During the flu pandemic of 1918, the Anti-Mask league in San Francisco protested mandatory masking. Coronavirus Mask Debate Echoes Messaging From 1918 Flu Pandemic Despite research out of Wuhan this ...

Mask laws were enacted in the US during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, and wearing one was seen as a proud exhibition of one's patriotic duty to their country. A divisive "health versus the economy ...