1918 San Francisco had an “Anti-Mask League”

[xenon]

SF had a city wide ordinance to wear masks in public during the Spanish flu.

Around 4/5 folks wore masks.

The “Anti-mask league” thought they were BS and staged mask-less protests.

https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-sanfrancisco.html#

[jon-nyc]

And their grandchildren all work for the WHO and CDC.