1 Covid has us living in unprecedented times. Lockdowns? Police state! Well, look @ 1918...

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"In October, the virus burned through the nation. Dozens of cities across the U.S. implemented mandatory face mask orders & curfews & locked down for https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2020/11/21/covid-and-thanksgiving-how-we-celebrated-during-1918-flu-pandemic/6264231002/

2 "two to three weeks, temporarily closing schools, libraries, theaters, movie houses, dance halls, churches, ice cream parlors and soda shops. The virus killed an estimated 195,000 Americans during October alone.

"San Francisco, in particular, had one of the nation's

3 "largest anti-masking campaigns, spearheaded by the Anti-Mask League of San Francisco, according to Howard Markel, a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Michigan and co-editor-in chief of The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919. Many people

4 "refused to wear masks & were arrested, & when the 'line into the courtroom was so long, they laid off arresting people because the system couldn’t enforce it,' Markel said.

"On Christmas Eve, state health officials in Nebraska made influenza a mandatory quarantine disease,

5 "with fines ranging from $15 to $100 for violations. Approximately 1,000 homes in Omaha were placarded, with their occupants unable to leave for at least four days after the fever had subsided."

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100 years later and not a lot seems to have changed.