This is what mask wearing during the flu pandemic in 1918 looked like

Mask orders were part of the last pandemic – the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918.

The first cases of the Spanish flu appeared in March 1918 in Kansas.

The New York Times looked at the timeline of the first mask orders issued in October 1918.

San Francisco had the first mask order. It lasted four weeks until November 21, 1918.

San Francisco implemented a second masked order in December 1918 after the death toll began to rise again.

That second order lasted about two months until the beginning of February 1919.

It is also important to point out that masks in 1918 were nothing like the masks we have now.

Most people were forced to wear gauze taped. Newspapers printed instructions on how to make your own masks at home.

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A WakeMed doctor said it was an individual choice. But it is more important to be vaccinated as soon as possible, he added.

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