Surely you've seen this by now or something like it:


So what was going on back in 1918? Big brother trying to force conformity on the masses for the purposes of ushering in a new world order?
You've probably seen signs like these as well from those times:

Social distancing from blacks back then wasn't due to hate... it was due to health. Medical science firmly believed that colored people could pass diseases and sickness if they were "socially distanced".
Do you support all signs and "science" from the 1900's?