Posted on 02/21/2021 4:19:09 PM PST by delta7
People called them “flu fences” and “chin sails.”........ During the influenza pandemic of 1918, officials often advised Americans to wear face masks in public. Doctors believed that masks could help prevent “spray infections,” according to historian John M. Barry in his book, “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.” Enforced by local health officials, the facial coverings grew routine. Often, Red Cross chapters fashioned and distributed the masks that were “seen everywhere and would become a symbol of the epidemic,” Barry wrote. Americans used the masks as a method of retaining some normalcy during a pandemic that killed at least 675,000 Americans and 50 million people worldwide. If directed to wear a mask, homemade worked. “Take a piece of gauze the size of a sheet of typewriter paper,” said instructions in the Atlanta Constitution. “Fold it twice, so that it will fit an envelope. Then attach strings to the four corners and tie these strings at the back of the neck. The mask covers the nose and mouth, so that the wearer breathes through four thicknesses of gauze. A clean handkerchief is just as good as the gauze.” Now, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is debating whether it should recommend that people wear masks when they go outside. In 1918, with a different virus, it didn’t help. Iowa’s State Board of Health reminded those sewing masks to add some “colored worsted [a type of yarn] or tape” on the part of the mask that would be the outside. The upper margin was to be drawn tightly over the bridge of the nose, right under the eyes. Masks were to be washed after each use, and boiled for five minutes before wearing again.....
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..... The masks worn by millions were useless as designed and could not prevent influenza,” Barry wrote. “Only preventing exposure to the virus could.”
What kind of twits are still advising one, two, even three masks today? Wake up folks, America is being scammed.
Don’t wear a mask then.
Why do you care what other people do?
Yes. They run their course.
All the masks and quarantine has done is extend it and probably increased deaths.
It was only supposed to relieve strain on hospitals, but the fear of exceeding capacity did not materialize.
So many lies.
Remember this, the Great Reset. Read up on it, Time magazine, the World Bank, The World Economic Forum, and many others have stated what the Great Reset entails.
“This is simply a reflection of the totalitarian state that governments are trying to impose using this virus as the justification to hide their real agenda – the Great Reset.”
I heard Biden is now wearing two masks.
He definitely had on two layers of masks in his visit to Pfizer in Michigan, saw that on the news.
Chicom Cootie Face Condoms.
Okay, I’ll play the devil’s advocate here. Surgeons in the operating room always wear masks. Always. Are these surgeons ignorant of the truth? Or are they just all sheep? Or is it something else?
Trust me when I say this. I have no hidden agenda here. I have not formed a definite opinion on the effectiveness of masks. In fact, quite the opposite. I’m confused. That’s why I’m posting.
Care? I don’t care. Except I’m being made to care - or pretend to care - by the state, businesses and other entities who promote this junk science and superstition.
The virus is too small to be stopped by masks, especially cloth masks you can see a bright light through.
The hectoring, the signs, the tongue clucking, the furtive paranoid glances - it is a large annoying farce. People now regularly tsk-tsk over mask use in PHOTOGRAPHS ie still images of events in the past that can’t be changed or affected. This a special, diseased kind of control freakery with an emphasis on disease as in the mental kind.
Mask zealotry is the antithesis of ‘’not caring what other people do.’
They are quite useful.
They teach people to shut up and do as they are told.
That can be very useful when death camps are the end game.
Those are N95 masks. Carefully and tightly fitted. Changed every 15-20 minutes.
They are most certainly not cloth, not used repeatedly and/or for long stretches of days or even weeks. Not hung from a rearview mirror to collect auto exhaust particles, pollen and God knows what else.
I can tell you one thing, if you saw the video I saw on You Tube showing how and where these masks are made and by whom you wouldn’t want it anywhere near your face.
Wrong question.
Why does govtards care what people do? They are clearly giving flawed info bht claiming its scientific fact.
They are the ones mandating this and that and the other.
I had a supply of real N95s in my workshop long before the virus arrived. Those suckers are hard to breath through for more than 10 mins or so.
I read years ago(1977) that it was NOT the 1918 flu that killed people. It was the Opportunistic PNEUMONIA that then infected and killed them.
The DR. who wrote about this in 1977, said that same flu would never be that bad again as we had antibiotics to fight the pneumonia.
Virtualy no big media coverage of the tremendous amout of waste problems noted by so far about 1.5 bilion tossed away used masks, discarded by folks and trashing up everywhere.
From what I’ve read about it, the Spanish flu was of a bacterial type not viral.
COVID-19 is not the flu. It is a Coronavirus. Think of it like the common cold. But other than that, your post is correct. The virus is just gonna do its own thing and all we can do is to let it burn itself out.
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