Wear Your Mask

This directive is not new. It goes back over a hundred years - to the days of the Spanish Flu. It appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on Oct. 25, 1918.

“Wear your masks. You may have a doubt as to their efficiency, but, at least you cannot see any harm in wearing them, while the mental attitude of precaution which they enforce upon you is a material assistance in driving out the disease.

 
“If every man, woman and child in the community will do all that is expected for a few days, then in a few days we ought to be given a clean bill of health and life resumed under normal conditions. Wear your masks. Take no chances.”