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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Vintage picture shows football fans wearing masks during 1918 pandemic" (WTHR-13)
"ATLANTA (WXIA) - Stadiums continue to sit empty.
There are few answers on when they may be filled again. While leagues and conferences discuss a return to sports, many of those plans bar fans for the foreseeable future.
While times are unique, it's not the first time sports has been affected by a pandemic.
'The virus is on a similar time track,' said Andy McNeil, a Georgia Tech graduate and mechanical engineer. 'History does repeat itself.'
McNeil has had an image in his office for years of Grant Field at Georgia Tech in 1918. One image shows the team on the field. The other, the stands - filled with fans wearing masks over their faces.
A note on the back of the picture reads 'Georgia Tech during 1918 pandemic.'
McNeil's great-grandfather, Thomas Carter, took the picture."
More here: https://www.wthr.com/article/vintage-picture-shows-football-fans-wearing-masks-during-1918-pandemic
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It's simply amazing to me that history has so completely forgotten the 1918 pandemic. You will note everyone visible in this picture has a mask on and they appear to be distancing.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)underpants
(182,279 posts)boosters and alums.
Hugin
(32,778 posts)Next to the guy drinking from the bottle of what it being GA in 1918, I can only believe is original recipe full strength Coke.
cojoel
(952 posts)it would have been a rather old bottle even in 1918. The ~9mg of cocaine was removed sometime around 1904, though other extracts of coca leaves remain in the formula today.
Hugin
(32,778 posts)or a 7-"UP".
It certainly wasn't a Perrier.
bullimiami
(13,043 posts)Actually with the demagogue in the wh we may have devolved.
JUST wearing masks and nothing else would reduce the transmission rates.
Add a little sense and hygiene and they could stay under control and we could be about our business.
But fuck-no apparently from the mega loud ignoramus crew is going to blow this trajectory right back up.
Redux 1919. 2nd wave, worse than the first.
Hugin
(32,778 posts)They would have been in their late teens early 20's.
former9thward
(31,805 posts)Maeve
(42,224 posts)That and basic hand-washing (as late as 1940, only half of American homes had indoor hot running water)