CoverMeCagney
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Interesting to look back at the way things were during the 1918 pandemic, to get it under control - and it still took several years.
Closing schools and places of public amusement
Enforcing “no-spitting” ordinances
Encouraging people to use handkerchiefs or disposable tissues
Requiring people to wear masks in public
As one Red Cross PSA put it, “the man or woman or child who will not wear a mask now is a dangerous slacker.”
'Mask Slackers' Faced Enforcement, Punishment - Common punishments were fines, prison sentences and having your name printed in the paper.
“Today we can look back and see that they flattened the curve and the communities that did enforce much stricter regulations and for a longer period of time and began earlier had lower death rates”
When Mask-Wearing Rules in the 1918 Pandemic Faced Resistance
“the man or woman or child who will not wear a mask now is a dangerous slacker”
This is brilliant!