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Originally Posted by Jdarby
The modern surgical mask did not even come into existence until the 1960’s....so uh....no, during pandemics of 100 years ago no one wore a mask. Please let us not base our public health decisions on what we did or didn’t do 100 years ago!
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Southern Bell operators wore masks during the 1918 Flu...
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Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph operators during the Spanish influenza epidemic in Jacksonville, Florida. Nearly one-third of the city's residents contracted influenza, according to historian Gary Mormino. [State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory (1918)]