.
Masking has been around for while in this outbreak, but the case numbers keep going up.
Where’s the evidence masks are working?
SF Chronicle says that they looked like Tokyo dwellers? Imagine if Trump said that.
Doctor’s mask during the black plaque
Imagine if you were born in the year 1900. We don’t know jack about trying times.
1918 - Spanish Flu - Overall Mortality Rate (OMR) - 0.65% (This is the best estimate of the number of deaths divided by the population, expressed as a percentage.)
2020 - SARS-nCov-2 (COVID-19) - OMR - 0.043% (Death data from the CDC as of 23 July 2020, population data from the Census Bureau)
The Spanish Flu was around 15 times as bad as Covid19 (that is, fifteen TIMES worse, not 15 percent worse). There was a high level of concern, but no panic such as we are seeing today.