William Mann On Politicizing Face Masks & Repeating Spanish Flu Mistakes In COVID-19 Pandemic: “Have We Learned Nothing From History?”

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William Mann On Politicizing Face Masks & Repeating Spanish Flu Mistakes In COVID-19 Pandemic: “Have We Learned Nothing From History?”
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In the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., I

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“One hundred and two years later, we are seeing the same thing. It’s become this masculine, macho position among some segments of the population, with a clear partisan divide. But wearing a mask shouldn’t be political — this is a public health issue. Let’s remember that in 1918-1919 between 500,000 and 800,000 Americans died. We have the power to keep that number from getting that high again. Some estimates are that this pandemic will be have about half the mortality rate of the earlier one.

There was another 1918 mistake, which Mann in April warned authorities not to repeat, reopening too soon. Amid a surge of new coronavirus cases, California Governor Gavin Newsom this week ordered the closing of movie theaters, bars in indoor dining just a couple of weeks after easing restrictions to open them.

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