[pefloresjr]

Proof that even a Stanford degree cannot inoculate one against stupidity. Funny that despite similar mask requirements during the Spanish flu epidemic, society was not crushed and the spirit of the world survived. This too will pass.

First, the mask requirements were local.  Second there was plenty of pushback.  

The “ spirit of the world” may not have been crushed. But it certainly was not healed.  Depression.   Rise of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Stalinism. Then WW2.  So, I’m not sure that’s a particularly good analogy.

How again is all of that tied to having to wear masks in 1918?  If any connection could be drawn at all, and I don't think it can, the toll of the large number of deaths would be a much better candidate than the fact that people were inconvenienced by trying to avoid those deaths.  

Cheers,
Pete F.

[pefloresjr]

Proof that even a Stanford degree cannot inoculate one against stupidity. Funny that despite similar mask requirements during the Spanish flu epidemic, society was not crushed and the spirit of the world survived. This too will pass.

First, the mask requirements were local.  Second there was plenty of pushback.  

The “ spirit of the world” may not have been crushed. But it certainly was not healed.  Depression.   Rise of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Stalinism. Then WW2.  So, I’m not sure that’s a particularly good analogy.

How again is all of that tied to having to wear masks in 1918?  If any connection could be drawn at all, and I don't think it can, the toll of the large number of deaths would be a much better candidate than the fact that people were inconvenienced by trying to avoid those deaths.  

Cheers,
Pete F.