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The petition to the City Council was straightforward: Enact a mandatory mask policy to combat the pandemic, or “the disease will come back again, and will exact a heavier toll than ever.”
Seven hundred residents, doctors and concerned citizens alike, signed the document. But the council members who heard their pleas wouldn’t have it.
One said masks left the wearer “breathing in the foul air which they exhale.” Another cracked he might be more sympathetic to the issue “if the doctors would come through and agree on some one thing, or if any of them could agree at all.” Still another said he would “not propose to take the advice of a lot of outsiders.”
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Friday, December 25, 2020 1:00 am
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Lessons of hope abound in look back at 1918 flu pandemic
We ve spent an unusual amount of time this year looking back more than a century, to 1918 and the nation s last deadly pandemic. There are lessons to be gleaned from what happened, but also reassurance: We ve been here before; we will withstand this trial.
A Christmas without all the traditions and without friends and family is not what anyone wants, but we re not the first generation to experience it. Historian Michael Bresalier, writing in the Guardian, noted the holiday in 1918 was the first in four years without a backdrop of war. Instead, the world was in the midst of the worst pandemic since the Black Death.
Christmas in a Pandemic: What Celebrations in 1918 Spanish Flu Looked Like
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2020 has been hard, and Covid-19 may have officially turned Grinch and stolen Christmas this year.
This, however, isn t the first Christmas humans are spending in isolation. It isn t even the first one in recent history. In December 1918, preparations for the first Christmas without war in four years took place in the midst of the worst pandemic since the Black Death.
The 1918-19 influenza, much like Covid-19, came in waves. The deadliest began in autumn, peaked in late November and continued through the first weeks of December. It struck hundreds of millions and killed tens of millions worldwide.
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