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		ashtonkem on July 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their l... Masks were also protested in 1918, so this isn’t a post-WW2 phenomenon.

timmytokyo on July 18, 2020 [–]

There were pockets of resistance to mask wearing in the 1918 flu pandemic, but it was not widespread.

https://www.history.com/news/1918-spanish-flu-mask-wearing-r...

Also, they didn't have government leadership publicly questioning the wisdom of mask wearing.

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