Thu Aug 26, 2021 – 12:22 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) – Mask mandates are not entirely new, according to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who on Monday night brought to light a history that has been largely forgotten. At the height of the Spanish Flu, San Francisco and other cities in the United States mandated mask wearing in public in an attempt to slow the spread the Spanish Flu.
According to Carlson, people who did not comply to the mandates could be punished by the law. Those who chose to resist the mandates – an “Anti-Mask League” formed at the time to protest – were labeled pejoratively by health authority. Carlson read what he called a “typical statement” from the time, attributed to the Red Cross: “The man or woman or child who will not wear a mask now is a dangerous slacker.”
Tucker added:
The City of San Francisco took these rules very seriously, so seriously that a city health agent in San Francisco shot a man who refused to wear a mask, he hit the two bystanders who happened to be standing behind the man. Now that seemed a bit much to some people, but many other people thought it was fine – they went along with it, they were very afraid of the
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