read the three articles---pretty interesting

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+Masks, the 1918 ("Spanish") flu epidemic, and COVID-19 parallels
+
+Soldiers in Kansas were the patients zero:
+- 4% death rate
+- Came during World War I, so propagandists hid the news globally
+- Misnamed Spanish
+
+Went through American cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, NYC
+- Inadequate public health
+- Deliberate misinformations
+- Widespread disobeyance of expert orders
+
+Public Health issues:
+- Director of public health is a gynecologist, not an epidemiologist,
+  appointed by the city's "political machine"
+- Downplaying by officials
+- Many other health maladies: rampant pneumonia from factory ash
+- Parades and liberty bonds went on to support the war effort (Sedition)
+- Gaps in healthcare parallel to today
+
+Fake home remedies
+- VapoRub as a cure for the virus
+- Mandrake Pills, Honey, literal snake oil
+
+Disobeyance of expert orders
+- Mask slackers in cities with mask orders arrested for 5-10 days at
+  fines of $5-10.
+    - enforcers hated for it
+- Masks called "muzzles", "dirt traps."
+- The look was poor: "slabs of ravioli"
+    - Four+ layer thick gauze mask
+- Monetary issue: people want to go back
+    - Masquerade as a constitutional issue
+    - Threats on public officials' lives
+- Businesses wanted back and convinced people to go to bat
+
+Actually still in existence---several relapses of generations of the flu
+have happened, as recently as 2009