Jul 26, 2020
7 min read
The San Francisco Anti-Mask League of 1919
They called them ‘Mask Slackers’.
San Francisco went through a pandemic in 1919.
The Spanish flu was killing San Franciscans at a frightening rate, and the city, for the most part, wore masks in the first phase of the disease. It was required by law on October 25, 1918.
