Policeman scolds a man for not wearing mask during the influenza pandemic, 1918 (1201×860) by Onion-platup
October 8, 2025Armed members of ‘The Star’ News escort a batch of newspapers into the Witwatersrand area , despite facing embargoes, violent threats, and attacks from the racist-communists currently fighting in the Rand Revolt. (March 1922) [2171×1421]
October 8, 2025Operation Ivy, the eighth U.S. nuclear test series staged in late 1952 at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, was the first to involve a hydrogen bomb, following President Truman’s 1950 order, with the weapons capable of remote detonation from the USS Estes. (1404×933)
Jumbotucktuck on October 8, 2025 4:42 am “Why I oughta …” Slap! “Spread out, you knucklehead!” Smack! Then he gives ‘em the ole eye poke! Doink!
omg-sidefriction on October 8, 2025 4:44 am Were masks politicized as well back then? Or was that a product of the modern Republican Party?
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Spanish flu you mean, which killed millions
“Why I oughta …” Slap! “Spread out, you knucklehead!” Smack! Then he gives ‘em the ole eye poke! Doink!
Were masks politicized as well back then? Or was that a product of the modern Republican Party?
Fear sells
Double mask everyone!