Californie, 1918, grippe espagnole - Wear a mask or go to jail - kezako ?

Je vois passer cette photo depuis quelques jours. Et au bout d'un moment j'ai cherché son origine ;)

Bref, à San Francisco, comme un peu partout dans le Monde en 1918, il y avait la "grippe espagnole".  Et déjà on parlait de masques + transmission, etc, cf plus bas.

Encore une preuve que « tout est cyclique »  ? ;)
Mais où est le *spoiler inside* trou de ver de DAЯK ?
1918. Wear a mask or go to jail

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Comme dit à un ami sur FB: on notera aussi qu'il y en a une qui a aussi déjà en 1918 eu peur pour son nez

A voir aussi le texte de l'affiche sur la source "Long before the coronavirus, SF faced the 1918 Spanish flu. It was horrifying" @sfchronicle.com:

In discussing the spread of the malady, the Government Bulletin says:

"No matter what particular kind of germ causes the epidemic, it is now believed that influenza is always spread from person to person, the germs being carried with the air along with the very small droplets of mucus expelled by coughing or sneezing, forceful talking, and the like, by one who already has the germs of the disease. They tray also be carried about in the air in the form of dust coming from dried mucus, from coughing and sneezing, or from careless people who spit on the floor and on the sidewalk. As in most other catching diseases, a person who has only a mild attack of the disease himself may give a very severe attack to others."

et un peu plus haut dans la même affiche:

A recent U. S. Public Health Service Bulletin describes the malady as follows:
"The disease now on-wing in this country and called "Spanish Influenza" resembles a very contagious kind of 'cold' accompanied by fever, pains in the head, eyes, ears, back, or other parts of the body, and a feeling of severe sickness. In most of the cases the symptoms disappear after three or four days, the patient Then rapidly recovering; some of the patients, however, develop pneumonia, or inflammation of the ear, or meningitis."

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