The jury may conclude from a plan of elaborate lies and half-truths that defendants deliberately conveyed information they knew to be false to the government. Id. at 214-15.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-910-knowingly-and-willfully
TYB
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181023-the-places-that-escaped-the-spanish-flu
The places that escaped the Spanish flu
In Denmark, for example, the pandemic claimed just 0.2% of the population while in Australia just 0.3% died. China also escaped lightly, with relatively few deaths – again something that has been attributed to some existing immunity within the population. Some large cities also reported lower mortality rates than might be expected in places where the risk of passing the virus from person to person is high, perhaps also due to immunity obtained in earlier less deadly outbreaks.
masks became mandatory during the !917-18 flu, too.
And the a San Fran health worker shot and killed a man for not wearing a mask
https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-influenza-1918/
https://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/r051005.htm
Researchers Reconstruct 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus; Effort Designed to Advance Preparedness- 2005
we are all anti-fa now