PHOTO | FOTOSEARCHBy the end of October, there were more than 60,000 cases statewide, with 7,000 of them in San Francisco. “The Mask Ordinance,” signed by Mayor James Rolph on October 22, made San Francisco the first US city to require face coverings, which had to be four layers thick. The San Francisco Chronicle said the simplest type of mask was of folded gauze affixed with elastic or tape. Four Weeks of Muzzled Misery’San Francisco’s mask ordinance expired after four weeks at noon on November 21. By December, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors was again proposing a mask requirement, meeting with testy opposition.

Source: Daily Nation August 25, 2020 08:03 UTC