During Spanish Flu epidemic, refusal to wear a mask led to jail time for some

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"That wasn’t just an empty threat," Snoyman said. "Newspapers show that there was a mask ordinance in effect in Marin in the fall of 1918, when the pandemic was at its first peak."

Right around the time when the photo was taken, four local men had been arrested and fined $30 each – equivalent to $570 in today's dollars – for refusing to wear masks in public, she said.

In nearby San Francisco, more than a hundred men were arrested on a single day for the same offense. Courts gave them penalties ranging from $5 fines to sentences of a month in jail, the San Francisco Examiner reported in October 1918.

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