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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And actually mask wearing was worse than useless. The esteemed Dr. Fauci even wrote a paper about it. Pointing out the uselessness of the mask and the diirect link to bacterial pneumonia deaths.
Ummm...They aren’t wearing masks for virus protection.
masks, distancing, and quarantining HEALTHY people has NEVER been done, ever in the history of mankind.
Fear? Control? Planned destruction of the world’s economy?
Yes.
I’ve only noticed these folks wearing masks since the hoax China flu.
Not Pre-China flu.
Maybe they’re following idiotic healthcare system and state mandates?
No. Even though coronavirus mitigation measures have significantly reduced influenza infections the influenza vaccinations have also reduced the mortality rate. With the increased availability of vaccines, it would preclude the necessity for face masks. It will be just like the C-virus vaccines will eliminate the need for masks.
Thank you.
Because some people relish in being dumb
Bacteria and viruses are two separate entities, jus sayin’.
Is there a difference? Asking for a friend.
A friend said “probably not much”
“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.”
this
How about we also talk about how gas mask wearing soldiers in World War I got Legionnaires Disease?
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