• sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    7 months ago

    Viruses had only been discovered a few decades before this picture was taken. It’s very likely that the family (and most of society) had no understanding that the virus was unlikely to jump species and so took the same precaution to keep the cat from spreading the disease that they themselves took. I’d rather people made this sort of mistake than the willful idiots we had this time around refusing to believe in viruses at all.

      • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        01·
        7 months ago

        Yeah, I understand why everyone sees a mask, but I don’t think it is one either. You can see too much detail on the nose, I wouldn’t expect to see that much unless it was a very sheer fabric used for the mask.

        • WanakaTree@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          Ah you’re right. Make more sense, I was thinking how the FUCK did they get a mask on that cat??

    • Nougat@kbin.social
      1·
      7 months ago

      … willful idiots we had this time …

      Oh, there were plenty of those in 1918, too.

      • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        7 months ago

        It’s a lot harder to be ignorant today. There’s so much knowledge everywhere, and literacy rates are really high.

        • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          It’s a lot harder to be ignorant today.

          Florida people: “That sounds like a challenge.”

        • Kiosade@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          Counterpoint: it’s actually not that hard, because of echo chambers and the algorithms pushing/feeding those echo chambers. Just because people are actually able to read and write more nowadays doesn’t mean critical thinking has improved a lot too.

          • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            That’s very true!

            In the Age of Misinformation, basic literacy isn’t enough to learn.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    7 months ago

    In San Francisco there was a mask mandate, and roving groups of men would beat the shit out of anyone they saw without a mask on.

    Like, they didn’t really know about social distancing, but the went all out for masks.

  • athos77@kbin.social
    1·
    7 months ago

    Cats can catch and even die from covid; I would’ve be surprised if the same thing happened with the original version of the 1918 plague.

  • bi_tux@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    this picture is a lie, Bill Gates traveled back in time to apply micro chips to the population of 1918