Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Any of this sound vaguely familiar?Left to their own devices, most citizens - by one count, 90% - refused to wear masks. Businesses concerned about Christmas sales opposed. So did the Culinary Workers Untion.
Christian Scientists objected on constitutional grounds. So did civil libertarians.
An op-ed ran in the local paper with the headline "What's the Use?" after a man got sick despite following public health guidelines.
On Dec 19, public officials voted down a mandatory mask order.
In a three weeks, new cases went from 20 a day to 600. A mandatory mask law was approved.
Over 2,000 people attended an event formed by "The Anti-Mask League."
Almost an exact match to today, right? Except this was San Francisco. In 1918.
There's a long Twitter from someone who did an enormous amount of research on public reaction to San Francisco's incredibly successful mask campaign, and you can find it here.
It's a stunning read, and it's easy to draw one overwhelming conclusion: stupid doesn't change. The same jackasses pressed up against the glass in Ohio were pressed up against the glass in San Francisco a century ago.
I said it before: this country is too stupid to be free. Let's hope these idiots don't kill hundreds of thousands of us, because that's where we're headed.
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