In 1918, businessmen in Winnipeg affected by public health orders taken to curb that year& #39;s flu pandemic blamed the local newspaper for causing panic by covering the flu pandemic.
In 1918 in Cincinnati, there was a debate about the efficacy of wearing masks to prevent that year& #39;s pandemic.
In 1918, a New York man claimed that the "so-called epidemic of Spanish influenza" going around that year was "merely an epidemic of pneumonia such as visits this country every now and then ... [and] does not necessitate the closing of schools, churches and places of amusement."