{"id":1348,"date":"2020-04-04T22:46:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T21:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2020-04-04T23:38:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T22:38:50","slug":"in-1918-not-wearing-a-mask-was-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/2020\/04\/04\/in-1918-not-wearing-a-mask-was-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"In 1918 not wearing a mask was illegal."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/files\/2020\/04\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1352\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/files\/2020\/04\/1-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/2020\/04\/04\/in-1918-not-wearing-a-mask-was-illegal\/1-1-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-1352\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> (CNN)When the novel coronavirus pandemic hit Asia, people across the region were quick to wear masks, with some places like Taiwan and the Philippines even making them mandatory in certain scenarios. But  in the West, mask adoption has been far slower, with England&#8217;s Chief  Medical Officer Chris Whitty, for example, going so far as to claim  mask-wearing is unnecessary.  Yet it hasn&#8217;t always been the case that mask-wearing is an Asian proclivity. It  certainly wasn&#8217;t during the influenza pandemic of 1918, which lasted  from January 1918 to December 1920, and infected one-third of the  world&#8217;s population, leading to about 50 million deaths &#8212; about half a million of which were in the United States. There are many parallels between the two pandemics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/files\/2020\/04\/1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1354\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/files\/2020\/04\/1-2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/2020\/04\/04\/in-1918-not-wearing-a-mask-was-illegal\/1-2-3\/\" class=\"wp-image-1354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/files\/2020\/04\/1-2.jpg 780w, https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/files\/2020\/04\/1-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/files\/2020\/04\/1-2-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\nWhile origin theories about the 1918 \nvirus still abound, it was assigned a country specific name: the Spanish\n Flu. Globalization facilitated its spread as soldiers fighting in World\n War I took the flu around the globe. Then as now, warehouses were \nrepurposed into quarantine hospitals. And an ocean liner with infected \npatients became a talking point. But one notable difference is that it was the United States which led the world in mask wearing.  In\n October 1918, as San Francisco received the pandemic&#8217;s second wave, \nhospitals began reporting a rise in the number of infected patients.    On\n October 24, 1918, the city&#8217;s elected legislative body, the board of \nSupervisors of San Francisco, realizing that drastic action needed to be\n taken with over 4,000 cases recorded, unanimously passed the Influenza \nMask Ordinance. The wearing of face masks in public became mandatory on US soil for the first time. \n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)When the novel coronavirus pandemic hit Asia, people across the region were quick to wear masks, with some places like Taiwan and the Philippines even making them mandatory in certain scenarios. But in the West, mask adoption has been far &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/2020\/04\/04\/in-1918-not-wearing-a-mask-was-illegal\/\">Sigue leyendo <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1st-pmar-3rd-4th-eso-english"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.smbosque.es\/sargento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}