Download People Wearing Masks During The Spanish Flu Background. Remember, wearing masks is a cdc 'guideline' and guidelines can be ignored, especially when what is meant to protect you can lead to infections that kill you. Although this particular photograph shows two fashionable women, people were encouraged to wear masks during the spanish flu pandemic.
An emergency flu hospital staffed by the us navy was set up near the civic center in san francisco to help care for for one, people in 1918 didn't even know the flu was caused by a virus, nor did they have the ability to quickly.
The spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the h1n1 influenza a virus. Over 30 countries have made masks compulsory in public, including germany, austria and poland. No one was permitted to ride a streetcar in seattle without wearing a mask during the 1918 flu pandemic. Who knew this and wrote about it in 2008?
