Demonstrations against the corona restrictions are causing a stir. In focus, among other things: the mask requirement. Already at the time of the Spanish flu, the duty caused displeasure.
- Demonstrations against the restrictions caused by the Coronavirus * pandemic are causing a stir.
- With sayings such as "Put off the muzzle", demonstrators also expressed their displeasure with the mask requirement *.
- In 1919, at the Spanish flu, the anger about the mask requirement was great - and backfired.
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Munich - Demonstrations against the restrictions in the corona pandemic * recently made headlines. Sayings by the protesters such as "put the muzzle off" also applied to the obligation to wear a mask. However, demonstrations such as those that took place in Bavaria * are not a novelty - they are a parallel to the Spanish flu in 1918.
Coronavirus: demonstrations and resentment over mask requirement - a parallel to the Spanish flu
At that time, the Spanish flu had spread in waves. The disease claimed 50,000 lives in Germany and nearly 50 million people died worldwide. Even then, citizens rebelled against the restrictions .
On October 25, a mask was imposed in San Francisco . Anyone who left the house without a face mask was warned or fined five dollars.
As the San Francisco Chronicle reported, people still followed the measure in the first week. But already at the end of the week "signs of defiance" appeared . At times there were almost 100 arrests per day.
On November 21, 1918, the mask requirement was lifted. A mistake, as it turned out. Wearing a face mask was compulsory for four weeks, then the number of new infections decreased . On November 18, the San Francisco Chronicle headlined : "The epidemic is over - and the public will be happy to breathe freely again."
Coronavirus: parallel to the Spanish flu? Second wave hits San Francisco harder
The second wave of the Spanish flu hit San Francisco with great force. The mask requirement was reintroduced on January 17. However, more and more doubts arose whether masks could have prevented a second wave at all. On February 1st - after protests and a so-called “anti-mask league” - the mask requirement was finally over.
The Mayor of San Francisco defended it at the time with the following words: "We should pay attention to important things instead of arguing about the little inconvenience that wearing a mask brings to the public good." A 100 year old sentence - and yet one , which one should still take to heart today in view of the corona virus *.
Stupidity. We never learn.https: //t.co/50WY5kSCfs
- Sammie1863_ (@ Sammie1863_) May 10, 2020* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network
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