A Project for HIST 1000 in 2020-2022
 
Author: <span>Sarah Middleton</span>

What Are One’s Moral Obligations During a Pandemic?

“…masks became a scapegoat, a symbol of government overreach, inspiring protests, petitions and defiant bare-face gatherings. All the while, thousands of Americans were dying in a deadly pandemic” (Hauser, 1).  This quote, although written seemingly in reference to the Covid-19 pandemic, is actually taken from an article about the Spanish Influenza of 1918. Mask …