San Francisco masks up
1918 · Event
San Francisco orders every citizen masked in public — enforced with fines, arrests, and a health officer who shoots a man refusing to comply. When the ordinance returns for the winter wave, an Anti-Mask League packs the Dreamland Rink in protest: the whole modern argument over pandemic liberty, rehearsed a century early.
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