New research from The University of Manchester has shown that debates and resistance about wearing face masks go back a lot further than the COVID-19 pandemic.Dr Meng Zhang, a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, found that barbers went on strike against compulsory mask-...
This seems like a really stupid use of the word “echoed.”
The similar response to COVID-19 mask mandates didn’t initiate a thing that happened decades earlier.
“Presaged” would be better, both timewise and because modern authorities should have seen it coming.