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NomNom@feddit.ukBanned to History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days ago

Strike against mask wearing in 1930s echoed COVID-19 protests, study finds

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Strike against mask wearing in 1930s echoed COVID-19 protests, study finds

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NomNom@feddit.ukBanned to History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days ago
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New research from The University of Manchester has shown that debates and resistance about wearing face masks go back a lot further than the COVID-19 pandemic.Dr Meng Zhang, a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, found that barbers went on strike against compulsory mask-...
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    Happened during the Spanish flu in the US as well. People don’t like being told what to do.

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      It happened during the Spanish flu everywhere.

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